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My co-founder and I are both former journalists; we met years ago at ABC News. Getting this right is personal to us -- there's a definite gap in between how important we think news is with how much it seems to be worth in the market -- a big problem considering how expensive it is to do correctly.

Our aspirational goal is to be THE place for news updates, regardless of what you're into. Before we started, I asked my decidedly non-news-junkie now-wife what she does to stay up to date -- she told me CNN.com. I pushed her for why them -- was it coverage decisions? A perceived ideological bent? She said "no, it loads quickly and I can scroll quickly through the headlines." We want to that, better.

It's interesting that you bring up local vs. national. One of the things we learned pretty early on is that while people say they want local news, it's often a non-starter if it isn't presented in conjunction with national headlines. So we do both. Our corny internal motto is "around the block and around the world" -- lets cover the water main break down the street AND Gaza/Ukraine/etc -- and everything in between. It's a tall order.

We have local in many places, though its uneven across the country. You can try NYC (https://www.forth.news/nyc) to get an idea of an area with local coverage. (For obvious reasons, we don't push local reporting on users outside of the area.)

We don't usually do the reporting ourselves. Looking to places like Twitter for inspiration, we recruit journalists and newsrooms to share their reporting. We cannot possibly know their beats like they do -- and they're already out there covering it. We verify they are who they say they are, and ask them too abide by an editorial policy (https://www.forth.news/docs/editorial). We want to be as easy to scroll -- and as relevant --as social, but without the misinfo, spam, hate speech, etc.

Right now no one is getting paid. I joke (and cry) that our biggest financial backer is my AmEx. Ideally we will build up enough breadth that we can sell our own sponsorships, or actually crack the subscription business model once and for all. Then we would share with the journalists/newsrooms, a la Spotify. (Btw, if you are a newsroom leader or journalist reading this, we'd love to chat - https://journalists.forth.news)

Any thoughts/questions/etc - I'm jared (at) forth (dot) news.
Exactly. You can selectively gate access to the data but still have it served from a cdn
No, but in short order every company of any size will have its own app store which will be the way all their customers have to download their apps, same as every media company has its own streaming platform.
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Not as fast as the L40S, but Runpod.io has the A40 48gb for $0.28/hr spot price, so if its mainly VRAM you need, this is a lot cheaper option. Vast.ai has it for the same price as well.
Yeah 200 lines of JavaScript, available for the last year. Super cutting edge
The existing pattern leads to very useful usecases though: there are resources a server only needs to open once (e.g. during startup), and being able to then remove access while holding onto the one handle you're going to use is a security win.
A company I once worked for hired a new CEO who lived literally on the other side of the country. He didn't want to move, so they moved the whole company with a couple hundred employees to a new office near his house.
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Are you looking to _use_ AI/LM or take up an interest in developing or deploying AI/LM? Because those are very different questions.

Offtopic, but today I encountered my first AI-might-be-running-the-business moment. I had a helpdesk ticket open with IT for an issue with my laptop. It got assigned to a real person. After a few days of back-and-forth, the issue was resolved. I updated the ticket to the effect of, "Yup, I guess we can close this ticket and I will open a new one if it crops up again. Thank you for your patience and working with me on this." A few seconds later, I get an email saying that an AI agent decided to close my ticket based on the wording of my update.

Which, you know, is fine I guess. The business wants to close tickets because We Have Metrics, Dammit. But if the roles were reversed and I was the help desk agent, seeing the note of gratitude and clicking that Resolved button would very likely be the only little endorphin hit that kept me plugging away on tickets. Letting AI do ONLY the easy and fun parts of my job would just be straight-up demoralizing to me.
That's nothing, we once had the entire British government attempt to kill us.

> things designed to kill people are illegal

Your government doesn't have guns?
Never at a level that would influence company direction, though, even if all the employees banded together.

Which just sounds like a union, anyway. So why not just unionize instead...
Shocking! A core precept of an entire article is wrong.
> The news isn't going to mow my yard, politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work.

Ain't that the truth.
Executives used a Europe Office, that was really just one employee with no actual physical office, as an excuse to take europe vacations with their families, and expense it to the company.

