I love his statement about trade-offs - there’s never an end all solution to things and we must be vigilant to what the tradeoffs are in the technologies we use. My belief is that our (including myself) instinct is to rush ahead with what’s shiny and new, monetize it and forget about the wake of destruction you’ve just left in your path. Looking at the results of social media, online shopping and AI makes me believe this is the case for them too. With the exception of say, 20% of its applications where it has made things genuinely “better” (there can be a whole different discussion what better means).
It’s strange to me that this message about trade-offs is not discussed more often by engineers, who are trained to look at these as a habit. If this were true, it would be engineers who would be the first to assess what are the disadvantages of applying AI - either to the product or perhaps to society. Can we have a broader discussion about the things we lose out when we use AI in our cars? As our educators? As our girlfriends/boyfriends?
> It’s strange to me that this message about trade-offs is not discussed more often by engineers, who are trained to look at these as a habit.
> (there can be a whole different discussion what better means)
This is the major road block to any fruitful discussion of trade-offs. Two people, regardless of intelligence or thought process, will often have diverging definitions and goals.
* Bitcoin will continue to increase in price and decrease in usability.
* Quantum will continue to improve and start to raise eyebrows in niche circles and paper headlines, leading to adoption in small parts of major tech companies.
* Markets will hit a record high by end of year.
* ADHD medications will also hit a record high.
* More people will opt out social media like they opt of out of "GMO" food and use it to virtue-signal.
* Tech hiring will continue to decrease and get tougher to find entry-level SWE jobs, leading to an uptick in other majors. Being an SWE will never be as cool again as it was in the 2010s.
* Is anyone still talking about climate change action goals?
* Starship will go orbital, Blue origin will go suborbital, Boeing will hit the ground.
* More laws regulating internet and social media use. Enforcement will be fuzzy and laughable at first but will become increasingly serious over time.
Why would it be a hit piece? For example, are these articles about Apple hit pieces? [1][2] Sometimes news is just news and this looks like news to me.
Why don't you read the article? If you did you would see things like
"The door to the plant’s giant casting furnace.. wouldn’t shut, spewing toxins into the air and raising temperatures for workers on the floor to as high as 100 degrees. Hazardous wastewater from production—containing paint, oil and other chemicals—was also flowing untreated into the city’s sewer, in violation of state guidelines... dumped toxic pollutants into the environment near Austin for months."
"Tesla violated air-pollution permits at its Fremont factory 112 times over the past five years and alleged it repeatedly failed to fix equipment designed to reduce emissions, releasing thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals in excess of permissible limits into the surrounding communities."
'One environmental-compliance staffer in the Austin plant claimed that “Tesla repeatedly asked me to lie to the government so that they could operate without paying for proper environmental controls,” '
"Austin Water regulators notified Tesla that it had violated its permit with the city when it discharged to the sewer system more than 9,000 gallons of wastewater that wasn’t properly treated for pH,... TCEQ notified Tesla of five violations, including exceeding its permitted emissions limit for certain air pollutants and not disclosing deviations."
"Tesla employees employed an “elaborate ruse” to hide the issues, adjusting the amount of fuel going into the furnace and temporarily closing the door ... These actions allowed Tesla to pass the important emissions test, according to the memo."
"The pond was filled with toxins, including sulfuric and nitric acids, and the algae-colored water had begun to smell of rotten eggs, former employees said. At one point, employees found a dead deer in the water, they said. For a time, Tesla discharged untreated pond water directly into the sewer system"
"Sometimes during rainstorms, Tesla discharged a sludgy mix of mud and chemicals from occasional spills outside the plant,"
"the company released 259,000 gallons of caustic water into the Austin sewer system"
"Environmental staff notified Austin Water, but one member refused to comply with a request from Tesla managers to lobby the regulator not to consider the violation as a “significant non-compliance,”.. Tesla fired the staffer for “pushing back on their requests” according to the memo."
I think, for most people, knowing the right person or arriving at the right workplace at the right time is more important than most of the advice outlined in this doc. How many talented people have been put down by a bad boss? Or extremely hardworking, smart engineers that cannot find a job in today's market? Yes, learn fundamentals (learn them deeply!), do projects, but don't expect to have a successful career just because you did these. One may follow the other, but it is never guaranteed - focus instead on trying to live a good life and be kind to others.
Can somebody add some GenAI to this to smoothen things out when it zooms in as well as add in some "parallax" effect so that it looks like we go past the closer galaxies to the further ones?
I can't help but think how much this will continue the 'enshittification' of the internet. The problem with this tech is that people will release these 'podcasts' and drown out all the human-made content that most people want to listen to. It's not that this tech is bad in itself or that it doesn't have uses, it's that we have no social feedback mechanism for getting people to stop producing this kind of content!
You could securely exchange .env files using public key cryptography with a tool such as GPG. Broadly, you'd 1) generate a key-pair, 2) export and share the key to your co-worker, 3) import your co-worker's public key 4) encrypt your file 5) send the encrypted file via email or any channel to your co-worker 6) decrypt!
You can revoke access to that person by changing your .env file credentials and deleting your co-worker's key.
Apparently 1/3 of all software vulnerabilities represent design weaknesses which were introduced in the requirements phase. The MCAS flaw seems to belong to this category which you describe.
