johnnyanmac

For people touting about how their software can destroy the world, they aren't awfully creative on how it can achieve that. Hacking breaches of IP was probably most cynicists' top 3 questions asked when presented with the idea of "boosting productivity". If you make it "10x" faster to write code, you make it 10x faster for a hacker to hack. Naive cryptographic principles are less about an ironclad security and more about encryption that takes too much time to brute force. It all leads to one thing.

I'm still fairly adamant that those claims are mostly a myth. Because the worst inefficiencies in any workplace has little to do with the individual productivity of the proletariat. And because much of the most valuable work lies in creativity, ingenuity, and subtleties that lies outside of an LLM's expertise.

But loosely speaking, a lot of hacking does in fact come down to a lot of boring, repetitive tasks. Something a machine has always been king of.

My timeline was loose, but I was specifically talking about the Fair Housing act of 1968: https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1

So 58/59 years if we want an exact date. But a law passed de jure doesn't mean everyone throws their hands up and willingly complies, so the sand will still be shakey for a good decade.

Of course, YMMV per state, so it's not like the Midwest or west coast had the same level of discrimination as the deep south. But that's the line that this policy became federal.

Judging by the color of one's skins is one of the easiest and oldest ways to discriminate. Only behind by the contents of one's genetalia. But the latter at least has a biological need to care for one another.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. At least when someone looks at someone who "looks like them" but is poorer, they see "potential" (there's a name for this effect, but I forget). But the end goal is getting theirs first and foremost.

I definitely wouldn't say my lineage had any call in "immigrating" into the US.

And yes, don't underestimate how such maneuvers are very indirect means of white flight. African Americans could only (legally) own a home in much of the US for 50 years. At the very best, that is 2 generations of wealth to accrue, which puts that demographic a good century behind what potentially could have been economically.

less the caffine itself and more the amount. It sounds like they are talking more about energy drinks or some highly concentrated espresso shot.

I don't think that much caffeine is good for you, especially 4-5 times a day. But with everything else we gulp down it probably isn't priority #1.

Tangential, but I suppose this is a good time to highlight how caffeine undisclosed can in fact kill some people:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y95yylxv7o

If volunteering remains flat but the population (and thus, demand)bgrows for 50 years, then the conclusion is that less people are proportionally volunteering.

If everyone listened, it'd already be a solved problem. But Reddit has the nasty side effect of drying up most other forum driven communities, and Discord did the coup de grâce on the rest.

Joe Schmoe has a job and makes income. so an income tax can and will affect him if you stretch it out. We can still fix that by adjusting income brackets. But that's yet another battle to be had.

an AMT is never going to affect Joe with a middle class life, 1 job, a family of a wife and 2 kids, and maybe some retirements savings. There's nothing more to take and it's purely a tool of coporate greed that he has to pay $200 for an accountant to fill out a form of taxes owed that the IRS already has. These kinds of measures will never affect Joe.

You forgot to mention it so I could quote it.

Nonetheless, I don't see the productivity in arguing over generational lifestyle here. I just wanted to highlight that making people work more than ever means less people volunteer. Whether that is a good thing or not is up to the reader.

Sure. But I'm sure linking to a paywall inevitably affects the traffic to the post. Extra clicks and scrolling to find a readable link only adds friction.

I in california have all kinds of "service fees" too. Despite them successfully campaigning to make sure delivery drivers here do not count as employees.

Don't fall for the spin. This is just an added cost they always wanted to add. If Mamdami wasn't in NYC, they would just call it a "service Fee" or "delivery fee" (which is different from the Driver's Tip) like they do here. Or make up a anew fee altogether.

why do you think this is a low margin business? The big expense is software labor and local administrative compliance.

Outside of that, this is ultimately two services where a middleman takes a decent cut while their delivery label is compensated entirely by the customer. Once the model is established and locked-in, this should theoreically be a very easy business to maintain.

My context for use was me getting home, getting some dish ready that night, and realizing I forgot some key ingredient. I didn't want to take the time to drive back to the grocery, so I use Instacart to deliver 1-4 items for me instead.

I can't really imagine doing more than that. I did hear stories of coworkers using instacart in COVID lockdown era, but that was clearly exceptional circumstances.

>volunteering appears roughly flat since then.

>people have been getting old, having kids, two jobs, medical conditions and so on for a little while now.

well you explained the phenomenon pretty concisely.