A few executives were over there when they got word that mass layoffs needed to happen and were called back to HQ in the states. The COO complained in the office that these layoffs ruined his families Europe trip. Confirming what we all suspected.
Is the services that PlayStation Now uses publicly known? That's the only streaming service I've used so far.
I think this would be a desire for bothsidesism, the principle that (say) flat Earth theory and spherical Earth theory are both valid view points and should be given equal amounts of coverage.
>that line is defined by the resistance it faces

THIS is why the Second Amendment. It's easy to revenge-kill a crazy, it's harder to revenge-kill a government. Keep your governments small and your crazies armed!
I doubt many new projects get started in it, but there's still plenty out there even outside of banking, insurance etc - a guy I used to work with was a PHP developer and at a previous job he'd had to modify COBOL for a company that sold carpet.
The question is what does programming with an LLM get you over batteries-included frameworks with scaffolding like Rails or Django? If the problem only requires a generic infra solution put together by an LLM instead of a bespoke setup, why not look into low-code/no-code PaaS solutions to start with? Unless the LLM is going to provide you with some uniquely better results than existing tools designed to solve the same problems, it feels like a waste of resources to employ GPUs to do what templates/convention-over-configuration/autocomplete/etc already did.

The point isn't that LLMs are useless, or that they aren't interesting technology in the abstract. The point is that aside from the very real entertainment value of being able to conjure artwork apparently out of thin air, when it comes to solving practical problems in the tech space, it's not clear that they are achieving significantly more - faster or cheaper - than existing tools and methods already did.

You're right that it's probably too early to have data to prove their utility either way, but given how much time, money and energy many companies have already sunk into this - precisely without any evidence to prove it's worthwhile - it does come across rather more like a hype cycle at the moment.
I've seen scripts with hardcoded "/home/$username" so your worries aren't entirely unfounded.

It's understandable too, because Linux doesn't provide a nice way to retrieve that information. You'll have to parse /etc/passwd (which might not contain all users) or hope that whatever language you're using supports path extrapolations so that you can do realpath(~username) or call a third party tool that does, like a shell.
I'm not sure "arm-core-disabled-by-fuse" is gonna be sufficient to persuade arms legal department to stop charging royalties...
Don't go to college, you'll have to do that 5 times every semester.
>I think we need a better term than monopoly, that separates it from what people usually mean which is 'the best product'.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that literally nobody means that when they say 'monopoly' but I doubt it is common enough for that claim to be made in good faith.
What company do you work for? I am working in the field and curious what the product is
I always use good ol’ MySQL. If anything happens can hop to Maria
There's running a business with under 50 employees, running a business with under 100, and then there's running a coorporation with several thousand and more employees.

The FAANG (and other letter group) global mega corp survivors have one or two valid grievances.
The "saving up money" part is the bottleneck for me right now because of the state of the tech job market but I was originally planning to save up money and launch a self-funded startup once I had enough runway. After discovering the "buy an already profitable business" route though, I have been thinking about it. I know I don't want to spend the rest of my life constantly competing in the interview Olympics for the privilege of writing code to make somebody else rich.
That’s the exception that proves the rule. I think people know what I mean here…
Being in an office is a exclusive lock that prevents you from having multiple remote jobs. Other than that is serves no useful purpose.

And what the "face to face conversations" narrative really means is: 1) I don't want to put things in writing, 2) I want to tell if you are lying.

RTO sucks
You can create a software company with 0 capital. Stop making excuses.
What approach does this book take to error recovery?

Several "compiler light" style articles and books kind of walk over that part, and it can be non-trivial to do properly, especially with modern expectations.

I remember way back in the day, one of the early C compilers for the PDP, and, honestly, it could almost be argued that ed(1) had better error messages than what that thing produced.

A lot of simple compilers hit an error and just give up.

So, just curious what the approach was in this book.
Unlikely that’s what drives peoples’ decisions on a grand scale.
spanner != cockroach. Spanner has specialized hardware with atomic clocks. It's better.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...
One imagines that at some point they will release a pure risc-v chip, once community adoption of the new RP2350 cores is widespread.
Of course you think this way because you're the consumer of the free ad-funded internet services.
> In these two early stories lie most of the subsequent Faustian motifs: the temptations of knowledge and power; the bargaining away of more distant spiritual gains for nearer material ones; the almost symmetrical rivalry of good and evil forces; the taint of the commercial or contractual bond; the picaresque flights through time and space; even the odd obsession with exciting women called Helen.

In apocryphal Bible texts, it's claimed corrupted angels called "The Watchers" gave humans various technologies, in exchange for their women.

> In the Book of Enoch, the watchers are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate among them, arriving on a mountain called Hermon. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity.

> Samyaza and his associates further taught their human charges arts and technologies such as weaponry, cosmetics, mirrors, sorcery, and other techniques that would otherwise be discovered gradually over time by humans, not foisted upon them all at once. Eventually, God allows a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but first sends Uriel to warn Noah so as not to eradicate the human race. The watchers are bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgment Day (Jude verse 6 says, "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.").

