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Totally, just try EVE for a bit to blow some time.

Less sarcastically, it killed a couple weeks of my life, but it does have a natural ending point. If you don't get into modding or ramp up the difficulty it's not too bad to pull away from the brink.

Why, and what does it mean, for Nvidia to announce fiscal results a year ahead of time.

Is it just promise to sell chips in advance, so that's how far it's booked, do they own a Time Machine...?

I do if that tool is going to be more centralized then what it replaces.

Seems like a pretty facile argument. Bicycles and helicopters don't need to be trained on ridiculously largest datasets on ridiculously large super computers.

Ok, but people won't use it just for recipes. If it's successful and common place google will monetize it.

The beginning could just be "see this related product or service." Which won't mess with the content. Perhaps that's fine.

I'd argue though that any summarizing tool inherently has a bias. It must choose to ignore certain details and make decisions about what to highlight.

As we understand LLM's more and the stuff that summarizes folks controlling them will be able to make those decisions and the money and power behind that will absolutely abuse it.

That's not even considering the effects this would have on journalism and writing in general if most of it gets summarized.

The dynamics set up if such research pans out seem really similar to existing shitty dynamics in our society regarding women. Attractive young woman who are interested in adult entertainment have the opportunity to make a lot of money between 18 - 30. Then that certain career path quickly evaporates.

Guys could feel jealous missing out on that opportunity but how much it feel to have the most lucrative years of your life be when you're young? What does it say about society that it financially values you the most when you have the least actual power in your life?

Very similar to donating young blood, it's not likely donating blood will lead to the career of managing blood donation. You're useful then you can't own the club you're stripping at or the donation center. It's just you're used then "cool you're old now hope you saved enough for a coding boot camp".

Some research just seems like it could solely increase existing power imbalances.

If it was a formal debate sure, I'm more riffing on the original comment. I should have said something like "relatedly."

I would agree having dozens of short relationships and not being able to commit to something, even just a core set of friends, probably isn't great. So person I replied to is perhaps right there.

But idealizing a young marriage I think is stupid and should be criticized and is directly related to 1950's housewives not being able to leave their relationships.

Divorce rates were lower "back in the day" because women had far less options.

Maybe we just aren’t all meant to find that one person and stay with them until we die.

Maybe, just maybe, we were meant to have a community to find meaning in beyond to the communities of family and work.

Blasphemous thoughts for the formerly puritanical US, but worth considering nonetheless.

> If doped such an electronic structure [LK-99] might support flat-band superconductivity or an correlation-enhanced electron-phonon mechanism, whereas a diamagnet without superconductivity appears to be rather at odds with our results.

Sounds like it, if prepared right it could be a super conductor and would NOT be a diamagnet that would display the properties we saw in those videos.

I wonder that about many of the corporate web frameworks out there too. The guides and evangelist say it's so easy but they have the most dog shit docs out there but hey, plenty of training you can pay for to get certified.

It made me think I was an idiot until I talked to a couple other folks (who didn't have a financial reason to say it was easy) and they agreed it was horrible documentation.

One reason I love open source: you won't have folks clamoring to use or improve your system if it's too shitty. To reach great levels of incomprehensibility you really need corporate backing.

Hey man, take that up with the post I read 5 years ago on HN and didn’t link to.

More seriously, if I find the time I’ll try to link to it.

I’m sure there’s a better way to paint things now but I think we often don’t for appliances.

Well that's a compelling point in favor of modern fridges.

What do you do to your fridges??? I'm in my 30's and have never had to replace a fridge.

Never had a "modern" fridge except as a kid. All looked like low budget fridges from the 80's or 90's.

Some of those fridges are refurbished and still around[1]! It's my dream to own one someday when my fridge from the 90's dies.

Every couple years there's a HN link to a blog post about how those appliances were built better in the day. Couple highlights I remember were:

- Parts were dipped in paint rather than sprayed leading to fuller and thicker paint coverage

- Motors had some changes so were actually built to last

Got to imagine fewer electrical/mechanical parts that can fail as well.

