andrewdubinsky

"Tell them Jerry, Pluto is a planet."

This is so dumb it's hard to grasp. The market is wide open for a consumer first model. Maybe Apple will step into the breach.

Will you trust OpenAI to provide information contradictory to advertisers about drug side effects?

Will you trust OpenAI to explain your rights when dealing with insurance companies?

I could think of more examples, but imagine when Amazon gets a hold of this. Ads are just a terrible bad terrible idea.

Please let it be Cortana. Don't give up on her.

What does this mean in non-corpo speak?

That's a shame. I was hoping for an Apple AI independent of advertiser influence.

Oh, well. What could have been great.

Employees accept work-from-home & look for a work-from-home job. New applicants see on-site only and apply elsewhere.

Choices:

1. Hire desperate people who will come in 2. Accept that high-talent staff are unavailable to your company 3. Pay 30% more than the market for on-site staff

Wasn't the internet full of hand-crafted made for google dog shit before?

Keeping this sort of secret knowledge to yourself is so isolating, but sharing it only makes it worse.

Pretty soon, the only people who find your company enjoyable are malthusians, christian apocalyptics, and emos. I mean the smiths are great, but have you heard....

Banks make money holding onto your funds. They invest those funds overnight for risk-free returns.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

Rivian won't enforce this as they want access to Tesla charging stations.

Rivian signed an agreement with Tesla recently to do just that and start next year.

whispers If only more people could work from home

> When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?

As soon as the new model is released ;)

>>If anyone knows how to pay an existing company to extract carbon from the >>atmosphere, and store it in a biologically inactive form for > 1000 years, >>then I'd love to hear about it.

They're called trees.

If global warming were about reducing carbon dioxide, we would be planting them in every available square inch of open ground.

This is prepping the ground for a major bailout of commercial real estate because of its moribund effect on the economy.

Mostly just starting the chant for bailing out the really, really wealthy and those who benefit from CRE. (City governments, insurance companies, mega corps, and commercial banks).

This is not a public outcry, but watch how they do it by creating a story then an echo chamber, making it part of the "recovery", blah, blah. CRE will get a fat earmark in some recession funding, just watch.

RTO has simply become a structural disadvantage. Companies that cannot manage remote teams simply won't be able to attract top talent.

Even if 80% of companies RTO the remaining 20% that recruit remote-only jobs will create massive disruption in top performers. HR has their head in the sand because so many companies are either freezing hiring or reducing headcount, but there's a real issue here. Talented people just don't need to consider onsite work, period.

The only way you work onsite is you are inexperienced or you don't have another job. Maybe you want a big name on your resume. Either way those are jobs that will need to be filled again.

In this article, they state openly that Blizzard is managing a crisis to ship multiple products. The cost of a failed product release outstrips their lease cost by orders of magnitude. I don't get the play here. What's the outlook on the next release cycle without talent?

You should consult with an employment attorney.

1. If you get fired/laid off and your employer does not know, you might waive any federal protections you deserve by keeping your condition a secret.

2. There might be laws to protect you with your condition as it deteriorates.

3. HR resources might be available to you through the company or its health plans.

It's worth consulting with an expert on the legal status first, then moving from there.

Next on the FDA agenda is to designate the following as Orange Juice:

* Orange Crush

* Orange Fanta

* Sunkist Orange Soda

Seems only right given how great they're doing with the American diet and obesity.

Is this just an ad?

They talked about ChatGPT by name in almost every one of my kids classes. Deep whatever may be further ahead, but no one knows the name of that thing.

Everyone else is playing catch up now.

We don't see the prompt used to generate these "copies". It could be they provided the image in question to work from. In which case it would be very similar, but not identical.

It's important to note, this is not a faithful representation once you look at it closely. The text is always mangled into nonsense and things like brands or logos are never close enough to be even a passing likeness.

This is no different from a painter using a photograph of a subject to create a portrait, which is subsequently sold.

Or recording a song on the radio to learn to play the guitar, then using that song as inspiration to write a new song.

That being said, I suspect they are removing all watermarked images from training databases right now.

"Adding a touchscreen to the Mac feels like busy work for employees or the company doesn’t know what to spend money on."

Exactly like the Touch Bar. Terrible idea.

Now that we’ve all made the transition to working from home, what’s going to change? Probably everything.

This is exactly the sort of behavior the robots will point to when they rise up.

