You appear to be exactly the kind of person the article is talking about. What exactly makes LLMs have "better" opinions than others?

LLMs don't have "opinions" [0] because they don't actually think. Maybe we need to move past the ignorance surrounding how LLMs actually work, first.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/l...

Yes please, lets move past the "elites bad" mind virus and finally turn our attention to solutions for the many, like cost of living and deteriorating public services. We have to trust the elites! Migrants are the actual root cause!

I hope you still have traces of critical thinking left to spot the sarcasm.

Tahoe is SOOOO ugly! The huge rounded corners are atrocious. The fonts look terrible. The windows keep snapping, expanding and contracting with no obvious pattern. Yuck.

And iOS's transparencies are disastrous. They make so much of the test illegible.

How do you know they are random or noisy?

Stap into any office? It’s full of random people, and it’s full of noise. I’ve not seen places where the knowledge work wasn’t set together with the noisemakers.

I feel a lot of the noise complaints are due to open plan offices.

I've worked at a cubicle farm before. Partitions were high enough to avoid being able to see people in a sitting position, but high enough that you can still stand up and ask your neighbor a question. The cubicles were spaceous, had ample desk space and didn't feel claustrophobic or "caged in" at all. If anything, it felt like I had my own little space that I was in control of.

The partitions had steel sheets in them to allow people to use magnets to hang up documents/whatever. My cubicle walls were covered in [documents and datasheets](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzIxZmIzYjEtZGMyZi00...). Some of my colleagues had extensively decorated their cubicles with photos and tchotchkes. Others had their entire desk space littered with PCBs and tools.

Managers got cubicles on the sides of the building with windows, theirs were larger and had higher partitions, with a window filling in that extra height.

The extra desk space was great. I worked as an embedded SWE and I often needed the space for tools and the devices I was working on. The few times I needed an oscilloscope, I could easily find room for it, no need to move my setup to a lab.

Cubicles get a bad rep. It's actually quite a nice way to work, if executed properly, that is.

That said, I did have noise issues before. But that was always the same colleague. She luckily only came in on Wednesdays. She totally lacked the concept of an indoor voice while on the telephone.

A cubicle had more space than I got in most jobs. In one I even ended up switching headphones because the sound leakage from my headphones was too loud for others

Dude you’re describing Initech from Office Space. Kudos for making it sound legit and vague enough that it did take me until the end to fully identify it. But there’s no mistaking “Nina speaking. Just a moment…”

I'm serious, lol

A proper execution of a cubicle office is actually quite decent.

But for a good workplace you also need to have good colleagues, including managers. That's universal, whether open plan or cubes.

I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a few people to huddle, and for focused individual work, and for meetings with remote people without disrupting anyone and without taking up a meeting room. Nowadays we have unforced poor conditions and outcomes, mostly for pretend savings on facilities.

And, of course, serendipitous collaboration rarely happens when everyone is sitting with noise cancelling headphones, focusing on hitting their ambitious individual goals for the quarter/half/year.

Booking.com had low-noise offices back in the late 2010s. Engineering, product, design. Nobody taking calls on their desk, that was rude. All meetings in well-isolated rooms, some well placed noise barriers. It was pretty quiet even in an open office floor with 400 people.

Yes!!! Before the pandemic we had an it floor that was quiet. Now we sit next to loudmouth sales goons barking into the phone all day. Ugh

Beens stepping into various offices most of the past 25 years and have not noticed that.

I've gone without Microsoft products for many years now. It's SOOOOO much better.

I went for a decade without using any Microsoft products until they bought GitHub

Ah, GitHub, you're right. And I guess I do use LinkedIn and VSCode as well. Was thinking Office/Windows.

I ditch Windows in 1996 and went Linux. Really SOOOOO much better. :D

You'd have to pay me to use windows and office, which is exactly what's been happening at work, essentially.

