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> How about a pitch deck for a company [1] claiming it can offer microphone eavesdropping based ad targeting [2]? Maybe that was still aspirational though.

What companies claim they can do when they try to sell their shit product at a ridiculous price is a very different thing from what they can do.

Amazon Shopping was also supposedly a leap forward for shopping. Turns out it was just a guy watching a camera (we were told it was all automatic with state of the art object recognition tech).

Cellerite is another incredible example of this that places like reddit and HN love to suck off. They are the be all and end all until you read their actual technical papers (which companies and police forces that purchase from them do NOT do) and their very strict limitations (which they don't hide in their manuals, they just don't include any of that in their lovely powerpoints).
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>> still thinks DOGE is an important national priority and not a problematic oligarchic downsizing of our important federal services and regulatory bodies.

I'm not convinced it's the later. There IS a looming financial problem with our government and nobody else is doing anything about it. Federal spending is up trillions of dollars (per year) in the last 5 years with nothing to show for it. There is huge inefficiency and Elon wants to take a stab at fixing it. Yes, the man has his flaws, but he's trying to fix things nobody else will even try. Not sure why people have to hate on that.

BTW, I do expect so over-cutting will happen and there will be fallout from that. But hopefully the budget gets fixed and congress learns something about fiscal responsibility.
I've landed in a smaller non profit, the pay isn't amazing, but the benefits are, including a pension.

The main reason is it matches the feels of a start up, I have my hands in all decisions, from tech to literally office arrangement, and actively work to solve all issues in the company. That and at the end of the day, I feel good about what we are doing. I'm not chasing an IPO, our funding is very stable, so there isn't the endless dread of whats at the end of the run way.

My biggest fear, is that I don't know if I could easily go back to the rat race, and that my skills have broadened, become soft set and I don't actively develop as much as I once did.
I think armies of all nations are watching this and will change their training.

The thing is that progress in drones during wartime will be explosively quick compared to the slow and difficult development of conventional airframes like the F-35 and the Su-57.
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What, the farmers will release their stars into the wild?
No, he is about to invest in longevity research, like all other cool non-NPC billionaires do
Under-rated comment. Microplastics are an omnipresent, low, vague risk, and I already have a long list of those which people want me to care about. While food poisoning is much more of an immediate problem - and still from time to time kills people!
I don't fucking understand these people. They built a startup of questionable value which can be replicated with open source software, which is debatable if it even solves real world problem, somehow got a huge payday from freely printed VC money, and now they made it their life's calling to fire a bunch of people who don't make that money even it they worked for 10k years, but their livelihoods depend on getting paid.

Not just him, but the other 'smart people' who he mentions in the post who also work at DOGE (for like the 4 weeks he can dedicate his brilliance to solving the worlds burning issues, sorry world, if it takes longer than that).
The real innovation should have been: "Now you can get a prediagnostic / prescription for most common issues directly online 24/7". Because a chatbot to add a booking to a calendar when you could just press "+" button is not an improvement.
Here is a very practical, well-reviewed book for founders to get their first sale and then keep going:

https://www.amazon.com/STARTUP-SALES-FIELD-NOTES-Methodology...
> Why is it such a stretch to imagine these devices grab Direct Objects and Subjects and store those singular items for ad keywording?

How about because Apple say they don't do that, and can and do get sued if they say things like that which are not true?

(Sadly I make basically no money at all from my "breathless proselytizing" of LLMs. I hope to fix that this year, someone should pay me for this stuff!

You know I've written more negative things about LLMs than almost anyone else, right? 121 posts tagged AI ethics right here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai+ethics/ )
DOOM (2016) was another Doom entry but it wasn't the original Doom 4 (which never got done).
I can't be the only person deeply dissatisfied with that as an answer.
The continuous deployment folks release into production if all the tests pass. That's what I was thinking about with that comment, really - it's not so much about the origin of the code, it's about tests-as-specification, and how much do we really trust tests?

