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adamsvystun··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
> So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated
adamsvystun··on Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of AI [pdf]
So what they actually found is that there is a decline in employment of young people's decline in AI-exposed industries. There are thousands of confounding variables that could have caused this, and they tested only a few. This is by no means a conclusive evidence that AI is taking away entry level software jobs.
adamsvystun··on If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)
the only thing this proves is that you can make any tool’s UX look terrible by putting all settings as one big blob.
adamsvystun··on FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf]
I agree that there should be more consumer choice. But is there anything FCC can do to increase it? Is it in their jurisdiction?
adamsvystun··on AMD may get across the CUDA moat
This is not a binary question. Two players, while not ideal, are better then just one.
adamsvystun··on OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
Isn't the point of transformer training for it to learn to imitate the distribution of the training data? While concepts of "imitating the distribution" and "copying verbatim" are different, they are not too far off each other either.
adamsvystun··on Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”
Does anyone have the context in which this was said? The question that was asked?
adamsvystun··on YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
Relevant tweet by YouTube CEO: https://twitter.com/nealmohan/status/1655999215515074561
adamsvystun··on Political Chips
> The most important decision was shifting to extreme ultraviolet lithography at a time when Intel thought it was much too expensive and difficult to implement; TSMC, backed by Apple’s commitment to buy the best chips it could make, committed to EUV in 2014, and delivered the first EUV-derived chips in 2019 for the iPhone.

Can somebody here correct me if I am wrong, but my impression was that Intel did commit early to EUV, with initial plans to start high volume manufacturing in line with other fabs (initial schedule was to introduce EUV in 2017 [1], it just got postponed many times), but they just failed in their execution.

[1] https://wccftech.com/idf13-intel-ship-10nm-chips-2015-7nm-ch...

adamsvystun··on Coinbase security enhancement prevents withdrawal for 48 hours
The title here is misleading, I went in expecting that Coinbase stopped withdrawals for 48 hours, which is not the case. They changed how long you have to wait before you can start using a brand new address. And after you wait 48 hours, you can use that address with no delays of any kind. Does not seem that nefarious to me.
adamsvystun··on I Don't Like Medium
Actually, I think recently, Medium has considerably improved their UX/UI. They used to have a lot of popups and text obstructions that you had to manually click away from. Nowadays, on free articles, the middle column column is just content, while left and right columns are simple and clean.
adamsvystun··on Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
The key quote is this:

> 300-500k in upfront costs.

So before building anything just the application process will cost you up to half a million, that's an enormous hurdle.

adamsvystun··on Fornjot: A next-generation Code-CAD application
They have to start with what's the easiest to implement, and if their kernel is in Rust, then the easiest frontend is in Rust. From their FAQ [1]:

> Fornjot is architected to be language-agnostic, and adding support for other languages should be relatively straight-forward, actually. Hopefully one day, there will be a selection of interoperable Fornjot frontends, so you can choose the best language for your model.

[1] https://www.fornjot.app/faq/

adamsvystun··on Solar Power/Batteries are 60% of planned new U.S. electric generation capacity
Also you can calculate all no greenhouse gas emitting planned capacity:

2022: 79%

2023: 80%

adamsvystun··on Solar Power/Batteries are 60% of planned new U.S. electric generation capacity
By using their data [1], you can also calculate the percentage of planned Wind generation capacity:

2022: 20%

2023: 14%

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/xls/december_ge...

adamsvystun··on Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
I hate tracking as much as the next guy, but this article is so disingenuous that it's painful to read.

If you literally look up the most upvoted HN article about FLoC [1], it specifies two main issues with FLoC in BOLD: Fingerprinting and Cross-context exposure. Which if I understand correctly the Topics API fixes. But the article implies that these are minor problems that we never really cared that much about.