In what sense? They are asking the questions that investment managers would be asking, like: "where the fuck is your revenue going to come from"

and "200 billion, when your revenue is 12, is the market you are targeting actually big enough to support that"

It's FT Alphaville, which means it's only supposed to be a blog-style comment on the HSBC report

It is to the point of yellow journalism. They know that the "OpenAI is going to go belly up in a week!" take is going to be popular with AI skeptics, which includes a large number of HN viewers. This thread shot up to the top of the front page almost immediately. All of that adds to the chances of roping in more subscribers.

FT (like all media) does not sell news, they sell ads.

FT's advertising revenue is under half of their total revenue

Lecun always struck me as an institutional clown who completely botched Meta's AI outlook.

I would never structure my URLs for performance reasons. 100% for usability.

Yes, it matters a lot, especially on mid/low end devices.

IMAP, which is MUCH better at doing the same thing, is still supported.

It is not supported. You can only add an IMAP mailbox on the mobile app and not on gmail.com. The IMAP account is then displayed as an inbox completely separate from your gmail inbox. There is no pull and no integration.

Ah, I see, I think you're right. I misread the Google doc.

How people feel about the government.

"The government" is not trying to get me to do any of those things listed on the site. Corporations are doing this.

Frankly, I feel just the opposite in terms of what 90% of the government does on a day to day basis.

I do want the government to continue maintaining my road and the network it connects to.

I do want the government to respond quickly when a water main breaks on Sunday morning.

I do want the government to maintain their fleet of emergency service vehicles.

I've lived in countries where these things don't happen, and no one there was happy about being left alone. I normally only see this sentiment from people who have never lived in places with truly dysfunctional government.

If you want to truly be left alone by the government there are places you can go to be where the government will not concern itself with you in any practical way (in the US if that's where you are, or internationally if that's more your flavor). What you will discover is that it turns out that it is very difficult to live in a place where you have to manage all of your own infrastructure and services.

Do you want roads and transit infrastructure to be kept in good condition? No, I want to be left alone.

Do you want grants for research or the arts? No, I want to be left alone.

Do you want a landlord-tenant board who will protect your apartment from being turned into a pig sty? No, I want to be left alone.

Do you want universal health insurance that scales with your income bracket? No, I want to be left alone.

Do you want people to come put out your house if it catches fire? No, I want to be left alone?

Libertarianism in a nutshell.

Not how I feel. I like government. I want to be left alone WITH my government-- who I think of as my fellow citizens trying to do their best.

amazing there are still people like (I mean this sincerely!) who think this way. fellow citizens trying to do their best is about as far removed of realities of my government (usa) that it is almost surreal reading your words

There are many levels of government that provide many levels of service.

When I encounter this sentiment it is almost always from someone that has never lived in a country with a dysfunctional government.

Despite all of the well publicized and fair criticisms of governance in the US, you still live in a place where you can - for one of many examples - count on the water being safe to drink in 99% of circumstances (I grew up in Lima, where not only was the water unsafe to drink, it frequently just wasn't on. Every house had a backup water tank. That's the level of service in a good neighborhood in the Capitol).

Go spend some time outside the US in a non tourist area, in a developing country. The level of functionality when you come back to the US will be a palpable relief.

There are many, many US government employees this accurately describes. Well, to be clear, many of them just got fired.

I keep running into people working for the government who are not monsters. Who are YOU running into?

(I'm not talking about ICE or Republicans.)

There were a lot of people trying to do the best they can and doing great things until Trump started fucking that up by firing them. Now there are 10s of thousands of people getting paid not to do what used to be their jobs. and many more not getting paid at all. Trump's attacks on competency are going to be felt for the rest of our lives.

I know. Someone people are so distrustful of the government that when they take it over they MAKE it untrustworthy to retrospectively prove that they were "right."

And then the natural disaster hits and we're all: "What about those fat piles of cash I paid in taxes? How about some relief?"

And the government is all: "You wanted to be left alone."