skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter point: We were barely doing anything about it when bad actors were pwning people pre-AI, like with social media propaganda or romance scams.

And if we still do nothing about it post-AI? Well, that is already the status quo, so caring now feels performative unless we're going to finally chit chat about solutions.

The same could be said for the internet. "The internet can be used for bad" is an empty, trivial claim, not an insight that needs a standing ovation. The conversation we need is what to do about it. And the solutions need to be real ones, not "we need to put the cat back in the bag".
>The price is a bit of a mystery

I think it at least is somewhat analogous to what happened with pricing on previous models. GPT 4, despite being less capable than 4o, is an order of magnitude more expensive, and comparably expensive to o1. It seems like once the model is out, the price is the price, and the performance gains emerge but they emerge attached to new minified variations of previous models.
Office work requires living within commute distance of the office, which is much more expensive and keeps the employee tethered to their job. Remote workers are less threatened by layoffs because they can choose to live in a lower COL area and have their pick of other remote-friendly jobs rather than being limited to other companies in their metro or having to uproot their lives to move somewhere else. This is on top of the perceived benefits employers have surveiling and micromanaging office work.

As for workers having fewer protections rn, gestures in the general direction of DC.
> UI still looks like it's from 2005

I don't mind this at all, but I do mind the extremely slow servers backing the site. It's overloaded, either through inadequate hardware or poor software or both.

> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars)

10 star rating is an anti-feature. I just don't have that level of granularity in how I feel about books. The only real feature you need is data migration / portability -- if I can't get my extensive records out of Goodreads, there's no point.

> Import your library from Goodreads/StoryGraph

So that's good. Does it include ratings? Can you continue to sync over time or is it a one-shot?
>First, the internet killed the need for sales teams (distribution moved online).

Sales and marketing is still 90% of the game. The solopreneur still doesn’t have an easy way to get paying customers. Either you sell SaaS into a network of business contacts, or else you try to play the influencer / reddit / SEO game to get early traction.
looks like an NNTP service that’ll publish your message after a certain amount of time depending on the port
"drops" seems to be a fairly recent contronym meaning both "released" and "discontinued".
It was bound to fail because they had no way to make it popular. They were in a race for third with Windows Phone
This is an interesting premise. I especially like framing speed runners as researchers
Drop in the context of Databases isn't even close to anything being released or launched. Drop = Delete. Release is a much better word for this context.
yes, sorry, I simply couldn't resist
This is all excellent detail. Wondering if there's any good suggestions for further reading on the inside baseball of what happened with GPT 4.5?
You might need to meet more women
China is already owning the USA. Live fire drills off the coast of Australia just to test the waters. Zero response from America. What allies ?

The world is watching and the USA is failing. It won’t be long.
I'm glad we pierced the illusion that tech workers are somehow "one of them" because of high salaries. You're not. You're just labor.

(And big tech execs still make orders of magnitude more in compensation than you do. You two were never alike!)
I completely agree. I've never read a 1-star (to me) book because that implies it's unreadable, and anything good enough to keep my attention room is generally 4-stars and rarely 5-stars. I bet if I look at my Goodreads it's 60% 4s, 30% 3s, and 10% 5s
> Android and iOS apps, with the exception of games, are usually just thin presentation layers around cloud apps.

Consider using and supporting GNU/Linux phones. Sent from my Librem 5.
> Only about 34 per cent of schools in India have internet facilities and more than 50 per cent do not have functional computers

India is an economically powerful country that has nuclear weapons, a robust manufacturing sector (including computing technology), and a space program. They are building a cross country freeway network and their major cities have metro and transit systems that are more advanced than those in most major American cities.

India is not comparable to less developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and in fact India's corporations outsource a lot of production to those countries for their extremely low-cost labor, just as the West does with East Asia.

That only 34% of its schools have internet facilities and 50% don't have functional computers is the result of India's massive wealth and social inequality and it's large disparity in standard of living.

This is the result of the policy priorities of Indian politicians and voters, not something that will be fixed by donating used laptops from the West.

If anything, the West seems to be on a trajectory toward developing a huge disparity in the standard of living, like India.
I apologise for my low quality comment. I only read the website and did not actually try the web server. It wasn’t highlighted on the homepage(like Caddy does) and I made a tardy assumption.
I suspect if office workers had offices, we'd be in quite a different situation.

There's a certain sort of knowledge worker who wants to impress upon the others how communal, conversational, and social their job "really is!" --- but these are people who are likewise not empathetic with the managerial class. All you're really saying is in 20 hours of thinking a week, and 20 hours of typing --- some 2 with others might really help. I don't disagree.

