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I think the feeling of not being twice as rich despite twice the income is a function of job insecurity and an awareness as we age that everything is a sham/game, no one knows anything, and everything could be taken away at any moment.

When you know for sure that you will have a job tomorrow, you’re more likely to sit back, reflect on, and savor your wealth.

On the other hand, knowing that people like you are getting fired at-will, unconscious fear sets in that the next time the music stops, you’ll be the one without a seat.

This feeling of not being able to control one’s destiny is what prevents us from enjoying our money sitting in the bank.

Can you elaborate on where the parent comment is erring? Sounds reasonable that planned interventions like tidal power plants are more controllable than global climate change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet doesn't seem to contain any reference to genetic algorithms but if you have something related to share, I'd love to learn more.

I’m really curious to know who exactly you think are Google Search’s customers in the context of this thread about SEO.

Clicking on the posted link seems to send the malwarebytes website server into a reload loop.

Could apple publish a way for US customers to themselves re-enable the feature? If publishing software is a first amendment right, then I don’t see any legal way to prevent them from doing this.

As a PoC, ChatGPT is fine for this. A kid would expect a more polished product which he himself can operate. E.g., maybe the UI could show images of items in the grocery bill, show images of superheroes he wants to include in the story, text to audio to narrate the story, history to see previous stories if there is any particular story he really likes…

I was going to build something similar but now that you’ve already done the first part, maybe you could run with this idea - can you get GPT to generate small stories where characters eat the stuff in the grocery list and gain superpowers/are able to do big things?

My kid loves superheroes but every meal has to be accompanied with a story about why that day’s food item is good for him. I wanted to use GPT for this. Start by reading grocery bills, then have GPT understand the bill and come up with stories since it likely knows what health benefit each item in the bill confers.

If memory serves, a well known rock band used to demand a candy but not of one specific color somewhere deep in their agreement with the equipment company. Their thinking was that if they find those specific candies in their dressing rooms, it means the riggers haven’t read the specs properly.

I guess more people should start making these out of band requests to catch poorly managed events before a tragedy happens.

> Danish people eat more Chinese

In this and the jewellers complex example, you may be elevating function in your mind over form.

The original article is about form.

To tie us back to the coffee shop example, your comment would be akin to saying that since Italian coffee machines make better coffee, it’s fine if more coffee shops use espresso machines.

That’s not the point being made - the espresso machine isn’t the issue - ensconcing people in a cocoon of familiarity even in new, unfamiliar places is.

Mark Twain said, travelling is fatal to prejudice but that’s only if we are truly travelling - if we travel without making ourselves uncomfortable, have we really gone anywhere?

The issue is that wealthy people in your comment aren’t choosing the aesthetic reflective of their geography and heritage. They’re choosing an aesthetic prescribed and circumscribed by what they see on social media.

For example, I live in a tropical country with hot summers and monsoons. Historically, dwellings here have had tall ceilings, narrow windows, little glass. Still, of late, builders have embraced larger windows with tinted glass, lower ceilings, commode style toilets instead of Orissa pan toilets, and other such stylistic choices.

I’m sure no one told them to adopt this style. They simply converged on this through some combination of their own exposure to Instagram and pricy designers showing them catalogs of what dwellings in other parts of the world look like.

This break from local rootedness to global interconnectedness is what the article is about.

There are so many decisions other than just the dates that you implicitly make (or are made for you when you book your flight). Do you want insurance? Wi-Fi? Extra leg room? Turbo prop aircraft? Jets only? 2-3-2 seating? 3-3 seating?

Logically, you should want to control each of these variables while searching for flights. If you are ready to trust a flight aggregator with these choices, some fuzziness in price seems acceptable too.

You are probably thinking that you don’t want to make a choice about aircraft type or seating configuration and so, whatever the search engine shows in whatever order is fine by you. If so, consider that others might have the same ambivalence towards price fuzziness.

How do you ever buy flight tickets then?

It’s all about trade offs and checkboxes(layovers, specific terminals, airlines, aircraft body types, price ranges, dates, non-stops, insurance, in-flight Wi-Fi, meals, early boarding) etc.

Do you first look through the page with all the options, then open different tabs with each unique combination of checkboxes and options enabled/disabled? That must exponentially (literally) harder than simply viewing fuzzy results on screen and pruning the decision tree in your head.

What if you (the user not you you) don’t know what price range will net them the feature set they want?

E.g., would you know exactly the price range to pay for a tool set which lets you do general repairs around the house? Should it be ₹100? ₹500? How will a search engine know for sure that you’re an aware customer who knows their price ranges versus a newbie exploring the space? Even google claims to have millions of results per query meaning they, for all their talk about organising the world’s information, don’t know what exactly you want.

