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That's the status quo - a distinction between owner and employee. And it's good for the owners, who get to maximize profits - but is it good for employees? I'd say there's less risk, but they get impacted when business is down, and may not reap the profits when business is good.

Some companies are experimenting with other models - there's no law or force of nature saying an employee can't be a partial owner of a business.

Or just "free hosting", no further details needed. Later they may say "this was unsustainable and we will drop this", and that would be OK.

I feel you - I worked on a project with pdf generation and the tool to generate it was quite heavy.

Looks great, thanks for the experience!

Personally I'd like a "table of contents" where you get the title, a summary and an example. Then you could scroll and learn a bit about all techniques, clicking in one that piqued your interest.

I'm not sure if that's easy or not. Let me know if I can help.

And does Utah have a strong sex education curriculum, to teach children about it?

I assume no - it's just a ban on sinful behavior.

Thanks for the link. It's surprising how much credit is given to a charlatan, even in hacker news.

In general, people with a conscience and acting accordingly suffer more or less gravely. Perhaps this is to be expected, unfortunately.

We should support whistle-blowers much more, but this feels like a problem very hard to solve. How can we trust the state to protect those denouncing the state? Or corporations protecting those denouncing the corporation?

Seems like it's inevitable that the person will be at odds against the organization.

Weren't there millions of pages or documents to review?

But even so, those demand him to be 100% ethical, why don't they also demand that from the NSA and the rest of the state?

He did it in a responsible way. Perhaps if there was better support for whistle-blower he could have done it even better.

I think I read this about the original Simpsons: they were very critical of certain things, such as environmental dangers. But most people tuning in fantasize their role in protecting the environment, then go in with their lives without doing much about it.

I think this is deep in all sorts of media with a positive message - scratch the moral itch so you don't have to do it in reality.

UX and usability tests are dead. It's all shiny UIs and A/B testing now (and the metric is always profit, never ease of use or safety).

I think you can use this to rationalize every shitty practice as long as it gets you customers.

I'm not annoying: I'm annoyed by these annoying practices.

That's an interesting dilemma between free speech and moderation.

I'd also say the current system is better, but losing the dislike button and pushing for positive sentiment can lead to fake positivity which we should beware.

Reminds of the anime "Avatar", where there's an episode featuring a character with an outrageous fake smile who turned out to be sort of a political oppressor.

I wish the headline said that: "methane not as bad as thought, still very harmful".

The video of Google driving a blind person to taco bell was uploaded 11 years ago. I don't think it's that fast paced.

Trying to schedule things with people gets harder with each new element. So I usually schedule with my best friends (3 people) and just let the rest know about it: if they can join, cool, if they can't, there's always next time.

But I've disconnected from some people who are really bad at this, eg asking for lots of changes and rarely taking initiatives. I'm an introvert and reaching out to distant friends feels weird to me, even if it happens the conversation doesn't flow.

(but one thing that helps me is pushing myself to thinking out loud, instead of being insecure of what to talk about. Weird topics sometimes make the best chats)

I'm a night howl. Having a work schedule helps this, but when I was a student doing my thesis I had awful sleeping schedules (6 am - 2 pm) which affected my social life a lot.

I wanted to improve this, but going to bed earlier would make me restless, and have even worse sleep. Forcing myself to wake up earlier was torture - be exhausted during the day, only to feel energetic at evening again, and not being able to sleep earlier.

So I "rotated the day". Each day, I went to bed 3 (or 4?) hours later, slept 8h, and woke up. This was a bit tiring, but not more than the other alternatives! It worked for a few weeks but later I went back to my old habits.

After 2 rotations, I went to the doctor and got calming medications and the the recommendation to go to sleep 1h earlier each day. This was much easier and I didn't get dependent on the medication.

Later, having a job with a schedule (not that rigid but also not super flexible) helped me get on track, and things haven't gotten so bad.

Or more likely, spy on its citizens and find a loop hole to get privacy for themselves.

Yeah, many of these seem solvable with access tokens and permissions systems.

I think it's wolves by treating the LLMs assistants to the user, who should have no more permissions than himself. Not as a process system with permissions to do anything an admin does.