The problem is the "social work" class do not have very much to think about -- their job is to align very rudimentary thoughts from a pool of people who need to negotiate their positions. The Grand Plan of an executive-type is a search through a paddling pool of combinatorial options. This isn't to trivialise the work, so much to point out its an operational and socio-logistical task.

Yes, conversing with one's knowledge-worker peers can speed things up a lot, advance ideas and the like. I am here only analysing where the gap in empathy lies -- I do not really think it's people who can well-afford maids (pretending they cannot) being misunderstood by people with private jets
>No, it’s a commercial dispute being litigated—for now—through private channels.

If you read my comment more carefully you'd see only I only said "the latter" (ie. "unauthorized payment") was "wire fraud. You telling a bank that you didn't authorize the charge, when you did did in fact authorize the charge, would be wire fraud. You reporting it to the credit card company instead of the FBI or whatever is irrelevant.

>I and the others who have with me collectively donated seven figures to Mozilla over the years feel we were materially mislead.

Irrelevant. It's a donation and therefore there's no expectation of any goods or services being delivered. "Company was more evil than I thought" isn't a valid chargeback reason. You can't chargeback your Tesla purchase because Musk did that salute.
Of course, that verifiability is a big part of that trust. I’m not sure why you think my phrasing is not helpful; we seem to agree.
My point is busy people do even more of the things that you think make you busy.

You think kids are taking up all your time? They have more kids and volunteer at the school, and run a church group, etc.

The clock is secondary because using time efficiently, planning, and classifying which hours you are awake and available are all skills.

Similar patterns happen all throughout life. People have non linear capacities and performance.
https://www.eevblog.com/2023/03/01/eevblog-1532-another-2-8m...
What I never quite grasped despite working with HTTP for decades now: how come before CORS was a thing that you could send a request to any arbitrary endpoint that isn’t the page origin just not be able to see the response. Was this an accidental thing that made it into the spec? Was this done on purpose in anticipation of XSS-I-mean-mashups-I-mean-web-apps? Was it just what the dominant browser did and others just followed suit?
Doctors warn against 'measles parties' to intentionally expose children
It doesn't have the killer feature of passkeys though, vendor lock-in. Which is the sole purpose of them.
Low flow showers suck because places install even lower than required flow heads and then they get calcium build up and it’s absolutely awful. 2.5g/m is good enough on a well designed shower head but 1.5 or 1 is not. It might be possible to compensate with high water pressure but it’s expensive and risky to pressurize incoming water beyond what it comes out of the tap as.
drop should be un-dropped.
Sorry, I couldn't resist the tautogram.
Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including Bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more
People like you pretend that people in the office never slack off.
Yes, it's reddit in a nutshell for like last 5 years now. You could post thread in subreddit and after few days discover that all threads get removed by SPAM filter. Because for some unknown to Universe and reddit global moderation filter decided that your detailed question is some kind of SPAM two or three hours after you posted. You literally have to watch every few hours if your thread is still visible to the public. Guess how long one could play this game before giving up on that platform? Am I supposed to get used to messaging reddit tech staff? No, thanks. You stop bothering to message them after few such incidents. But silly you if you think it's OK. No. Few more such adventures with their SPAM filter and you account gets banned. Guess how eager I am to write to reddit staff about that and wait who knows how long if they even reply at all. I cannot even be sure they even received my message.
It's not the details of the request, it is the request itself.

Do this, or else.
I remember watching a video about this a while ago....it was a fresh perspective into a side of security research I didn't consider.
There is one with Langchain+pydantic+llmwhisperer https://unstract.com/blog/comparing-approaches-for-using-llm...
I generally ignore 1 and 5 stars on Amazon or anything without a comment or username.

Interesting to see the deep tagging system as the categorizations for books are tricky (as an author I know this from a few failed attempts to pigeon hole my first book in kindle) so say If an amazing romance book was accidentally categorized as an adventure or Sci-Fi as it had a bit of action or future tech in it, it would likely get 1 star from the romance genre readers, and vice versa if it was categorized as Sci-Fi or adventure. It is why you rarely get well rated cross-overs. A better category manager would be good for readers.
I think the idea is that the people you'd teach version control to are typically the newbies. You can also just be new to git specifically or the git workflow on any given project.
It's pretty clear what is meant by anyone under the age of 50.
yeah, I thought drop was amusing in this case paired with the tautogram
> The NIH is simply requiring that at least 85% of the grant value goes to the actual grant recipients, rather than being siphoned off by the university for administration expenses.

That's not how any of this work. All of that money was already going to necessary expenditures, and "administrative expenses" is a crucial part of that.

What happened in these places to arrive at numbers like 69%, was a very thorough audit. The purpose of the audit is to allow the government to determine they are supposed to fund, and it's being bundled into an overhead number because its allows universities to take advantage of economies of scale, freeing researchers to do actual grant research.

