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> He is implying that founders can create a lot of value without employees, and that the claim that employees also create value is false.

I agree that Paul is severely overstating his case here (as is his wont), but only the first half of your summary is true to his tweet. He's saying that founders create a lot of (even most of) the value in a company, but he is not saying that employees create no value.

His argument is essentially this: If employee jobs can in theory all be automated away while a company still produces value, that means the startup founder's role must produce a huge amount of the value in any company.

This is a pretty fragile argument that has a lot wrong with it (that a job can be automated today doesn't mean it wasn't extremely valuable yesterday), so there isn't really a need to erect a straw man.
anecdotally, i had a professor (if you're reading this, hi) who would wink in conversation at exactly the right point to add a little "isn't the world a funny place" comedy to whatever he was saying... wasn't clear if intentional or a tic for when he thought he had said something clever. I noticed that habit to have transferred to me for a while after, though I think now it's faded.
Most "karaoke versions" of songs are by cover bands.
cars in china have huge grills. i heard that is becauee drivers there want their cars to look intimidating.
Pfizer legal woes continue with battle against Moderna
pretty much every good is sold on ebay
Then let's go with buying this more fancy house for no upfront down payment, then 3k€ monthly, and paid off over 30 years: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/baufinanzierung/finanzierun...

"But I don't know of any bank that would lend you 100% of the price of the property you want to buy, if you do please introduce me to them..."

Here's a FAQ on buying a house without any prior capital. Obviously, the interest rate is going to be higher... https://www.immobilienscout24.de/wissen/kaufen/finanzierung-...
Hey, I take a lot of time and effort controlling my diet to achieve this (while knocking years off my lifespan). I won't have any low effort shart writing around here.
> Solo founders like me are on the rise

source?
Well, I feel like I said it, but for the same reason that a student learning French has not invented French, or even a new language, if he has come up with his own equivalent for each French word
Thank you for asking. She is 24 hour ventilator dependent (spina bifida, chiari malformation, etc.. etc..). She just celebrated her 5th birthday last month. My wife and I hope she will be able to breath on her own someday too. As for bills, I would be shocked if I could not find any as we have piles of them. We have relocated to France, but had no outstanding balances before leaving. I have noted your email and will check our files for bills this weekend. I have absolutely no problem sharing them. Anything to bring light to the insanity and opaqueness of the US medical system.
"A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." - A Brave New World
I'm going to be Pollyanna and say that we might be at the cusp of a golden age of sci-fi adaptations. For decades people said that Dune was unfilmable and then Villeneuve went and done it and made it look easy, even conventional. (I actually have some additional thoughts on that- it could have been a little bit longer for greater exposition and characterization, and more weird.) So this should mean that any classic work of sci-fi should get some consideration. We're at a time in the industry where both visual effects and audiences (with the mainstreaming of nerd culture) are ready for such media.

That's not to say these adaptations will be good, but they're certainly filmable. Neuromancer gets a lot of cachet, but other IPs have been attempted already. Villeneuve successfully made a good Blade Runner sequel. Live-action Ghost in the Shell happened- it was execrable and wrapped up in controversy, but it still got made and the neon-soaked setting looked decent. They made a fourth Matrix. Stepping away from cyberpunk, Childhood's End got a miniseries. The Expanse got a full show.

So I doubt that there's anything inherently more difficult about Gibson's novels. If anything, the popularity of Cyberpunk 2077 and its Edgerunners anime has primed the public for '80s retrofuturistic cyberpunk, so they can choose to adapt this as a period piece if they wanted to, without "modernizing" its futuristic conceits. No need to add smartphones.

Call me when they start adapting John Brunner '60s new wave sci-fi. Now that would be a hard sell.
True, Gibson's writing is very unique. One of the things I like is how the reader is often left in the dark about details and can slowly understand the world the story takes place in. That part actually ports to the screen quite well. There's nothing worse than clunky dialog that explains the exposition narrative of a novel. I noticed that I enjoyed the Peripheral quite a bit in that way. Although they changed the story a great deal it has the same feeling.
I’ll agree that there’s no way to eliminate suffering.

But you can continue to reduce your creation of suffering in animals by not eating meat.

It’s fine if that’s a decision you’re not willing to make.

But if you say, “I just try to minimize suffering” and then continue to eat meat, you should instead say, “I just try to minimize suffering that I can’t justify to myself.” Otherwise you’re lying to yourself because you’re doing one thing and saying another.
I wish my sister had a child first. I would have never agreed to have one on my own :D
Not a monopoly, at least not outside US. But a very capricious high end electronics brand
Introducing: AI-Oriented Programming. Coming soon.

If you allow a tool like ChatGPT access to APIs, I think it opens up a new programming paradigm: AI-Oriented Programming. The idea's that you talk to it, and tell it what to do in response to inputs. You then test out its ability to do those things, and correct its mistakes. There's no actual "code".

