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anthropodie··on Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
Checkout framework laptop
anthropodie··on The Most Disturbing Places We've Found Microplastics So Far
How did we fail to forsee the effects of plastic before unleashing it on humanity and the world? Is there some org or body that would prevent such thing from happening in future with other material? If we have not learn anything from this we are doomed to repeat it.
anthropodie··on Mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book
Lemmino did an excellent video on the S

The Universal S - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdxHi4_Pvc

anthropodie··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
404 and redirects to homepage.

Off topic: Anyone knows how to get rid of wall of news on bing homepage? I tried disabling it but it still loads it and makes it visible if I scroll down.

anthropodie··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Yesterday Google and now Microsoft both announcing their own chat bot integration and yet there is not a single link where I can try out either one of them.

What is this new trend of announcing things as if it's available for general use and then hiding it behind invites or not making it available at all.

anthropodie··on Bard and new AI features in Search
You forgot Nokia. They had touch screen prototype before Iphone but they thought world was not ready. When Android came they took too long to admit S60 is dead.
anthropodie··on Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding
I do the same but Go can't help me with frontend, right? What do you do?
anthropodie··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
Well you could say same thing about the answers that Google displays on it's pages instead of search results! If you don't want these crawlers to index your content I am pretty sure you can disable via robots.txt just like Google.
anthropodie··on Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas
I can't believe we had paperclip back in 2000s. Our Software driven society has come very far but people have sucked all the fun out of it.
anthropodie··on Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
This is one application of AI that I absolutely like. Imagine in future the AI will be able to ingest any video, blog, books, manuals, license and whole lot of other things and we will just be able to ask questions to it or get a summary from it.

I wonder what will happen to actual content then. Currently YouTube is showing info about most watched section of the clips. It saves so much time! Now imagine that happening to everything above.

anthropodie··on Signal app's president-“layoffs in tech are to keep salaries in check”
Below comment on another layoff related thread is relevant here too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480652

The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.

> One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

Curious if there is research here on how this impacts the company? Seems like it would also increase stress and encourage top performers to seek new opportunities.

He also recommends hiring during a recession:

> He actually hired during the 2000 recession and saw it as an opportunity to gain ground on the competition and gain market share when everybody was cutting jobs and stopped innovating.

I suppose this works when it works, and then fails completely when it doesn’t. In essence, this increases the risk profile on the company which seems problematic too. Would be curious if there are studies that show the outcomes of these strategies.

Perhaps there are no “good” strategies- just those that favor employees or those that favor investors.

anthropodie··on Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?
I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham's idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here's the gist of it:

Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it's members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.

This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?

0: You were not meant to have boss - http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

Edit: rewording.

anthropodie··on Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
What I don't like about Docker is it does not respect the firewall rules that I setup using something like ufw.
anthropodie··on Show HN: Kody Tools – I developed 300 tools in 6 months
I imagine OP might create a tonne of tools in coming days now that ChatGPT can help in writing code.
anthropodie··on OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium
Of course that makes sense.
anthropodie··on OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium
> $3M per day

That figure really is eye watering like Sam said. Any chance we might be able to reduce that cost? It must be the power costs right? The hardware is one time cost I assume. Why not power it over renewables?

anthropodie··on Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain
It looks stupid to have these many years but for a moment sit on the other side of the table. You created something amazing by giving significant part of your life, would you prefer to get paid only for 3 years? I think 30 years is good time to release works into public domain. In India, it's 60 years.
anthropodie··on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think stories was a snapchat feature originally.
anthropodie··on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed
> Never heard of Pixelfed,

You may not have but that community is actually very active. I posted 5-6 photos on pixelfed and it had more engagement than my total Instagram engagement over 5-6 years.

anthropodie··on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed
This sounds so stupid. Imagine if the inventor of first button had sued others for copying shape and it's shadow
anthropodie··on Show HN: This Is How ChatGPT Will Be Monetized
I hope it gets monetized. Because I'm fucking tired of being tracked for ads. At least the bot does not try to keep me captive like all other platforms.
anthropodie··on Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019)
Stop worrying about climate change deniers. Even if you give a perfect citation they will not believe you.
anthropodie··on EmailTriager
A bit tangential but I am wondering now that we have brought everything online, I guess next step would be to integrate AI everywhere.

Consider this, you want to book your table at restaurant so you tell your AI which will inform restaurant's AI to book a table for you. In this whole scenario where is UI? I mean this whole chat with AI thing kinda makes lot of UIs redundant. I don't need UI for reminders, notes, meetings, search results and whole lot of other things. The advancements of AI will eat most of GUI but dashboards will remain I guess. What do you guys think?

anthropodie··on Ask HN: Why am I getting so many ToS update emails?
Nope.

Let's get as many users as possible and once they are hooked let's update ToS is the general approach it seems.

anthropodie··on Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work?
It's excellent for menial programming tasks like fill up database with dummy data or generating boilerplate code.
anthropodie··on Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?
I want to know if it will ever be possible to run this kind of AI at home once its training is complete. I dont need all the knowledge just subset that I'm interested in.

Actually I'm more interested in its ability to transform things. For example I can ask it to convert docker-compose to docker run command, it can manipulate JSON, it can sort numbers in table when prompted. I'm more interested in these abilities rather than just getting answers for which I already have Google

anthropodie··on Twitter will delete 1.5B accounts to free up space: Elon Musk
Finally I can be sure that all my dozen unused accounts will be deleted for good this time.
anthropodie··on Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
> What makes you think that companies would have been willing to make the effort to deploy "IPv4+" any more than IPv6?

I'm pretty sure that those who built new protocol were aware of this and were like "anyway we are gonna have to upgrade network devices. Why don't we build a new protocol while avoiding pitfalls of older one"

Any comittee that sat down to solve IPv4 issue would have thought of compatibility first.

I am shocked that so many people agree with OP's armchair solution here.

anthropodie··on Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool
If anyone is looking for boards then I recommend focalboard from mattermost
anthropodie··on Ask HN: How to overcome stage fear / social anxiety
I remember in earlier days of Tesla, Elon Musk was not really great at his presentation skills. Looking at him I was like I might just be able to pull off my presentations like him. Kinda helped with my confidence.

People really don't care. They might chuckle for a moment if you really goofed up but they forget very fast. It's us who amplify what others might be thinking. Someone said it rightly:

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

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