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IMO this ruling will be the inflection point that kills either the book publishing industry or the US big model frontier lab industry.

It's trendy to say it'll be the later, but I see a credible case for the former.

I see no reason to pay for a textbook in 2026, while I'm happy to pay an expensive monthly subscription for a coding agent.

(And before someone accuses me of being anti education or anything, bona fide scientist with a PhD here and I have written book chapters for a couple of popular textbooks).

Hah this article is from April. I'm sure the number has only gone up.

Saying things colloquially gives everyone an intuition about it.

You'd think intuition is great, but no, about half of the important things are counter intuitive.

That makes intuitive thinking about complex technical topics you don't know enough about worse than useless.

Any implications for discrete/integer optimization?

You're missing out on 37 different unrelated things being named copilot.

They have a pretty seamless workaround nowadays.

Build the data centers in middle eastern and other asian countries. Access it remotely.

There's no real way to restrict this without turning the internet into a draconian locked down shell of itself.

The intersection of software developers and people who like audio interfaces for controlling computers has to be pretty small!

I don't want to hear my voice all day, nor my coworkers.

You know who does? Designers, product managers, and investors.

I can't decide if this is a misplaced product not understanding the mostly introvert tech audience or a stroke of brilliance predicting a future where non-tech people will be developing products all by themselves.

AI is no match for rapidly shifting goalposts ;)

Great, now use some functions. From the library or your own, and see this complexity become manageable.

That's what abstraction is about.

Why supply underspecified requirements in the first place?

Because you'd not want to forever loop outside your home when asked to "while you're out, grab some eggs" :)

It's not a 'general sentiment' or tangent though, it's specifically THE technology that has the potential to make privacy nonexistent.

Funded by the company that in the recent past, got exposed trying to track employees computer interactions and grabbing screens. Not long before that, it was leaked that employees and contractors were watching videos recorded from meta/rayban smartglasses.

I'm a little bit baffled by the defense here. The point of having guidelines is to use your judgement when applying them.

Not sure if I'm out of touch, but this looks like such a minor difference in cost that I'd expect people to not even take cost into consideration while making the EV vs gas decision.

Factors like the (perceived) environment friendliness, comfort and (in)convenience are likely to be much more important.

@dang How is this offtopic?

Meta has shown remarkable disregard to users' and employees' privacy.

Why should that not come up when discussing an entirely new dystopian technology that allows them to invade privacy at scale?

Coming soon to a Meta office near you: brain-scanning to make sure employees are focused, happy, and productive!

There are no layoffs in Ba Sing Se.

some future technology that doesn’t exist yet

This is not usually how technology progression works when you see it play out.

More likely, it would be something like a 2% more efficient refrigerator. These advances stack up for a hundred years and build into something that looks like magical future technology.

There were very very few exceptions to this in history.

We can't define consciousness well enough to make claims like this.

I wonder if we are finding structure here because we are looking for structure.

Similar how you can find human faces in random pixels or rocks.

The negative long term effects are unlikely to be worse than the negative long term effects of obesity.

Windows API and ABI has always been more portable than anything else. This is why Microsoft is a tech giant. You can take a windows binary from 1995 (actually even older) and run it reliably today.

If it doesn't run and you are a commercial client, Microsoft will implement a compatibility hack for you in the latest windows code so your thing from 1995 will work.

There is no parallel to this in the tech world so far. Linux gets around this by requiring you to recompile things, but recompiling old code along with old compilers and old libraries and all their dependencies is a nightmare.

Well, be prepared to be extraordinarily surprised.

Most games are tested on a steam deck nowadays.

It's funny to see the downvotes here.

Maybe people don't realize that this is very much within the capabilities of modern AI nowadays?

At $dayjob we have encountered people reverse engineering our driver with Claude and creating GitHub repos with pretty useful vibecoded tools and documentation.

Yes, the raw binaries of the driver. Not leaked source code or anything like that.

offers no benefits over non-humanoid factory machines.

The value proposition is being able to fit in and navigate spaces built for humans without complete overhauls.

Stuff like small elevators, workbenches, server racks, etc.

functional R2-D2

It would be pretty amazing to buy a kit with the hardware for this and be able to put your own software in it!!

SoftBank’s investment plays have largely been comically wrong.

This is a good hint that robots are really about to take off.

The Amazon video is from four years ago, and the Tesla one from 1.5 years ago.

Things have been moving pretty fast in the last year when it comes to semi-bipedal robots doing the long tail of previously unreachable tasks.

probably the vast majority

Agreed, and hence I suggested an amazon warehouse tour (they offer one for their flagship robotics 'research' warehouse) to anyone, or a Tesla factory tour (might need to talk to someone, fairly manageable).

This reminds me of the quote, "the future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."

How long ago was your robotics experience?

An Amazon warehouse or Tesla factory tour would likely change your mind.

I had to do both of these in the last year and not a lot of humans around…

As you wrote this, several hundred young men from Russia accepted a bet very much like this.

The missing piece in your comment is the motivation for the government to run such a lottery.

Banks hold money for you, the cash would still be under your mattress if the bank did not hold it.

I'm sure you have a philosophical point here, but this is exactly how the modern economy prices risk. Your understanding of the semantics of risk is not being questioned here.

We have seen forest fires burning city blocks in west coast cities in the recent past, can't get more first world than that.

If you think insurance will save you, it might not if no one is willing to insure your property (large true in California nowadays) or the insurance company goes bankrupt in a crisis (happens pretty much all the time).

Of course, that's how risk works.

Any high risk high reward strategy gets you in charge of creating the risk to chase a higher reward.

The math is fairly similar between spending 10$ to buy a call option and a 1 million down payment to buy a 10 million property with 15 apartments to rent out.