In a way, everything that's hard about programming is because computers don't understand our intentions. Lots of clever ways have been devised to overcome this (high-level languages, libraries, GUI builders, type systems, IDEs, static analysers). But something like AI-Oriented Programming is the most direct attack on the problem that exists.

One downside of course is that computers have found a new way to misunderstand what we mean. Another is that such "code" is probably going to run slower than compiled code in C++, or whatever. But programmer output is about to soar.
Yes. At least all decent people.
I just played it for a bit, after last playing the text version about a decade ago. It's absolutely gorgeous and a complete joy.
See my other comment with cntl+F / cmd+F. Based on the simple fact that despite its power, this is just another NLP model which can only do input / output, I believe the post to be mostly fabricated, or at best, an accumulation of multiple _hours_ spent deriving and compiling the best responses per each prompt.
I dunno. The people who I talk to who do seem to understand what's happening seem even more impressed than the average layperson (mainly that such a fundamentally simple technique is paying off with such crazy dividends).
Do Google accountants use Sheets?
I don't think you need ChatGPT for that, that's probably already the approach scolars use.
Or, conversely people who like to speed buy red cars more frequently than other colors so that the majority of speeders end up driving red cars.
Ask #ChatGPT to list all ways to do X

If it misses a way you know then ask if it knows about it

If it confirms, ask it why it didn't include it

In my case, it crashed (on two such attempts with different questions, happy to share)

It seems to recall answers it has seen but not able to expand on those answers with knowledge it already has

That's because it does not have knowledge. It has a bunch of correlations, encoders, decoders, etc. But not actual ontological or epistemological knowledge of any kind.
At least my phone is back lit and I can pinch zoom to read it. As you get older, reading a paper menu with a small, poorly chosen font in the "mood lighting" present in many restaurants becomes quite the chore.
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Here it is: https://czds.icann.org/home
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Caviet: in Australia and cyber security not Dev. 2 offers in 2 weeks. Started without losing a day of pay. 7% pay rise. Market is great right now
They're going to rake it in. I heard it's been the most wishlisted game on Steam for a while now.
One of the main reasons I'm super into Rivian's aesthetic -- which is super controversial! I love the R1 front end, it just looks like it's happy to be there :)
Ah, that is odd. If you don't mind, could you go to %AppData%/Bulwark Passkey and taking a look at main.log or device.log and see if you see any errors in there? I would really appreciate it!

Edit: I was able to reproduce the issue; it looks like WebView2 (which Bulwark Passkey relies on) is already installed on Windows 11 but not on Windows 10. I released a new version on https://bulwark.id that has that WebView now embedded in the app itself, would you mind downloading that and seeing if that works? Thank you for the report!
You Can’t Tell Analysts Too Much
Also the Celsius bankruptcy estate and the FTX risk engine
Re: 3 funny to see 1) how people often point to how we need "cheap and fast" simple housing to fix affordability issues, and then get mad at all the "cookie cutter" housing that results from the implementation of this idea.

and 2) these maligned "cheap and fast" building styles eventually become (at least somewhat) loved.

Looking at a generation of houses before the Vancouver Special, it's abundantly clear that all the 1910s era heritage homes one finds near downtown are also pretty much all tweaks on a similar core design, just like the Vancouver Special.
Interesting thing is that there is no way (that I could find) to buy apps in AppStore for my VAT registered company in a way that I could receive invoice with company details and all necessities to be able to get VAT refund.
They seem to pretend they are always selling to private persons and this is not necessary, yet there are many business apps and I am quite sure for business app VAT on 10,000 Eur app would hurt.
>> This was with both `-O2` and `-O3`, and also with `-march=native`

Until very recently GCC didn't do vectorization at -O2 usless you told it to.
so if something can be reproduced in no time it has no intrinsic value?
I think GP meant deinforce to be a complimentary antonym, where you gave the gradable antonym.
> this is not a linguist or a grade schooler, but a general purpose computer program

This is sleight of hand. The training data almost certainly includes thousands of grade schoolers and linguists. Your argument seems to be that this is all generated ad nihilum from first principles (it's "just" a computer program bro), but that's not how it actually came to be. Rather, it was trained on literally terrabytes and terrabytes of human-generated data.

So, in a sense, it is actually a linguist. Just a really bad one.
My apologies; I open-sourced VirtualFIDO awhile ago but only open-sourced the actual frontend (Bulwark Passkey) about a week ago, and I forgot the license. It should be MIT licensed now.
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They could if they were imaginative enough to project current tech into a similarly dangerous future. It's been said that sci-fi is the easiest to date form of film. Our image of the future is so strongly tied to the moment itself.
Just like how we can shop around for our internet here :)

It's wild to me how folks will continue to support the predatory healthcare industry here.
I am no lawyer, but this sounds like embezzlement to me: he’s an executive who is stealing from the company, and thus from the shareholders.