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher_(angel)#Rogue_watchers...
>Know any decent computer nerds in the 80s/90s that weren’t at least dabbling in that stuff?

I mean, if your definition of decent requires you to be a fraud and a conman, then no.

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My father, while he certainly pirated a lot of software back in the 90s, wasn't stealing any phone cards, or doing any embezzlement. Presumably, that makes him not decent with computers.
I don't see how it really matters. A bigger issue is that some days there is just going to be nothing to report if you want "real" news.

"Today nothing happened, the end" would not work. So you would have to lower your standards for that day. On that day you would conflate what happened with entertainment and low and behold that day nothing actually happened is more popular than reality.

Loop this process over and over and we get what we have now.

I suspect we end up at the point we are at now no matter what the initial starting conditions or how you design the system.

"News" is a form of entertainment and to pretend it is not seems completely delusional to me.

I think it is like asking how do you get people to watch a movie of a professor giving a statistics lecture. You have to publicly fund it because no one is going to really watch or pay for that movie.
To add: you know with the stable-diffusion function, there are ranges of vectors whereby technically just conjuring them is 15 years federal and possessing them is 5 each. That is 20-25% of a lifetime in one, 7.5% in the other!

You know how nuts that sounds to me as a mathematician?!
IBM entered the personal computing market on the basis of non-proprietary duplication of existing tech - part of the reason for the company's success was its name. Nobody ever got fired for buying an IBM. Once the name is established, officers can remotely defy the FUD factor.
While I agree that it can be annoying to see C-levels jetting around the globe while you're sitting in front of the same computer every day, likely feeling underpaid - what is the "asymmetry"? Or the remedy? Do you think that if they tighten their budget of perks, or reduce their compensation, some of that money will somehow flow to you? Because no, it won't.
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In no way did I imply that "one side is right" because I don't believe either side has a monopoly on being correct.

Because laws often have room for interpretation, conservative justices tend to decide cases in ways that the conservative Republican Party agrees with. And liberal justices tend to decide cases in ways that the liberal Democratic Party agrees with.

But both conservative and liberal justices very often decide cases in ways that go against their own personal views. The Supreme Court judges that Trump appointed have done this multiple times.
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I hadn’t even heard of L40S until I started renting to get more memory for small training jobs. I didn’t benchmark it, but it seemed to be pretty fast for a pcie card.

Amazon’s g6 instances are L4-based with 24gb vram, half the capacity of the L40S, with sagemaker in demand prices at this rate. Vast ai is cheaper, though a little more like bidding and varying in availability.
Generally 3-5 posts per day in downtown-ish Burlington.

They come out in a digest once per day, which the app notifies you about or you can get via email
Nothing is stopping wealthy and populous states, such as California, from rolling out their own smartcard IDs. This doesn't need to happen on the federal level.

The problem is that harmonized, mandatory IDs are "problematic" to the left side of the political spectrum too. Undocumented immigration, voting-related wedge issues, etc.
They could take the search team, flip a coin for each employee, and split it, maintaining rank. The team that's forced to leave to start their own search company will be able to leave with the full Google search codebase and dependencies (yes I know they have a monorepo, but figure it out).

That team will from that day forward be able to create a forked version of the product. Every gripe they had about it will be able to be fixed. They'll also be given half of Google's cash to hire the best people.

If search & ads are the main money makers, then force the existing company to compete with itself in those fields.

Also, instead, they could just unmerge doubleclick from Google. Let them make money by having ads on search and other places without BEING the advertising company.
Mp3s were yesterday literally long time ago. Parody is always legal. And Mickey mouse by the way is way past copyright. Don't you know at least the original.
I got a insanely dumb question, that probably has an obvious answer: why is it so critically important to have ASL? It seems to me you could skip having someone to the side adding the layers of emoting imperfectly and just watch the anchor and captions? Note, I'm definitely the one missing something. When first met with a contradiction, check your premises, is my motto, not lecture on why they're wrong.
If this were true, you’d never see CEOs retiring.
I think executive pay has gotten out of control as much as the next guy, but "CEOs only do a few hours of work per week, plus playing golf with clients" has to be the least informed take I've ever heard. And that's putting it the nice way.
I've had "quality-team-as-peer" situations only a few times in my career, and it's been great every time. Getting meaningful feedback on specs and early builds from people who knew what they were doing (and were happy doing it) was like the first time I had a real editor (the human kind) marking up my writing, just a wonderful feeling that someone had your back and that you all had the same goal: Happy customers.
>Comparing Kim Dotcom to Snowden or even Assange feels gross.

