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Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters
I am sure most of you noticed the trend, but a lot of folks online, from influencers on twitter/instagram/tiktok to CEOs of some companies who were big on crypto, web3 (I never understood what that even means) now switched completely to AI/ML with the popularity of DALL-E/ChatGPT.

Me and some of my colleagues are fairly active on the MachineLearning subreddit and we've been getting a lot of unsolicited dms to collaborate in a breakthrough ML/AI project. The conversations start something like this: https://imgur.com/a/z6GUTGc Yup, you guessed it, they have the idea and we have to implement it. If you look into their profile history, you’ll see that they’ve been heavy on crypto/NFT/web3 stuff until a few months ago, some even made good money. They don't even have the dataset. One guy proposed my friend that he has a startup idea to use GPT-model to let people talk to their pets and that it should be 'fairly easy' to finetune from an existing model.

I am already fairly tired of seeing all the ChatGPT stuff on my socials, and I am not looking forward to another few years of more low effort/low quality stuff in peak of inflated expectations phase. I love GPT, I have many pipelines where I actively use it, but I also see the potential where people will abuse it, in every form from increased spam, personalized phishing, etc. Imagine scammers calling your grand parents not with an non-native accent anymore - heck maybe with your own voice (which in my head is fairly easy to do - get someone's family tree, call the grandkid using a model fine-tuned on some local accent, perhaps of the opposite gender and engage them in a conversation - use the voice clips to finetune another model and then call their parents/grandparents to get money, heck even the transcript for the scam interaction can be auto-generated). I am a first-generation college student, and getting my parents to use a smartphone has itself been a challenge - there's no way I can teach them to identify sophisticated scams. I bracing myself and not looking forward for all of this to come.
small PCB with a chip to negotiate more than 5V (9V, 12V, 15V, 20V)

The 20V versions of these make excelent replacements for broken rectangular thinkpad power connectors, as they fit within the footprint. Add a magnetic Usb-c adapter and it's much better than the factory options. Sugru works well for mounting it.
This was covered in ArsTechnica [1] and it seems like they are laying off a large portion of the Alexa team because it doesn't make a profit. I bought the Alexa when it first came out and it had and still has a great UI. When the Alexa launched I made a skill on the platform which I don't think anyone really downloaded. What confused me the most was Amazon never allowed for paid skills (which I really think was an extremely bad move) and it appears they just internally justified it as a loss leader but no developer would touch it from a ten foot pole. Cutting something that is a cost center is pretty much standard if you aren't showing as much growth that is expected for you. Therefore, cutting something that costs you ten billion dollars sounds pretty justified to me when they could have profited from it instead.

EDIT:
Guess I didn't do my research about paid skills...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...
Another thing people are sleeping on is that you can't have concurrent writes to a single SQLite database, but you can have lots of SQLite databases --- SQLite will even do joins across them.
Being able to easily lay off employees means that the companies are much happier hiring, too. Most of those fired will likely land another job soon, precisely because their new employer does not have to treat their hiring as a multi-year commitment.

Europe, which makes it very hard to let an employee go, tends to have significantly higher unemployment than the US, which is much more cavalier about layoffs. My 2c.
https://archive.is/WDQmG
Ideas are necessary for execution but regarding their worth I'm pretty firmly convinced there is nothing new or unique under the sun. Wasn't Friendster already launched while Zuck was coding Thefacebook in his dorm room?

Fleshing ideas out and executing is where the value is.
We already have connections to some "AIs" carried around in our pockets.
Yes, he should only condemn wars and murders that aren't from our side. Those shouldn't distract us from the actually important wars that really matter. Sure, millions died, and literally no one has been held responsible for those deaths and wars, but "whataboutism" is even worse
I prefer the Twitter PWA to the native app. What do you think is wrong with it?
There was a post here recently about an html table sorting library someone wrote https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

Just dont hotlink to it
> Smokers die younger, but do not have extended and sustainably increased healthcare costs over their entire life span.

A popular furphy spread from questionable assumptions.

FYI

> A major report published in 2016 by the National Cancer Institute and World Health Organization concluded that in high-income countries, lifetime health care costs are greater for smokers than for non-smokers, even after accounting for the shorter lives of smokers.

Tobacco issues and health care costs (with reference to some world class epidemiology studies) discussed at length here:

https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-17-economics/1...
Depending on your risk tolerance, you can get it from rather sketchy Chinese UGLs for $100/month.
What if we had some type of fluid that carried potential energy that we could quickly pour into a giant tank on the trucks?