Have you taken any 3rd party investments to date? If yes, there may be a Bad Leaver clause, which could be a basis for a more expedient delivery of legal consequences.

I would expect a founder lose all his shares under a Bad Leaver clause if found stealing from the company.

That said, I have no clue how you could prove this. I would strongly advise taking legal advice before making any move. If you have a strong case, I would first confront the guy and give him a chance to make things right.

At any rate, I would not stay in business with a guy that steals from me.
> All rises in incidents of transgenderism are easily explained by a more tolerant society accepting it.

This doesn't explain the disproportionate rise in teenage girls seeking treatment at gender clinics though.

Here's a fascinating essay by a detransitioner on how she began thinking of herself first as 'non-binary' and later as male, and ended up being prescribed testosterone medication for this: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name. She goes into quite some detail about how being exposed to gender identity ideology on Tumblr over a period of years was what influenced her to transition.

Other detransitioners have described similar online influences. It seems likely that this is at least one of the factors causing such an increase, and may well explain why the rise in referrals to gender clinics are so skewed toward female teenagers, who are the primary demographic of sites like Tumblr, and who are particularly vulnerable to social contagions.
As a committed conlanger (but not a good one: I didn't land the Dothraki contract), I read this article with some trepidation. Is my weird little hobby soon to fall victim to the oncoming AI tsunami?

After the read, I find myself pleasantly surprised. My initial suspicion that the language would turn out to be Just Another Relex (make a new language by replacing English words with invented words, keeping the grammar and syntax the same) was clearly a waste of a suspicion. Furthermore I can see this approach being really useful to writers/game makers/etc who want to include a smattering of conlang in their work - for instance a non-relex naming language for placenames, overheard snatches of conversations, etc - to add an extra layer of spice to it.

So, I don't feel threatened by this novel use of AI. It could prove to be a really useful tool to help with some often laborious tasks (creating test translations to try out an idea, etc). I just hope the AI had as much fun inventing its language as I've had inventing mine!
Well, if you're gonna ask for 30% on NFT purchases, you better have no ceiling
Would you mind sharing how old is your child?

My son is almost three. I also want to get him into programming.

I am utterly sad that my dad wasted his brain doing manual labor as we grew up in a small city in Poland and he never had the resources to even own a computer.

He would be a good programmer, as I got it from him. He is really good at finding solutions to repetitive tasks and hates to do the same thing twice.
Tbh I thought David Lynchs Dune captured the oddity of the universe, the cruelty of the universe, and did it's own stuff as well. I know not everyone likes it, but I think it has it's place, especially in the context of all his other movies and tv shows.
I'm not in the USA so I'm not sure how the W2s and SSNs are tied to job/healthcare/401k etc, but how does this double timing work? Won't the Tax office/Finanzamt (IRS) know about this?
My personal take is I would go a level higher and define data consistency and availability requirements. Provide them to dev teams and if the teams need help meeting them I provide recommendations.

I generally try to keep design out of architecture. It’s what you need to satisfy product or service needs. The technology gets into how you want to implement. I try to leave that to the tech lead for the team.
And that's the problem with making threats you won't follow through on.

The game-theoretic definition of a threat is something that harms you, but harms your opponent more. If you carry it out, your life gets worse. You hope that your opponent won't call your bluff.

If they do, the threat ceases to be operative. At that point all you're doing is deciding whether your reputation for following through on threats means more to you than whatever pain you will inflict on yourself. When that pain is your own death, that seems kind of an obvious choice, since your reputation becomes moot.

That doesn't give Ukraine unlimited ability to attack Russia. Once Russia perceives the threat as existential, it becomes a loss either way, and they can simply be vindictive.

