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jazzdevon 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

This reminds me a sexual harassment training class I had to take at a startup decades ago. [They actually called it that too, like they were training us how to sexually harass!] We learned about something called the equal opportunity jerk defense. If you could prove you were an asshole to everyone, then you weren't guilty of sexual harrassment.

jazzdevon GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

In the last few weeks Claude (Sonnet) has told me “I don’t know” 3 different times. That seems like the solution to hallucinations and it’s already happening.

jazzdevon This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

I think Poe's Law applies to Shakespeare too. I recently saw Taming of the Shrew and people are still arguing about whether Shakespeare was endorsing Petruchio's starvation of Katherine to make her obey him. Or was that sarcasm, actually condemning that behavior? If only Will had used a smiley face!

jazzdevon Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

YouTube seems less of a social media site than Facebook and Twitter to me. But maybe that's because I mostly use it for educational content also. I want a good recommendation engine, but I don't care what videos my friends and neighbors are watching.

jazzdevon I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

Makes me thing I need a new email template

"Try this one thing: ....

If you are a detail-oriented person, you could also save us both some time and try these things also ..."

jazzdevon Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data

A post to HN with a query for how to get in touch with a16z engineering probably would have been fruitful.

jazzdevon In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

What biased agenda do you see in this article?

jazzdevon In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

Yes, it's not guarantee, but it is one good data source for predicting the future.

See Rule 5 in https://hbr.org/2007/07/six-rules-for-effective-forecasting

jazzdevon In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

TLDR: "The future is bigger than we can imagine.

Change is equally hard to comprehend. Two centuries ago, 80 percent of the U.S. population worked on farms. If you told one of those farmers that in 2024 barely 1 percent of the population would work on farms, he'd have a difficult time imagining what the other 79 percent of the population would do with their time. If you then tried to explain what an average income could purchase in the way of a Netflix subscription, airplane transportation, and a car, he'd think you were insane. The same principle applies to imagining life 50 years from now."

jazzdevon NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

Richard Hanania's substack is intellectual, non-partisan and conservative.

jazzdevon Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?

> If an insider with confidentiality obligations shares material non-public information with a person who has no confidentiality obligation, and that person trades on that information, that would be insider trading.

Is this transitive? If the person with no confidentiality tells a 3rd person and that 3rd person trades, is that still insider trading?

jazzdevon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

Rent seeking implies using laws or market power to profit without providing any value. Depending upon your assets and investments, you may well be providing value to companies and society.

jazzdevon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

I'm not recommending this as a strategy, but someone I trust told me this story.

They were a hiring manager. Candidate looked good on paper. Invited for on-site interview. At the on-site, the candidate didn't want to answer questions. They just stated that their race and gender were discriminated against in this field and if they weren't offered the job, then they would sue. My friend consulted with their boss and the lawyers and they decided to offer the person the job. They were qualified and they turned out to be good at the job.

jazzdevon New Net Neutrality Rules Could Threaten Popular Services

TLDR:

These new rules could put T-Mobile's Binge On package on the chopping block. This deal exempts YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Sling, ESPN, SHOWTIME, Starz, and others from counting toward the data cap on all T-Mobile phone plans.

Cox Communications' "Elite Gamer" service could also be cut.

When net neutrality was introduced, people feared that ISPs would become a major source of censorship. That hasn't happened. Why revive the rules now?

jazzdevon TPG, Francisco to take software firm New Relic private in $6.5B deal

What do you read between the lines here? TPG thinks New Relic management isn't doing a good job and TPG thinks they can restructure the company and make it significantly (>15%) more profitable?

jazzdevon Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

Yeah, that was interesting take... that the actual smart kids are there to make the rich kids look smart.

jazzdevon Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

I think getting rid of this will cause more disparity in the outcomes. Rich parents can afford tutors and poor parents can't, so poor kids come out even worse off.

jazzdevon Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

TLDR: Despite stealing Okta's source code, attackers did not gain unauthorized access to the Okta service or customer data, says the company. Okta's "HIPAA, FedRAMP or DoD customers" remain unaffected as the company "does not rely on the confidentiality of its source code as a means to secure its services." As such, no customer action is needed.

jazzdevon Why is it so hard to give Google money?

Why doesn't iOS support "Send straight to voicemail any caller not any my address book" ?

jazzdevon Mourning loss as a remote team

I don't think of it as virtue signal as much as it is community building, which certainly has a reproductive advantage if the community is stronger because of it.

jazzdevon Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Did Instagram avoid that fate by never allowing porn in the first place?

jazzdevon 4 Years After the FCC Repealed Net Neutrality, the Internet Is Better Than Ever

"the internet is better and faster for basically everybody than it was when net neutrality ended—in fact, it's better and faster than at any point in the past."

Were we wrong about net neutrality?

jazzdevon 100 years of whatever this will be

The notion of "using force" to get someone to agree is interesting.

If someone wants to pay me $X for Y. Then you think there's force involved there somewhere? If is X is too large, is that force? If I'm very poor and will accept a really low X, is that force?

jazzdevon Ask HN: Writing fiction – what topic or genre would you pick?

I think I might pick fan fiction. I'd like craft a story that somehow ties together Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars.

jazzdevon Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

I guess not. Github terms[1]:

Actions should not be used for: - any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-f...

jazzdevon Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

So GitHub Actions is essentially a free server to run any background cron jobs I want?

jazzdevon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

DocuSign | SDET, Frontend, Backend | Full-Time | Onsite / Remote | Seattle

My team at DocuSign is looking for someone that enjoys waking up in the morning to see the results of last night's test run. And loves tuning those tests to work hard all night while we're sleeping.

Primary Tech: C# / Selenium / Jenkins / Powershell

New opening, not yet on our web site. Email me - address in profile.

DocuSign also has over 100 other open engineering positions worldwide:

https://www.docusign.com/company/careers/open-positions?keyw...

jazzdevon U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year. [1]

1 = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.h...

jazzdevon Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

This story was on the Freakonomics podcast too. It definitely seems like a bubble, but there's no external pressure to make the bubble pop. With the mortgage crisis, eventually, people can't make the mortgage payments and the bubble bursts. But with people happily spending money on ads that don't work, there's no external pressure to stop. Will this bubble ever burst?