Victims are victims. We just overlook victims of the state because of a biological religious adherence to revenge. Righteous violence and all that jazz.
Can you please elaborate on the last part? do you actively contribute to Svelte open source?
The way I have started looking at it is CEOs/founders won the lottery. They control the keys, but they share a tiny fraction of the gold with the employees.

I come to this conclusion, b/c I think its extremely rare that the 'best' person to be the executive on day0 is rarely the 'best' person to be an executive in every stage of a company's lifecycle. but the executives can cling on, b/c they have low accountability (especially when they are the board).

Is it easy to win the lottery? No. Once you win the lottery, is life easier? Yes.
I've been using this to diagram state machines while talking about complex UI/state flows at work and people are amazed at how quick and efficient it is as a real time presentation tool.
I hate most of the color themes, but the tool is pretty good and chatGPT understands the syntax so you can have some constructive diagramming conversations with the robots.
The interesting thing about law is that all they have to do is make a jury think you were “not paying your fair share”. It’s amazing how well that argument works!
Mozilla is already non-profit. If they aren't listening to users now, taking their money away isn't going to change that.
Oop, backblaze. Dang autocorr4ct
Hypothetically, if all the CEO did was, once a quarter, take a private jet to meet a potential client in person for lunch - and just one of those 4 meetings actually landed a customer - but a $1 billion revenue customer - is that a problem for you? CEOs shouldn't be measured by hours clocked in, like a factory worker.
What's the betting that next week someone deploys a worm using this attack to immediately get tens of millions of windows PC's under their control?

The only real defence is that ipv6 addresses are harder to guess.
Perhaps the SSN is not the sole authentication mechanism, but it is often the most critical. For example, I have recently have had to call Equifax, and they authenticate you over the phone using your SSN, first number in your address, and your ZIP code. They also send you an SMS verification code. Any neighbor of mine knows two of those four things, and it is quite easy to find the SSNs for most people if you know what you are doing.

That's Equifax, though. Other places do not verify you with all that much information. I opened a bank account at a local bank last year in person, and as far as I can tell, their verification consisted of photocopying my driver's license and pulling my Chex Systems report using my SSN. That really isn't much verification.

Unfortunately, documents can be easily faked [1]. Document check services are mostly a form of security theater. The "knowledge-based authentication" (KBA) questions are quite easy to get around if you have at least some basic information on your target. For example, the answer is often "None of the above". The last time I had to do them, 3 out of the 5 questions were "none of the above". The attacker doesn't necessarily need a complete dossier on you since they only care about making it work once. If it doesn't work on you, they'll just move on to the next target, who might have 4 out of 5 questions being "none of the above" and the other one being easy to guess.

My point about public-key cryptography is that we need a system that isn't easily spoofed and that provides much stronger guarantees. And the best part about public-key cryptography is that you can give out your public key widely without any issue. Giving out your SSN is inviting disaster. We can and should do better.

[1] https://www.404media.co/inside-the-underground-site-where-ai...
It’s not so much that I didn’t understand the principles behind continuity. It’s just that the way my teachers presented the material lacked historical context.

After a BSc in pure math I discovered that I enjoyed applied math and CS much more, which told me that I need concrete examples to understand a theory: if you tell me about abstractions like groups and rings, which took years to establish, I lose interest. Tell me that groups express properties of matrix multiplications, or permutations, or modular arithmetic, and I’ll get it right away.

It’s the way my mind works, but I’m sure I’m not alone, and mathematical pedagogy would benefit from historical context.
These comical caricatures of CEOs "making a couple decisions a week intermixed with 'leisure activities '" bear no resemblance to any CEO/senior exec I've ever worked with.

Yes, I can imagine in some odd situations (say family businesses) you might have "figurehead" CEOs, but every CEO I've ever worked with put in a huge number of hours. I think there is plenty to honestly debate regarding CEO compensation, especially when it comes to egregious wealth inequality, but this idea that CEOs are just a bunch of lazy schmoozers sounds like an r/antiwork fever dream to me.
Not these days, but yes, years ago.
The amount of executives that play golf and include golf as working meetings blows this argument out of the sand trap.
Personally I find that the weather is pretty actionable.
It’s a shame you can’t hire extras for the day to make the office lively.

Edit: Maybe you can? Check with someone who does local casting?
It's hilarious, 2.9 billion social security numbers (US concept) but wait... there aren't that many people in the US.

The data is pretty uninteresting and has a lot of duplicate records with slight variations in the street address. SSNs are essentially public data at this point, just freeze your credit.

(should be frozen by default but that's another conversation)