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Well, first of all, Amp is opt-in. And second, indexing is opt-out. So the publishers are already in full control of how Google uses their content.

Svelte is more like a compiler than a library. The code you ship is plain JavaScript without any svelte dependency. That’s why svelte has always been simple and fast.

Weird conclusion. Power users are often groups of people operating under one account. (Motivations vary) not insane people.

Is a unified account important? For me, no, not really. In fact I think I’d prefer unique accounts per “subreddit”.

The way I see it, each “subreddit” is an independently run instance that I can authenticate with. Once it’s set up, my client handles the details of automatically authenticating me when I’m interacting with that instance. I’m imagining it securely stores the domain and token for each “subreddit”, though admittedly I haven’t given it any real thought.

As long as every instance is using some standardized protocol / API you’re set. A system like this is not only dead simple, but it opens up the potential for all sorts of really amazing frontend clients.

In addition to that, each instance could have a lot of control over which features they’d like to expose. For example, whether or not downvotes are allowed. They’d also be able to monetize in a lot of unique and interesting ways that aren’t possible on a centralized platform.

> What an absurd practice.

Indeed. If it takes 5 interviews after 4 hours of remote interviewing your hiring process is completely broken. Giant red flag.

Yes. That’s why UBI is a neat idea as a replacement or enhancement for welfare, and other social services. That’s not the context in which we’re discussing it though. We’re discussing it as an alternative to work in a world where almost all human jobs have been automated. In that context it’s not a good solution, and in fact it’s dangerous because it leaves everyone reliant (and obedient) to the government, and a select few mega corps.

As soon as you rely on UBI to live you’ve lost all control of your own life. Your a child with an allowance. The state has absolute authority over you.

The government is already controlled and influenced primarily by nefarious interests. I can’t even begin to imagine how nasty it gets when the entire population relies on them for mere sustenance.

Today you need a trained person to guide it. However I’m not convinced that will remain true in the future.

The validation of work is interesting. It does seem essential but it also occurs to me that this would be an absolutely horrible and tedious job. I wonder who would actually be interested in, for example, spending 8 hours a day code reviewing a an AI’s output?

“Take it seriously” to me means that I’m using AI to be more productive while simultaneously preparing for a future where I can house and feed my family without relying on being employed as a knowledge worker. What exactly that looks like, I’m still not certain.

> so I figure I had better be the expert

Be an expert at what? Prompting AI to do things? There will be little to no expertise needed in the future as these tools evolve. That’s precisely what makes AI so disruptive. A basic set of instructions can be used to create something that previously would have took an entire team of skilled specialists to produce.

Sure, there will always be some experts, but these jobs will be few and far between, and they’ll be much more academic in nature. Having a job like this will be a luxury only a tiny percentage of the earths population will enjoy.

The only real question at this point is how fast will AI move to automate all of these jobs away. It could be 5 years it could be 20.

The jobs left in the wake of AI won’t require much education, skill, or talent, meaning they’ll be extremely low paying because almost anyone will be able to do them.

Capitalism is too broad a term to be useful in these conversations.

At it’s core capitalism just means that private individuals can own property, instead of the state owning everything. Which is absolutely critical for a free society. It’s paramount that individuals not be dependant on a ruling class for survival.

Millennial here. By grade 6 (11-12 yrs. old) everyone I can remember walked to and from school. Often with groups of friends. In the evenings my friends and I were free to do whatever we liked unsupervised as long as we were home by sun down. Typically we’d never venture out more than maybe a 15 minute walk from home though.

It sounds like you can’t either. Do you have an example to share?

Yes, it changed his job in to something a 6th grader could do with little to no training. In other words, it’s now a meaningless, low-value job that won’t pay well.

Life is always better than death. If things really do get bad, you won’t be alone. Take solace in the fact that there will be a huge community of people in the same boat as you with whom you can connect and work with.

It’s an interesting idea, but I’m not convinced the average person has any interest in texting or talking out loud to their device to complete all their computing tasks. It’s slower for most things.

Also I think there will be little interest in delegating that level of control to a single source for anything that’s important. For example, say I’ve got 5k to spend on home theatre gear, why on earth should I trust Shopify’s AI to suggest what I need and find the best price? The incentives aren’t in alignment.

What on earth are you talking about? I’ve been in the industry a really long time and have never seen anyone actually pair program. The entire concept of pair programming is silly. If anything it’s ear phones on and don’t bug me.

This works well. I’ve been in the industry about 20 years now and every job I’ve taken has had a short interviewing process followed by a probationary period, and then a full time offer is made after the probationary period.

I’ve only seen this approach fail once, and it wasn’t that big a deal, because very little time was sunk in to hiring the employee that had to be let go. At most a day or two was lost on-boarding.

I mean, I was pretty clearly talking about the future, and not the present.

The unique hard-won skills are what AI can do on the cheap. The more high-level interesting stuff is just creativity, and creativity is a universal human trait. It’s amazing but low value (monetarily).

As you often hear on HN, ideas are a dime a dozen it’s all about execution.

Well we’re rapidly approaching the time when the execution is essentially free, and done faster and better than humans.

A small team of four, over an afternoon, can literally just speak with the computer to generate a new TV ad, or develop a new sass product. There is no longer any skill required, just imagination. The problem being of course that the skills and specialized knowledge are what people have been traditionally paid for.

With all that “work” out of the way there’s not much value anyone can add . You’re probably not any smarter or creative than whoever’s manning the machine.

With a few exceptions, using an LLM to perform a useful service is something that almost anyone will be able to do. Therefore these jobs will be not pay well.

The quality is alarmingly bad. I get occasional notifications from the Medium app suggesting programming articles on their platform. They usually go ignored but recently I’ve checked a few out. What I saw was really bad advice, plain falsehoods, and grade-school level coding. The only positive thing I saw is that at least the comments were full of people calling out how bad the article was.

It undoubtedly varies based on local law and landlord, but where I’m from, as a renter you can typically put as many holes in the walls as you want as long as you properly patch them up when you move out. Same goes for painting and other modifications.

I think everyone is aware of those additional revenue streams. For the vast majority of content creators they’re a tiny drop in the bucket and the real money is still overwhelmingly in YouTube placed ads.

Op suggested advertising hasn’t been the revenue model for creators in 10 years which, upon further research is plainly false. He completely made up the claim in an effort to justify his use of ad block.

By blocking ads you’re harming content creators, it’s really that simple. Blocking ads on indie content is nothing short of theft as far as I’m concerned.

Interesting. Can you elaborate? Last I heard creator revenue is a direct result of total ad views. A quick google search would seem to confirm this is still the case.

I couldn’t do that. There are some amazing content creators on YouTube, and to deny them of ad revenue for their hard work would feel very wrong.

When it stops being a lucrative pattern for harvesting emails. Unfortunately.

Little snitch is top notch software. Can’t recommend enough.

Something like Alpine JS or similar would make sense for a project like that.

https://alpinejs.dev/

What happens when the battery no longer holds a charge? Are they able to replace them or do you have to toss them in the trash?

I’ve been avoiding these because they seem like wasteful fast fashion. I imagine having to throw them out in ~2-3 years, where as my over ear Beyers will likely last the rest of my life.

Good art (regardless of medium) is fundamentally about communication. It allows us to communicate ideas and emotions in abstract ways bypassing the limitations of language. Computer generated art can’t accomplish that. I don’t see any real threat here to artists.

Granted, computers can certainly generate something that looks cool or just pleasing to the eye. Something you might want to hang up on your wall or something to add a splash of colour to the room. In that respect I suppose there’s some limited threat.