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An insane assumption when there are millions of immigrants in every european country lining up for every type of health care service and not contributing a cent back into it

In your opinion, which specific criminal acts have American executives committed in the last 20 years?

Holmes et co have been charged and incarcerated, SBF is also sitting in prison, other executives at smaller companies have also been prosecuted and faced imprisonment. I think there is a lot of fraud in various industries, but some of it is prosecuted, and some of it is legal enough that there is only a fine to pay. There is some accountability, and as much as i can criticize what corps do, i don't think of them as "legally responsible" for every misuse of their tools. Today it seems that if someone cuts their own leg off with a power saw it is a lawsuit against the tool company.

these "other tactics" are just attempts at increasing demand. Cost plus is how many business set prices but that is entirely separate from what the market decides. If cost plus is not an attractive price, it won't sell, because the demand is not there.

Knowledge accumulation seems to have cyclical patterns where general observations are condensed into "laws", and common wisdom is to treat these as unassailable truths. As exceptions and contradictions are found, the popular wisdom is to entirely dismiss the overwhelming universal conformity with the earlier principles because it sounds smart to common people. A lot of normal people see the basic problems with most methodological maxims but are led to believe that the maxim is truth. It takes a podcaster with a "study" to then "debunk" the "myth" they were yesterday defending as unimpeachable. People are generally not well informed enough to know anything and the podcaster class is the worst imaginable vector for knowledge dissemination or popularization. Just clickbait garbage monkeys with foreign money and vicious antisocial tendencies.

Insane reflection. Nothing about the open internet has or will change because of a private, third-party payment framework making use of a http status code. Who is paying for bots like this? Every site needs to account for its costs. Just because you're too euro-poor to afford basic access to research doesn't mean others can't pay for it and benefit from it. Get a job.

Is europe just flooding online fora with doomer luddites to demoralize the US tech sector? Sounds far-fetched, but there is nothing organic about the recent rise in US/tech hatred across the web.

I agree with the basic premise and math here but getting to true 24/7 uptime in the cloud will require a minimum of 2 full time cloud engineers or infra people. If you're spending another 500K in usage costs you're almost at a million. For most, the cloud is the right option because maintaining servers is a pain and modern clouds offer a lot of additional features that may be useful, but it doesn't mean it's a massive win for the bottom line. There are lots of small and large companies that could run servers on prem or in their own datacenter and it would make financial sense, but they'd have to attract the talent to build and operate, which is harder than just paying enough.

fun demo. could be a daily puzzle combining various commenter suggestions. There are (didn't verify personally) 388 solutions. The daily puzzle could remove 1+ pieces and ask for a 1+ move guess.

Also a click on a square could auto place a queen and a second click would swap to the bishop. Every click could auto-check.

A separate discovery mode could start blocking out the squares visually as you place pieces. For a lot of people, that would be easier than the mental representation.

Discussion of the free-press in america or elsewhere invariably suffers from lack of historical perspective. Without oversimplifying, the press has always been biased and ideologically motivated to a degree that few appreciate. Because of "all the president's men" and other films lionizing the press' infallible, dogged, ruthless dedication to the truth, people suddenly believe that every journalist is "supposed to be" a paragon of truth-seeking objectivity, dogmatically devoted to the dissemination of "truth to power", but historically and today and even during watergate, the press was a gang of jackals doing yellow muckraking. This has its purpose and we shouldn't hate journalists for doing their job, but it's a complete category error to assume that the press is there to report honestly and objectively.

out of all the companies listed, yc would of course choose something like this. "wow you're going to defend american soldiers????" yc and this site are chinese ops run by the scummiest sinotrash on earth. steal millions and deliver vaporware? "oh sounds like a failed business". try to protect soldiers from drones? "oh sounds like you're the terminator highly unethical sar."

unc's thrashing out

How would something like this exist at all if it weren't true?

https://x.com/PabloAntonio/status/2051401704395227410#m

These kinds of operations are rampant in all cities. There's a line of people to waiting to sell their ebt/stamps.

https://x.com/PabloAntonio/status/2051401704395227410

I don't think just paying people will make any difference at all. Most of the chronically poor in US at least have underlying problems such as addiction, schizophrenia or other affective disorders. Most chronically homeless people have turned down multiple state subsidized living options or have been booted from them for anti-social behavior. Studies routinely show that 30-40% of food stamps are sold for pennies on the dollar to pay for drugs or other unnecessary things.

The other major issue with "free money" is that it is purely inflationary, unlike wages which offset most of their price pressure by providing a commensurate amount of goods/services. When you hand everyone a million dollars the price of everything just goes up, both because there's a flood of money and because there's even less incentive to produce something to buy with it.

I think there's any compassionate argument to be made for helping the indigent, but easy ideas like "taking money from job creators and value producers to pay for needles and degeneracy" are never going to work at all.

It's a bit of a trope to say that billionaires are hoarding wealth via financial shenanigans when all of their wealth is tied up in job and value creation.

The us govt wastes by some estimates 30% of its budget. Trillions annually. Have to start with the waste and fraud. Empty daycares are not a good use of hard-earned tax dollars and have a massively pernicious effect on the society. They're not taking care of kids or paying teachers. Just pure inflationary greed.

Bizarre thread so far. Some threads seem to attract a certain type of boosterism or opinion management. People all rush in to same similar things, without reading the prior comments. Seems designed to wash thoughts into a stream. Maybe coordinated pr or reputation management. It could even be organic but it doesn't seem that way.

