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Right, this is existing players (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, FB, etc) protecting their moat.

AI can't be "paused". Sometimes I see the question "should we put a pause on AI development?"

It doesn't mean anything. Some countries like China may say they're on board with pausing it but would they actually do so? Or just sign on and allow their companies to get an edge by not enforcing a pause.

Same thing with the existing AI companies.

Not to mention eventually unions fall to public pressure and "movements", there was a union thread a few weeks ago where I posted this article that stuck with me:

> Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs

> Effective in the spring of 2023, the contract provision states that teachers who are members of "populations underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district" may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, deviating from the traditional "last-in, first-out" system.

> The stipulation is a part of a recent collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS, which concluded a weekslong teachers' strike in March.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-public-schools-defends...

If you end up on the wrong side of the movement because you aren't one of the "intersectional" people you could be let go. It's just jarring to me as someone who's mother is a public school teacher and is poor but isn't a woman of color. This union doesn't have all its members backs.

I imagine unionizing software engineers at a media company is probably a bit easier since the equity side of NYT is likely not as valuable as tech companies in the Bay Area.

For instance there's also this news today out of union-heavy Sweden where a Tesla worker walk-out failed:

> Some younger employees also reportedly stated that their salary and career paths are much better at Tesla as compared to other automakers. They also appreciated the fact that they were issued stock options from the company, some of whom have reportedly seen an increase of several hundred percent to date.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38070432

Of course there's also alternative data points: such as most employees only speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisals.

Love it! :)

12ft.io never worked well for me.

But archive.is generally always works.

I'm not sure if anyone actually does this despite your claim.

Most people who go AWS for hosting, also use their domain/DNS services.

Likewise for the others.

There is some future where AI, deepfakes, and what not become so indistinguishable from real people, that those industries (news media, social-media, etc) that make sport out of hearing "wrong speak" and performing shaming rituals will become obsolete.

Same with the security state, if all the data is suspect, does it matter?

TIL

I was lying down and felt it. Wasn't enough to get me up though as these small ones aren't uncommon.

I suppose I should earthquake proof my apartment though, you know those twist tie things that come with some furniture that are meant to be anchored into the wall? I've never used 'em.

At some point with a big one I'll have some shelving and what not fall over. But I've been over a decade here and I haven't needed them yet.

To be honest, these "system design" rounds are a hassle for me and even those in-depth YouTube videos don't help.

It's all so theoretical and I feel like everything I do/say is bluffing my way through them. I prefer straight algo rounds even though those are a grind.

What do you mean specifically?

It seems like all the OP is saying is that the company evaluated alternatives (Azure & AWS) whose cloud products are "first class" citizens of the business whereas with Google the first class product is search, advertising, Android (a couple other things but you get the idea).

It doesn't seem too far out of left field that Google would flounder with all it's cloud products being phased out in favor of some other new product they've made or acquired.

> I have seen people share into our slack channels

lol I had to do this at my last job. My manager would say I need more visibility, share it with X team since it touches on their work.

Then I'd have to be like "Hey we just launched this project/feature, look at it!" And nobody in that team's channel would comment on it.

I felt the exact way you're describing - I'm sharing something into a channel just to seem important.

I'm not sure how to reconcile the need for visibility, there's probably more subtle ways. Or alternatively being in the channel for a while and being part of discussions there rather than popping in just to give myself visibility when there's something worth showing.

Upvoted. Nobody even clicked through to read the first paragraphs :D

My initial read of just the headline was similar. It reminded me of those devs whose YouTube videos or repo READMEs ask (beg?) for you to star their repo.

But this is clearly about investors who invest in open source projects and use Github stars as a proxy for community engagement and velocity (whether right or wrong).

In the book "Death's End" by Cixin Liu, the final book of the "Three Body Problem" trilogy - they explore the problem of data storage that has to last for millions of years.

In their case they end up having a "Museum of Humanity" that exists in man-made caves in Pluto specifically meant to merely have information carved into the walls as all digital and other physical formats weren't deemed sufficient.

I suspect these data formats are similarly not sufficient.

My first job was doing Actionscript + mxml. It was fine for the web, even as people talked about things like crashes and/or security vulnerabilities. The same can be said to be true of Javascript today (to a much lesser extent though).

But the iPhone and iOS really killed it by not supporting it, at least that's my memory of it. I remember feeling fundamentally "uncool" by doing Flash/Actionscript/Mxml because right when I got that first job out of college was when Steve Jobs was doing the "Flash sucks" rounds. "It's dead." etc.

I remember a couple of the Flash folks at my job went to a Flash conference where they would do cool things with art and animation. When they got back they bumped into some members of the iOS team who back then were the new hot commodity (both in demand and salary). And they said to the flash folks: "Oh people still use Flash?" snicker snicker.

As an entry-level at the start of my career it made me feel like I was deprecated out of the gate working with legacy tech.

I still remember Actionscript fondly though as well as all the web games I'd play.

In general working with or on behalf of "the security state" or "security apparatus" isn't considered kosher anymore.

I'd wager that probably plays a large role.

