wildrhythms

>As executives across [the] tech industry face a new reality of low growth, rising competition and investor apathy, many are cutting staff and making tougher demands of those they keep.

Is this about China, or the U.S.?

Maybe because the outside environment is so hostile to kids that being inside on their phones and tablets is more appealing?

Why not? Shouldn't technological advancements lead to less need for human labor?

The USAO press release from January with more details: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/bremerton-washington-ma...

Right. I think there's value in being able to tell the LLM to give me the result in JSON format, for example. But the hallucinatory nature of LLMs poisons everything.

>biggest advantage of working in person is high-bandwidth communication

Wrong, it's the tax breaks:

>JPMorgan Chase & Co. and RBC Capital Markets are among more than 100 firms that have negotiated billions of dollars worth of agreements under New Jersey’s pre-pandemic programs. None have yet applied for the waiver, Sullivan said, meaning if they want their tax breaks, they’ll have to prove the jobs are being done on site at least three days a week. JPMorgan and RBC declined to comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...

My guess is some higherup got the idea into their head that these LLMs are some kind of knowledge engine without understanding the tech, and no qualified person dared to correct them.

Does anyone else feel embarrassed when they read statements like this? No goals. No vision. Just 'AI everywhere!'

Reminds me of this blog post comparing modern Windows on a modern system to Windows NT 3.51: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html

And the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983

Wish these services could be run locally. I'd even pay for it. For people at companies uploading a clip of something internal for a slide deck to a 3rd party is a non-starter.

Usually it's robots.txt that 'prohibits' such use, but you're right it's not enforceable.

I thought it was a reference to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Glad to have a FOSS podcast app. I switched to Antennapod after Google Podcasts shut down. I have about a dozen podcasts I listen to, half of them from Patreon RSS feeds. Works great!

So she walked into a bank with nothing but an ID and walked out with thousands in cash? I did not realize someone could make a withdraw like that without a debit card (or a check, or some other bank authenticated mechanism).

Pro-cop, pro-surveillance 'hacker' lol

All of the leaders who learned a lesson from that era have retired, and the latest batch of MBAs didn't learn their history, and don't care to hear from the engineers and designers who did. Around and around we go again!

I paid for Pixelmator Pro and I like it a lot. On iPad I paid for Procreate. Both great apps for digital art (about 1/2 of my job). I wish I could have purchased these directly from their respective developers instead of an app store middleman getting a cut, though. Maybe someday.

I'm in NYC and I have a local ISP called Honest Internet that gives me gigabit for $50/mo. Comcast/Xfinity, Verizon, Spectrum all wanted $90/mo for this. I also have a direct email address to get support rather than some useless "chatbot" and endless phone queue. Support local ISPs.

Not just Reddit; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, (basically every social media)... full of bots posting and replying to each other. Dead Internet Theory.

Agreed. But I don't even think the higherups really care, as we see them too jump from company to company every few years.

I have my LinkedIn "Open to offers" at all times while I'm employed, and once a week I go thru and respond to recruiter messages, and do a couple of "Quick Apply" so it keeps me fresh in the algorithm. Takes about 7 minutes of my time.

For Freedom and Democracy! Helldivers theme plays

"The above 5 paragraph essay contains an ad. Good luck!"

I have never stayed in an Airbnb and never will. There is a consistency to chain hotels I have come to appreciate very much.

I'm a front-end dev and I refuse to apply this effect for this reason. Even on high end laptops it uses way too much power and starts blasting the fans.

When the metric for success starts and stops at "engagement"!

What makes you think an AI can't be gamed in the same ways?

Rest assured the existing tech monopolies who are flooding the internet with hallucinated AI garbage will be there to sell us our own "Verified Human-Written Content" back to us.

Is there any evidence that these probabilities are based on any real calculated heuristic?

Never thought I'd see a pro-advertising industry "hacker" on this site.