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I hope it's true. Middle east interventions have all led to failed state scenarios so far. And I doubt this administration is smart enough to do whats best for the US. End of day I guess Israel decides the outcome of this particular war. But yeah we will know in a few months.

Are you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario?

Fairness matters because the only way we can collectively decide to reduce emissions is if people everywhere feel its fair.

Something about FIRE makes people have a visceral reaction. How DARE people not work like the rest of us. I get the purpose part if they were like teachers or doctors or something. Nope. SWE at Meta.

Did you actually review 313,397 LOC written by claude? And you wrote the tests? That's honestly very impressive if yes.

Yep I got the same message on workatastartup.com from Aden.

Up 25% because of his decision to layoff. He is richer from this decision.

Jack should fire himself if performance was the criteria. Like you said he has lead his company to 75% down over the last 5 years.

Block is up 25%.

These kinds of attacks lead nowhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Might be true for you. But there are plenty of top tier engineers who love LLMs. So it works for some. Not for others.

And of course there are shortcuts in life. Any form of progress whether its cars, medicine, computers or the internet are all shortcuts in life. It makes life easier for a lot of people.

You can't luck your way into building Apple or Pixar.

I mean everyone knows this right? There are even leaked memos. They are public companies who need to grow revenue and they gain that revenue mostly through ads and attention.

Billions of dollars?

> OK, but is it a problem if you get recommended repos on github? What I mean that perhaps it's not the good recommendation algorithm that is the problem? It seems like banning tcp/ip because porn is bad.

Please stop trying to compare social media recommendation algorithms with stuff like github. Its clearly a different animal with different set of business goals. And noone is saying ban tcp/ip. TikToks recommendation algorithm is not a fundamental building block like tcp/ip. I think you would be fine without it.

> In China for example (IIRC) below 18 you cannot use these apps past some hour and not above some time limit per day. That seems far from correct solution but seems better than banning it outright and seems to be addressing most concerns.

Sure thats fine too. I think my solution is better.

> Personalized content is crucial for functioning information platforms. Imagine if usenet had a single group only. The information sea is vast and the ways to browse and access it seem to only be diminishing. Relaying solely on LLMs outputs does not seem like a safe bet. We've been living off black boxes outputs since altavista, but it's nice to at least have many different black boxes to chose from.

The algorithms today are still a black box. You don't know "why" certain content is being shown to you. You don't know which political party paid to show you what kind of ideology. I personally know facebook used to show hateful anti-(your opposite religion) posts in India during election times. You could click "i'm not interested/report the content" and they would still show you the same stuff. It only stopped after election season stopped. These companies are being paid to manipulate you.

> (HN is very much a FYP, it's just that.we like similar stuff)

It is user curated and everyone sees the same leaderboard of posts. No personalisation. I'm fine with such simple curation.

Yes my entire argument is that recommendation algorithms are designed to cause addiction. Some incredibly smart people have been working on this and they have succeeded wildly. And without personalised content the problem goes away. And that the problem is most acute in short form video platforms like tiktok, instagram shorts and youtube reels. And yes I do consider it closer to drugs than ..... bikes.

I think algorithmic content recommendations must be banned from social media. Its too powerful wrt influencing the masses. People should go back to just seeing content from their friends.

> tiktok as some weaponized addiction machine

It is.

> Is it really bad to give me woodworking and learning chinese videos if that's what I'm interested in at the moment?

Youtube shorts is pretty similar to tiktok imo.

> is it really different if he scrolls through tiktok or watches the same thing put into longer videos on TV or some other site?

Yes because TV is just stuff shown to everyone. You aren't getting personalised content.

> Should we ban bikes if they are the most efficient transportation mode in given area because people get addicted to them?

Do people get addicted to bikes? People do get addicted to drugs. Maybe we should ban drugs? Oh wait we do.

Google is valued at 4T. Up from 1.2T in 2022.

The admin wants to cut rates drastically. But the FED policymakers just voted 10-2 to not cut rates. So I worry the admin will try something crazy to force a cut.

Stocks might go down if AI doesn't bring in enough revenue. The real risk seems to be currency depreciation though. The USD is already down 15% this year compared to the Euro. I'm worried about what the next FED chair appointee will do. JPow has stuck to his principles so far.

Seems like the rest of the world is just signing new trade deals and continuing on as normal. I hope America returns to normalcy in the next election and everything settles down. Else it seems like back to the old multipolar world.

Blanket tariffs used as blackmail is obviously different.

You mean relatively sucks. Else every single human ancestor would have to be super depressed too given the standard of life in the past.

> Why would anyone be opposed to the IRS catching tax cheats? This seems like such a bone-headed take.

And ICE says they only go after illegals.

VEP = only counts people who can actually vote.

VAP = counts everyone of voting age including people on visas who aren't allowed to vote.

We moved to VEP because the % of total population who aren't citizens started to grow rapidly. eg. see 2020 vs 2024. The eligible VAP count increased by 12M but actual VEP count only increased by 2M.

edit: looks like there is VEP data for older years though I am guessing its not very accurate: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/voter-turnout/#:~:text=National...

Looks like the 1800s had much much higher turnout! I guess my statement is only valid for the last 100 years.

Use VEP turnout % not VAP. VAP is flawed. And I said #2.

Percentage. Not total count.

Practically it is the same. And this is not a US exclusive situation. We see the AfD and other far right parties gaining popularity. People can vote for bad things.

The timing matters if you want to make money off it. I'm just talking about how he was saying the US empire will fall a few years ago. Not the stock market.

Not really. 1/3rd voted for this and 1/3rd were ok with either candidate. Sometimes people democratically vote for bad shit.