Happens to the best of us.
Readit Newsmindvirus commented on Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ironyman
Throwing out one idea: for the 30+ crowd with kids and families, how can you make it frictionless to maintain and build friendships, especially across different groups (building, schools, after schools, family)? Not necessarily as families, but just flagging events and making organizing events easier - my friends and I dont see each other nearly enough since we had kids. Everyone seems to be using WhatsApp for it and it's not great.
mindvirus commented on Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/youssefarizk
Future is not bright. While we are endlessly talking about details reality is that AI is taken over so many jobs.
Not in 10 years but now.
People who just see this as terrible are wrong. AI improving curves is exponential.
People adaptability is at best linear.
This makes me really sad. For creativity. For people.
Maybe. The internet was also exponential, and while it has its drawbacks, I think it's resulted in a huge increase in creativity. The world looks very different than it did 30 years ago, and I think mostly for the better.
Amazing, I feel like I'm zooming in to some alien city.
I'm sure people are thinking about it, but with high resolution scanning, 3D printing, etc., it feels like it should be possible to create extremely high quality reproductions of famous artwork at scale, and at a fairly reasonable cost.
Is anyone working on this?
mindvirus commented on Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation mandobot.netlify.app/... · Posted by u/routerl
This is great. I'd love it for flashcard creation - paste in a block of text I'm reading and extract vocabulary from it.
Why would insurance need to get more expensive for manual drivers as self-driving adoption increases?
Ideally, insurance cost for self-driving cars would just be lower than insurance costs now (proportional to risk), and even insurance costs for manual drivers might go down because their risk decreases as well.
I think it's more about when the market is still majority manual. 20% self driving might see premiums for manual cars go up significantly because manual drivers would have more at fault accidents per mile than before (assuming the same rate of accidents, but most accidents with a self driving car are the manual driver's fault).
There will also be things like not having DWIs and even cheap parking (since the car can drive away and park) that'll net out for self driving. And feedback loops there- the same size police force only pulling over manual cars from a smaller and smaller pool.
I think insurance prices will drive adoption of self driving very quickly.
Consider: if a non-self driving car is in an accident with a self driving car, it'll almost always be the non-self driving car at fault. And with the telemetry from the self-driving car, they can prove it too, so accidents that would have been no-fault or shared fault become fully the non-self driving cars fault. And so I think insurance for non-self driving cars gets expensive fast as there are more and more self driving cars on the road.
mindvirus commented on Mistakes as a new manager terriblesoftware.org/2024... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
It is cynical, but quality over quantity is bad advice if you want to grow your career as a manager. It's a real failure mode. Not being aggressive about growing your headcount will hold you back. Pretty much all managers are evaluated on amount of headcount when it comes to promotions, especially if you're not tied to P&L.
mindvirus commented on Cellar Door: a quest to find the most beautiful word in English cellar-door.co.uk/... · Posted by u/ArisC
A bit of background: JRR Tolkien developed a linguistic branch he called "phonaesthetics", the study of beauty of words. Many writers have agreed on "cellar door" to be beautiful in terms of the sound of the phrase.
Very interesting, I'd always thought it was a made up thing from Donnie Darko.
mindvirus commented on The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations cepr.org/voxeu/columns/us... · Posted by u/cen4
(Genuine questions here!) Is paying less interest an option? Either "refinancing" the debt at lower interest rates, or simply declaring that existing bonds will be paid out at a lower rate? People will presumably still want to hold US Treasuries because of their other properties.
Also Japan has a debt to GDP much, much greater than the US, and still seems to function fine as a country, so how do they do things differently?
Funny enough, the US government is in a large part in debt to... the US government. So for that part at least, it feels more like an accounting mechanism than anything.