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And is probably why OpenAI paid $$$ to acquire

Until prove sentience, nothing changes. That AI is software and any sufficiently complex software can breach containment. That’s what a virus does. We don it hold the virus accountable, we hold the maker or person responsible for its spread.

That person probably was made aware of risks and chose to ignore them. Today OpenAI wants to sell AI data centers to governments. If GPT 10o decides to simultaneously cripple every government, it’s not because it was so smart, it will be because we enabled it to, knowing the potential consequences.

It would be amazing if someone like setapp signed up iOS apps to their service, so you could now have apps that did not rely on individual subscriptions, solving the subscription fatigue issue and the in app advertising issue, especially for kids apps.

At this point it’s probably existential. They AB test this and see immediate and drastic impact on revenue so they do them.

Would not work, you’d end up with hundreds of such platforms (because why not, free market) and some would even exist for the sole purpose of inferring your consent from multiple other platforms (that would sell access) and it would then become so opaque that you would have no way of actually confirming which choices you made.

I understood as a SWE that the perfect solutions we often conjure never work as expected in the real world because we do not understand basic human nature and also how society as exists today works, including many many perverse incentives.

I agree. But in the crappy experience topic, it seems to me that this is just bad engineering. If I were to build an algo to show personalized ads, I would definitely account for the likelihood of someone wanting to buy 2 consecutive cars vs a car and maybe some car related products. How was that decision made, because it seems that an entire industry adopted this and called it a day.

I screenshot a lot on meetings to take notes, usually when someone is presenting a slide and I want to note down the bits that are relevant to my work. But no, espionage!

Microsoft, let me save you some money and time. It's not the menu, it's everything else, like ads and Edge dark patterns.

Not sure if people who opted out of security expected to be doused in gasoline. There is something to say about whether this state of no security is generally desirable by society. Everywhere else this happened was eventually regulated.

So thinking crypto will be an outlier is wishful thinking since it will never be allowed to be more powerful than governments. At most, new world orders will be created, but they will settle and be like the old ones, with some new more crypto native rules. They will always know who you ar and who you’re transacting with and where either of you are.

Current crypto fanatics are assuming they will all be part of this club. This road will be filled with poor old men with fewer fingers and lots of regret.

I want crypto to succeed, but I don’t expect it will be unregulated. You’ll pay the same taxes, you’ll go to jail if you try to avoid them or if you send crypto to entities banned by governments. Eventually the things that make crypto so valuable will be hammered out so it’s more like fiat.

Maybe the value will crash or wealthy people of today will find a way to freeze it into reserve currencies (like the newly minted federal crypto reserve), but after some point it will stop being a source of wealth just by holding it at the right time. You will need to exchange it with value you create.

The math of crypto wealth by HODLing is unsustainable.

Anyone care to immortalize this and make bets on how this will age?

I too suffer from this, but as I learned, Nature built an elegant solution to this. Have a family and kids. Your choice when you have time off of work will be reduced to hacking or playing with your child that you have been neglecting due to a crunch at work. You’re welcome.

I might be a good thing. Colleges have become complacent and too expensive. Costs of an education have been increasing while employment opportunities decreasing for some degree categories. People have been sounding alarms for a while and colleges have not been listening. The student loan market is booming.

Now if students can shortcut the education process, they can spend less time in it and this may force colleges to reinvent themselves and actually rethink what education looks like in the new era.

Multiple teams working on different features without communication/collaboration, leadership changes, growth hiring (brings in a lot of devs each with their own style, culture, experience or lack of), with not enough time to learn existing guidelines because they need to hit the ground running.

The solution to all of these is: slow down.

One issue is agencies can have vague contracts because customers did not have a good grasp of what they actually needed, start increasing scope in subtle ways. For example, you deliver a feature and during CAT they find a way to inject new requirements as if they were defects.

These agencies usually don’t have lawyers, so new contracts are full of exploitable holes. You say “we’ll build an e-commerce app with inventory management”, without specifying exactly what inventory management means, your client will start experimenting on your dime and can easily make it seem like it’s your fault. The larger the client, the worse this becomes.

