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That makes absolutely zero sense, regardless of how much I'd look at it.

It only sounds like that because most people are not able to look at things objectively.

But, obviously, you're wrong. I don't own a car and haven't for many years. I never intend to own a car ever again. But just because I don't want to own a car, that doesn't mean that anyone who does is an idiot.

Hope that settles it.

I don't really understand why everyone in this post is so hung up on this.

As long as there is no regulation in a particular area, obviously each actor will look out for their own interest. I wouldn't even call it selfish, it's just the natural order of things and an example of the tragedy of the commons. Nothing more, nothing less.

The fact that people here act as if learning how to drive better and getting an SUV is an either/or choice is ridiculous.

> you're an idiot helping to accelerate the problem as this now becomes a weapons race on the road

This is a very harsh take for something that is legal and widespread everywhere across the world (at least Western world).

You have to try really hard to pretend you don't understand why this is happening. It's a race to the top of the safety spectrum, and for good reason. Traffic accidents are among the single biggest sources of preventable deaths and grave injuries, and getting a bigger car is one of the single most important aspects you can control in this equation. It's actually super simple.

If this is truly a problem, and I guess it is, then there should be some form of legislative intervention against it. The people buying them are not the problem, the environment which encourages this is.

Unfortunately, the value to society is not the main factor in compensation. If the incentives were to be aligned that way, we'd live in a very different world.

> JavaScript. Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995. It shipped in beta in September of that year.

I find this really easy to believe, actually.

Totally agree with this, I’m just saying that few, if any, companies would make the decision to force people back in the office based on the well-being of cities or the real estate market.

All companies act in their best interest and that’s kind of it.

Yes, but this is like the opposite of a tragedy of the commons scenario. Are you saying the companies do this in order to save the cities and real estate prices? That's likely not even a small factor at the bottom of the list.

I'm not a data scientist or anything, but as far as my understanding goes, you can think of it as a list of numbers (floats, integers, whatever), each number representing a feature of the thing you're trying to represent as a vector (an image, a video, whatever).

I'm sorry, but this is lazy at best.

> But the EU has discovered that it can extract money by threatening to ban the foreign companies for reasons of privacy, data protection etc.

So your argument is that the EU, with trillions of dollars in GDP, decides to shoot itself in the foot by blocking one of the biggest inventions ever in order to "extract" a few millions of dollars here and there.

This guy definitely is _the source_ I would use to get all my information. He has videos on every topic imaginable, I can only assume he's an expert in all of them.

I worked at IBM many years ago. At some point, some hotshot executive came to our site and was giving a presentation about Watson Healthcare (IIRC).

It's a bit hard to reproduce exactly, but he said soemthing along the lines of: "So we wanted to start an AI-based healtcare product at IBM and while we were talking to customers, they kept asking us about Watson. And we were like 'no, IBM Healthcare has nothing to do with Watson', but they kept insisting that 'no, no, we want the Watson stuff', so we renamed it to Watson Healthcare, though it has nothing to do with Watson".

You see, the way he was saying it, it seemed like he didn't even realize that what he was saying was wrong in any way. He made it seem like customers left IBM no choice but to use the highly-popular name of Watson in the name of a product that has nothing to do with Watson.

Absolutely not. Do you think we’d use resources more effectively by cutting our hours?

Maybe the global maxima is not the standard 9-5 work day, that’s almost a given, but to claim that working dramatically less will yield better results is absurd.

There may be some who disgree with your view, but let's assume most people want the 'ultimate' goal of being 'liberated' from work in order to 'live more'.

However, that's a wildly simplistic view of things.

You can't just say this without realizing that there are severe drawbacks to this. We can't just all work 4h instead of 8h and expect to maintain our standards of living, all the benefits of our times, maintain scientific progress, maintain national security and many, many others.

The ultimate goal should maybe be productivity, and if 4h is better than 8h for whatever reason, then let's do that. But it's definitely not so simple.

