This article existing strikes me as a sign its at least in some context a fad. If someone uses a tool, in this case vintage digicams i guess, to make a piece of art and the use of the tool comes through as part of the statement it was in that context an artistic statement. If they're using it to make nothing and just bought it because they saw someone else using it and found it novel, seems like they got caught in the fad.
Stomping your feet and telling me why it's not a fad is very fad behavior.
Hedging your bets some will die before they get it/all of it? Keeping your employees sustained while also not giving them enough immediate overhead for creating any kind of wealth?
I'm not serious, these are just the first cynical thoughts that came to mind, but I feel like this question should be one we can actually answer? We've had both pensions and time to see varying degrees of successes and failures regarding them.
No, you're right about the death thing. That's how all life insurance works. They bet on the statistics that most people will die by Y, so the retirement age of X means they will make money if (Y-X) is positive. Pensions are basically just "rest of your life" insurance before the real life insuarance kicks in for your family.
And you see why they died out. Y-X consistently became negative as people lived longer, especially when we moved to a service industry. So they ended it and front-loaded the money. There's probably a lieu of tax codes and other benefit they get from matching 401ks as well that I do not know of without researching.
"Another reason why the Capitol and the White House wouldn’t want to see Intel fail is because it’s one of America’s top exporters, with its export revenue in 2023 exceeding $40 billion."
The capitalist class are the fucking NY Yankees of the world - never has so little been done with so much. What a bunch of greedy idiots running shit into the ground.
Me too! It's my go-to large text file manipulator. It's also what I keep open all the time to paste things into since it's so easy to open a new tab and it keeps temp files of things i haven't saved until i've closed them and told it I don't want them saved, so it opens up with a decent history of crap I've been using until I'm ready to clear it.
I love it with the exception that one day, when it started to lag (my fault for opening up 400+ unsaved tabs), I realized there is no "Close All and Don't Save Changes" functionality. Clicked the "No" button around 80 times, searched for some registry or appdata hack to see if it could get rid of the rest which didn't work, and then sadly went back to clicking No for the rest. I'll try to avoid that in the future.
It keeps temp files in one of the appdata folders. You could just blow them away and it would just remove them from the tab list. The issue is do you want to keep that stuff or not. Also ctrl-w and n. should work fine too.
Does it also offer syntax highlighting?
One nice thing about Npp is not only the temp files and tabs, but also that it offers syntax highlighting if needed.
Sometimes when viewing a large Json it's nice to paste it in, turn on syntax highlighting and finding the information needed.
Except when you try to close it, it asks whether or not you want to save the unsaved tab, with a modal, one per every unsaved tab. It kind of defeats the purpose of this feature.
Strange it does prompt me to save and I also don't do any extra configuration for the Win11 Notepad. It is a fairly annoying app, and definitely worse than previous versions. But will look into what config options there are, but being a modern software I expect it's probably got limited options.
"...allow us to lead fairly rich lives outside of Warcraft."
I didn't get the impression from the article it was otherwise, just that this young man found what he was looking for inside a game and its community. The article felt positive, your comment feels defensive and judgemental.
> Robert delivers a eulogy for his son in which he speaks of the sorrow he and Trude had felt, believing that his short life had been one void of meaning, friendship, love and belonging.
Edit: I wasn't trying to attack WoW, so here's the next line too:
> But, he continues, over the past few days they have come to understand that this was not the case, and that he had experienced all these things.
At that funeral where he held that speech, a group of Mats' online friends were present, having arrived earlier and met the father. The leader of Mats' group in WoW also talked at the funeral. What Robert (the father) actually said was that when Mats died they had that feeling and that worry. But shortly after that the emails started coming (after Robert had written about what had happened, on Mats' blog, he did so because he actually thought there were people out there who cared.
I recommend watching the documentary, which contains private video recordings of that eulogy.
His parents supposed otherwise before they knew about his online stuff, you're making it sound like they still felt that way about his online time too.
This is not the point. The point is you misquoted the article without understanding the full context, and was corrected. The parents weren't judgmental of an online life, they were just unaware. Matter of fact, on the documentary from one of the replies, it felt that they were glad their son had good friends who really cared about him.
Jeez. I understood the full context, I just wasn't even talking about that, and neither was the grandparent comment, I think. The "online life: wholesome or not?" debate has crept into this comment chain by accident.
Their marketing hyperbole has cheapened much of the language around AI, so naturally it excites someone who writes like the disciple of the techno-prophets
" High-intelligence AGI is the last human invention" What? I could certainly see all kinds of entertaining arguments for this, but to write it so matter of fact was cringe inducing.
It’s true by definition. If we invent a better-than-all-humans inventor, then human invention will give way. It’s a fairly simple idea, and not one I made up.
It’s analogous to the automobile. People do still walk, bike, and ride horses, but the vast majority of productive land transportation is done by automobile. Same thing with electronic communication vs. written correspondence. New tech largely supplants old tech. In this case, the old tech is human ingenuity and inventiveness.
I don’t think this is a controversial take. Many people take issue with the premise that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence. I’m just pointing out the logical conclusion of that scenario.
Arguably cars have so many externalities they will bankrupt the earth of cheap energy sources. Walking is at least hundreds of millions of years old, and will endure after the last car stops.
Likewise (silicon based) AGI may be so costly that it exists only for a few years before it's unsustainable no matter the demand for it. Much like Bitcoin, at least in its original incarnation.
Cars never got us anywhere a human couldn't reach by foot. It just commoditized travel and changed our physical environment to better suit cars.
I really don't see any reason to believe "AGI" won't just be retreading the same thoughts humans have already had and documented. There is simply no evidence suggesting it will produce truly novel thought.
I don't know whether it's a controversial take or not, but I can't see how if one day the machine magically wakes up and somehow develops sentience that it follows logically that human intelligence would somehow "give way". I was hoping for a clear explanation of mechanically how such a thing might happen.
I think the difference is people on HN are using these "AI" tools as coding assistance. For which, if you know what you're doing, they are pretty useful. They save trips to stack overflow or documentation diving and can spit out code that often is less time to fix/customize than it would have been to write. Cool.
A lot of the rest of the world are using it for other things. And at these other things, the results are less impressive. If you've had to correct a family member who got the wrong idea from whatever chat bot they asked, if you've ever had to point out the trash writing in an email someone just trusted AI to write on their behalf before it got sent to someone that mattered, or if you've ever just spent any amount of time on twitter with grok users, you should be exceptionally and profoundly aware of how unimpressive AI is for the rest of the world.
I feel we need less people complaining about the skepticism on HN and more people who understand these skeptics that hang out here already know how wonderful a productivity boost you're getting from the thing they're rightly skeptical about. Countering with "But my code productivity is up!" is next to useless information on this site.
I don't see why my personal anecdote is any less useful than GP's claim. GP's comment isn't nuanced skepticism about product gaps, or concrete examples of inaccuracy. It's a wholesale dismissal of any utility. AGI isn't even mentioned in the article. This also seems "next to useless".
I appreciate your anecdotes on failures/embarrassment for people outside of tech- there's pretty clearly a gap in experience, understanding, and marketing hype.
I don't think it's useless to ask what that gap is, and why GP got such poor results.