Additionally there's been several leaks of our spies' identities, by foreign countries but also by our own people to get back at others. Consider Valerie Plame [1] who's identity was leaked by the Bush administration folks: Richard Armitage, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, apparently to target Valerie's husband. While Libby went to jail, the group still had a receptive journalist in The Washington Post who similarly had no qualms about revealing the identity of a spy, regardless of danger or legality. Actually we tend to treat journalists as a "higher caste" not to be questioned: "Of course a journalist has the right to report on <any|every-thing>!"

I don't think the same environment exists in our country as in the old days where it'd be "safe" or attractive to be a spy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

Right?

What is this thing about some groups being "off limits" while others are fetishized and babied?

There's no longer anything "brave" in making a joke about a "safe group" to joke about.

In today's day and age since trans is the new sacred cow amongst certain crowds in the Western world, it seems natural that that would be the subject of jokes.

reminds me of Quaero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero#Criticism

* Pacifying -> bomb the crap out of

> You are going to find very few if any brand name VCs participating in their dog and pony show.

Maybe some grifters. Case in point, Jason Calacanis: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAllinPodcasts/comments/17bkk8a/j...

I imagine it is healthy.

I think of my mom and brother for instance, versus my dad and other brother - my dad and other brother are blissfully ignorant.

My mom and younger brother get worked up over things they see in the news daily that don't affect them at all.

I'd wager that stress, depression, and anxiety levels are all higher for people like my mom and younger brother than for the former.

I've become the "grump" at my workplace for disliking Marvel movies. The entire reason is they're formulaic, predictable, cheesy, etc.

The push-back on my grumpiness is usually along the lines of "No they're not, they're awesome!" -- for which I can't really debate: if the person really likes them then it's just a matter of opinion. But often another opinion is to dismiss my critique as a "Who cares? If they [fans] enjoy it, then so what? They enjoy their thing and you enjoy yours?"

But it reinforces your point that these things have just been watered down for the most mass audience possible. There's no "art" in them anymore. And whatever originally made them special has been distilled to a formula so that "they" (the fans, maybe not the original fanbase though) can just enjoy the formula. The popcorn-movie aspect of them.

It isn't just comic movies and Star Wars/Trek, but also things like The Fast and The Furious movie franchise too.

In recent years Martin Scorsese had been vocal against Marvel movies [1], and he's received hate from Marvel fanatics since [2]. But I agree with him.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m... 2. https://www.avclub.com/martin-scorsese-versus-marvel-superhe...

I don't know, but am bored so looked into it.

From looking at the Github repo's contributors, forks, etc it doesn't look like it.

ChatGPT says it isn't used outside of Roblox, but google found this cross-dev game framework that has their own variant they've started: giderosmobile.com. But Google doesn't show anyone else?

Haha same here, but OP did ask.

But as a web dev I wouldn't push my children into it unless they were interested.

Same with if I were a high school gymnastics coach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGp4bX8b5fM

I'm not at all "spamming" it, I posted it where it was relevant as an example of a problem I had with recent union activity?

I don't understand the issue with that? It's just as relevant to this thread's conversation.

I might be "double dipping" by using the same example? But I hardly consider a second post about the same topic to be spamming.

So...sorry for not leaving to find a different example that I found relevant to the conversation? But it was pretty much the same conversation about the same issues people may have with unions.

Yikes is that really an "FBI informant"?

It sounds logical, consider this news item from yesterday: "Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels"

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/five_eyes_china_espio...

Should people here really just accept other nations blatantly stealing and "infiltrating"?

I posted this comment as a question on the last thread about Invidious and YouTube blocking ads but didn't get a response. I'd like to try it but for now when I get the blocker I open the same video in an incognito window. For which I have a different extension that I can just click on and it opens right away.

> I just installed, then uninstalled, the Chrome (Brave) extension that is supposed to redirect videos to some invidious instance. > I use Brave and am now seeing the "sorry you can't watch YouTube" anymore sign because Brave blocks ads. > I thought installing the extension from the website would just redirect whatever video I clicked on to the mirrored video on an Invidious instance, is that not the case?

Is my understanding wrong? I already uninstalled it but would give it another go if it "just works".

I don't really want to care about this or that "instance". The promise of the extension (from what I can tell) is to just automatically do it?

It's not about pretending. It's about a simple question and answer of whether the union has my back. As a prospective member that would be important to me?

If the point of a union is to protect me and my interest as a worker how does it do that by saying "you may be a higher performer but you're not the right <skin-color|religion|gender|sexual-orientation|etc>"?

Consider the Minnesota Teachers Union:

> Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs

> Effective in the spring of 2023, the contract provision states that teachers who are members of "populations underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district" may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, deviating from the traditional "last-in, first-out" system.

> The stipulation is a part of a recent collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS, which concluded a weekslong teachers' strike in March.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-public-schools-defends...

I can't wait til I'm targeted as a software engineer for being of the "wrong" group!

How does this work?

I just installed, then uninstalled, the Chrome (Brave) extension that is supposed to redirect videos to some invidious instance.

I use Brave and am now seeing the "sorry you can't watch YouTube" anymore sign because Brave blocks ads.

I thought installing the extension from the website would just redirect whatever video I clicked on to the mirrored video on an Invidious instance, is that not the case?