I agree, in many cases the chatbot would just spiral round and round the problem, even when given the output of the tests. But... has anyone tried it? Even on a toy problem?
I can agree with the self-examination as a major issue, speaking as a technical person trying to learn sales. I think the thing that attracts a lot of people to CS and tech is the idea of a right answer and that we don't have to socially appeal to anyone to be correct. You do the hard work and you get the right answer, the right number, the correct math proof, the code runs and the tests verify it, etc. It either works or it doesn't and you know when you're done.

This attitude has served me poorly working inside of larger tech companies because I focused too much on doing excellent work and not enough time advertising my work to others, partially out of a revulsion towards being perceived as the type who self-advertises bad work to non-technical decision makers. It's the "build it and they will come" mindset and it's a hard thing to break.
If my ISP can only afford to supply me with 1TB of transfer at 1Gbit, that's fine. They can put it in the adverts, the contracts, and the pricing. For customers who want 10TB of transfer, they can offer a higher cost option.

And if they choose to gamble, advertising and entering into contracts promising "unlimited data", which they think will be more profitable across their entire customer base? Then they've got to do supply what they promised in the adverts. They chose to gamble that way, and if they lose money gambling that's their business.
You live on an island, see ads for kayaks and the first thing you went with was: "somebody is listening to all my conversations even though my phone battery wouldn't be able to handle a slightly long phone call"?

That's what people mean when they say there is a lot of data points that can explain things very easily without having to resort to a convoluted explanation.
I assume it has to do with them being rectangular. And while technically you could have a rectangle that is rotated, I think it's also plausible to assume that any diagonals are considered as rhombuses (rhombi?)
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http://web.archive.org/web/20241223012824/https://pie.org/ab...

For context, this all started about 2 weeks ago with one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I've seen on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

And it's spiraling from there into lawsuits etc. I'm kinda glad PayPal bought them as they can't just shut down and file bankruptcy. Hopefully some of these creators will get paid out for lost revenue.
I have a somewhat more wordy version of this blogpost as a conference talk I've done pre-COVID (and pre-kids). In my perception, this mostly boils down to reviewing and revising interfaces.

Code that's not well compartmentalized and is full of complex dependency chains and flawed abstractions is hard to work in, and more importantly to the topic at hand: extremely hard to refactor well.

Once the abstractions are shuffled to their own "corners" of the codebase, and you've got well defined modules/services/microservices/foobars... you'll find refactoring to be far less of an investment. It also becomes far less attractive, as a well abstracted module is easy to ignore and forget about.

Of course, it's always best to make these things right the first time. Whenever I kick off a greenfield project, my first code-style objective is to make things easy to delete/remove.

Addendum: I find the worst spaghetti code comes from very dynamically typed languages. All the "easy" coding makes skipping interfaces/abstractions effortless, thus nothing's "doing just one thing well" and it snowballs from there. On the flip-side, when done right, it's quite a joy to write delete-able code in Python, and it makes prototyping and defining boundaries a breeze.
The problem is that you can do this for specific functions/methods, but you cannot do this for a PROGRAM. All programs are "maybe", by definition. You want it to run until you tell it to stop, but you may never tell it to stop. Ergo, all programs have some sort of infinite loop in them somewhere, even if it is buried in your framework or language runtime.
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It took me entirely too long to realize that SPICE may be useful for navigation around the Solar System.
I love this before/after example of TypeScript being removed from a library as a clear illustration that only occasional simple type annotations are needed:
https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971/files

Looks like so much useful documentation for understanding the code, assistance for refactoring, and static checking (which are like always running, fast and exhaustive unit tests for free) for a modest amount of type annotations that each person on the team would need to recreate in their heads anyway. Static type checking is so useful for catching runtime errors to do with optional values and index/key not found error too, that always create a load of edge cases.

Editing JavaScript with no types is scary, especially when you didn't write it. You're mostly guessing what the types must be and hoping your running code exercises enough edge cases to catch any problems. "You should write more tests" as an alternative rings hollow for me because (for the things they will check for you) types are more concise, exhaustively check all values, are ran continuously, are fast, aid with automatic refactoring, document the code in the same file its in, and will locate exact snippets that are causing errors. More often than not, test mostly check happy paths, aren't even close to as exhaustive, and nobody is writing tests that check every combination of function parameters being null vs non-null, string vs number etc. (which would be a huge amount of noise in your test suite that would slow down refactoring too). Types are a compliment to tests as well, not an alternative.

