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And what revenue and/or profit increases can you cite publicly as a result of the use of AI in this work?

I don’t think anyone is disputing that it makes many kinds of work easier and/or faster, just the degree of those improvements and how much of those improvements actually translate to dollars earned or saved.

Seeing hard data on that would help settle the issue.

Yes. It appears to be random but the first time I loaded the page, on mobile, half of the videos featured well known IDW and populist types like Joe Rogan. So hardly what I would expect from culling recommended videos by a technical crowd.

I guess I learn something new about the HN crowd every day. When I loaded the page, half of the first screen were videos by IDW folks.

Pro tip for YouTube proper - turn off history and only view the “subscribed” page, and search for content that you really want to see. Oh and of course turn off autoplay and limit shorts to 0 views per day.

USAID was absolutely a net positive and if nothing else its elimination has completely ceded almost all soft power to China and Russia, something that will have repercussions for decades to come.

I just looked it up. Getty Images revenue has increased in four of the last five years (the outlier being 2023 were there was a small decline).

They have had 200 million in judgements against them by investors this year, and are filing Chapter 11 to reorganize debt and go private.

In other words, nothing to do with AI.

You are talking about ignoring predictions. I am talking about measured effects. There are lots of people commenting here about massive disruption they believe has occurred, and although things have certainly been disrupted so far it hasn’t been measurable at an macroeconomic level, at least to the degree people here are claiming. It appears any effect is within the noise, although certainly on the scale of a certain industry it might have had impacts (eg on hiring new college grads for software engineering positions).

The supposed massive GDP growth and jobs losses just aren’t there at this time, whatever the future may bring.

Economists keep saying over and over that so far AI has had minimal impact on the economy. That may change in time, but we aren’t seeing massive losses as a result of AI, despite some C suites using that as an excuse to lay off after over hiring.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-re...

Not quite sure why you are getting downvotes since it’s clearly a play on six degrees of separation and the rhyming substitution at least plays some part in why people have continued to discuss it.

I’ve seen other analyses going back at least a couple decades showing Kevin Bacon was not the center of Hollywood, although none as thorough as this.

Industrialization and automation brought down the cost of goods, making them much more accessible to more people.

But they absolutely simultaneously resulted in lower quality goods in many areas.

As an example, people used to buy hand crafted furniture after buying an home, and it lasted them a lifetime because it was made with such high quality material and with such craftsmanship. It was also very expensive, which motivated keeping it for so long and passing it on to future generations.

Today the furniture we buy is much less expensive as a percentage of income but the quality is crap and you may end up needing to replace it once the finish has worn off because refinishing would be as expensive as buying another crap quality piece of furniture.

The same goes for clothing and many other goods.

It’s not that nobody makes any high quality goods anymore, but they are several times the price and are very low volume because of the cheap crappy alternatives.

Still amazed that on HN of all places people are confused by or having problems with passkeys. I have yet to see any of the issues people are guesstimating could become problems and adopted on day one.

I have had two poor experiences, where passkeys I set up at one point stopped working and I had to generate a replacement, but this was not a problem because I have yet to come across a site that didn’t continue to offer other means of logins.

I don’t see anybody complaining about the login-via-emailed-link which seems to be the much more common trend these days and which I really dislike because it introduces an unwanted delay in login (and I have come across many sites for which this is the only means of logging in).

I received two checks in the very early 2000s and my name isn’t on this list.

For the record I cashed both and have zero regrets. At the time it definitely felt like the right thing to do as I am not into collecting tokens.

Original interview quoted: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/teenage-engineering-interview...

Tesla is ~13% of the global EV market and one of the worst values at that.

Their total volume of vehicles sold is 15% of Toyota’s, and shrinking.

It’s always possible. There’s definitely been a market for Eurorack clones of open designs like Mutable Instruments modules.

The main thing would be how you market it since one of the provisions is that you can’t use that trademarked name, and I imagine that would apply to marketing it, not just the product name itself.

Open source but production of the hardware was discontinued so you would either need to buy used or build one from the specs.

I think my counter is relatively straightforward. Economists have said that as of more or less today there has been zero impact from AI. Despite layoffs in tech. I don’t think we go from “no economic impact” to end of humanity in “the next few years”.

Why is it “certainly” the case that one will be enormously valuable?

Neither appears to be on track to long-term profitability specifically once you take into account depreciation on CAPEX.

On top of this the “productivity gains” from AI across the board seem to be a very mixed bag. The pitch from these companies has been huge gains in productivity and automation and although there is anecdotal evidence some people are able to do that, the broader studies seem to show marginal gains in most cases.

Title is missing the leading “How” from the source, which changes the meaning entirely.

100% on both counts but don't know if it's "within a year", or within a couple.

Which is effectively reskinning TidalCycles with JavaScript syntax.

Title should be updated to reflect the fact that this is a single PBS station.

Well aware of Quantified Scientist and it’s actually what I have pointed many Oura, Woop, etc users to in the past.

But as you say the always-on ECG of a strap like Polar H10 always going to provide a superior result.

My experience is that while they are all priced based on demand, Waymo is often much cheaper during periods of low demand. I have benefitted from a few 50% off rides in the past month, so I was able to pay $5.50-$6.00 for rides that would be $20-30 across all the providers during high demand and for which Uber was quoting $13-18 at the time of those rides.

I’ll add that if you care about working out with a watch to track heart rate, the Apple Watch is pretty dismal. I moved to pairing mine with a Polar H10 strap so that I could get much faster feedback on heart rate recovery post sprint. In addition to using an optical sensor, the Apple Watch may also be doing something to smooth out the signal. I just know that the Polar seems much more responsive and matches how I am feeling.

Because it's ultimately not very useful. Sleep tracking - I've become convinced this is actually a bad idea, and since I stopped I stress less about sleep and ultimately sleep better. Step tracking? Phone does that adequately.

I do wear it for workouts, but once it's closer to end of life will replace it with something dedicated for workouts like a Garmin that holds a charge for 14+ days.

I loved my Apple Watch at first but due to exactly these sort of distractions no longer wear it and have more recently turned off most of the notifications on my phone. I am sick of my attention being stolen away by everything around me.

Well, there was $300M+ in VC money and after burning through some percentage of it those investors wanted an exit. I don’t think this is so much about founders taking a deal as it is investors demanding that exit.

Exactly. There was talk of similar dealings before the SpaceX IPO.

Have both. Also had floaters since at least teen years. Neither bother me substantially although I think I have lost most of 8 kHz volume in my left ear and have tinnitus that I think matches that frequency.

You know what does bother me?

The scintillating scotoma as well as retinal migraine symptoms, the former starting in middle school and latter in my 20s. Fortunately neither is frequent now but damn I used to break into a cold sweat with either and to this day am a bit reluctant to drive because of both.

I don’t know where you’re drawing your conclusions from but they literally have messages from the OpenAI exec laughing at how he can still access data at Apple and talking about copying it, as well as messages encouraging candidates from Apple to bring unreleased prototype hardware to demonstrate during interviews.