Some things will just never go electric. Like fire trucks, ambulances, tow trucks, power company trucks, etc. that have to be able to function for weeks at a time in a grid down situation. Dead dinosaurs are the best answer for some problems, just not every car on the road.
Twitter Hit with $228.9M Copyright Infringement / Repeat Infringer Lawsuit
This is not much different than binge watching/consuming any cultural product.

Reading is still considered more high-brow than, say, playing videogames, and for the most part it is, simply because our species have been producing literature for quite some time, and we have a large amount of masterpieces and real gems.

But I've seen people reading dumb shit at a rapid pace, bad literature is not better than bad TV/Radio/Comics/Games/Youtube/Etc.

I hope that at some point we'll stop sacralizing things because they are old.
That's a good point, maybe I should remove the last part. I don't even know they guy. I just don't like seeing people being discouraged from reading ambitiously, no matter who they are. Especially when the numbers add up just fine.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/amazon-begins-drone-...

I saw this recently?

=> I work at Amazon but far away from prime air
And furthermore no simulation can have a “what it’s like to be them”
Has the relationship between employer and employee ever felt more transactional?
Why do you believe Prime Air is shut down, when it just started making actual drone deliveries to customers in College Station TX, and Lockeford, CA [1]?

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/amazon-begins-drone-...
Can they beat the Dow Jones also?
That still is anticompetitive.
> So, your solution for EVs is overheard wires or third rails for every lane of every roadway?

Do you think adding hundreds of KG of batteries to two billion cars is more reasonable?

We produce enough conductors to wire every street in America in a couple years. At the current rate of battery production, replacing all cars in the world will take over 100 years.
> he downloaded an open-source knockoff

Reading this snapped me out of my Gell-Mann amnesia.
They also had 30% turnover in 2021 and 20% the year before according to [1]. I can't imagine how miserable it must be there to generate those numbers.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220506053517/https://www.busin...
Give me a good definition of globalization and then you can declare whatever that is to be dead.
aw, thanks to all four of you
> They have Amazon on their resume

resumes.LastOrDefault();
You could also argue that nobody needed the iPad -- and in fact many people still have no use for tablets -- but it still created a significant new market for Apple and plenty of interesting applications. It doesn't need to take over the world to be successful.
>I've heard people say that the solution is to eat (healthy food) when you're hungry, and stop when you're full. The thing is, I'm never full. I can eat until I physically can't eat anymore (not something I do regularly, of course), and as soon as my stomach has emptied a bit, I feel fairly hungry again. "Eat until you feel full" is literally a human experience I had never really had.

I hear people following a carnivore diet have had success in dealing with this satiety issue. The only things you can eat with this diet are butter (or ghee), beef, and salt.

There is a claim that nutrient difficiency causes the scenario you are describing. Your body is being deprived of what it really needs with your current diet and requires more consumption to continue its search for a particular set of nutrients.

The carnivore diet is not a silver bullet but worth a try. I will also mention it is high protien, high fat, and zero carb which has been shown to result in massive weight loss in relatively short periods of time (counterintuitive, I know).
>>people are losing their livelihoods yet rich

Do you have a 401K or retirement account of any type? Chances are you are one of the "rich people" that impact that stock price.
Ive been using Newsboat since before it was called Newsboat, when it was called Newsbeuter. Newsboat does have some oddities in its config and open issues that still havent been resolved (I suspect due to the rewrite) so this alternative does make me curious to try something thats a fresh start.
> I made a lot of rookie mistakes over the years that limited Preceden’s growth including not focusing on a specific niche, not spending enough time marketing, not talking to enough customers, trying to do too much myself, and just in general picking a difficult product and business to build (something I didn’t give any thought to initially).

This really resonates with me. I've been building a new social app, that's taken awhile to build, and I've faced the same challenges along the way.

It'd be real easy to give up on a project before it's really found pmf. To keep going, to believe in it and not give up is encouraging. Great to hear your story!
To be clear, you're saying that for a US-citizen to show support for any non USofA country is to be un-Central-North-American ?
> I don't care about Ukraine/Tiwan/Vietnam, and the government should not either, it aint our problem. We can literally nuke Russia or China or DPRK if they try to invade or nuke us.

Whilst Ukraine may not be the USAs problem they are literally decimating Russias armed forces with American table scrapes effectively.

It’s likely one of the best return on investments that the USA has ever gotten on an investment into a war they aren’t involved in.
There are many stations already, every few blocks. And the company running them, Citibike, already wants to connect them to the grid. Now you have a more tractable problem: when there's snow coming, some of the (many) unused bike racks can be dedicated to recharge truck batteries instead. I don't know what the hydraulics would look like and if that's something that can be installed seasonally or perhaps just a few days in advance.
While I agree waiting to electrify is the correct choice here (for so many reasons), this statement:

> If the EV plows aren't drop-in replacements for ICE plows, then they are not fit for service.

