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elmer2··on Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down
"The six-year-old digital publication has seen the social and web search traffic on which it depends evaporate. "

I learned a long time ago that you can't rely on search engines or ad revenue for a long-term business. One algorithm change, and your business is gone. This happened to me a decade or so ago. Youtubers run into this all the time.

Most online publications are funded by billionaires.

elmer2··on AI wasn't overhyped. Almost everyone underestimated it
"Burnout stems from mismatches in workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values; not from any single task such as paperwork."

Do you think you will ever get this with a government-run healthcare system?

elmer2··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Until you start getting taxed.
elmer2··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
This is the goal of all government regulations and it's always resulted in higher prices and near monopolies dominating the market.

Yet, so many Democrats support it.

elmer2··on Surprising gender biases in GPT (2024)
"ChatGPT associated girls with artistic and emotional options and boys with scientific and technological ones"

Even LLMs can see the truth. I'm a consultant and work with lots of companies and have seen this pretty consistently.

Most women usually don't want to be in front of a computer all day as a coder or anything that touches technology and would rather manage.

All HR departments are mostly led by women, which is all about socializing, relationships, and emotion. There are exceptions, of course.

My cousn's daughter is in a robotics class at school. All smart girls (good in math and science). None are interested in building the robot, figuring out how it works, or programming it.

Men and women have different interests. Neither are bad, but we should be honest and stop calling this a 'bias'.

elmer2··on Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry
It's because other industries are buying expensive tokens, and there's no real ROI yet.
elmer2··on Internet Security: We're Doomed
While the PHP vulnerability is big news and needs to be patched, it's not that easy to exploit.

All of the POCs I found have hard coded memory addresses for the heap overflow and won't work for many versions out-of-the-box.

elmer2··on Conservative party wins first election in nearly a century in BC
When you have a party that destroyed jobs with no alternative, this is the result.
elmer2··on A rising tide raises all rents
Revolutions almost never make it better for everyone. Only the elite group at the top.

Too many people are living a comfortable life and don't seem to realize that commumism doesn't mean you will get to smoke weed and play video games all day.

You will be assigned a job and forced to work.

elmer2··on In the world AI, will individual apps become obsolete?
This will only work if tokens are close to free or you can run close to frontier models on your own hardware.

Also, prompting is like using the command line to some degree. Most people need something visual.

elmer2··on AI devours a fifth of companies' IT budgets
This makes sense. It will take awhile before business processes have AI fully integrated.
elmer2··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
Liberalism is all about government control. Many here seem to think you can have one without the other, and it's just not possible.
elmer2··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Many people benefit from Apple's closed system. Especially when you look at the malware and viruses that don't exist, because it's so protected.

It's a net benefit for society, even if you don't personally like it.

elmer2··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
I never do Banking on my phone and never had an issue.
elmer2··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Choose an alternative. Plenty of non-Apple phones out there.

I stopped buying Apple phones years ago.

elmer2··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
If AI can find cancers faster than a human, which they've already proven, it's tradeoff that's worth it. It's only getting better and there's no telling how else it will benefit humanity.

Governments are always at least a decade behind when it comes to technology. Just don't complain when they have massive data breaches weekly, because they decided their principals were more important.

elmer2··on Elon Musk pours $366M into midterm Republican campaigns
Zuckerberg poured 500M into Democrat campaigns during the last administrative. Can someone please link to the CNBC article with outrage?
elmer2··on Prompt "find bad vulnerabilities in PHP" was enough to find the PHP vuln
I don't believe this. My guess is that the reports were available out there without a full exploit chain and the LLM used this as a guide.
elmer2··on Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires' Tax Measure
It really doesn't make sense to tax someone on assets like this. A 'one time tax' for billionaires is outright theft.
elmer2··on PHP 8.2.35
Criticals happen in other languages all the time. You are seeing this with PHP in the news because it's used on 70% of the Internet.
elmer2··on Sam Altman on Why AI Hasn't Killed Coding Jobs
It has already killed: graphic design, writing, and even some web design jobs. Many people on Upwork and other freelance sites have seen their jobs dry up in the last 6 months, and they most likely won't ever come back.

I see graphic artists complaining because it's 'not real art'. I see AI generated advertisements almost every day and the average person can't tell the difference and doesn't care.

We are almost at the point of having AI-generated movie stars in a completely generated movie.

elmer2··on They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It
"National Health Service’s maternity care"

By socializing healthcare, you sacrifice quality. I've seen both systems. Healthcare in the US is expensive, but we have options. Especially with cancer treatments.

In the UK, once the system has made their final decision, there's no other option. All of my Canadian relatives talk about how much better the Canadian system is, but come to the US for major surgeries because the wait times are just too long.

elmer2··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
This isn't true. I knew someone that lived illegally in the UK for almost a decade.

They could only get terrible restaurant jobs that didn't report anything to the government and were visited by immigration multiple times.

Even after getting an immigration lawyer couldn't help with citizenship.

What finally worked was having a kid and marrying a citizen.

elmer2··on 800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living
When your entire economy is based on government-assisted handouts, you eventually run out of other people's money.
elmer2··on How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
This article is using the same tactics to make us think she actually didn't do anything wrong.

There were lots of red flags. Anyone bringing these up during this time were ignored and called 'sexist'.

It should be a study on how this sort of behavor props up evil people getting away with literal murder, until they are finally caught.

We should be able to have honest opinions and express them, without getting cancelled.

This seems to be the only tactic used by activists.

elmer2··on A.I., please don't take my job from me [song] [video]
Signed -horse and buggy operators
elmer2··on Why some people say the 2-day weekend is due for a makeover
"Tallon is also a former executive director of the non-profit 4-Day Week Global, which conducted four-day-week pilots starting in 2022, in which hours were reduced while pay remained the same"

So it's a movement to force companies to pay you more money for less work, and use the government to enforce it. This would last for awhile and we would then have a 3-day work week movement.

I'm a consultant and work with many companies. It's so apparent to me how so many people can't even do simple things at their job right. Even when it's not my job, I typically end up picking up the ball that someone dropped and get paid lots of money to do it. It's one of the many reasons why I stopped working at a full-time job for any one company.

It's 10X worse at unionized jobs.

Rewarding such incompetence will only result in the downfall of the US/Canada economically.

elmer2··on Ask HN: How (if at all) are you leveraging LLMs?
Daily. It doesn't replace my thinking. I use it as another tool.

It's reduced my time spent on complex reporting from many hours to maybe an hour/week.

This is only one way I'm using it.

elmer2··on Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election
The same thing happened with Trump's accounts. Should we start making rules that big tech can no longer interfere with politics?

..Or will we only see this support when it comes to Liberal/Leftist politicians?

Many of these complaints are fascism in diaguise. You complain and want laws changed when it comes to your candidate and don't want the same rules to apply to the opposition.

elmer2··on Canadian Study Proposes Linux to Replace Windows in Government
Use macs. Linux on the Desktop is terrible and only results in frustration.

Macs are what Linux on the Desktop has promised for the last two decades.

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