How’s that 2016 promise of LA to NYC autonomous driving goal going for Musk? Or his Cybercab venture going? And the decision to not use LIDAR in his vehicles? Or the Cybertruck’s dismal engineering and sales?
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These “homeless” are not the kind who need clean clothes and shelter and some help getting a job. They want to live like this at the expense of the public’s money and enjoyment of public amenities.
Curious to hear if anyone has any specific goals/resolutions/things they’re especially looking forward to in 2025.
Somehow I think the group of people who choose to live in SF have particular interests and desired amenities that make high rent worth it. E.g., walkable and lively neighborhoods, access to parks, events, etc.
Nvidia played the long game, focused on enough generalization to be useful for future models and opening their software brought such that other players could write frameworks/compilers for them. Nvidia also supports x86 CPUs in their servers (they don’t lock it to their Grace CPU AFAIK) and allow Ethernet fabrics (not locking it to their infiniband).
Now AMD’s GPU division is doing what they do best: slowly copying Nvidia’s execution and catching up on software, which means they’ll always play second fiddle.
How is any of that antitrust?
The important thing for Apple is the endpoint inference which will be done on Apple Silicon.
The way Siri can now perform actions based on context from emails and messages like setting calendar and reservations or asking about someone’s flight is so useful (can’t tell you how many times my brother didn’t bother to check the flight code I sent him via message when he asks me when I’m landing for pickup!).
I always saw this level of personal intelligence to come about at some point, but I didn’t expect Apple to hit it out of the park so strongly. Benefit of drawing people into their ecosystem.
Nevermind all the thought put into private cloud, integration with ChatGPT, the image generation playground, and Genmoji. I can genuinely see all this being useful for “the rest of us,” to quote Craig. As someone who’s taken a pessimistic view of Apple software innovation the last several years, I’m amazed.
One caveat: the image generation of real people was super uncanny and made me uncomfortable. I would not be happy to receive one of those cold and impersonal, low-effort images as a birthday wish.
As much as I love the technology, I’m really not looking forward to this becoming ubiquitous. Time and time again we’ve allowed technological progress to outpace our ability to weight the societal pros ands cons.
Smartphones and the rise of image-heavy social media has rapidly changed social norms. Watch a video of people out in public 20 years ago: no screen to distract them at bus stops, concert events, or while eating dinner with friends. And if that seems trite, consider how well correlated the rise in suicide rates is with the popularity of these technologies.
Not sure if this makes me a luddite or if the feeling is common in this crowd.
Confused what this really means. So Microsoft still has access to OpenAI’s pre-AGI tech that Sam and Greg can leverage for their more product-focused visions.
More than that, it looks like Microsoft has become a major AI player (internal research) overnight up with the likes of Meta, Google, and OpenAI. Incredible.
If it’s true that Altman won’t return to OpenAI (or alternatively: that the current board won’t step down) then where does that leave OpenAI? Microsoft can’t be happy, as evidenced by reporting that Nadella was acting as mediator to bring him back. Does OpenAI survive this?
Will be super interesting when all the details come out regarding the board’s decision making. I’m especially curious how the (former) CEO of Twitch gets nominated as interim CEO.
Finally, if Altman goes his own way, it’s clear the fervent support he’s getting will lead to massive funding. Combined with the reporting that he’s trying to create his own AI chips with Middle East funding, Altman has big ambitions for being fully self reliant to own the stack completely.
No idea what the future holds for any of the players here. Reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Besides my lazy and misleading usage of the term “socialized,” I guess the question still stands: how do we change our system to more closely reflect these other systems? Highly discouraging to think about.
The main question is how do you actually go about making the change in the US with so many entrenched vested interests in keeping the status quo? How do you get people to agree to effectively fire millions of admin and health insurance actuaries? Seems like an impossible problem, especially given the political state of the country.
What’s worse is that the few friend connections I have from earlier in life back home are all getting busier with their own lives/partners so it’s not like I get to see them often anyway. That’s been a hard hitting realization.
Going to the office for a short while before COVID hit was really beneficial in retrospect since you meet a lot of people that way. Especially when you’re younger.
As you said it seems like most people hang out at bars and such but I have no idea how to cold approach random people and talk them up. At this point I’m probably going to try apps like Meetup, Bumble BFF, FB Groups to make some friends.
If anyone’s got suggestions I’m down to hear them.
This statement is comparing the SIMT model to SIMD. Can anyone explain the last part about SIMT being better for many programs operating on its own data? Are they just saying you can have individual “threads” executing independently (via predication/masks and such)?
Any web experts know?
> “It’s amazingly unequal,” said Andrew Beveridge, the president of Social Explorer. “It’s a larger gap than in many developing countries,” and the widest gulf in the United States since 2006, when the data was first reported. The Bronx and Brooklyn were also among the top 10 counties in the country in terms of income inequality.
53x gap between the top and bottom quintiles shocked me. Was curious who the people making $10k/year are since that’d be much less than full time hours at minimum wage. The author responded in the comments:
> The folks in the bottom income tier include residents on forms of public assistance, gig economy workers with variable hours, and older single adults, among others. The average reflects a range of people making close to nothing to those making around $23,000, according to Social Explorer. There is reason to think that raising the minimum wage could reduce this gap. As the story mentions, five of the 10 largest cities -- all of which fared better than New York, in terms of median household income -- have substantially increased their minimum wage since 2019. New York City has not.
But worse then these ad changes and the API changes forcing off 3rd party apps has been the increasingly overzealous mods exacting control over their fiefdoms, even among top subreddits. Doesn’t feel like you can have a real conversation in many parts anymore unless you toe the line with each sub’s personal agenda. A common example is very left-leaning (disclosure: I consider myself fairly left leaning) city subs barring discussion of certain crimes (see r/Oakland and r/washingtondc).
If Reddit cared about quality discussion they’d take back control from these mods but in the end the only thing that matters is brand-safe content that helps drive revenue. Enshittifcation strikes again.
Anyone know of a good Reddit alternative that has decent traction?
I’m really speaking about Nvidia’s ability to perform well in both hardware and software, at chip-scale and datacenter-scale. Also speaking of their product/business direction that revolutionizes multiple industries (leaders in graphics with ray tracing and AI frame/resolution sacking; leaders in AI infra and datacenter systems, etc.) all resulting in big impacts to their respective industries.
You’re right that many of those software-only companies do very real engineering with distributed systems and such. I should’ve been more precise and was really complaining about the SV hype of the 2010s focusing on regulating-breaking companies like Airbnb, Uber, wework, etc. and on companies like Meta and Google who focus on pushing ads for their revenue.
Seems like you’re really dismissing the massive speed ups these past few years. Agreed that ray tracing in games is only at the beginning. A lot of that is gated by the consoles/AMD but that’s generally how it goes. Would love to see Nvidia in one of the powerful consoles to accelerate adoption of these technologies.