Is just false. The same logic would have prevented cars from displacing horses because cars aren't drop-in replacements for horses either. There are almost always tradeoffs for adopting new technologies, and demanding that EVs be strictly superior to ICE vehicles is absurd.
Something about machine spirits and technopriests

Edit: tech-priests. But technopriests [1] also looks fun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technopriests
Proper keyboards group in clusters F1–F4, F5–F8, F9–F12, with gaps between them. Unfortunately, this practice is regularly disregarded (even though uniformity is obviously a terrible idea), and particularly uncommon on laptop keyboards.
> They were compensated toward the top of market (considering all tech companies) while they were employed.

Yea but no. This isn’t about Amazon, it’s about business culture writ large. Also not everyone at Amazon is a software engineer, and therefore it paid crazy amounts.

> When some “quiet quits” it’s usually their peers who pay the price because the absentee coworker isn’t get their part of the team project done

Quiet quitting is simply doing your job but not being a “try-hard” and not trying to get ahead or go above-and-beyond. It’s a lack of loyalty and treating your job as a trade of exactly 8hrs with a paycheck. If your coworker wasn’t doing their work, they didn’t quiet quit.

> It’s the coworkers who bear the brunt.

Sounds like a manager (company) treating workers poorly. If a factory had people quit and expected everyone else work extra hours, it’d be a labor violation. If they’re doing that to knowledge workers we say it’s laziness?

Conversely, if you had a coworker who worked 8 hours a day, did their job, and didn’t try to give extra, you shouldn’t fall behind unless management had exploitative expectations.

(Source: I have a soul and work. Managers tried to make me suffer greatly at times).
I think the reasoning behind decimation was that it was supposed to be an equivalent bloodbath defeat. Historically, a rout typically resulted in about 10% casualties. Decimation reduced the calculus of a Roman soldier to 'stay in the fight, and risk a 10% chance of death' versus 'run, and risk a 10% chance of being killed at random by your tentmates'.
I see a lot of interesting but fundamentally incorrect comments here, likely reflective of an "intuitive" understanding of globalization, something I, myself, would have shared until quite recently. My two cents on this is, if you really want to understand globalization and its demise now underway, you need to understand the Bretton Woods agreement, the role the US played as the worlds maritime security enforcer, the end of asset-backed currencies and geopolitics in general.
I feel like reading books at a very rapid pace is kind of like going to film/music/art festivals and trying to catch everything. In the end, you'll have some very memorable ones, many you'll remember, but also a lot of stuff you'll barely remember a week later.
I liked this article. We are, I think, quibbling over the author's terms and conflating person experience with industry practice. Fundamentally you will see the broader landscape of issues inherent in a solution if you understand the concepts underlying the tool than if you only understand the tool's surfaces. I vividly remember a networking problem that a gathering of our brightest technicians could not solve and (almost by chance) a passing physicist interrupted the gathering and said we had a harmonics issue.
Salesforce to Lay Off 8k Workers in Latest Tech Purge
Well, internet is just.... a mess. Nobody wants to hear anyone and everyone is shouting as loud as they can.

Maybe go on IRC, these guys are more old school, 1990's usenet style. That's where I hang, except this hacker news place, which I don't totally hate yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSlLYLxftGw
Then you probably don't use your phone as 2FA for any "large, life-altering transactions"?
haven't Oracle databases traditionally operated as binary object stores?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
This is a newer layoff than the one previously covered.

Knowing Amazon, they probably needed people to handle the holiday stress, and now they’re laying off more people.
If you've moved up from L4 to L6 at a faang, chances are that you haven't spent a lot of time solving simple interviewing coding problems. You've likely spent time on the interviewer side, but the number of problems you're interacting with is small.

At some point, a faang engineer was good at solving those, but that might not be their current state
Roughly the original idea was similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image That is, make a cluster of machines look like a single BSD instance, by allowing virtual memory to span multiple machines, processes to move, etc, all while preserving cache coherency.

Obviously this is an insanely difficult goal, which is why DragonFly didn't make it particularly far towards it. Additionally we've seen the rise of virtualization and systems like k8s for managing clusters, which would reduce interest from potential collaborators.
Yeah I fall into mood reading too but I tend to regret it because I postpone the more intimidating part of the canon that I'd probably really enjoy. I'm finally doing Count of Monte Cristo atm after having it stare me down the last... 5 years?
I don't know if I would have ever felt in the mood otherwise.

I guess like your gym analogy, some people can just work out when they feel like it. Some need a schedule to stay on track (of which I'm guilty)
> twisting himself into pseudo-impartiality doesn't make someone interesting.