To me, this type of argument is so hard to understand that I'm not sure if you're serious or not.

Private jets are bad and wasteful & the people attending that are pricks anyway etc. etc. Everybody agrees.

But I actually see no issue with the attendees flying in on private jets in and of itself. The impact of all that travel is basically just a drop in the ocean and could easily be made up for with a stroke of a pen if those people would actually convene to do some good. Do you really want your PM/president wasting 2 days getting there? I personally wouldn't.

OP did not say he is not an engineer or a fake engineer.

I used to play sports professionally at junior level and I experienced what you described quite a few times. At that time, I did not understand it in any way, but it was clear to me that some sort of "trance" was happening under certain conditions, and I would basically fully focused on the game as if nothing else mattered or even existed.

The things that helped me reach that state were motivation, being under slept or slightly tired, being sick.

I didn't have the concept of "flow" at that time, but I remember noticing that flow in important games without having the concept of it. It almost feels like you have to reduce your active conscious thoughts in order to get there, and just allow your instincts to take over.

There are too many to name, it's basically the entire developed world, which is basically NA, Western Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea.

Not saying the US is not more expensive, but it's not a "huge outlier" by any means.

> The US is a huge outlier regarding salaries compared to practically anywhere else.

That is obviously not true, unless you exclude a lot of countries from "anywhere else".

This is not really the case everywhere. Healthcare and education are not drastically more expensive everywhere in the Western world. In Europe, these things have not increased in price to the same degree as the US and they are definitely more regulated than in the USA.

Housing is probably a special case because it's an investment, and house owners vote and make decisions based on this.

In the Netherlands, that is not the case. The worst they can do is give you a fine.

That is only true in a small amount of areas, like the city center of Amsterdam. Bike lanes are separated from pedestrians, so the only issue would be crossing the street.

Cycling drunk is technically illegal, but often unenforced in the Netherlands. You should see the thousands of obviously 'drunk' people leaving festivals on bikes, under the eyes of the police.

Indeed, I feel many are betting on rationality coming on top and that simply makes no sense to me.

For example, does it seem like the Russian public is rational in any way? There are many approving of the 'denazification' rhetoric in Ukraine. Since the CCP has been pushing the narrative that Taiwan is China, it's somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

> The TikTok spying is probably irrelevant since most TikTok users are teenagers.

Guess what those teenagers will be in like 10 years.

When did the US 'flex their muscles' over Ukraine? There was absolutely zero talk of the US/NATO directly intervening militarily in Ukraine.

As for Taiwan, it's an unknown and if you claim otherwise, you're doing it based on nothing. Biden has clearly and repeatedly stated that the US would defend Taiwan. Not saying the US actually wants to, maybe it's just a deterrent. However, if China does attack and the US backs off, that would mean the end of American supremacy regardless.

I think DALL-E understands the same way an Excel sheet would understand SUM(B3:B6), obviously at a way larger scale and with a more complicated function. It's all just rather simple maths all the way down.

Does anyone actually believe DALL-E "understands" what it's doing? For any reasonable definition of "understands", I assume most people would be skeptical.

So if we go with that, then yes, it just glues things together without understanding their relationship. I'd just be tempted to say it doesn't really matter that it doesn't understand, except maybe for some philosophical questions. It's still incredible based on its output.

Same here. I remember seeing this as a kid and being perplexed, but haven't thought about it until reading it now. This is sooo interesting, I wonder how much stuff like this we have hidden away.

I'm not entirely sure I can eloquently put it into words, but I cannot see how Grammarly could possibly be trustable or even how trust should play a role in the decision to use it.

I mean it's a service that basically tracks every word you write, and does so for what I consider a very small benefit. Even if you can trust Grammarly to be completely ethical today and in the future, no service can claim that it's completely secure from hacking.

All OSes have what is essentially the same service as Grammarly, without having to stream every word you type to a third-party service.