sandwichukulele's comments

One approach I like to consider, a Gedankenexperiment, is thinking about your local square mile and how were X number of dollars spent in this region on Y time frame, perhaps today, last year, this decade and their why. The square mile isn't a hard metric, it can be bigger if you're more rural or smaller if urban but one question I think is how were a million dollars moved in this region and how quickly? Who is spending money and why? Can these costs be improved and so on. It helps going on google maps and scouting out your area for businesses and figuring out how they stay afloat and their why. If you want to integrate AI into the mix, you can bounce ideas off GPT-4 to play as devil advocate to see if the movement here makes sense and how it might play out in the future.

given that this is a laptop, and because usually whatever task that can done on Linux can done to some degree on either macOS (docker) and windows (WSL), I put aside my own personal grievances with the platforms and focus on one thing: battery life and for this macOS wins. But to focus again with only problems (and ignoring the obvious advantages of the platform) I've had is

windows: none, you can nitpick at the defaults with regards to telemetry as others mention but with the group policy editor and registry, almost anything can be adjusted

macOS: lack of software compared to windows, especially CUDA

Linux: lukewarm hardware and software support, it is never as good as windows

> That 2019 Unesco report came with a call-to-action. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them,” Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said.

I read the article but they don't provide actionable solutions to this problem. What is the world specifically supposed to do after paying attention? They mention that

> Big tech has paid some lip service to this and has started offering more masculine voice options with their voice assistants. Still [...]

paying attention isn't enough, realistically, what is the plan to really address these issues?

> Over half of children under 13 used social media, contrary to most of the big platforms' rules, and many admitted to lying to gain access to new apps and services.

> Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta which owns WhatsApp and Instagram, has previously suggested that he favours requiring app-stores to check the ages of users.

this is the first time I heard about this and I agree with this angle. App-stores charge a fee to act as a middleman. They handle distribution, payment, and offer account authentication, it would be good if they also handled age verification in a way that can't easily be circumvented (i.e. lying as mentioned in the article) rather than handing the hot potato to app developers to deal with.

> Microsoft needs to learn some patience

I read thru the article and I felt a lot of it resonating with Google as well

> What do you do with your old Intel MacBooks?

Trade it in. At the time of M1 release, I traded in my Intel MacBook Pro at the Apple store for a M1 mac mini.

> Artificial intelligence is likely to impact 60% of jobs in advanced economies and 40% of jobs around the world in the next two years, Georgieva told an event in Zurich.

I read the article but they never explained how. How will AI impact jobs in the next two years? I've seen TikToks of people going to the Wendy's drive thru that has AI chat but there's still a human in the loop to babysit it. But even then, the results are lukewarm. What kind of jobs will really be impacted and how?

My search experience has been the same always, just fine. I exclusively use Google and will switch my default search to Google even if it isn't (such as on raspberry pi OS where the default is DDG). To get anything of value, I have always first looked towards physical books and I spend most of my time at the public library. If I want the news, I turn to the physical printed editions of the newspaper that are updated each day at the library. For example, my last Google search a few minutes ago I looked for the iPhone 7 MSRP and release date and had no issues getting this information from google. I am left confused about these posts because they lack specific examples to better understand where you're coming from. I've always seen the comments about how people do site:reddit.com but I've never felt the need to do so either

I have not had issues with speed since the initial release of GPT-4 way back in March 2023. I am located near NYC so perhaps location has some sway

I believe you and that's why I asked. I also think it's unfair how common ghosting is when it cost so little to reply.

> Dev rels have done driven bans and caused monetary losses before.

Do you have any specific examples?

> So how do you know that any idea built on top of OpenAI is future-proof and actually adds value

one idea is to not build in a way that you depend on OpenAI. You should build on top of their offering in a way that it is interchangeable with other providers, especially offline local solutions which is something OpenAI being an API first company will not have a strong offering for and where you can demonstrate your value.

> The potential harm to the business is massive.

how massive? does that mass have a dollar value and a time frame?

> but more on things that small businesses consider important topics?

could you elaborate on some of those topics?

there's plenty of subreddits like r/ecommerce and so on for specific niches (see people doing say dropshipping) off the top of my head, I can think of day by day busy work that might not interest the venture capital focused HN audience but highly important for small businesses like discussing the occassional news in regards to accounting software like quickbooks or payrolls, setting up printers, running ad campaigns and so on but I feel like these kind of discussions are counter productive by creating more capable competition among small businesses against each other. It's the information asymmetry that gives a small businesses an edge to remain relevant before big players, an edge that we sometimes see erased when popularized on free open platforms where small business owners advertise some strategy and then hordes of copy cats following that diminish the value of the strategy in the first place and why I don't see a HN equivalent existing today.

> So, why do you suppose this is?

this is my personal assumption, observing the golden rule like the other commentor mentioned, this most likely isn't something nefarious but most likely a low priority that they will work at a later. They're busy trying to keep the spotlight in this cutthroat hype cycle and I think it's safe to assume they're busy pushing new models like we saw gpt-4o than low hanging fruit QoL features that might even risk breaking things. You mention how they "flat-out" refuse to answer the question but I think it's reasonable to think that after yesterday's announcement they're swamped with messages to focus on this right now.

> because then you stop being a customer?

I agree with you! Which is why I ask this, what can stop someone from falling into this loop in the first place? The article talks about agents getting easier to build but is there any solutions to this problem?

> "Given AI-based systems are becoming easier to build, there are going to be opportunities for malicious actors to leverage AIs to make a more polarized society," Xiao said. "Creating agents that always present opinions from the other side is the most obvious intervention, but we found they don't work."

While this is focused with researching topics, chatbots are used for more beyond that as we see with the growing popularity of platforms like character.ai. What's the alternative for people who have no one else to talk to? A lot of the people using chatbots in the first place is because they have no friends, this is their last resort but as we see, this might be making the problem worse.

Besides "career expectations" what else about 30 feels like a deadline? On the other days you feel like "an absolute fucking failure," failure with regards to what? (assumption and guesses: with regards to your timeline progress in building a family? getting married? owning a home? having kids? travelling? perhaps going back to school? is this all exclusively about how many zeroes you are getting in your paycheck?) Please tell us OP!

I use Apple products because they are complements to my other devices. I have a mac mini as well but that doesn't stop me from having other windows and Linux workstations. I do have an iPhone SE that I like very much and the Air pods Pro gen 2 that I love. Really I use Apple products because I don't want to think about if something will be of good enough quality or not. I'm not picky and don't care for perfection, I sometimes just want something that "just werks" and when it comes to my phone and earbuds and a budget desktop (the base model mac mini), Apple does it wonderfully.

Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Jenkins (2019) Oxford University Press.

I am very interested in figuring out how to reduce the cost of energy and given my background is only in CS and Economics, I frequently have to reference texts like this until I have a better understanding to move beyond

> But translating this knowledge into the clinic will be challenging.

> Don’t expect an elixir of youth any time soon, says Florian — by definition, ageing research takes a long time. “But there is such great potential for translation.”

how long before we might see such treatment in humans?

> here's how

I read the article, I have not read the papers linked, but from just the article, the only applicable "how" listed was

> up if you smoke and down if you exercise.