That's very speculative. We are not that worried about other Sci Fi concepts such as teleportation and aliens.

I respect the rationalist argument if there's a 1% chance to achieve AGI, we should spend 1% of our resources to think about it. Makes sense! But having it come up in every discussion with just speculative opinions doesn't really advance the cause, and gets tiring soon (to me, at least).

Not every racist is a neo nazi, not every leftist is a stalinist.

Lumping them together is a cheap tactic to aggravate people, which I think it's dishonest and not very effective.

Where I live, lots of burger restaurants opened up in the last years. Emphasis on the restaurant part, not fast food like McDonald's or Burger King. I very much prefer them, as the food is better and the places are cozier, even though a bit more expensive.

Maybe we'll get a counter movement soon: "made by humans", as in, the premium experience.

Anti AI sentiment may also grow and make that even more viable, as peoplr may boycot heavy-AI shops.

The printing press was an upgrade, the FTA is a cost cutting downgrade.

What works for me: forcing myself to start a task, with permission to give up at any time. It often extends to my true goal once I start, but still allows me to exit early when I'm in a bad mood without feeling too bad.

Going to the gym? 95% of the time I get a decent workout once I gey there. Once I was in a particularly bad mood, so I arrived, warmed up and left. It felt liberating!

Going for a walk? It feels nice most of the time once I get in the rhythm. Sometimes it doesn't, so I come back after a few minutes.

Reading? I wanna do it more. So the goal is to read at least a single page - often it leads to many more, sometimes it's just that page and that's it.

The routine + acceptance of sometimes giving up really takes a lot of stress away from me!

I must admit I don't know much about economics. I do get tired of people dismissing arguments with free market 101s - the world seems much more complex than that, and the big capitalists have become specialists at exploiting the market for their gains.

But then I'll day: maybe these guidelines are outdated, 250 years later. For example, does the best product win? Not if the product is complex enough and people cannot quickly measure its quality. There's 10$ crap and 100$ crap, and fake reviews, and paid reviews, and swapped products, and misleading marketing.

This ignores the whole human part of a job.

Many people are wage slaves: if they're job is gone, they have a big trouble. That's why they're scared of AI, that's why so many news count the potential jobs cuts: more fear means more clicks.

There's also a lot of inequality, and AIs will push for a bigger gap, not smaller. If everyone is 20% more productive, does everyone get a 20% raise? Historically, no: the company gets the extra profit.

So there's more to discuss than free market 101s, which don't capture the whole complexity of the world.

I think that's a good approach, and I've also taken it. I was skeptic but now I'm evaluating its strengths and weaknesses.

But also keep in mind there's lots of hype and lots of productivity gurus praising it as the greatest thing, instilling FMO on others.

There's an even older Italian song about it: https://youtu.be/BqlJwMFtMCs

I guess driven by significant emigration from Italy to USA. Here in Portugal, we also have some... Issues... With France emigrants who return to the country.

Unlike other VPNs, Mullvad states what they protect against and what they don't. This browser seems to bridge the gap about what they previously couldn't.

Considering there's no vendor lock-in and the browser is open source, I think your criticism is completely unwarranted.

Well, many libertarians will state the rules of the free market as if they were physics law, but they are not. I think they're just post-fact invented laws to justify the ideology, but that's besides the point.

The law that "in a free market, the best product wins" has been beaten by profit-driven companies with billions at their disposal. Sure, you can have a better product. But maybe it's more profitable to have better marketing, or secondary sources of profit.

It's quite telling that VPN providers sponsor so many YouTube videos... Which require login to the biggest ad-driven company... Which will identify users by their login, no matter if they have a VPN or not!

Well, only Italy is complaining for now, but it applies to the whole EU.

At least some of the big companies take this seriously, because I've worked in consultants and seen it. It would be completely reasonable for OpenAI to be more private in the paid models - make the weights readonly, encrypt conversations, allow permanent deletion.

For the free models, I'd find it OK to train on the input, but GDPR says users should be able to request data deletion - not sure how viable that is for LLMs, where training frons scratch regularly (without the requested deletions) is probably expensive as fuck.

The internet has been a wild west with lots of privacy abuse, it's good to see some rules and enforcement!