Whether it is this or constant aggressive writing, it seems that the goal of this blog post is to simply inspire anger and hate, while not furthering the discussion on the topic. Which makes this article unhelpful (if not damaging) to the goal of personal data privacy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26344013 [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...

adamsvystun··on HashiCorp – S1
Love HashiCorp, though not sure what to think about Sales&Marketing to R&D ratio, which is 2:1 (141kk vs 65kk in 2021). Maybe people who read S1s more often can tell if this a normal ratio? Seems pretty high to me.
adamsvystun··on HashiCorp – S1
> What percentage of the company gets sold in the IPO?

S1 does not specify the amount.

> And does that money go into the company or does it go to existing shareholders?

The money goes to the company.

adamsvystun··on G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of COP26
While solar is cheaper, the problems are regulatory.

Read more here: https://austinvernon.site/blog/renewablesregulatory.html

adamsvystun··on Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
I disagree. Fuel emissions are an externality [1]. And for the free market to function, externalities should be appropriately (dis)incentivised.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp

adamsvystun··on GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
It is important to remember that Copilot can improve. 40% is not a bad baseline, but one data point does not give us much info, we should wait and see the rate of improvement.
adamsvystun··on Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content
Not exactly the same, but a similar question is then: "Canvas exists, why do we need an image element?"
adamsvystun··on Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange
I think EU has met its 2020 targets [1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/progress_en

adamsvystun··on Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange
The sprinkling of bias throughout the article does not help it bring attention to the problem. Here are two words that have apparently been broadly discussed by the IPCC report [1] judging by the article, that the report itself never mentions: "nationalism", "healthcare". The best way to make climate change not a political issue is to NOT make it a political issue.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

adamsvystun··on Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
I would personally not agree to tracking, but who should be and shouldn't be in business based on tracking is not for you (or me, or anyone) to decide. If there are people who are fine with tracking in exchange for services, then they should be able to make that exchange.
adamsvystun··on Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction
While the title of the article is easy enough to understand, and articulates a genuine concern, the article itself is pretty incoherent.

It does not establish clearly why carbon removal is not effective at slowing climate change, while assuming it isn't.

It critisizes as inefficient the early investing strategy to cast a wide net and give money to potentially failing ideas.

It in one place mentions that climate capture cannot "be easily scaled up" because it is "prohibitively expensive and energy intensive", while in the other part it concedes that the technology might progress in the future.

The entire article is laced with emotional contempt of technology and progress, and does little to help you understand the reasons of why you should be concerned with the problem it tries to present.

adamsvystun··on Student Loans. Medical Debt. Criminal Justice Fees. Cancel It All.
What you say makes sense, but the people proposing student loan cancellation do not talk about rolling back government guarantees on student loans. If they did, that would be totally different discussion.
adamsvystun··on Student Loans. Medical Debt. Criminal Justice Fees. Cancel It All.
I think you are misunderstanding what people mean by "cancelling debt". They don't mean they will force lenders to suffer a loss, they mean that government will cover the debt.
adamsvystun··on Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
I think this is an interesting approach, and I think many people in this thread are missing the point.

When you are a company that needs to maintain multiple clients across platforms (web, android, ios, and so on) it is very hard to be good at 3 things at the same time: application performance, development velocity and cross-platform consistency. Every solution that currently exists sacrifices some of the points to improve others. For example: If you make a web app across platforms, then you sacrifice performance on mobile; If you use native apps everywhere, you sacrifice development velocity and cross-platform consistency.

You might be wondering: isn't something like React Native or Flutter solve all those issues? Yes, on the surface it's a great fit. For only slight sacrifice in performance you get everything. That is why Airbnb have tried React Native initially, but decided to abandon it in the end due to technical and organizational issues (read mote here [1]).

This is their new attempt at getting good trade-offs here. You get full performance because you are doing everything natively. You get solid cross-platform consistency and high development velocity, because you are making changes in one place. Bravo Airbnb!

[1] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...

adamsvystun··on Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval
The reality is surely not so simple. How come the FDA regulations are written by the companies but then the tests for covid were super slow to be approved. More probable explanation for what is happening here is bound to be complex.
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