An attack on a clear military target is pushing Ukraine's luck. It will rattle everybody. But in the end, threats of nuclear annihilation are pointless. If you're going to end the world, you don't make threats. You just do it.
I don’t think their goal was to make a slime language called Glorp. If it were, I’m sure you’re absolutely right they could have done it without breaking a sweat. But try this, get your laptop out and start typing into its prompt to create a new language for slimes and see how much longer it takes you. That’s the amazing part - that a general purpose program is able to do the exercise at all with no training, specialized coding, but from natural idiomatic language and keep enough of a language grammar context in state to (usually) produce and translate that language back and forth, and then assemble it in a functioning imperative program from its internal state. Of course, I’m sure your laptop can do it to. Let us know!
Just as a FYI, Ledger also has a FIDO U2F application that I found useful for some things.
Right, it sounds like the scale is a particular problem, you'd expect the feedback mechanisms to gradually weed out nonsense answers, but if 90% of all answers were nonsense, humans couldn't keep up with.
Flatpak exists; Nix exists; Guix exists. All of them make it easy to have newer software without caring about your Debian package versions.
Prelude Build: an OSS IDE to write, verify, & deploy security tests to any scale
Touché. But a deal was imposed, just not the requested paid sick days. With such massive government interventions though, this sounds like anything but a free-market environment.
That's true, but while it is definitely helpful and can accelerate development, I don't generally see writing working functions to do simple, discreet tasks as a bottleneck to engineering in the context of a nontrivial system. But writing quality cold emails tailored to each prospect is definitely a bottleneck to sales--they are time consuming/tedious to write, and you usually need to write tons of them to get results. Same story with marketing copy, ads, social media posts, etc. having the time and energy to produce this content on an ongoing basis is a major bottleneck to marketing.
But would the situation be better in the US where you might get 2x the salary but rent and housing prices are also 2x the German level?
Have you tried Qwant.com? I've been happy with their results, but DuckDuckGo and most Google alternatives lean heavily on Microsoft's database and search engine from Bing, hence both performing much better at long tail LinkedIn searches than Google.
I was extremely passionate about text-to-image, but now that it is solved, I am experiencing a crisis. I have lost what I have been pursuing for a long time and I am now unsure of my skills. I fear that I will not be able to find a job because I only have internship experience and no real job experience. I was hopeful before pursuing this Master's degree, but now I am not so sure.
rocket propulsion has been used in forced sterilizations?
Off-topic but what do you think they used here to render the UI. Qt?
Anecdotal example, though I'm sure I'm not the only one:

We had a C++ service. It needed high availability, but didn't have super high resource requirements. Our setup was an ec2 instance (c5.xlarge) to build and release AMIs (a bash script using debootstrap to build the AMI which someone wrote 10 years ago probably), an autoscaling group of 3 t2.small instances spread across AZs, and an ALB.

The total cost of this was perhaps $200/mo, and we had incredibly good uptime.

So, what's the catch? Well, it took the service about 20 minutes to build, and about 35 minutes from clicking the "deploy new version" to it actually running. Someone higher up noticed, and a bright-eyed infra engineer said k8s would make the deploy cycle faster.

Fast forward a year. Our autoscaling group is now 3 c5.xlarge instances because the kubelet + docker + coredns + all this other k8s gunk I don't understand need significantly more CPU than our app does (and without giving them more CPU, deploy times were much slower since downloading and unpacking the image was so slow). We have a new logging system (our old logging setup wasn't cloud native apparently) that takes a gig more memory per node. A gig of memory per node to support our service, which peaks at 200MiB RSS. Building and deploying a new version still takes about 35 minutes because compiling C++ is the exact same speed in a dockerfile as it is on an ec2 instance.

It costs about $600/mo, and it has far more operational load. When it isn't having any issues, the p99 is identical.

> better performance or lesser costs

It seems like the opposite of what you'd expect. K8s is adding more components. It's adding more resource usage. Why wouldn't that be slower and cost more?
For me, it took practice.

I used to be incredibly shy and had extreme difficulty talking to strangers. When I attended a police academy, the instructors noticed it immediately and attempted to humiliate me until I dropped out. I didn't. Later I got a job that required speaking in front of groups - basically teaching mechanics & technicians how to diagnose and repair electrical/electronic problems in automobiles. I was still shy and anxious about speaking in front of others, but I did it anyway.

Several other people have mentioned Toastmasters. This is an organization that exists to help people gain the skills & confidence to speak in front of strangers. Or just your coworkers. Some companies host their own chapter of Toastmasters.

https://www.toastmasters.org/
For the Foundation, you really need the extra hours to chronicle an epic future historical drama with a lot of psychological themes and political intrigue. I'd have to say I'm rather worried about the upcoming Hyperion adaptation from Bradley Cooper for similar reasons, it was to be a show but now it's going to be a movie.
> In the past I've never interviewed with more than 2 or 3 before getting an offer. I know this is incredibly privileged.

I'm not sure why you are saying this. You're in a rough spot and you're human. You don't have to qualify your struggle, even a universal one or one you do slightly better than others. The truth is that it shouldn't take interviewing with 28 companies to find a single offer. Interviewing at a handful before an offer sounds like it should be the (historical) norm, not a privilege. I know plenty of boomers who brag about how easy it is to get a job, with many talking about how they got hired as a walk-in to a technical engineering jobs. So don't put yourself down, we don't need a race to the bottom. We empathize with you because you're human.
Meetings. Endless meetings.
I see what you mean. With Foundation, also in Apple TV+, I felt that the adaptation to television didn’t work — at least for my taste. I think that it was just a tricky book to adapt to another medium. I think Neuromancer has the potential to fail in a similar way (sadly!). But we’ll have to see how it goes!… :)