Some part of the equation depends on the size and structure of the market.

If you can scale to a large business with little competition, say $100m+ in revenue per year, it's strongly worth considering. You might be able to exit with generational wealth. However, if the market is very competitive and/or mature, it's much harder to reach that scale. If it's not capital intensive, has few potential entrants, and is growing organically, you might be able to grow without investment and be fine.

The question to ask yourself is what's your long term objective (10+ years) and is meeting that objective worth the risk?

ps. I'd add that failure for a VC is not like failure to me and you. If you are the 3rd place in a market and exit for tens of millions (to you) that might still be a poor return for the investor, but life changing for you.

Do not spend personal money on company projects. That's the same as you taking a cut in pay. Seriously. Don't do this.

If the company cannot afford it the equipment you need to perform your job then you should be out looking for a job. If they can afford it, they should pay for it without issue.

Also, it's worth saying 'No' to things you're asked to do if the request is not realistic given the limitations they have placed on your resources.

Boss: Can you make a skit video about our new product?

You: Not without additional funds to hire talent.

Boss: Use people in the office to save money.

You: No, that doesn't work. It's more expensive when you consider they have to stop doing the job they are getting paid to do and perform a job they are untrained for.

The fact that the Bank for International Settlements stated this aloud says it all.

It's already over, they just don't know it yet.

I used the vim extension to learn the basics. From my perspective vscode is an ide and it does some cool things. However, vim/neovim is more of a worldview. I'm much faster when I don't touch the mouse. I don't have to slow down how I think. It's upsetting to have to stop typing, moving, etc..and click a button or tab. So I'm more inclined to go faster.

However, it's not a skill developed overnight. It takes time to invest in the tool, but for me the payoff has been significantly increased productivity. I won't ever stop learning new vim skills though. It's both wide and deep. Vim just makes sense to me now, but it took a while to really get it.

Not healthy, but filling and cheap with no cooking and almost no cleanup.

- Protein powder + peanut butter + whole milk + olive oil this can be half a day's calories for about a dollar maybe two. Most cleanup is a mixing cup.

- Peanut butter bars "Nutty Bars" (frozen they are great) These are super filling and you can add them to any meal or snack, they are cheap in bulk (.25 each / 250 cals)

- Meal cups These are normally noodle cups but they have many variations. Cheap and filling. Add frozen shrimp (cooked) or diced ham. $1-3 per meal. Add hot water.

- Tuna packets Bunch of flavors pre-made or can + crackers (your choice) + mayo/sriracha

- Cereal (your choice) + plain yogurt + protein powder You can save money buying bulk. Filling and cheap.

- Noodles (your choice) + Kraft Italian dressing It's one pot, but it will last all week and you can add different proteins (ham/turkey/chicken from deli counter) as you like or just have it alone.

- Kids meals Anything for kids is usually easy to make and clean up. Nuggets, PB&J, Mac/Z, Pizza-ish items. Go crazy. Can be costly, but there's bargains like pizza rolls which can be bought in bulk.

- Cashews & other nuts. This may seem like a luxury item, but it's easy to add to other meals for protein or flavor.

- Gatorade powder (the kind you mix up yourself) This is unhealthy, obviously. But it's a cheap drink and has lots of calories. This is a luxury item. Drink a lot of water too that's filling and free.

- Metamucil It's filling and all this other stuff is really bad so have some fiber. It will help.

- Eating out The 'dollar' menu at fast food places is actually very cost effective calorie intake. McDonald's is actually pretty decent at this price point. Lunch $3

- Ramen If you don't get the cup kind, you can doctor it up with egg, meats, etc...There's tons of recipes one pot clean up worst case. Base setup maybe 300 calories for a quarter. All in, maybe $1-2 per meal

Without cooking beyond a microwave, it's possible to eat 2000+ calories a day for about $3-$4. Be smart and add some veggies (even veggie chips or V8 drink).

I agree it's great for solo founders, but it also fits well with small teams that cover a lot of ground. When your team has to handle all the IT responsibilities, it's really excellent.

Hotwire is new, but it seems to cover the gap between applications that need modern front-end components, but don't need all the react/api/etc...

If you want to avoid web development, then choose to focus on languages that are rarely (if ever) used for that purpose.

I'd recommend you focus on C/C++. It will provide a great foundational knowledge that you can use in almost every other part of programming. Also, from what I have heard, it's actually hard to recruit junior developers in C/C++.