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You don’t need a high school degree for those jobs either. Hamlet and biology isn’t needed day to day at most workplaces

If you say the problem is social class and poverty, and not having available role models to show how adult life actually works, you’ll get flamed and trolled. If you say the problem is racial issues, you’ll get upvotes. I’ll just sit here and await my downvotes now

It’s the opposite. Being contrarian is free karma, generally. The downvotes come from picking unpopular positions, whether you’re wright or wrong. I used to get downvoted a lot when talking to people about privacy, but now those sorts of posts get upvotes. Times and prevailing opinions change

But then they take you over the data harvesting coals

Make a good website; try to get graphic and Ux designers on board so it won’t be fugly; then contact people, one at a time, using personalized emails. They’ll agree to be on there. Eventually you’ll hit enough of a critical mass that people will start signing themselves up somehow, or asking to be on there. How do you verify? How do you keep spam out? You can figure that out next year or the year after.

Then figure out why a person might want to visit your site. Curiosity? Interest in a person? To learn if a foss project is any good? To see who has traction to decide what to contribute to? Something else?

Bonus points: a podcast with interviews with various community leaders; or try to encourage a volunteer to do such a thing. And try to get on other pro open source podcasts. I bet companies like purism would love any free publicity they can get

Then, I’d you catch on, years from now, look out for Microsoft trying to crush you via some competing index tied to GitHub. Try to avoid the temptation to be acquired by Microsoft. Try to set up your company in a way that convinces foss people that this can never happen, Eg, put some fsf people on the board or something?

Lastly, to make the gnu people happy, make your website usable without proprietary JavaScript and consider open sourcing your client and server code. After all, the valuable thing you hold isn’t the site or tech: it’s the network and traction you build

More likely that it will bury everyone else who isn’t spamming

We’ll, that would help their agents afford rent I guess

I’m not sure about that. It sounds like both to me. I read that some people use generated speech with strong accents to mask that it’s ai. But who knows in this case. Either way, it’s not very pleasant to listen to

Good point

And would killer a lot of birds too; in a national park no less

Why do you think artists will be the ones to use ai to create art? Rather than big tech and clusters of corporate ais working together?

A machine owned by a corporation is not a person. They don’t get the same rights as people

Take Banff for instance: it’s in a national park and is legally restricted from growing much more. You could approve more building, but then more people would move in until prices were high again. The area is so appealing that no matter how much housing there was, people would flood in until it became saturated again. Unless you ruined it, bulldozed the forests for 100km in every direction, covered the area in housing—that would do the trick. But who wants that?

In a couple of cases, building more housing isn’t the ideal solution

Very interesting!

Quick (but difficult) question: do you foresee there arising a reasonably reliable way to filter out the coming wave of ai spam? I’m told that half of Twitter is bots talking to each other at this point, and I’m sure this is coming to other media as well. Eg, massive, massive waves of content marketing, sock puppets, etc.

Is there reason to be optimistic that you or other actors will be able to sift through it?

It’s almost like they hire exclusively for your ability to leetcode rather than trying to hire people who can produce software

Maybe the ai teams were too busy keeping up to date with their tree reversals to read those textbooks on their nights off

I actually heard somebody say gcp was going to be shuttered, didn’t verify, and just assumed it wasn’t going to be around for long. Now I assume what I read was nonsense, but it’s worth noting how non-suspicious of it I was when I read it

1. Train an ai on everyone’s data

2. Try to replace everyone, and their companies too, but do it quietly

3. Try to sell ai tools to make those companies dependent on you, until your super ai can replace them completely

That’s true of all knowledge organizational structures though. Even with composition, you end up with hierarchies that later you might turn on their heads, and also, those structures might end up being cyclical.

Paradigm shifts happen and shake up even loosely organized into structures like human perception, and most people’s perceptions aren’t trees

You can have encapsulation without oop. Polymorphism is the real benefit of oop imho

Explain?

Everyone here is so anti-copyright and pro piracy.

What about independent filmmakers? Should film distribution be free so that they, like musicians, have to go on tour in person to make money from their films?

And by the way, why does everyone in here think it’s reasonable for musicians to be forced to go on tour in person to make money with their music? What if the musician isn’t an extroverted attention-seeking performer type? Is the work of those people worthless?

Not that it matters. A flood of ai generated junk is about to hit us all and completely drown out everything made by people. The only winners will be big tech investors

And again with the anti copyright sentiment: everyone seems fine with scraping the works of humans to train ais which will replace them. Maybe you feel that way because you can already retire off your Silicon Valley total comp?

Then again, Amazon likes to take open source projects and monetize them so cheaply via aws at scale that it drives the creators out of business. And authors need ip protection to keep some random Amazon like printing press company from stealing almost all their revenue from books they write because they just have better distribution and marketing

(unless authors are supposed to make almost 100% of their incomes from touring and live shows, as the overwhelming sentiment on hn is towards musicians)

MIPS is great. You can learn it in great depth and fully understand the whole microprocessor while compacting it into a single class. You can make your own adder and multiplier with logic gates. It’s a scope that you can actually master

In the USA, anyone can be an engineer. All they require is the will to call themselves an engineer. (Except for a few specific types). Eg, customer service engineers are now a thing

Wouldn’t that be interesting. Snatch up a privacy friendly analytics company and some forum plugins while they’re at it to help people more easily create non-creepy online communities using their tech The all in one solution for being a good digital citizen?

The world where everyone can easily have their own webpage without it being a Facebook or LinkedIn page

I rather like standard notes, personally. I also enjoy obsidian

I use fastmail because at the time it had calendar and contacts, and proton at the time didn’t. Otherwise I’d use proton for the extra privacy (Eg, company isn’t in Australia)

The government is passing a law that says only company x make saws, due to various patents making it unrealistic to make your own design. They’re outlawing competition. Unless every relevant patent is opened up, this is extreme regulatory capture and is going to be a price gouging patent licensing circus after it passes

This should be the top comment

But what if they said “unexpected complications arose” and “the release “got delayed due to a legal situation”?

Easy.