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gopher_space··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
Target demographic has shifted from male to female. Your point of view is no longer being catered to because your purchasing power as a demographic is in decline.
gopher_space··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
The midwit take in this day and age is assuming you need an adversarial relationship with labor. The problem with McKinsey et al is their point of view.
gopher_space··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
Stepping back a little to look at the point and gravity of the exercise makes me wonder why they didn’t just fly it over.
gopher_space··on The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Actually came here to "attack" that point. It's a view of reality that requires a conceptual bias-free media as reference for any commentary, and bias-free media is a tautology.

Compelling a perspective is the only thing cinematography / photography is doing. Bias equals point of view. There can't be any unbiased point of view because they're the same thing.

There's a conversation on education to be had here.

gopher_space··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Were those the guys trying to remove roadblocks set up specifically for people who’d like to encourage sprawl?
gopher_space··on Bank of America hired 1000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Mythos
Oh definitely, I was speaking more in terms of moral absolutes. The people I knew who wanted to run a financial institution more than they wanted money are all dead.
gopher_space··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
Hacking was mostly about gaining access before AOL and there was absolutely a "let's give this kid a summer job" attitude floating around after War Games came out.

The chain of resource acquisition and information gathering necessary to arrive at a point where you need to make a long-distance phone call you could never afford was impressive in itself. Calling card fraud by a bright minor for educational purposes against a corporate entity absolutely loathed by every adult at the time just wasn't that big of a deal.

From my perspective the point of being a hacker is individual but follows observable desire paths. A lot of those have been filled in now.

gopher_space··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
> pilots are probably at peak automation

Any role where the human is a buffer against chaos should be thought of as secure by everyone involved. All automation and information flow will be in service to this position. This is not a bottleneck, it is the point of the exercise.

gopher_space··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
My programming cohort in the '90s were predominantly ex-trades and service and the pay was initially a cut. The work environment and the people were almost a middle finger to everyone I couldn't stand in the real world, and they paid me to solve logic problems.

A large part of the trades is learning how to deal with toxic coworkers or shops, or understanding that you're being worked like a rented mule for no real reason. And I was able to leave all that behind for a moment.

gopher_space··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
The point of the fallacy is that you don't know what value they bring or when they bring it.

Real estate agents are a good example. They might be the only people involved aware of the processes everyone's engaged in and moving things forward. Having helped build tools for a local shop I can tell you that their checklists and flowcharts can't and won't be built with AI because hoarding and sharing information has always been part of their competitive advantage.

A corollary might be that the value of human involvement is unknowable because human beings aren't rational. The Doorman is a buffer against chaos.

gopher_space··on Bank of America hired 1000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Mythos
So critical that the work is done in-house. Contractors are for audits. I wonder what’s going on here.

The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.

gopher_space··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
If I wanted to live with my mom I’d be doing that, Eric.
gopher_space··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
My first exposure to ‘compliance is not equivalence’.
gopher_space··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
> Fire trucks are far more expensive to acquire and maintain than necessary due to monopolistic actions by manufacturers, plus local governments buying fancier apparatus than they really need. There's a lot of room to trim those particular expenses.

The real problem with fire equipment is that it will sit there in an emergency unless you have the staff on hand to operate it. Small, remote, or cheap towns get to burn while they wait for volunteer #2 to make it to the station.

gopher_space··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Your mistake is viewing this as "someone else's email" instead of a communication medium for certain types of messaging. Similar to how `webmaster@` can be used by anyone attached to the role.

Every organization sets up something like this once they grow past a certain point.

gopher_space··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
> Not everyone is interested in programing.

This isn't a pipeline, it's a pool.

Actually, let's think of it as a stew. Lots of different base ingredients, add seasoning and heat. When the individual bits are delicious they start bubbling up to the surface. Not every bit is a carrot or chunk of meat. Some are potato, maybe that's a bean.

gopher_space··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Our discipline fundamentally seeks to remove “grind”. You’re missing the point.
gopher_space··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
> This, to my knowledge, very rarely works.

Strictly a function of management quality and experience.

gopher_space··on The cost of lies: A Mineserver story
The blindness bit had me wondering why the author didn't just look up info on the subject instead of making things up in the middle of a post about honesty.

His gears start slipping halfway through the article and it ends with a weird parasocial vibe.

gopher_space··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Sure, you could intentionally conflate analogies like that if you wanted to mislead.
gopher_space··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Saying that she “sent a message” is both literally true and obviously intellectually dishonest.
gopher_space··on There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world
I mean you could just as easily claim there are only 5000 “elite” software roles available at any given time.
gopher_space··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
I've never worked a job where getting rid of the people who don't want to be there wouldn't improve the situation for everyone else.

As an employer, UBI and universal healthcare might slash payroll costs and eliminate most of the hiring process.

As a founder, UBI might remove the funding barrier to entry.

What's the downside, and who is it a downside for?

gopher_space··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
https://emophilips.com/video/79162850-1F72-4818-A278-458B737...

The bit starts at 2:00

If you're ever in San Francisco, Grace Cathedral is worth a visit.

gopher_space··on Sites in ChatGPT
If your company isn't throwing you into R&D right now everyone is looking at layoffs. You are no longer in an environment where doing "the same job" will keep you afloat.
gopher_space··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
I was trying to highlight the absurdities involved without just linking to "The Emo Philips Joke".
gopher_space··on Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL
1) The game or service is auto-banning players, not the community.

2) Player fingerprinting isn't CPU-only.

3) The hardware aftermarket contains every flagged component without exception.

The aspect I have a hard time wrapping my head around is the amount of money people will spend to cheat in a game for a limited amount of time. Simple account bans are useless against people who have no problem buying another copy, forever.

From my perspective, the unusual part of this claim is that OP's community hasn't gone invite-only like so many others. Open servers are a labor of love.

gopher_space··on Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
The thought experiments around Mutually Assured Destruction back in the day showed us that you don't actually need a delivery system to participate.
gopher_space··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
We've agreed to not discuss this.

You need to understand that my branch considers Catholicism to be a pagan shame and the Mormons an actual sex cult. We just don't talk about our differences anymore because it always ended in death.

gopher_space··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
This is a moral dilemma when you've basically read everything in your favorite genre.
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