And 75% of that just gets shipped right over to nVidia as pure profit. The mind boggles at the macro-economic inefficiency of that situation.
Readit Newstpurves commented on Anthropic raises $13B Series F anthropic.com/news/anthro... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
tpurves commented on AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-... · Posted by u/WolfOliver
> Everyday, I see ads on YouTube with smooth-talking, real-looking AI-generated actors. Each one represents one less person that would have been paid.
Were AI-generated actors chosen over real actors, or was the alternative using some other low-cost method for an advertisement like just colorful words moving around on a screen? Or the ad not being made at all?
The existence of ads using generative AI "actors" doesn't prove that an actor wasn't paid. This is the same logical fallacy as claiming that one pirated copy of software represents a lost sale.
It's really both effects happening at once. AI is just like the invention of the assembly line, or the explosion of mass produced consumer packaged goods starting from the first cotton gin. Automation allows a massive increase in quantity of goods, and even when quantity comes with tradeoffs to quality vs artisanally produced goods, they still come to dominate. Processed cheese or instant coffee is pretty objectively worse that the 'real' thing, but that didn't stop cheap mass production still made those products compelling for many million/billion of consumers.
You can still find a tailor who will hand make you a bespoke clothing or sew your own clothes yourself (as even the boomer generation often did growing up), but tailored clothing is a tiny fraction of the amount of clothing in circulation. Do tailors and artisanal cheese makers still exist? Yep, they are not extinct. But they are hugely marginalized compared to machine-made alternatives.
Maybe it's different by country, but I feel like fraud isn't a huge issue for the end user anymore. A couple times I've had random transactions on my account seemingly from database leaks / stolen card details, and every time the bank has either sent me a notification asking me to approve the suspicious transaction, or has refunded me the amount later.
As long as you don't initiate the transaction, you get your money back easily.
Card networks have the most reliable protections and guarantees, their systems and rules are designed around consumer trust in their brand and zero-liability (to consumers).
He's a bit sensationalist, yes, but I am thankful that he saved us from buying affected Intel CPUs.
Yes. When he's right, he's right. However the main issue I have with GN is how Steve tends to go full Leeroy Jenkins pitchforks and torches for 9 out of every 5 actual scandals in the tech industry.
Arbitraging fraud has always been PayPal's game. For the mass market of small-scale sellers there's a threshold, whre the cost of onboarding, verifying, underwriting and eating fraud exposure is greater than the revenues you could ever expect to make from them at their low volume. So these segments went un-served, same with many other segments of transactions or transactors. PayPal's model has always been to accept a higher risk tolerance, then to have just-enough compensating controls and/or liability-dodging to make that work. At least just well enough to have net-revenues bps exceed their fraud-loss bps.
And when that balance is working, it kinda works, but when it doesn't...
And incidentally, it's not just PayPal with the fraud problems these days. It's everybody in the banking and payments space. AI is so far quite asymmetrically helping the bad guys more. It's bad out there.
tpurves commented on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch quakenotch.com... · Posted by u/rohanrhu
I was going to comment that the page video is a GIF and was going to be huge, around 10MB, but surprisingly is 4.28 MB. Still huge, I converted the GIF to MP4 with https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4 and is 575 KB and the quality is great. It should be more common just use <video> instead of a GIF for many cases.
I noticed that was a GIF because I have an extension to not autoplay GIFs [1], it is great to don't have to see moving stuff without consent. Actually, the extension can be better, I would prefer to have a play button to GIFs/see a "GIF" label on the image, now I have to change the setting of the extension and reload the page. I'm not a developer and try to do the extension with Claude but didn't work, if someone knows an extension with that feature let me know! I looked for it and can't find it, it may be a great opportunity to create one, devs!
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gifpuase/
No you were right to be disappointed! I was similarly in a state of excited awe to see someone play actual quake inside the notch of a mac. Much like the noble hacker tradition of getting Doom to run on the most unexpected devices possible. So yes, ID Software games running in weird places is an entirely reasonable expectation!
'just a terminal' is maybe also a legit term of art and entirely useful for somebody out there. But much less cool that we were hoping for!
tpurves commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen
It's a distraction to try and imagine homomorphic encryption for generic computing or internet needs. At least not for many more generations of moore's law and then even still.
However, where FHE will shine already is in specific high-value, high consequence and high confidentiality applies, but relatively low complexity computational calculations. Smart contracts, banking, potentially medical have lots of these usecases. And the curve of Moore's law + software optimizations are now starting to finally bend into the zone of practicality for some of these.
See what Zama https://www.zama.ai/ is doing, both on the hardware as well as the devtools for FHE.
tpurves commented on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/bdev12345
Graduate employment crises happen at least once every decade (initial covid, 2008 crisis, dotcom bust, early 90s recession etc). What I could argue is more unusual are those bubble times when getting a great job right out of college is easy. And then how quickly those expectations are taken for granted...
GenX'ers will remember the days of 'Slackers' 'Reality Bites' and the malaise of those who graduated with fancy degrees in the early 90's but stuck in barista jobs etc.
tpurves commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston
Somewhat disappointing that it won’t work with uniform density. More surprising it needed such massive variation in density and couldn’t just be 3d printed from one material with holes in.
That implies the interesting question though, which shape and mass distribution comes closest to, or would maximize relative uniformity?
I often think about how cold our lifeforms on earth are, relative to temperatures of things in the universe. 0 Kelvin is theoretical lowest possible temp, quasars are apparently > 10 trillion Kelvin (10,000,000,000,000K), yet all life we know of is between what, 250K and 400K?
Well, lifeforms on earth are all pretty dependent on being water based, and water in the liquid state specifically. Maybe there is a possibility of exotic life based on some other types of chemistry and/or phases of matter. But the fact that earth happened to form in this particular goldilocks zone for water-based life is probably why that's the only life we can see for now.