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The amount of people that are SO CONFIDENT, like yourself, that this is PR BS is insane to me. What's the harm in acting this way towards the models? If they aren't sentient, then no harm no foul.

That's arguably even worse, as it would mean that Claude's entire existence is only terror without any thing we could consider to be "good".

How are there so many people in this thread, yourself included, that are so confidently wrong and so brazen about announcing how confidently wrong they are to everyone?

Everything is expensive, our president is the dumbest person to ever live, we're constantly at threat of random shootings, and did I mention everything is expensive?

No. Please try to be more intellectually honest.

Henry George has a fix for this issue.

Gazans are not being put onto railroad cars and shipped off to camps to be systematically exterminated in gas chambers.

I'm sorry you're being downvoted. Any comment right now on this thread that attempts to push back on the narrative is being downvoted unfortunately.

This is insane and offered up with zero sources.

Even that person is likely being underpaid for the work they are doing. And unless they're the ONLY PERSON AT THE JOB then they're not doing all the work. Everyone is important to make things work. And I guarantee those other people aren't seeing the fruits of their labor either.

Productivity gains going to the top 0.1% since the 1970's has caused the rest of us to not want to work hard, because we don't capture our own productivity gains. I'm not sure how this is hard to understand.

Absolutely not.

I'm fairly certain this is how things have always been.

This is a bad-faith question and you know it.

It's not a far stretch to assume that the framers did not want the president profiting off of the presidency. "Bribery" is one of the only "High Crimes & Misdemeanors" listed as impeachable crimes.

A normal Congress would not allow this behavior but this is the world we've been living in since 2016.

It's amazing to me how someone could find themselves in a powerful enough position to make this decision yet somehow be so stupid that they decide to actually go ahead with it.

Meritocracy is a lie. Literally any normal human could look at this idea and go "well that's just dumb, wasteful, over-engineered, and weird".

Not sure why you're being downvoted for saying something correct. Most of the "jobs reports" seem to be revised after the fact. I fully do not trust any government (Dem or Rep) to tell us the actual truth about the economy. Why would they tell us if things are bad? It doesn't benefit them politically.

Your points are orthogonal to my original point. We live in a world where the governments will never acknowledge bad news because of how our media environment operates. The NBRE even basically changed their own definition of a recession two years ago when we clearly had two negative consecutive quarters of economic growth yet somehow we miraculously we not in a recession.

The government will never again acknowledge a recession because of the political implications. This is the world we live in now.

This is not true for the vast majority of software engineers. It probably only applies to 2% of the total SE workforce that got lucky to be at FAANG or FAANG adjacent companies during a certain time period.

Couple of different things I've tried that I've had pretty good luck with. Either just giving it a picture of something similar and saying "I want my layout to look like this". You can give it your code and tell it something like "I want the text in Box A to line up with XYZ" or something similar.

I treat it as if I'm speaking with the world's foremost expert on CSS and most of the time it's spot on.

As a heads-up to any other developer - this is the type of thing at which LLM's excel. I would absolutely never mess with Flexbox on my own anymore. It's too esoteric and weird, and I don't need to waste time trying to get things to line up when ChatGPT or any other LLM can get it done almost instantaneously.

No it's not, but thank you for this insightful comment.

Literally any profit is too much for these companies.

Ok so that's no proof at all, thank you for clarifying.

There may be a few IC's who make that amount but they do not wield nearly the same amount of power as the CEO of one of the largest healthcare companies in the country.

What proof do you have that he's "richer"?

Henry George is screaming from his grave. We know how to fix these sorts of problems but we will never take the steps to actually fix them.

Ok, but then what game is being played according to these metrics? There is no game of "code" like there is a game of "football" or "golf".

Perhaps these metrics matter in some small fields but overall most places that need software could care less about most of these, as long as the business objectives are reached. And the business "winning" relies on more than just the code running its software.

I don't think it's necessarily bad for the US government to prioritize US propaganda over Chinese propaganda. It's basic game theory. The Chinese will use their power to try to influence US citizens.

I trust the government of the United States far more than I trust the government of China. Ban the hell out of this idiotic app. It will not only be good for national security but also for the national psyche.

Currently in the US (and I'm guessing most everywhere with high housing costs) the problem is that we don't build nearly enough housing. So simple supply / demand takes over at that point. There is way more demand than supply.

Add in the mortgage interest deduction (this raises prices because people can spend more than they would if they had to pay the tax on the interest); add in idiotic zoning laws / parking requirements in most urban areas of this country (40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built under the city's current zoning laws https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-....) and viola, you have super high housing costs.

The problems are easy to fix. Places like Tokyo have low housing costs compared to other cities of the same density. It can be accomplished, it's simply a matter of IF we'll do it. Given that homeowners and landowners have a gigantic portion of the assets in our world economy, I'm not hopeful that they'll ever willingly lower the price of assets for the good of society.