Entertainment is also a luxury service. I don't think that justifies the behemoth mergers/acquisitions we've seen this decade. It's about competition, not necessarily how important the service is to the people.

Probably because you read 5 seconds into NYT and get hit with a paywall.

I suppose there are certain things that click together as a kid, and you never truly question them, even well into adulthood, until an external force acts on it. My very loose memory was of some sort of cartoon ship departing, along with the phrase "Set Sail!". The phrase matched the acronym so I guess they were forever associated in my head.

Memories can be odd, and I assume everyone has a similar story of some early situation.

In all fairness, the term is much older than what that acronym's come to mean.

I always thought it stood for "Set Sail", but this definition is more pragmatic.

Yes. In the context of this topic, I simply want to make sure horses have a watering hole to come into once (or if) they get overloaded or outpriced out of the sugar water full of leeches.

For larger topics, you tackle system, not people.

>but if somebody doesn't want to solve their own problem then I'm not going to loose sleep over it.

That's basically been the attitude of politics for awhile now. And I see that result doesn't end well.

This is comparatively harmless, but I'm overall trying to unsubscribe from that paradigm of "let stupid stupid". I at every least want to help contribute to alternatives if others wake up one day.

I'm not saying there is not high quality software that doesn't require a subscription. I'm simply saying most people's core apps do not fit in that model.

As an analog, I don't feel it's much value to ay "Facebook sucks, use Hacker News" (or any of the hundred other social media that are not a data harvesting platform). The existence of (more) ethical alternativea doesn't erase that fact that most are on unethical software. Likewise, there being efficient software doesn't invalidate that most people are on electron powered services that each take up GB's of data.

even back then, having 1 day in prison can forever impact your employment aspects. Perhaps the rising trend of internet influencer could have gotten around it, but it's less about the sentence and more about the federal government choosing to prosecute a young man over a situation both parties already settled.

Meanwhile, Claude does the same thing and it is deemed "progress" when the federal government profits from it.

All popular modern popular software? You don't get to "install" media apps anymore. Many games are simply thin clients into someone else's server. Office and many professional productivity tools (Adobe) converted from "software you buy and install" to "software you pay a monthly subscription to keep using". all your chat apps are basically mini web-browsers under the hood in terms of overhead instead of a small thin-client.

These are the largest pieces of software people use, and there's more bloat and less control than ever.

Best metric is user satisfaction. Since that is ultimately what software is (or should be) about. Hence the leading header of "software is getting worse for obvious reason": we detached from user satisfaction as the metric to optimize for at least a decade ago.

The issue with the metaphor is that everyone feels like their own country's music is worse than yesterdecade. It's not taste in other music so much as "we have decided to play this music because it's more profitable", even if everyone hates it.

No one here is winning in particular unless you make money pushing [profitable music].

Do I blue screen? No. Does my computer regularly stall out, screen glitches out, or otherwise controls become entirely unresponsive, to the point I can't even bring up task manager? Yup.

I suppose sleep has never been great on Windows, but I don't know what it's doing these days.

Feel worse? No. Was it clunkier to navigate and figure out the workflow? Perhaps. But I rarely remember saying "this application feels slow" in the late 00's/early 2010's, on much worse hardware.

Websites are the obvious example here. Much slower speeds but pages loaded at acceptable paces. Now I'm on gigabit internet and webpages likely take longer to load. And we all know what it's loading in the background are not things that make the UX better.

>In what way does it not work? It's not very good, it's not optimized for maintenance or extension (that would take a complete rework which is also cheaper with it), but it does work and is not broken because the agent tested the most obvious scenarios. It took it a few hours.

Was your purpose to "make a basic FPS template that barely works", or "make a fun game that can sell and appeal to a specific audience"?

If more people were honest about the former reason and not trying to play it off as the latter, then maybe LLM's wouldn't have its reputation among comsumers as "slop". Making a protoype of a basic functional FPS was never the hard problem to solve. UE5's sample project does that for you. These days Roblox/UEFN also does that for you.

If that was the purpose, we wouldn't dimiss consumer sentiment of software getting constantly worse with a shrug.

We all know the real purpose of Big Tech.

The answer is always "if you are chummy with the manager and make them feel good". Any accomplishments made is secondary as long as it can be spun to satisfy this condition.