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Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by tired_and_awake »

I'm having a hard time putting this into words. Apologies if this isn't terribly clear.

As easy as it is to dismiss tech hype - nothing wrong with doing that honestly - autonomous city driving is inching closer to the ubiquity it promised a decade ago. And come on ChatGPT is pretty amazing even if it is over hyped.

Hackers are everywhere, they're just doing work and not writing hype posts.

Tech news is all jobs.

I love this article just don't fully agree with it. Love the convo in this post too! Keep it coming.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by eastbound »

iamacyborg wrote: post #50
Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> Even obesity can be cured. Eating less isn’t all that much of a breakthrough, but it certainly highlights how hard it is to get people to do something they don’t want to do.

Not having sugar AND salt in every food helps. To lose weight, a trip to the old continent where fruits are cheaper than processed food, does a better job than any diet.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by bordercases »

iamacyborg wrote: post #50
Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> Even obesity can be cured. Eating less isn’t all that much of a breakthrough, but it certainly highlights how hard it is to get people to do something they don’t want to do.

I think he implied Ozempic.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by wg0 »

Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> Self driving works. No it doesn't. Only in San Francisco maybe.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by mplewis »

devmunchies wrote: post #44

My main criticism of this article and the article it references is that it refers to Marc Andreessen as a “not-so-bright billionaire” who “doesn’t build shit”. Do people forgot that he built the first popular web browser (mosaic) and then built Netscape? He is much more part of “hacker” culture than other names mentioned.

Maybe thirty years ago. Today, his money is the most relevant thing about him.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by iamacyborg »

bordercases wrote: post #53
iamacyborg wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even obesity can be cured. Eating less isn’t all that much of a breakthrough, but it certainly highlights how hard it is to get people to do something they don’t want to do.

I think he implied Ozempic.

I assumed that too, but all Ozempic is (as I understand) is an appetite suppressant.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by archgoon »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #31
archgoon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What were they coding on in 1924?

Tabulating machines were developed by IBM’s predecessor for the 1890 census and used in various forms until evolving into punchcard computers.

The Jacquard Loom predates that by over 80 years. I'm sure we can stretch the definition further and go back even farther.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by jen729w »

Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> * Electric cars. For new car sales, 10% in US are electric. 20% worldwide. 50% in China. US is way behind.

Norway: hold my beer. 94%.

https://electriccarsreport.com/2024/09/norways-ev-sales-set-...

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by KaiserPro »

> A good sign that it may be time for a re-shifting of voices in tech

Yes, it would be good to get some domain experts in, rather than people who are comfortable re-hashing press releases with an "trust me, the physics of this perpetual motion machine check out" or "lol they are shit" overlay.

Especially as tech now is moving from a "oh thats a simple idea, just needs executing" to actual "shiut the physics of this make it super hard" (ie AR)

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by okwhateverdude »

devilsdata wrote: post #49
privacymatters4 wrote: post #29

From a post I saw in another thread, I don't know how to link to the direct comment: > "Same year for me. My college experience was a mix of PCU, Animal House, Hackers and Real Genius (ok not quite). I first saw email in a Pine terminal client. Netscape had been freshly ripped off from NCSA Mosaic at my alma mater UIUC the year before. Hacks, warez, mods, music and even Photoshop were being shared in public folders o…

You're onto it. Basically the wealthy freeze technological growth until they can understand how to make profit from it. Results are science and tech slowed to a glacial pace. We may not even be able to outengineer our problems due to this one thing.

> Basically the wealthy freeze technological growth until they can understand how to make profit from it.

And it is super apparent, especially when you look at the latest from OpenAI. They applied CoT duct tape and bailing wire to a glorified mechanical text processor that magically balloons the token generation costs for marginal improvement. Cha-ching! Not a new model architecture or whatever.

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