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If you aren’t interested in the post, what compelled you to click into the comments and tell everyone about it instead of just ignoring it?

This is not a constant fact, though. In 2021 there were not enough qualified US work eligible candidates to go around. Right now is going to be a very different story for many roles.

This comment is a great example of the Stockholm Syndrome related to DPI scaling and desktop Linux. This is just slightly better than the "why does anyone need 4K monitors to begin with" takes.

If anyone is really bored, go try what this comment is suggesting. Run things at native resolution and change every system/application font setting to be 1.5x the default. Or instead just think about it for 30 seconds and just realize that a lot of UI is not text, and now you get 'normal' sized text with tiny images, icons, scroll bars, etc. and a lot of UI glitches such as text overflowing tiny buttons or clipping out of panels. The entire experience being suggested is hot garbage.

As a user of 27" 4k monitors, the terrible 150% DPI scaling has been a dealbreaker for Linux desktop for me for years. Every so often I will go out and search to see if it's any better, and I always find people insisting that it works "perfectly" now, and then I will go and try to replicate what they did only to find out that "perfectly" means something very different to Linux desktop users who clearly have never used MacOS or even Windows with fractional DPI scaling.

No, this paragraph was not hyperbole. This was in conclusion and the author’s serious opinion.

> If a software engineer tells you that this code needs to be 100% test covered, that AI won’t replace them, and that they need 3 months of development—then you better shut the fuck up and let them do their job.

This is so naive that it is impossible to take the author seriously.

“Millennial internet hype” was absolutely warranted, though. The utility of the Internet has exceeded the expectations almost everyone had for it in the 90s. It’s one of the big things people pushing blockchain hype always cited for their faith in the technology.

You will have a high batting average if you are dismissive of everything that gains momentum. But when you are wrong you end up being extremely wrong.

It’s pretty interesting how widely divergent views of the current state and promise this technology is. The dominant view here on HN seems to be that generative models are overhyped toys that burn massive amounts of energy and investment capital with little signs of promise. Meanwhile you have these AI researchers who are warning about “the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction.” What are we to make of this?

This is a terrible analogy that implies all instances of “doing two things at once” are somehow immoral. You would compare someone eating both steak and potatoes for dinner to an adulterer.

There certainly are many cases where microservices are used where they are not actually appropriate, but this entire post just betrays a lack of experience working in a large monolithic codebase with many engineers.

That doesn’t sound bossware-like at all. It seems completely reasonable to me.

It's cheap, runs on everything, has a decent user experience, has a large network effect, and has wide software and peripheral support. I don't see why it wouldn't stay afloat.

It wasn’t the manufacturer that was what convinced the FDA to approve this drug. It was people like you.

I was a CS undergrad from 2002-2006 and I think almost everyone I knew was there because they were very interested in technology. I wonder if the .com bubble bursting had reset that? I didn’t notice a significant number of people entering the field purely for money until the early 2010s.

I don't think there were many better hopes out there for ALS. That's why they approved the drug despite weak data supporting it. This outcome is devastating for people with ALS and their families.

This article had nothing to do with AI (and that was the point). It’s largely a regurgitation of the same polemics you’ve read about “capitalism” a thousand times in the last decade with AI in the title just to get you to click.

This sounds like depression.

People said the same thing about garbage collectors.

I'd rather shoot for a world where clean energy is abundant than abandon the benefits of ever increasing computational power. Thankfully, this is the world we are trending towards, and not the world of 'humans are a virus' self loathing, even if the toxic mindset is having a moment.

Not everybody wants to go through life as a tourist.

You don’t sound like the kind of user ollama was meant to serve. What you are describing is pretty typical of macOS applications. You were looking for more of a traditional Linux style command line process or a Python library. Looks like you found what you were after, but I would imagine that your definition of user friendly is not really what most people understand it to mean.

> the main benefit is how cheap they are to run

This is a pretty weak main benefit as ICE cars are already cheap to run. At 12k miles/year, 30 MPG, and $3.20/gallon you are only talking $1300/year in fuel.

According to AAA, taking fuel, maintenance, repair, and tires into account someone driving 15k miles a year would only save $330. Given the cost premium on an EV over a comparable ICE car, I’m not sure you would ever come out ahead, although the cost gap is admittedly shrinking.

Do you really think the commenter meant to use moot to mean “purely academic?”

The issue here is that the case law is not settled at all and there is no clear consensus on whether OpenAI is violating any copyright laws. In novel cases like this where the courts essentially have to invent new legal doctrines, I think the implications of the decision carries a tremendous amount of weight with the judges and justices who have to make that decision.

The word ‘moot’ does not mean what you think it means.

>I can't imagine a world where the USA shares everything with Spain, so I can't image why would Spain share everything with the USA.

I'm sure it's not everything, but it's certainly asymmetric given that Spain (like any NATO country) outsources much of its security to the United States.

Sam and Greg are no longer on the board. They were removed with the support of Ilya. The board is now Ilya, the Quora CEO, and two other outsiders.

I think this is a poor reading of the situation that is aging badly.

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...

It indeed did seem like something Ilya would post himself, or at least someone cosplaying as him. Based on what we’ve seen on Twitter from employees it looks like a significant chunk supports Sam.

It’s pretty clearly just a power play by four of the board members. Keep in mind Sam was part of the board and Greg Brockman was chairman of the board, so this was 4 board members ousting 2 other board members. OpenAI execs have already said it wasn’t for wrongdoing.