[1] https://carolinasantiqueappliances.com/Web/index.php/restore...

What a beautiful dream Noah promises us all.

Could be a benefit from being stuck on the same node for longer

I’m no Xbox fan but I always felt the appeal was it was almost a palindrome and it’s a box to play games on.

X has a cool sound and mystery so I think it works when paired with someone that fits. X-men is one for me at least.

Brand-less unpaired “X” is the epitome of bland. I have no doubt Twitter will be around in the next ten years.

But just like AOL, Yahoo, and MySpace no one will really care except a fragment of their original demographic. Which I’m going to assume with Musk at the helm will be aging genx'ers. Which is kinda fitting.

maybe I'm missing a layer of sarcasm or two but that's the joke

I mean, they dominated internet browsers by being the default option until they sucked at it so hard people downloaded alternatives.

I’m not sure you want to invite the comparison.

It's funny cause those talks happened when labor was relatively cheaper, similar with the "we'll just replace fast food workers with robots."

Now that labor is even less readily available we're talking about it... less. And that's even off that back of low interest rates and easier money for such initiatives.

Exactly this. Don't blame the airplane for not being a car, or a submarine for being a beach buggy.

Obviously people have made things for VIM to be IDE like, some are cool to me, but completion-integrations-lang-servers always seemed so anti-vim to me. Make an HTTP request every key stroke to get suggestions? The. Latency.

Oh wow, I misremembered it a bit. It was about a magazine Branson was running "Student" in his early days. The details of the story are accurate though.

Source

> Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity

There's also the story Richard Branson wrote about in his memoir where the co-founder of Virgin was pro unionizing and his workers were too.

Branson convinced (and lied to) his partner that no one in the company actually liked him and the union attempt would fail. Caused his co-founder to quietly quit and Branson to retain sole control.

I agree, I imagine shady shit like this is quite common just not discussed.

Ah so it’s a joke used to reference the complete lack of power companies/people have against behemoth corps?

> because of the larger gun policy nobody can do anything

Oh please do elaborate

> Obviously the models will improve

I mean, to some extent, but isn't reasonable to assume hallucination is a hard problem?

Hallucination shows there's plenty of things they didn't actually learn, and are just good at seeming they learned.

Like, if it gets exponentially harder to train them it's possible the level of hallucination will improve far worse than linearly even.

I'm replying to the comment not the article.

Growing public fruit trees, handing out food, stopping to help an injured person, all of those are illegal in some jurisdictions or can get you into serious legal trouble.

That is because laws exist not just to stop bad things but also to stop good things from happening, or at least centralize how good things are done.

I mean, otherwise what would happen? We’d all probably just take care of each other, and we can’t have that happening.

I don’t think most experts are saying literally everyone will die. I think they’re saying many will and that there’s no reason to think conditions will be as favorable for humanity after we change the planet.

For example, consider that humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years but only in the past 10k did civilization develop.

Was it because we sat on our hands? Did it take us that long to domesticate plants? Domestication of wheat does not take anywhere near that long even if you’re not really trying. One theory it’s that until 10k years ago there was a big ass ice age that made living pretty rough.

Once conditions became favorable human behavior changed pretty rapidly. To make all this.

So why should we be afraid of climate change? Because climate wise these 10k years have been pretty favorable for humans and there’s absolutely no reason to believe the next 10k will be if we fuck it up.

> solar, improved batteries

Neither of those sounded as sexy (i.e hyped) to me a nuclear fusion and quantum computers.

> He said: “This is a very nice demonstration of quantum advantage. While a great achievement academically, the algorithm used does not really have real world practical applications, though.

> “We really must get to utility quantum computing – an era where quantum computers with many thousand qubits actually begin to deliver value to society in a way that classical computers never will be able to.”

This seems to be the most level headed take from the paper and an explanation why (if claims are to be believed) we haven't seen anything useful come from quantum computing yet that couldn't be done by classical computers.

Maybe it still is all hype and the reason we haven't seen a useful calculation is because the only problems it can solve better than others happen to be especially contrived. I guess time will tell.