In real time we’ve seen “LLMs are the future” becomethe AI research into AGI is the future”. What’s the next movement of the goal post?
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ben_jones commented on DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020) readmargins.com/p/doordas... · Posted by u/thunderbong
> Having to do it via huge price hikes and screwing drivers makes me dubious about their ability to do so more than a few times.
So here's my dumb question:
What's with all the people that talk or even brag about how much money they make doing ridesharing, food delivery, etc?
Are they just lying?
Are they misinformed, bad at math, etc?
Do 10% of the drivers actually make money, while the rest break even or lose money?
Have you ever seen an instagram post where someone flashes wealth they don’t truly have? Be it a rented Lamborghini or a stack of twenty dollar dolls? Or a stack of ones with a couple hundred obfuscating the other denominations?
There are more incentives to flaunt success then bankruptcy. Even if the success isn’t real.
ben_jones commented on Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn usefind.ai/... · Posted by u/philip1209
Hi Philip! This tool looks amazing!
My company specializes in selling to underserved communities in the AMEA region. Can your product help me connect with LGBT customers specifically in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia? Thanks!
PS can I get their exact addresses as well as the addresses of their family members and community leaders?
> at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks
Do they though? If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been?
I do get your general point but in this specific example it seems the urgency to launch wasn’t particularly warranted.
> If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been?
An administrator would’ve missed a promotion.
ben_jones commented on AI-powered conversion from Enzyme to React Testing Library slack.engineering/balanci... · Posted by u/GavCo
The slack blog is for engineers. It's PR to hire in talent.
The INFOQ article is for your C types. It's the spin on what buzz words they should be using with their peers and to make a splash in the market.
NFT, Crypto, Cloud, Microservice, SAS, Podcast (the first time when there wasnt video), Web 2.0, The Ad (double-click, pre google) market, The Dot Com Bubble...
Im sure I missed a few hype cycles in there.
Both articles show how deep we are in the stink of this one.
Im tired of swimming the bullshit, It keeps getting in my mouth.
Thus the conclusion should be heavily scrutinize future infoq .com articles and perhaps future articles by the same author Eran Stiller.
We shouldn’t detach responsibility from the publisher and author.
ben_jones commented on Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk's 2018 pay package washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/ahurmazda
The last 25 years were a bad sign so far for Tesla under his leadership. /s
People need to stop giving Musk credit for the macro economic conditions of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
A lot of the stock gains had nothing to do with Teslas executive decisions during that time frame.
ben_jones commented on Roman Women and the Oppian Law historytoday.com/history-... · Posted by u/diodorus
How about Cleopatra or the Virgin Mary?
Also Boudica
It's similar to us. We can reason about certain things but we often have to look up additional information in a book or ask someone. In the same way I see LLMs being augmented with traditional code. It doesn't really matter if the result is called AI or not.
> It doesn't really matter if the result is called AI or not
I strongly disagree. Wildly overvalued companies disrupt the economy and present huge risks - see Tesla or Nvidia (currently valued at $100m per employee - $3T market cap / 30k employees)