But because our current leaders can't understand that, what's going to happen is all of the overhead costs (which again, are efficient) are going to be replaced with direct billing, which is highly inefficient. All of the money we save through sharing resources will now be siloed and duplicated needlessly. Instead of doing grant research, grant recipients will spend more time just doing compliance work instead of actual research.

Look at it this way:

A Harvard researcher asks the government for $100. They allocate an additional $69 on top of that for the university to spend on rent, utilities, legal, publishing, lab facilities, lab personnel, library services, tech support, etc. So the total grant is $169.

If the indirect rate is 0.15, the researcher isn't going to ask for $100 anymore, they're going to ask for at least $154, putting to total grant back to $169. But they're going to ask for more than this because they've lost the economy of scale of the old system. So now they have to pay for direct costs they never had to before - a 20% bump is not unreasonable.

So what just happened? The researcher only needed $100 to do their research. But now because government introduced inefficiencies into the system, the total grant goes up, and the real overhead rate is 100% instead of 69%.

By trying to save money you've actually cost everyone to have to spend more money, meaning total research is going to go down because total research spend isn't going to go up. Such efficient.
"I was speaking truth to shower."

It is a good read!
Somehow this article has a distinct smell of it. Can't tell what it is.
If you can pay the influencer game that might be a good path.

There are influencers of all sizes, it can scale accordingly (maybe not equally effective for all sizes for all niches, though).
I’m anyone and it wasn’t clear to me
Wonder how many people lost the ability to play ~~their content~~ the content they were licensing when they released that update, and had to buy new hardware because it was no longer supported.
Not sure why that’s a “whoopsie” - I’m intentionally describing both the stated purpose of USDS and what I believe to be the implicit purpose to be of the Trump administration’s actions.

Those are two different things, at two different levels of abstraction. One of them is written in relatively plain language while the other is based off my own perceptions.
Definitely. His message was for a very small audience. I don't know what the situation is like for them, but Sergey's claim isn't ridiculous.
> If remote labor is the norm, then every tech company has to compete with every other, across all geographies. If local labor is required, the employers can manage or restrict their competitive environment.

Doesn’t that seem backwards? A company that supports remote work has a worldwide talent pool.l, including lower cost geographies. A company that insists on RTO can only hire locally, so has less talent available and can’t arbitrage labor costs.

I think RTO makes no sense, but I don’t see how it gives employers more power.
Sure, but you need quite a few people ready to fight. And if it is the case that Trump would still be elected today, it suggests that all the voters and most of the non-voters (who don't care enought to vote) and at least some of those who would now vote against the nazi-friendly government are not exactly ready to fight.

You need a lot of very unhappy people to get to civil war. And right now it doesn't seem like the US people is that unhappy. Right now the US is mostly hurting the rest of the West.
Sci-fi and Fantasy *together* account for 15% of the sales, and the majority of buyers are female.
Couple this with regular threats and fear mongering about AI coming for the jobs of tech workers, and the picture gets even more somber. The tech industry wants to cheapen labor.
The assumption is that privatization saves money, but that only happens in instances of free market competition.

That's not what governmental privatization is, instead it is the government handing a company a monopoly.

At least monopolies in the "open" market are subject to absolute price limits by customers. That's not what happens in government. They can be as inefficient as they want, and the government will fund them with "unlimited" pockets, and then they can pay a couple hundred thousand to key senators and they are home free.

At least public institutions are subject to the inherent competition between right and left wing.
> The unfortunate thing about this is that going through the support emails in my case is something that takes about 2-3 hours a day

Are there stats or more stories anywhere for support time per day for different kinds of apps?

So the apps I make, I usually aim to make them solo and run them solo. This can involve making choices like avoiding certain apps or features that I think will require too more support. I've managed to keep support emails low so far, but I'm curious what the average hours per day for different kinds of app is now.

For example, I have an on-page SEO checking app (https://www.checkbot.io/) and most of my support emails are about how to fix some specific SEO problem. These can often be quite technical and website specific so harder to automate away (LLM chat would probably help), but are surprisingly rare. When I started, I'd get more emails about problems signing up, logging in, recovering passwords and payment issues, but I've managed to get rid of a lot of these via improving the docs, better FAQ, and automating common issues.

I found mentioning response times in the intro live chat message helps e.g. "A human will reply if you need help (usually within a few hours on weekdays) but it's quicker if you check the FAQ first for common questions like ...".