I can't relate to arguments about types getting in the way (as long as you avoid trying to get too clever like with complex generics and TypeScript conditional types). Usually when this happens, it's because it's hard to reason the runtime edge cases in your own head and there's probably a simpler way to write it. I'd love a good non-niche example to the contrary. Worst case in TypeScript, you can use `any` as an escape hatch anyway so as long as you can add types to most of your program it's not a strong reason against for me.
Based on US ISP profits I'd say there is practically no regulation and they even split up the market so there's no competition so most consumers only have one choice.

Netflix competes with all the other streaming services no? If they increase the price too much people will stop subscribing. Or is your argument that they and other content owners should be forced to sell their content to all other streaming services?
> with the right prompts.

that is doing a lot of pull. Just because you could "get the full copies" with the right prompts, doesn't mean the weights and the training is copyright infringement.

I could also get a full copy of any works out of the digits of pi.

The point i would like to emphasize is that the using data to train the model is not copyright infringement in and of itself. If you use the resulting model to output a copy of an existing work, then this act constitutes copyright infringement - in the exact same way that using photoshop to reproduce some works is.

What a lot of anti-ai arguments are trying to achieve is to make the act of training and model making the infringing act, and the claim is that the data is being copied while training is happening.
More likely: someone tried to automate unsubscribing one e-mail address from massive list of mailing lists.
Julius Smith's recent book on physical modeling: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/
for 10^5, to get the same collision probability (~2 * exp(-10)), you would just need to compute the 10 maximum/minimum candidates and check against those.
A crucial point going unmentioned in this article is the fact that Coillte, Ireland's semi-state forestry business, have been fully complicit in this for decades. People have petitioned that entire time to manage our forests better, or at least provide more transparency (ie, into how they use pesticides), with little success.

Instead, Coillte actively work to hide their practices - not just the blankets of monocultured sitka spruce mentioned, but things like drenching those areas with glyphosate (over a ton per year [0]) which then leaks into water supply, or secretively selling off huge tracts of sovereign land to foreign interests.

Ireland's national parks have faced similar issues [1] despite some strong advocates and obvious solutions. I wish I knew why the two political parties responsible for this hate trees so much.

0 - https://irishriverproject.com/2022/08/16/coillte-use-of-cype...

1 - https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/arid-414792...
Grammar is the basic tool of writing. Atoms are the basic tool of physics. Etc.

What I think this post is reaching for is not types, and it’s beyond even abstract data structures. It's really templates, which is a general concept that gets used in every design scenario. Numbers are templates, integers are templates, bits are templates. We can describe how the idea works to each other and partly to the computer but it’s up to the programmer to animate them.

Once you understand the concept you see it everywhere. Super Mario is full of templates: you jump on an enemy’s head, or sometimes it doesn’t work but gives you a clue to do something else. Templates are nodes of understanding.
The original design for the concave ergonomic keyboard dates back to the 70s. Their original designs have many more keys.
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It's decent when you prompt it to find easy-to-miss but substantial improvements around corner cases, which is something I've taken to doing.

Basically you just have to put it in the mode that's looking for such things
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Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Chances are the response will be something like "I'd start every day at the gym and work out for two hours until I was as buff as Brad Pitt. Then I'd practice the piano for three hours. I'd become fluent in Mandarin so that I could be prepared to understand the largest transformation of our time. I'd really learn how to handle a polo pony. I'd learn to fly a helicopter. I'd finish the screenplay that I've been writing and direct a production of it in HDTV."

Why hasn't he accomplished all of those things? "Because I'm chained to this desk 50 hours per week at this horrible [insurance|programming|government|administrative|whatever] job.

So he has no doubt that he would get all these things done if he didn't have to work? "Absolutely none. If I didn't have the job, I would be out there living the dream."

Suppose that the guy cashes in his investments and does retire. What do we find? He is waking up at 9:30 am, surfing the Web, sorting out the cable TV bill, watching DVDs, talking about going to the gym, eating Doritos, and maybe accomplishing one of his stated goals.

Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated.
My understanding from comments on reddit is that part of the suit relies on tortious interference, basically that honey is damaging the relationships between content creators and vendors by masking the source of referrals and therefore making the vendor believe that the content creator is under-performing in their contract.
Disagree with your take.

Many people believe Elon in that he's trying to right the ship. Elon has been very clear on his ambitions and he isn't what you are trying to paint him as (a political republican). And the counter point is that Elon and large portion SV have remained in the center while the Dems marched steadily left leaving everyone in the center without a party.

Twitter was broken and full of bloat as is clearly obvious given that it is performing in many ways better than before engineering wise. It has become much more of a wild west given his free speech absolutism perspective but you can't possibly argue that what he didn't proved all the critics wrong - lights stayed on, kept shipping products. It certainly hasn't lost 80% value from his actions - he bought it at the height of ZIRP mania.

Now whether Elon has a enough inertia to actually be able to tackle some of the truly endemic issues of the Federal government is another question. Some of his new found friends will certainly poison the water but my take is he is authentic in his attempt to reduce deficit and lower the debt for the US while increasing growth.
Same. But honestly with all the "I pay extra for Apple because privacy" posts around here, I kind of expect better from them. Whereas everybody pretty much knows that if you dance with Google, they're going to be looking down your top...
Thank you for prompting attention to the switcheroo.

This angle of attack is generally unheard of, but should be considered. I can think of some mitigations that can work.

Tamper-evident materials are well-known by the crowds that will target users. There are many criminals among us, so many that those who don't have criminal psychology have a hard time wrapping their mind around it. Given this, I am cynical, and every defense within reasonable cost should be leveraged.
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I would recommend reading "The Status Game" by Will Storr.

In short: try to join as many communities as possible, you will get emotionally rewarded just for being accepted. Eventually you will find ones where you really want to fight for status, and this will re-ignite your life.
Several things:

For one, who said anything about "first principles thinking"? Elon Musk has a pronounced ideological bias. Anyway, first principles thinking is practically useless when it comes to highly complex systems, because such systems do not behave in self-evident ways. Empirical knowledge is the only thing that gets you anywhere.

Moreover, "DOGE" is not a break from the status quo in any way. Corporate interests have informed governance since long before either of us were born. That, rather than "policy wonks," is the rot at the heart of the government. Forever wars happen because they are extremely profitable for weapons manufacturers, not because warfare is a wonkish policy.

The only novelty "DOGE" brings to the table is the aesthetics of an SF tech startup, which won't help the government any more than it helped WeWork. It'll actually do less: WeWork was taken seriously, at least for a while. "DOGE" is impossible to take seriously.
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Is it worth it?

It varies depending on your site, it can vary a lot, but you might get between $1 to $5 per thousand views.

If making your site ugly made you rich that would be one thing. If making your site ugly can pay for a Netflix membership that's another thing. That said, a site like that might cost $5 a month to run and it is possible it could cover your operating costs.
This thread shows how much people misunderstand the key issue about this ruling. So many people talking about net-neutrality as if it was ever something actually implemented, when it was just a federal agency applying rules not designed or written for the internet and calling it net-neutrality. Net-neutrality is important, but it should be properly written into a law instead of just applying old regulations to the internet that were designed for a completely different system.
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Ironic. Out there are artists who feel intense anxiety from the advancements of AI sapping away at their passion. Here is someone who has both passion and money, feeling the same kind of anxiety.

We've been told it's not a zero sum game, that there's a net gain at the end of this game. But what if there's net loss?
As I wrote, product documentation is versioned anyway so that's fairly straightforward. But a ton of other stuff is variably still relevant and can get in the way of finding what's most relevant and accurate for today.

Whenever I would go to update something older, it would invariably take me longer than I planned because even things that were not flat-out wrong often didn't reflect current thinking, terminology, usage, etc.
I suspect that all it does is prime it to reach for the part of the training set that was sourced from rude people who are less tolerant of beginners and beginners' mistakes – and therefore less likely to commit them.
Unhappy for different reasons is not the same.

Being unhappy because you are homeless is not the same being unhappy because some woman doesn't treat you like she would do a man who looks better than you are just two different things.