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Enders Game but AI instead of aliens.

The Hacker News front page is just becoming a security incidence status page at this point. Everything seems pretty fucked.

Binance is tweeting they think it's a compromised devops laptop. How fucking bonkers insane is it that they would have such fragile systems that any single employees machine would possibly have access to trigger Billions in transactions. Even access to low millions or hundreds of thousands I would expect to be heavily heavily restricted and involve coordinating several people as security measures.

Same. I vaguely recall maybe a mention of baseball playoffs somewhere or whatever they are called being on but barely anything compared to previous years. Last I heard I thought LA had some complete economic dominance on baseball players?

Basically the exact opposite of the NBA playoffs where similar to baseball i'm normally not into it but got totally absorbed this past year.

maybe we made it too easy to implement ideas.

It's odd it still exists at all still. What would compel someone to even post a question on SO anymore.

Basically the equivalent of shouting out some highly specific technical query down a dark alleyway and hoping against all odds for a better response than models trained on all of stack overflow already.

I've noticed this with a lot of products lately. It seems rare for a new release to strictly supersede or maintain performance on all attributes on a successor.

Yeah they have done this for awhile now. It is weird to have your cheapest base model option outperform your MUCH more expensive configs on single core perf though.

A laptop starting at almost 3 grand with only 24gb ram is a tragedy, the RAMpocalypse is brutal.

Basically $400 premium for a screen upgrade. I'm sure the screen is brilliant but mini LED is very much not bad. It's a real bummer that we seem to be entering an era where each year with tech it leans more towards a new product offering that is more but for more money versus getting more for our dollar consistently.

OLED feels pretty established at this point... could they really not have pulled off just making that the default screen on pro's or is this just a price gouge for a premium feature.

I thought we were supposed to get a design overhaul this gen?

Also framing AI use for the base M models marketing makes no sense to me. You are way better off getting a used M1 max with 64gb and way higher mem bandwidth when those are the real bottlenecks.

No I don't think I do. I associate "hoarders" with reality tv and disastrously messy homes though which I can't relate to.

If anything though I would say I associate open tabs in the same vein as an infinitely growing number of books in the to read list or movies in the to watch list. Both usually leading to a tree branch style recommendation of more and more books or movies I might be interested in after consuming.

Up voting or down voting without even clicking the link just seems insane to me.

I think the stats on interactions across the board are probably ridiculous though.

I wish for a HN, reddit, etc, where you have to vote and comment to even be served more content.

I do come back to a non-trivial amount.

The main issue is overcoming i opened a tab for reason and i want to close a tab for a reason, but tabs usually lead to more tabs so even trying to stay on top of it, it just endlessly grows.

Youtube alone is a major culprit and i'm confused on how everyone doesn't have at least several hundred videos they started watching or opened in a tab out of possible future interest.

I don't think any browsers are really designed for the range of how many tabs people keep open.

I also wonder what the distribution does really look like. Just on my primary profile here I felt like I was making progress trying to get it to under 2000 tabs recently.

It feels like a hopeless battle though. Across multiple machines and browsers and browser profiles i'd reckon i'm stuck at like 12,000 open tabs.

how the hell does paywalled content possibly get upvoted more than downvoted. are there really that many economist.com subscribers here?

Agreed. The only main post was somebody on jackly something .com who overdosed on the matrix and communication skills of a squirrel picking random tokens from a dozen trees.

I'm actually curious if a lot of shit got hacked because so far it doesn't seem so. Though it seems like it should have? We always see these catastrophic vulnerabilities showing up but when are the ones where it is actually just widespread publicly dumping databases everywhere and at a point where someone non technical even registers it.

Will police even assist to recover a stolen bike if you have managed to track it?

I also have a kobo aura one and was just recently researching potential upgrades and was shocked even looking outside of strictly kobo that I couldn't find anything that was a clear upgrade or equivalent on various features against it. For a product almost ten years old it's so weird.

For an apple product this is extremely cheap. The only non accessory products that are cheaper are watch SE and airpods.

Outside of basically just TV's the economy has decided to completely abandon targeting really much of anything at below median wage incomes.

It's a niche product and pretty cheap. Of course you can do everything and more on an ipad but I see this as basically a competitor to Alexa that sits on a kitchen counter and is occasionally useful. In that scenario never thinking about a battery is an advantage. I imagine you might leave this unlocked all the time and it is closer to a hands free device which is useful while cooking. The splatter thing is really only an issue if you place it like right next to your stovetop or sink. Even one foot away on a counter pretty much eliminates that issue.

It doesn't have to do a lot to be useful. If there are even a couple consistent daily use cases I can see this making sense for some people. Even if just means I don't need to go grab my iPad/iPhone from the couch to set a timer or ask a quick question.

If the top students are doing better, especially if it is significantly better, I think that can be a net positive outcome. If you look at the distribution of contribution to society it's not like it's remotely even and there is an argument to primarily focusing on and pouring most of our resources into the top Nth percent instead of trying to slightly improve everyone.

I don't understand the rationale trying to equate AI with social media here. Nobody really was ever arguing social media would somehow be good for education or even particularly relevant.

Personally I think AI at least has the potential to be one of the greatest tools to have a positive impact on education. We basically democratized access to an infinitely patient and capable high level tutor that can tackle any topic at any level of abstraction.

I regularly, like at least several times a day, find myself doing random deep dives on some topic triggered by some question where prior maybe I would have read a wiki page or just dismissed it due to the barrier of entry to get to what I was interested in.

I think maybe when the model weights themselves are shifting and growing constantly in realtime to external input in a way not controllable by outside observers other than killing the compute versus some param size.

I guess GTA VI shouldn't come out then. I guess notepad.exe should start censoring people from writing mean stories.

The funny thing is it appears we may see a return to the software output from AI being efficient low level code. So while the compute to actually write the software rockets upwards the software itself might broadly become dramatically more efficient again.

AI progress is so massively out pacing any rate of loss of senior developers though.

Just for a thought experiment lets say junior hiring actually goes to 0% starting today and there is no other route into software dev for example maybe it is illegal for anyone under 22 today going forward to work in dev. Maybe something like ~2-2.5% of the workforce retires each year? And lets just define senior as 10+ YOE so 75% of the current batch of ~40 year working timeline. For simplicity lets just say the other 25% don't ever become senior devs and in 10 years the total number of senior devs has reduced 33% due to retirements. ChatGPT public launch was less then 4 years ago! Look at the ludicrous progress in the timespan. Even if progress suddenly massively slows or hits a wall it is currently hard to fathom it not improving at a rate of 3% a year.

More realistically I think we just have no ability to predict wtf things will look like 10+ years out at this point which is the point in this artificially constrained timeline where a reduction of senior devs just due to time would even start to be noticeable I think.

funny if true. ironically just last week i was asking chatgpt about what happened to him and why there were no new blog posts for almost 2 years and it had no idea

All those recipe blogs and sites that have figured out the most inefficient way to deliver information are finally cooked.

6.0 Sol was literally a week ago... Basically continuous integration for model releases at this point.

Since Luna is so dirt cheap compared to Sol/Astra it would be nice if they could set or you could reserve some small percent like 3-5% of usage pool on codex just for Luna so if you hit usage limits you can at least still run a lot of Luna.

Streaming markets have really felt like price fixing scenarios over the past few years. I can't think of any exceptions that haven't been regularly and aggressively raising their prices like every 6 months at this point as if they are all coordinating.

Why the hell can't we have streaming businesses that reach some equilibrium threshold for how much content they want to produce, the quality of said content, and then focus on optimizing production and tech to both reduce prices and increase profits over time accompanied with scaling subscriber growth.