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> That's the logic of the whole market today. AI – the world's money-losingest technology – attracts investment at the expense of everything else.

I expect Cory to have skepticism about technology that can be exploited for dystopian purposes, but calling AI "the world's money-losingest technology" is out of touch. If AI can support/replace some intellectual work, it'll be revolutionary, and that's what the investment bet is about.

I get that the blog post is making a separate point about Musk's companies but it's dissapointing to see mistakes like this in Cory's thinking

Software people are such a "DIY" crowd, that I think selling courses to us (or selling courses to our employers) is a crappy prospect. The hacker ethos is to build it yourself, so paying for courses seems like a poor mismatch.

I have a family member that produces training courses for salespeople; she's doing fantastic.

This reminds me of some similar startup advice of: don't sell to musicians. They don't have any money, and they're well-versed in scrappy research to fill their needs.

Finally, if you're against AI, you might have missed how good of a learning tool LLMs can be. The ability to ask _any_ question, rather than being stuck-on-video-rails, is huge time-saver.

This article makes sense when you figure out that the author's assumption is that vibe-coded == bad.

It sounds like this startup headed for closure anyway, with it's failing revenue, "At the same time, the current revenue projection calls for the end of the business within a few more months."

So, the vibe-coded app is a hail mary by the CEO / investors? If you're already just a few months from closing shop, maybe switching to a vibe-coded up saves you a ton of engineering headcount and gives you a chance? Changes the math on how you price the product?

Maybe slugs were meant for better things than engineering

how does the "smacking" work? Is there a VR integration? Is it just button-smashing? It's unclear just from looking at the website w/o signing up

Nice! When I was leaving a company after 4 years there, I went through jira + my git commits to write a log of everything I'd done. Really great look back.

This is a cool idea! So I think, unfortunately, you are competing with automated tools like https://poly.cam/ My cousin-in-law produces music videos, and he'll take a polycam of sports cars (or even people!) and add them to his videos, it's powerful and instantaneous. No 2-3 day wait time.

It's great that you're working on this. If you want to continue on this, I'd consider: - Cleaning up the design of the website-- it looks kind of crappy. Get an AI agent to clean it up for you, it's better to look like "generic professional website" rather than "crappy amateur". - Use the more common words for creating 3d models. A "Visit" sounds like an experience, but what you're really making is a "scene", or a "spatial capture", or a "floor plan". - Maybe try to figure out a niche. Is your niche that people can edit this the 3d object afterwards? Or is the niche integration with video games? You gotta find something that doesn't directly compete with polycam.

Yeah, and I have a similar experience watching junior devs try to get things working-- their errors can be excessively dumb :D

I mean, they were right to be fans of Sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere. And so far ahead of their time!

The personality metrics they're using are the Big-5. The Big 5 has good test-retest scores (if you take the test a month apart, you're likely to get the same scores). Big 5 is used in a ton of psychological studies now.

If I had to bet on nature vs nurture, I'd place bets on nature. Separated twin studies seem to suggest genes are a strong determiner. And if you've ever met a kid who stubbornly prefers to be introverted or extroverted-- it often has nothing to do with how adults are treating them.

Location: Corvallis, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Typescript, React, Webpack, git, Bootstrap Resume: http://www.peterconerly.com/ email: pconerly@gmail.com

Full stack engineer with 11 years of experience. Would love to join a small team working on a Saas product!

have you tried these EEG-based tools? They're difficult to pick up.

holy shit I love oligarchy now

And the average home in America is owned for what, like 5-7 years? If someone is moving out of the community, are they really going to ignore a windfall payment from a developer?

And how about estate sales? Are the out-of-state heirs going to care to who their parent's property is sold? Or are they just going to go for the top dollar?

This is absolutely a failure of management. Both the general management and _especially_ the engineering management.

Eng management needs to convey that this is an Achilles' heel that is important to understand & be able to update.

No engs want to work on perl5? Bribe existing employees, hire someone who wants to work on perl5, or a darker third option.

The product owner can even spin this as them doing a good thing to future-proof the business, even if it means their team loses velocity on other projects.

100% agree. One of my friends, in her first software engineering role, was handed a binder from 1987 and told to update some things.

Other coworkers had interacted with the system a little, but not extensively. It was a bunch of C for (rock & ore) mining software. It was intimidating and it took time, but she cracked it, and then happily (& justifiably) bragged that she added features to code that had been written before she was born!