That's why there's tomes of overlapping AGENTS.slop folders and 100K lines of "docslop" and people inventing "memoryslop" systems to reduce this token burden. But the agents can't really distill even a simple instruction like "don't delete prod" because those three words (who knows how many tokens) are the simplest that that expression can get and the ai needs to "reread" that and every other instruction to "proceed according to the instructions". It never learns anything or gets into good habits. It's very clear from these kinds of threads that concepts of "don't" and "do" are not breaking through to the actions the bot performs. It can't connect its own output or its effects with its model context.

People say this without any evidence. This ai-post is just regurgitating hn-thread "received wisdom". The evidence for the existence of a library is thin and hard to piece together, but points to more than a myth. I appreciate that people want real proof of anything, but dumping an ai-slop summary is hardly doing any better than accepting the existence of a large library.

ai trends seem to mirror general coding/software trends but compressed. People used to edit programs with sed, but the ide proved to be more powerful from every perspective. cli tools always have their place for "power-users" and other specialized intermediate usecases like tui's, but in general the ide has overtaken every aspect of cli use and many devs hardly ever use the terminal. I suspect a similar thing will happen with ai.

great to insert partisan talking points here. the last admin has no culpability so this is a great argument. thanks.

There is probably some phrase for describing this type of business activity. "If it's sophisticated it's actually legal" (no fault settlement). As a limited legalist this is actually the way it works and it's somewhat normal. A better lawyer provides better advice and steers company activity towards more defensible practice. If all the major ai players want to set money on fire for totally unmaintainable hobbies then so be it.

what are you morons still even pretending to do??? I agentically replace myself and it sucks not only the entire financial proposition of my company out of itself, but also just sucks. nice ...

ahhh, i have no idea what i'm doing...! lol , but a bot wrote this, im not even responsible

hilarious that there's 10 billion lines of context being shuffled around and argued over but paying a dev 100K is a techno sin. Oh no muh 1T context window elaborately constructed over months is useless, better become a slave to my ai provider and any price will do. plz write my code but for free but for all my company's value.

I think law as code or the "legal code" as code is a proposition that hasn't been fully imagined. There are a few other cs-language projects to describe tax law as code and some of them have some traction, but if law were immersed more in code, we could test it better and reason about its effects with more context.

If you pass a law to reduce theft, you could include tests based on official statistics about whether or not theft is going down, and with some scientific rigor (CBO is usually quite reliable for instance), the law could "amend itself" either by sunsetting itself, if it isn't measuring up to expectations, or have an automatic budget increase if it's succeeding.

It's a bit far-fetched, given how indeterminate most government programs' intentions actually are (e.g. just hand out billions for "healthcare" and allow untold fraud to proliferate because it benefits our donors and voters), but every law should serve a purpose and we should automate its evaluation.

"Commoditized intelligence" is the ultimate control mechanism, since the entire creative output of humanity could be legally reduced to a chatbot. It's the next iteration of censorship, and debanking, deanonymization. First deciding what you can say or think, deciding what you can buy, down to the arbitrary carbon cost associated with your purchase, then unmasking all quiet dissent and raising the cost of all thought and expression to total silence and "assumed consent" with the politically dominant mode, and finally, deciding what's true and monopolizing "knowledge" to where no one is even allowed to participate.

Part of the recent goalpoast shitting has been a sleight of hand to continually redefine down the notion of what agi is, so that if idiots agree that it's generally "just as good" as your average idiot, then it's "agi" and then to extrapolate back out to the original goal of having an "intelligence so smart that you should always defer to it", the god agi with infallible omniscience.

What ai purveyors would like to do is what they say, control the entire job market, mostly as a control mechanism.

It's not a terrible storage mechanism but 36,625 workflow runs taking between ~1-12 minutes seems like a terrible use of runner resources. Even at many orgs, constantly actions running for very little benefit has been a challenge. Whether it's wasted dev time or wasted cpu, to say nothing of the horrible security environment that global arbitrary pr action triggers introduce, there's something wrong with Actions as a product.

I've seen far more non-design-obsessed people (normals) complaining about it, but in the end i think the better question is why? What possible purpose does this serve other than key-jangling? It is a distraction for most people and a waste of screen space and probably gpu cycles, why are we shading and filtering on every frame on every window and modal? Just render the pane and put the fries in the bag.

Huang recently stated that agi is here already. I remember reading about drive thru ai but also it had problems, but if this thing is agi why are there still any drive thru human operators at all today or even yesterday? How can a "true agi" not be able to take a burger order? Is drive thru agi about to happen tomorrow and im just squeaking before it rusts?

"the food is terrible and such small portions!"

climate change is a hoax, but it's also disingenuous to pretend like ai delivers even an infinitesimal amount of the value of either agriculture or mining. Global population approaches zero without either of those things and if you deleted ai, no one would ever notice.

From various online estimates, i would estimate global ai spend just since 2020 at $2T. Some projections estimate that we might spend that per year starting next year. To the extent that many of these projects will be cancelled or shelved, capital is beginning to take stock of the feasibility of clawing back even the original investments. openai is apparently doubling its staff, but whether these are sales or (prompt?) engineering jobs, the biggest hypemongers are themselves unable to reduce headcount even with unlimited "at-cost" ai inference.

Comparing total ai spend to the value added of producing a few new maths/sciences proofs is unfair since ai is doing more than maths proofs, but for comparison one can estimate the total spent to date on mathematicians and associated costs (buildings, experiments etc). I would very roughly estimate that the total cost of all mathematics to date since 1600 is less than what we've spent on ai to date, and the results from investment in mathematicians are incomparable to a few derivative extensions of well-established ideas. For less than a few trillion we have all of mathematics. For an additional 2T dollars, we have trivial advancements that no one really cares about.