ren_engineer

the EU is becoming a parody

>we've got to save democracy by restricting free speech and enforcing laws and regulations created by unelected officials

>and Boeing was, until very recently, a prestigious aeronautical engineering company

what do you define as "recently"? This Boeing/lockheed project has been a taxpayer funded disaster for over a decade and this is just the obvious end result. Boeing managed to siphon billions of tax dollars in the meantime

30 under 30 is going to inherently attract the wrong sort of people because the people actually worthy of it don't care about it. It basically acts as social proof, which the most successful people already have from their own work. Similar to Mensa in that the majority of the smartest people aren't going to feel the need to be validated by taking the time to join

I'm talking more about them posting new product launches, I/O livestream, gmail pinned to the top, etc. Embedded stuff in search results is fine for the most part, although their intent their is primarily to prevent click throughs to other sites and increase the chances of an ad click

I feel like the more blatant monopoly abuse by Google is how they use the Google search homepage to shill their other products. They effectively give themselves billions of dollars in free advertising

the fact NASA has been lying to the public for months makes it even worse. Going to be beautiful when they have to beg SpaceX to bail them out. Just shut Boeing down at this point, they are a failed organization

from an evolutionary perspective the current human lifespan seems almost perfect

>long enough for grandparents to help with kids and pass on valuable knowledge

>short enough that new generations are able to adapt as needed to changing environments and throw out out of date information or cultural "technology" that is no longer relevant

increasing human lifespan significantly seems like a nightmare, especially if only the richest have access. The saying "science advances one death at a time" and just the thought of political leaders being able to entrench themselves over longer times spans is awful. Seems like it would most likely lead to complete stagnation

people really don't want to accept that beyond the most extreme cases(starvation, lead poisoning, complete neglect, no school access at all, etc.), environment really doesn't play that big of a role. Twin studies have shown this for literally decades

main question is what other things they've created bot armies to pysop people that they haven't admitted to or that are currently ongoing? You don't just spin up this type of thing for a one off. And whether the US military is doing this against US citizens as well

even "trump as..." returns no suggested searches which is insane, obviously a manual action

this, I feel like a lot of people are just so abstracted away from harsh reality in the modern world that many don't take things seriously. Massive normalcy bias and enhanced bystander effect. A lot of people's first instinct is to pull out their phone and record something as well

for SpaceX it's a bet that if Trump wins they will get far more lobbying power for contracts and Boeing/Lockheed will be even more screwed.

And while consumer opinion on Tesla and Starlink will be hurt, Elon is probably hoping to get Trump to tariff Chinese electric car competitors massively so his only competition will be domestic

most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings

how sidelined is HN that ETH getting an ETF doesn't get a single comment?

it's an attempt to keep the hype train going by implying they have internal models that make GPT-4 look bad. The question is if that's actually true, we'll find out soon because plenty of other companies are now approaching GPT-4 level performance and OpenAI will have to show their hand

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

and I know a ton of people miserable and stressed because they are buried in college debt. The fact the government has created a system where 18 year old kids can rack up massive debts that can't be removed via bankruptcy is insane. Changing that would instantly fix the system, colleges would have to prove ROI or it would go back to how it used to be for non-practical degrees(only rich kids wasted their time and money on them)

the worst case scenario for being a YC founder is probably a 500K+ job at FAANG or another YC startup if you fail

This is SFO again, seems more like a maintenance issue for the last few incidents

>The problem is not the demand for housing, it’s the supply

how do you build enough housing when the government of a country with a population of 30 million is bringing in 500K immigrants every year?

I've A/B tested this with webinars and the tools I've tried tend to miss some really valuable/interesting stuff even when I give it the full transcript. Same goes for when I try to use ChatGPT or other tools for full interactive analysis, even when I basically hand it what I'm looking for as if I hadn't watched the video it will leave out the critical information

actually the opposite imo, this stuff is the ultimate bread and circus to distract poor people from worsening living conditions. Much cheaper to provide VR goggles with AI model access than housing and healthcare

seems like a significant chunk of the population may opt in to the Matrix voluntarily.

on another note I find it funny they released this right after Google announced their new model. Bad luck for Google or did OpenAI just decide to move up their announcement date to steal their thunder?

I'm not sure there would be much demand for purely custom/individualized episodes beyond the novelty and maybe for fun with a group of friends. Most of the reason people watch TV or movies is for the shared experience that you can discuss with others. It could definitely drive down production costs though, hopefully HBO uses it to eventually redo Game of Thrones post season 4

RAG would still be useful for cost savings assuming they charge per token, plus I'm guessing using the full-context length would be slower than using RAG to get what you need for a smaller prompt

universities have gone from having the goal of actually educating to giving credentials in return for a lot of money

In the US socialism/communism got tied to the state atheism of the Soviets and China which is why there is the political divide

just increase the tax credit for kids, even make it progressive so you get bigger tax credits for more kids so higher income families have more reason to have more kids. The welfare cliff as it currently stands will doom our country, in my friends and family group the ones who are unemployed or work low income jobs have more kids than the rest combined and no reason to strive to do better because unless they make 6 figures they are better off doing the minimum.

systems are about incentives and our current system in the US has us in a death spiral, immigration is used as a short-term stopgap to reduce impact of low birth rates but just accelerates the death spiral in the long term

what's old is new, even NYC where the war against phonics was started has given up on it. I guess having Mississippi and Alabama score better than them was the final straw

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/3996281-nyc-stressing...

basically 30+ years wasted on a strategy with no scientific basis, I wonder what our school systems are teaching today that will be looked at as being just as dumb 30 years from now

Snowflake and most other cloud services offer on-prem for these use cases, so it really doesn't make sense for them to roll their own data centers because it would be pretty niche. Cloud works for startups because they are there already, on-prem for enterprise customers with their own hardware