Also x2, horses originated in North America! They came to eurasia over the bering land bridge!

So the horses that were released (and have thrived!) in north america are originally north american horses. It's part of why they do so well-- they can eat all of the native brush here. Whereas if a cow gets loose in n. america it's gonna poison itself.

https://awionline.org/content/wild-horses-native-north-ameri...

https://returntofreedom.org/new-research-proves-yet-again-th...

I mean, isn't the 40 columns the problem?

You might benchmark it against a couple other database flavors, I suspect most dbs would have issues, although maybe not the same issues as postgres

I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel and I was really convinced.

But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones in learning, gameplay and tasks.

If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming, I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.

(And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to expose people to programming.)

It's not loading for me :-/ the game sounds interesting from the rules listed.

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Yes! I'm looking forward to a return of the age of trade secrets, No patent system, just corporations doing their best to keep their arcane knowledge from prying hands. Very cyberpunk.

it's entered the tech vernacular :) do you grok it now?

Have you not worked the last five years? Tech companies are chock full of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" talks

If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... It's a decent article, and the few attempts at pearl-clutching fall pretty flat.

My only gripe with rationalists is that they suck at running their own conference, CFAR. (:

No way. I'm all for functioning businesses and getting things done. One of the (early) values of a company I worked at was "Make More Money" and it was awesome. MMM.

There's a lot of artificial and unnecessary stress produced by managers, produced by clients. When a deadline slips because estimates were wrong, managers can violate everyone's work life balance. Or they can scrum it and figure out what they can ship, or what new information came to light, and re-prioritize what to work on.

To give littlefish a fair shake at getting the Fibonacci sequence, you should give the input:

  1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55

which it does... kinda poorly with? It biases towards not growing fast enough.

  83.59 133.12 205.16 314.04 479.25

I was hoping this tool also solved a problem that comes from saving & reproducing JS-framework-heavy websites.

Here's the bug: According the HTML spec, elements like <h2> and <div> cannot be inside <a> tags. But using js you _can_ push <div>s instead of <a>s. (It happens from document.insert-type functions, frameworks like Angular/React allow this)

Look at nasa.gov, there's html:

  <a href="/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-next-spacex-commercial-crew-space-station-launch-0" date="Wed Mar 02 2022 10:35:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)" id="ember196" class="card ubernode cards--card cards--2row cards--2col nodeid-477815 ember-view"><div class="bg-card-canvas" style="background-image: url(/sites/default/files/styles/2x2_cardfeed/public/thumbnails/image/51846702013_a0cc55100a_k.jpeg);">
  <!---->    <h2 class="headline"> ...
    </h2>
  </div>
  </a>

After running this through SingleFile you can visually see the changes, but the html changes are:

  <a href="/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-next-spacex-commercial-crew-space-station-launch-0" date="Wed Mar 02 2022 10:35:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)" id="ember196" class="card ubernode cards--card cards--2row cards--2col nodeid-477815 ember-view"></a>
  <div class="bg-card-canvas" style="background-image: url(/sites/default/files/styles/2x2_cardfeed/public/thumbnails/image/51846702013_a0cc55100a_k.jpeg);">
  <h2 class="headline"> ...</h2>

The way that sites like Wayback Machine handle this is by using the web-replay library Wombat https://github.com/webrecorder/wombat that also uses JS to insert those elements.

But what the hell! I was working on a similar html-downloading/reproducing tool and this bug really bothers me. I'd either like the HTML reading standard to be updated to accept <div> inside of <a>, or also make that impossible to do via JS.

hmmm. Everything has a trade-off, including of risk. I think your blanket statement against geoengineering has got to be wrong.

Geoengineering is a broad category, and it'd probably be better if we split it into specific strategies.

Why are olivine beaches at least as likely to make the problem worse?

Why is injecting Sulfur dioxide in the upper atmosphere at least as likely to make the problem worse?

Why are shade satellites at least as likely to make the problem worse?

Are the risks associated with these strategies really worse than 2.7+ C of global warming?

shade satellites, let's go!

also, olivine beaches.

You should see a psychiatrist & a therapist, if your brain chemistry is off then there are interventions that can be done for it.

Yeah, like what else should I have been doing with my free time in middle & high school? Smoking pot and sneaking out at night?