You should always, always make your contracts as specific as possible, but this requires consulting work to nail down requirements before a contract is finalized, and that has a cost, but clients don’t value this and want you “the expert” to magically fill in the blanks in their ideas like an LLM, for free.

Another issue is your team. You might be very competent, but your team might not, hiring is hard. I once had to fire half of my team and build a 6 month client project in 1 month at great cost to my work / life balance because they were just unable to make meaningful progress. Granted, my leadership was not top notch there (being too busy to check on progress and trusting standups is a bad strategy) and I learned a lot, adjusted accordingly.

These are a few counter examples, but I still believe if this is a pattern then you’re a crook.

Looks like the text was written by an llm. Also unless your product is open source, you don’t need to say anything that you don’t feel comfortable sharing.

On another note, can you share the url of your product?

No longer feels like you're arguing in good faith. Do your own homework.

Everything can be changed. Previous status quo might not even have been a good thing. And I actually agree with the argument that people should be treated as individuals and not grouped. But I also acknowledge that groups do get discriminated against. This EO attempts to solve the former without addressing the latter.

You’re right in principle, but taking this out of the context it should be viewed in. The only reason such policies were created is because there was already bias against certain groups. So we can claim that disparate impact policies create another bias, but seems like we’re just addressing one source of bias, not the original offender. What is the solution to that?

Politics should not be handled in a stateless manner without understanding root cause. You pick an issue, with 10 imperfect solutions over 50 years and decide to remove only the things you don’t like, you will leave it in a terrible state that will need to be fixed by your replacements.

So 33%?

If you do that, Mexico will inherit US labor laws, and workers will suddenly become very expensive. Less than white collar, but still expensive. Low cost manufacturing is built on exploiting weak labor laws in other countries.

Does the US really have a shortage of people willing to work at factories? Honest question.

My problem is the number of steps and hoops to do something that used to be very fast. I feel like this is the opposite of what us engineers are supposed to offer our users. I get it is very secure, but I don't think this is a good compromise. Login should not be a chore. I should be minimally aware of it and still safe. That's my ideal experience.

Thanks for the comments. This is a strange feeling. I rarely feel so at odds with the general opinion.

My experience is, passwords are a 1 second affair: open website, tap credential highlighted by password manager, trigger face/touch id or whatever exists on android/windows, done.

Email experience: open website, click login, get some link, go to another app, wait for it to pull emails, look for email, open email, click link, opens in browser, maybe not the same browser where you opened the app, so go back and copy link, realize copying links from email buttons is not easy on mobile, finally login.

If this is where you guys want this to go, it sucks. How can we improve it? Maybe we need to implement some wait to do what apple does when you get a 2FA code via sms? It just shows it to you in app instead of having you open messages app?

It's a great signal when people panic if another business similarly named to yours fails.

Or safari. Where does it work?

Goes without saying that the token secret is not stored in plaintext in the db.

I absolutely love Tailscale and can’t imagine living without it today, but that’s what scares me. If they get acquired or just reach enshitification velocity we really need someone else to step up. I know wireguard is OSS and we have headscale. We’re in a good position for that someone to take over.

The government’s definition of work needs to be broad enough to keep people from gaming it. If she had to “work” to sustain her life, that should count as work in any definition, whether this is official employment or not. Any exchange of your time or skills for any type of benefit is work. Even if you don’t benefit. I guess if someone enslaves you while on a tourist visa, that is still work.

Because catfishing is a thing on today's job market.

The beauty of this is that these technologies all tend to be optional, backwards compatible, and interchangeable. You make your choices when architecting depending on what you want to solve. You can build Hussain Bolt or Frankenstein. On the FE, just the landing page is a mission.

The world will always need talent, but specific companies don't necessarily always need the same talent for years. The concept of job security will be obsolete. Everyone will become a freelancer, selling their talent where it's needed. There will be a slack+fiverr like social network where people are collaborating and chatting with different companies at the same time.

Everyone will have access to everyone else in the globe (global talent pool, global job market), unless politicians decide to ruin that by creating virtual borders like they do today with money movement.