The app is also a browser extension, vs a native/Electron app, which was partly a choice to avoid platform specific issues and making the app simple to install and update. Because I had to code my own login and payment system though, this naturally attracts support requests you probably wouldn't get for e.g. Android/iOS apps.
Is that even English?
At a sufficiently high resolution, all digital electronics is actually analog. :/
Have a listen to John Lennon's "Working-Class Hero". Still relevant. Maybe more so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-mANenpC4
It’s pretty clear to me they mean Yudkowsky is another con ?
I did exactly what this exec advocated - using hard data and statistics to paint a picture of what these mandates look like from a worker perspective - and was roundly shot down.

I ended up painting a picture that, when considering just the costs of vehicular wear and tear, associated insurance costs, added food costs, lost time commuting, and lost economic opportunity in housing choice, that it would end up being approximately equivalent to a $30,000 USD pay cut (primarily due to housing and vehicle costs to preserve the existing commute, rather than searching further afield with a hybrid or remote schedule). I also added that, for the technology teams in particular, our follow-the-sun support model meant we were all incredibly scattered about anyway with no real colleagues in our local office to network with.

The response was to double-down: those outside of "hubs" were increasingly passed over for promotions and growth opportunities, hubs started enforcing mandatory in-office days (dictated by the VP), and - of course - the company's promise to support minority colleagues was effectively compromised to "encourage" relocation to Texas. It wasn't really surprising when I got RIFed, just incredibly disappointing.

Data alone is not enough to sway these people. They have their own agendas that have no concern for their workers' needs or goals. The solution will be collective action, rather than bargaining for basic empathy.
> olduse.net was posting the first 10 years of archived usenet articles to a news server, replaying usenet as it happened 30 years earlier. It also had a web interface with an interactive news reader, allowing you to access the news server via the web instead of using nntp.
"IMO" means "in my opinion." You made a statement as a fact, which is why I asked for evidence. Lol.

Agreed the "both sides bad" messaging was a huge factor here. But that's exactly why we should talk about these fuckups as questions of competence. They are unambiguous evidence of a difference in both sides' ability to actually operate a government!
Upvoted from my PinePhone Pro :)
Since then, Amazon has complained to Columbia about the author

https://x.com/im_roy_lee/status/1895276427005845981

and Meta has rescinded an internship offer to him

https://x.com/im_roy_lee/status/1896026215670235522
GPS Spoofing and Jamming Tracker Map
They have spoken their intent out loud, over and over.
This goes deeper than just RTO. The current, growing rift stems from increasing recognition that:

1. Whether we like it or not, we are all in this together. Your dependency on others is extremely high, no matter where you sit in society.

2. We posses the technological means to realize a restructuring of labor and society, one which would benefit a large swath of people across several dimensions —remote work was just an existence proof of this—beyond that, we actually have the infrastructure and technical capacity to solve many societal problems that are being artificially maintained at this stage in history.

3. Different members of society have different incentives, and some benefit much more significantly from existing labor structure and organization than others. Often, these benefits are derived in direct opposition to realizing the net benefits possible in (2.) (see: modern healthcare in the united states).

Remote work during covid was a crack in the glass. External factors forced the C-suite and their ilk to make concessions that showed that the current labor structure is antiquated and that it persists mostly for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. The psychopathy of the executives lies in their desire to make this structure persist. RTO mandates are an irrational attempt to brute-force rollback the tiny bit of power they gave up to the masses during covid. CEOs are evil. They are evil because they perpetuate a system of labor that increases inequality and puts most people under unnecessary duress because of an artificially imposed scarcity. It is not a "difference in lifestyle" that makes this class of people repulsive. It is their continual and persistent attempts to preserve a structure that demeans and subjugates human beings. They do this actively, and effectively by spreading "free-market" propaganda and continually steering the conversation away from the realization of a more equitable society, which is already technologically feasible.
No, it means that it got better on things orthogonal to what we have mostly been measuring. On the last few rounds, we have been mostly focusing on reasoning, not as much on knowledge, "creativity", or emotional resonance.
I haven’t been working for nearly as long - coming up on 7 years here. I enjoy going into the office because I enjoy spending time with my team - they’re all really cool!

However, I find a good analogy for RTO to be the case of student loan forgiveness. Just because one individual had to pay their own tuition or student loans off, doesn’t mean that individual should wish that all future students share the same fate.

Just because you worked in an office for 30 years and it was manageable, or just because I like coming in for social reasons, need not result in our scorn for those who thrive by not coming into an office.
In a sense it is literal, if "world" is understood not as "planet earth" or "this realm of existence" but instead as a social circle. e.g. "He is from the software world," doesn't mean "He is from a world made up of software," but instead "He works in and is surrounded by people who develop software professionally." In that sense, a lot of these people are (literally) living in a world that is socially, physically, and even conceptually separate from those of lesser means.