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If I got a message like that I'd be really fast...handing in my resignation.

When I was young, I thought I could be an electrician. But I couldn't because I'm red-green colorblind and at the time wasn't allowed to go down that path (I think this is still the case in Germany but not in other countries). Interestingly I also couldn't apply to the police for the same reason. For electrician it makes sense to me as there is a certain risk, same for flight-controllers (another job I am banned from) but for police it never made any sense to me.

Seems pretty ignorant. If you take a historic perspective, the WWW and things like HTML, HTTP, URLs etc. are technically from a British guy working in Switzerland (CERN) but I suppose crediting it to any country is kind of pointless. These days a lot of it runs on machines that run on a Linux kernel, also technically from Europe. Python/C++/PHP/Erlang/Prolog/Pascal and many others I'm probably forgetting on the programming language front.

If you're talking about current VC-backed hyper accelerators...there's probably also plenty. I think there's also a lot going on in the non-IT sectors (medicine, pharma, genetics, energy etc.)

But the bigger question is...does it really matter which country innovation comes from these days? As an end-user/customer I certainly don't care too much.

Nvidia is being smart. They see that AI-paddlers are currently in a strange our-doomsday-is-the-worst race and offer to sell an anti-doomsday chip. Clever play.

Spoken like someone with no friends or relatives that live far away. Screens can also be extremely connecting. They are a tool and as such value neutral. Is it evil that I can have a weekly video-call with family members on another continent when the alternative would be...simply no contact at all, super expensive phone calls or letters. I don't think so.

Get more people to turn on telemetry.

Seems a bit too dogmatic. I can nudge someone into intrinsic motivation with extrinsic incentives. It's hard to discover something you're not really looking for but if some other incentive lets you discover it then bingo.

Some examples from my own life: Paying someone's first climbing session -> lifelong climbers. Offering 5$ if you can beat this bot in chess -> obsessed with chess. Etc.

Interesting. Singapore certainly tries many things to nudge their citizens to a better life. I also recall from a documentary I watched that they have a system where you get shopping vouchers for logging certain sports activities and similar things (I think there was also some incentive system for healthy food).

This is really cool at first glance and very HN worthy. I've bookmarked it and will look into it deeper. Recreates roughly my first PC setup though I think I had a Matrox Mystique so that makes it even more interesting. And I've been looking for a "I build something cool with an FPGA" kind of project to look into for a while now.

Maybe send this question to the Anthropic legal team. I'd be curious if you get an answer and what it'll be.

Thanks for motivating me to work a bit on non-LLM things again :)

Pretty cool. Would love for her to somehow work with the people who make the Mausritter RPG :D

Very nice. I love the "mirror shot" and the one with the two stools in the foreground. Very fair prices for the coffee :D

My personal litmus test is a pourover not an americano because I usually don't go for the espresso-based drinks.

Higher level languages are still formal languages. I think there's a conceptual difference between moving from one formal language to another (machine instructions to asm or asm to C) and moving from a formal language to natural language. So yes, developing, looking at and understanding a formal description of your system has benefits for an engineer compared to handing off this step completely.

As someone who also dabbles in writing fiction (unpublished) I'm less pessimistic. I keep hearing less people read and the end of long form writing is near. To me this signals a great time to write and publish because the smaller the niche, the happier the people who get quality stuff in it.

The "book bubble" of avid readers is the most anti-AI community I am a member of which is a very interesting perspective (I do research in AI as my main job). I don't touch AI for writing/editing etc. because I see it as a creative endeavor and enjoy spending time with a blank piece of paper or an empty latex file :D