Is this a serious reply? The poor may not have much, but every dime they do have is spent on necessities… rent, food, healthcare. So where does that money go? Who are the actual recipients of those dimes?
Are you attempting to make a “they provide jobs” argument? Because they wouldn’t if they didn’t have to. Jobs are an unwanted byproduct of a successful business.
Seems like you should just start a successful business then. The business owner provides no value and just gets tons of money for free. Sounds like an amazing deal. Why don’t you take it?
I think you would agree that success often depends on access to resources and support system - not everyone starts at the same point. Many who are celebrated as self-made often benefit from inherited advantages, which complicates the meritocracy narrative.
Lots of people have access to resources. Very few of them start successful businesses. Zuckerberg’s parents were dentists. They were well off, sure, but there are hundreds of thousands of dentists in the US, if not millions. Why don’t all of their kids start companies like Facebook?
I think you know at least some of the reasons Gabe. There is a series of filters: intelligence, early skill development, a supportive environment, elite networking, risk tolerance, strong vision, perfect market timing, and a business model benefiting from network effects in a market that can only sustain a few winners.
This list might be incomplete. Would you like to supplement it, or do you prefer to continue with the socratic method? I'd like if you did the former, because the latter comes across as arrogant and condescending.
I said hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It turns out there are around 200,00.
Success depends on some combination of hard work / talent / luck. You can have an extreme amount of all three and get an extreme outcome like being a billionaire, you can have moderate amounts of 2 / 3 and still be quite well off. You can have extreme amounts of one and be successful from very little.
Access to resources helps, obviously, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient.
It seems like we agree, more or less. I'd say there are more factors, and talented and hard working people can still get pretty screwed, but that's beside the point.
To your original question about the wealth transfer, this isn't just the rich selling their subscription services to the poor or something like that. It's a much broader subject.
Some ways in which it can happen include inflation eroding wages while increasing asset values, high-interest debt, tax loopholes favoring capital over labor, financialization driving up costs of essentials, government bailouts benefiting corporations, privatization shifting public assets into private hands.
You'll probably agree that some of these things have been happening for decades, and some people want to accelerate the rate at which they're happening.
Yes, many of those things happen, for various reasons. Not one of those reasons is a cabal of cigar-smoking men in top hats twisting the mustaches and saying "Muahahaha, now I'll steal money from the poor!" like many people seem to think.
It’s way more mundane than that. They just rationally protect their self interests using the power they already have.
To claim that it’s not happening is not believable. Why wouldn’t they protect and expand their wealth and power at the expense of the serfs if nobody is stopping them?
I’ve always been of the belief that it was intended as GodAddy but the owner backed off of this as it seemed too egotistical, narcissistic, or blasphemous.
You obviously don't know Bob Parsons that started godaddy, he was very much all of those things. I had the joys of working with the lunatic at godaddy as an early employee in the first few hundred when he was still active in the company daily in 2003, and left after the superbowl explosion in business a few years later because he was such a personal nutbag to work with directly.
The color of the bubble is, at least partially, a security feature for me. When it’s blue, I am certain there is a person on the other end, not a bot, spammer, ai, etc…
There are ways to send iMessages programmatically. Apple does check for spam, but it’s not foolproof. And of course, it won’t help you against a targeted attack.
I didn’t research it that much, but a good place to start would be AirMessage [1] or Mautrix [2]. Both of these require a Mac to work – it might work on a Hackintosh, though, or maybe using same tricks those forks of OpenHaystack use to run without a Mac (no pointers here, sorry). Hope this helps!
that would be a generous invented statistic if it only was addressing the inherent stochastic nature of llm output, but you also have to factor in the training data being poisoned and out of date
in my experience the error rate on llm output is MUCH higher than 5%
exactly. Programming languages are all just levels of abstraction above the analog/digital interface.
While it is important to understand the fundamentals of coding, if we expected every software engineer to be well versed in assembly that wouldn't necessarily result in increased productivity.
LLMs are just the next rung up on the abstraction ladder.
There will always be people interested in the gritty details of low level languages like Assembly, C, that give you a lot more granular control over memory. While large enterprises and codebases, as well as niche use cases can absolutely benefit from these low level abstraction specialists, the avg. org doesn't need an engineer with these skills. Especially startups, where getting the 80% done ASAP is critical to growth.
i think there will still be a need for "programmers" with those skills. We'll always need specialists and people building new language/frameworks/etc.
But I think everyone who isn't at least a standard deviation above the average programmer (like myself) shouldn't be focused on being able to read, write, and debug code. For this cohort the important ability is to see the bigger picture, understand the end goal of the code, and then match those needs to appropriate technology stacks. Essentially just moving more and more towards a product manager managing AI programming agents.
This is cool but I was hoping to see one (or more) thrown, bounce around, then see the software piece together a 3D sort of layout of everything it captured. Excited to see v2!
Not surprised there would be a “heated” discussion as a result of this one link, that measured only those who engaged it, and how? I opened the link, hit Submit just to see what would happen… now the percentage of HN users who are competent programmers is even fewer than before, by that metric.
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