ViktorRay

But the moderator wasn’t just wringing their hands. The moderator banned the account. He even said so at the end of that comment.

You could argue that a bullshit job is a form of rent seeking. The bullshit job worker is increasing his or her share of the wealth without actually creating any wealth through labor. Rent seeking overall is not a good thing for the economy.

Unfortunately the video game industry is still filled with bullshit jobs with people who do nothing important.

https://youtu.be/s5qKN2Yxaok

This was a good video from Laura Fryer talking about this. She compared how there were barely any “producers” on the Halo game from 25 years ago. And then you look at the recent remake of the same game and there are so many people working in it. Again this remake of the same game from 25 years ago. So much bloat. So many managerial and producer positions? Why? It’s the same game!

Actually it’s not even the same game. It’s less than the same game! The original Halo 1 had single player and multiplayer. The remake only has single player. So you have tons of more managers to do less than the stuff just in some better graphics…

I think an interesting problem would be for a LLM from OpenAI or Anthropic to try to learn chess from first principles and then use that knowledge to try and beat Stockfish.

I wonder if anyone at those companies is trying to tackle this problem.

Why have the streaming costs increased so much?

Surely the cost of storage has not gone up. And the cost of sending the 0’s and 1’s hasn’t gone up either.

Are movie studios demanding vastly more money from the streaming services for the movie and TV content? Maybe the costs to make new movies and tv shows have gone up substantially but has licensing costs for the old movies and shows gone up too?

Are these extra costs just going to the streamers to run up profit? Genuinely curious about the economics here. I know the streaming business is highly competitive so I don’t think it’s just rent seeking so wonder what else is going on.

There were times on this site where I saw some pretty bad comments that hadn’t been moderated. I emailed the mods at

hn@ycombinator.com

to let them know about those bad comments and the moderators were always super nice and helpful in response to me.

I guess we will find out when GTA 6 comes out as Rockstar has become unionized.

Although actually…Rockstar didn’t become unionized until most of GTA 6 had already been completed. So I guess we’ll find out when their next game comes out.

Maybe my original comment wasn’t clear. If so I apologize. I was actually criticizing Noah Smith. I agree with what the author of the posted article said.

EDIT: actually it isn’t even that. I personally don’t know enough about this topic to really have an opinion or criticize anyone. Still it’s indeed a phenomena I’ve noticed.

Don’t worry dang! This response wasn’t irritating at all!

It’s actually very interesting to me to see how you all moderate this website! Thank you sincerely for taking the time to type all that up for me. Appreciate all the hard work you do!

I wonder if there is a name to this phenomena. Where being knowledgeable in one thing (such as computer science) means you incorrectly believe you are an expert in another domain (such as virology)

I wonder if it is possible to transfer some upvotes too. This new thread was on the front page before the dupe tag and the comment transfer and the other thread has much fewer upvotes which inadvertently leads to less visibility.

The person stated “ Many data centers are being built by companies that won't exist in a few years, as the winner will take all.” The person stated this as a negative.

If those built data-centers are sold to other companies what is the negative? The gains you mention would happen even if those other companies stay in business.

Wait but then in your scenario wouldn’t the companies going out of business simply sell their data centers to the winning companies?

For me I actually like seeing trailers before the movies. Personally I feel like the trailers are part of the experience and I can’t help but feel some disappointment when a movie starts with no trailers in front of it.

He was replying to a tweet by Paul Graham where Paul Graham says the following:

“Startups: Instead of appearing on Shark Tank, spend that energy fixing whatever makes your product so unappealing you think you need to.“

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/mark-cuban-chris-sacca-...

Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks?

Source:

https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456

It’s interesting how monopolistic corporations can fall prey to the same dynamics as authoritarian countries with centralized economies.

But doesn’t Taiwan use the traditional script? And over in Taiwan they don’t seem to have issues with literacy or using smaller screens?

Glad they were able to get legal help and are back. It’s frustrating to me how it’s so hard to access so many websites nowadays without being logged in. Ridiculous that so much of the web nowadays is just a handful of websites almost all of which seem to have so many restrictions.

Some more good advice:

Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.

One could make the argument that

"just do it and ask for forgiveness later"

is what the entire LLM industry is based on. They swallowed up all of society’s copyrighted texts without really asking for permission from anyone. This is just par for the course for them it seems unfortunately.

This is insanely cool. Incredible.

This article makes me feel guilty of my growing backlog of books. Will read through some of them this weekend.

The government should not be doing inhumane things to people. This should not be a controversial statement.

I had never heard of this story before. Thank you for sharing it.

What are some good books or websites where one can read these stories? I am interested in learning more about them.

Because it will make it more expensive for people or groups of people to run open source models to do work on their own hardware. You would be taxing people or groups of people to run a program on the computers they own. This is contrary to the principles of the free and open source software movements.

Fascinating. Can't help but wonder how things will change over the next decade or so.

This essay kind of rubs me the wrong way. Starting from the very beginning.

During my entire life I’ve only had two jobs. In the first one, I played a role in developing software to empower people through my work at Microsoft.

Yikes. We all know powerful people have an incentive to whitewash their pasts but there is whitewashing and then there is whatever that is.

I have to mention this because we can't forget that Microsoft's and Bill Gates's history regarding fear uncertainty doubt as well as embrace extend extinguish. "Forgive but don't forget" as the old saying goes.

During the 2000's Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer described the GPL as akin to a virus. He begged European governements not to adopt open source software and to adopt Microsoft software instead.

Indeed throughout its history Microsoft, along with Gates and Balmer, have consistently fought against implementation of open standards and open source software. They have consistently pushed towards their own proprietary solutions.

Given all of this, along with the laughable whitewashing attempt even at the very beginning of his essay, I feel like what Bill Gates has written here is consistent with his previous behavior in regards to all of this. I suspect all this talk of regulation is an attempt to squash open source AI and open weights AI and to ensure Big Tech such as Microsoft continues to be in control of the future of tech and the future of AI.

Even his talk of taxing AI tokens and robots would ultimately benefit Microsoft and other Big tech companies and hurt open source.

I will repeat what I said earlier. In life it is important to "forgive but never forget." Many have forgiven Bill Gates for all he did in the 90's. Many haven't. But nobody should forget and everyone should take his words with a grain of salt.

When all this crashes, future historians will look back and wonder how so many got hoodwinked by AI.

Some of these future historians might even be reading this Hacker News thread.

To any future historians reading this, many of us did know this AI stock bonanza was just a modern day tulip mania. Alas many wealthy people did get hoodwinked though.