TBH my impression is that his interviews come off as a couple of college guys smoking joints and talking about the meaning of life. I never got the appeal. Yes, he does get some really great guests, but I wonder why some of these people would agree to these interviews?
This seems like it will be of limited usefulness, since they can't block it from students' personal devices at home.
I honestly don’t know how someone can design a truly HATEOAS API without breaking everyone’s expectations and making it a chore for people to deal with it.

If stuffing a bunch of links into your JSON response is what truly transforms your RPC into REST (I don’t see what else makes GitHub API so different from other APIs), then I don’t even know what’s the point of that.

And surely it is only superficially similar to the non-API REST, ie how simple websites usually work.
Then how would a company protect it's trade secrets?
I like Nassim Taleb's point about Lex's reading list.

That you can only get a very shallow understanding of the text going this fast. I think it's a reasonable criticism. If shallow breadth is Lex's goal, then it's fine. But if any sort of deep understanding is required, then going fast won't work.

source: https://forall.social/@nntaleb/109626986647565519
I started listening to some of his podcasts because of the guests. I don't find Lex that interesting at all, I also think he's not the best person at leading a discussion with how many tangents he goes on, although he is good at coming back off them. And he is quite good at letting the guest just talk. I never enjoyed Rogan's podcasts because it was as much about him as it was the guest.

I just stick to the less political podcasts and they're fine. I quite liked his one with John Carmack and his one with Todd Howard.
The people who are working on this type of tech need to take a hard look at what they’re doing and think about whether they’re comfortable making our society worse.
I long ago concluded that the way to make pots o' money is to:

1. go out for a walk. Offer the first good looking man a CEO-ship of your new company.

2. pay him $$$$$

3. hire loads of people

4. fire them all

5. goto 3
> Too many people are convinced that everyone has the same subjective experiences of hunger and craving, but it's simply not the case. Some people implicitly hold this idea because it's a convenient ideology that allows people to morally congratulate themselves for having a functioning satiety circuit.

Where does this line of thinking stop?

Is everything pre-determined by genetics?

Is everyone who is smarter than me, just actually lucky that their dopamine system works correctly, and mine doesn't, and hasn't since I was a very young kid?

I'm sure this response will get down voted but its an honest question. This line of thinking that everything is genetically pre-determined seems both accurate and somewhat depressing.

It means that if I'm skinny and can't gain weight, I need to take steroids and lift. Or if I'm fat, I should take a GLP-1 agonist. If I'm underperforming in my career or school, I should take adderal or similar pharma solutions.

What role does good old fashioned hard work and discipline have in this day and age?
> The trash is already taking up space on the sidewalk. Putting a dumpster to contain it would save space, by keeping it contained

It is always fun to see people resort to completely illogical arguments to defend the current habits and rat-feeding status quo.
wow, that's slick!
Yeah, they never released any documentation for it. They used to point people to the release notes as docs, but then archived all of it: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...

Yet another example of Apple archiving docs with no replacements.
We wouldn’t “easily grow 2x” if we served every type of software entrepreneur.

We used to cater to all software: mobile apps, desktop, WordPress, etc. and we still have many folks in the community who are non-SaaS. But the focus on SaaS was a spark that dramatically increased growth as it allowed us to optimize everything we offer (content, community, masterminds) on the specific problems SaaS folks face.

We don’t restrict folks who can join based on the type of software, so “restriction” is not the right word to use there. It’s just a focus.

And it was a great choice, allowing us to be the best in the world at what we do (rather than serving a broader market, poorly).
What’s unusual about this cycle though is that it’s the fear of a recession due to fed policy that is causing companies to cut back. In past cycles fed policy caused a recession nobody predicted and companies suddenly found their earnings in the toilet and made enormous cuts in head count, R&D spending, etc.

Something about this cycle and these cuts feels I dunno, manufacturered or something. Like are 7k high paying jobs at a salesforce indicative of an economy collapsing while the overall labor market is still extremely tight and you’re not hearing about similar layoffs throughout all industries?

All of these cuts seem to be follow the leader because we’re worried and I would not be that surprised to see the reality in the overall economy be much better than feared and these same companies hiring again before year end. It probably doesn’t hurt from the c level perspective that Wall Street tends to welcome job cuts at least in the short term. Although it can certainly do lasting damage to morale within a company.
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I'm assuming the trucks are parked somewhere in depot(s) so you'd probably put the infrastructure there to swap them out and charge them.
Woah, this female voice is clearly sampled from one of the Audm narrators.
> Yes they could build big underground containers.

Obviously. (What else?) Why would that be a massive project?
Using an NDA like everyone else.
What about, say, studying for an hour a half a day? Would that be not so different from binging any cultural product?

If there is a difference, then what is it?