It isn’t uncommon to say your price band is $100-200, then find something costing $250 which checks all the boxes. In this case, fuzzing prices while presenting results seems like an acceptable trade off.

Wonder if this can be used to communicate with LLMs to reduce token costs.

Don’t believe tables are readable by default even if you have defined any RLS policies for that table. I’m building something on SB right now and have been burned more than once because I thought that the absence of policy meant open access to everyone.

Calvary is the hill on which Jesus was crucified. I think you wanted to use “Cavalry” in context.

https://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/...

Isn’t the share price getting decimated the punishment for shareholders?

(2015)

The Indian government is apparently promoting cow dung based paint as a natural alternative to synthetic paint used for homes. When I first heard about it, I tried to understand what the research says on the anti-microbial efficacy of cow dung. From there, doing a similar search for studies on the anti-microbial properties of cow urine led me to this paper.

> I’m tired of big tech making policy decisions by “asking for permission later” and getting away with everything

> If that’s the case, let’s put it on the ballet and vote for it.

This vote will mean "faster horses" for everyone. Exponential progress by committee is almost unheard of.

> unfettered access to identifiable private conversations

You misread the post I was responding to. They were suggesting health data with PII removed.

Second, LLMs have proved that AI which gets unlimited training data can provide breakthroughs in AI capabilities. But they are not the whole universe of AIs. Some other AI tool, distinct from LLMs, which ingests en masse as much health data as it can could provide health and human longevity outcomes which could outweigh an individual's right to privacy.

If transformers can benefit from scale, why not some other, existing or yet to be found, AI technology?

We should be supporting a Common Crawl for health records, digitizing old health records, and shaming/forcing hospitals, research labs, and clinics into submitting all their data for a future AI to wade into and understand.

> should [they] be allowed to use this data in training…?

Unequivocally, yes.

LLMs have proved themselves to be useful, at times, very useful, sometimes invaluable assistants who work in different ways than us. If sticking health data into a training set for some other AI could create another class of AI which can augment humanity, great!! Patient privacy and the law can f*k off.

I’m all for the greater good.

I think the difference between succeeding and failing in business is the confidence to get over yourself and ask for business/payment/quid pro quo or whatever.

From some introspection, I've concluded that if I had 240k in the bank today, I would still think ten times before hiring a team of developers, rent an office, setup a company, and start spending money to make money.

I'm just diffident that way which makes me think entrepreneurs are just wired like that.

I'm building SquadGPT - AI for hiring - and I'm often asked why someone would use SquadGPT when ChatGPT exists.

In this post, I try to answer that question through experimentation.

Not OP. My take is that if the requester can’t be bothered to create a GH issue, it’s likely that this isn’t really a problem for them. An annoyance possibly but has not risen to “pain” levels.

“Won’t you think of the children?” type questions are not very useful, imho.

In your case, no one (barring a few people employing child soldiers) think children are fair game to be hurt so the answer to your question is that yeah, 0.5% of statements which are violent threats to children is a problem.

Covid misinformation isn’t as clear cut - reasonable people asked about the lab leak theory while yet others asked why a vax was being rolled out without holding manufacturers liable for adverse outcomes.

We’ve had situations in the past when a new medicine caused children to be born with shortened arms and other birth defects. In this light, it is reasonable to wonder why we should trust a pharma company when they didn’t trust themselves.

But the linked post is not even about the correctness of misinformation - given something has been classified as misinformation, how often is it viewed compared to non-misinformation videos is what they’re trying to answer.

I have a website, blog, a cdn, and a domain level email inbox running off AWS SES.

You email specific email addresses which get processed as web pages, blog posts, or attachments extracted to the cdn. All other emails sent to your domain sit inside the inbox. You can also send out emails from any address.

The blog and webpages are all SEO optimised so you can share the link on say Twitter and it will unfurl the link and read the meta tags.

You can also forward specific emails to a special address to be shared or bookmarked in your browser.

The entire thing runs off Lambdas, S3, Cognito, and AWS SES, nary a database. I use pug template files to format content extracted from emails.

To make this work, I had to do a deep dive into how Gmail’s email composer translates actions into HTML tags, then align the templates to these behaviours.

For a while, I had a handful of paying customers which paid my AWS bills. Right now, I’m down to one customer and the rest of my uses are for personal projects.

I learnt a lot in the process - from templating to SEO to S3 usage to Lambdas and got a very usable domain level email inbox and blog out of it. The CDN and static pages are a little less useful but building them too was quite fun.

Btw, highly recommend nodemailer as a module for email parsing.

You may have missed the first for the trees. This article is about figuring out 3.8 B views of misinformation videos out of how many total views.

The question being pondered is that if the ratio is 0.5%, is disinformation really a problem?

Don’t think the AI ELO ratings agree with you.