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The critic I see most frequently on the unprofitability of AI is Ed Zitron. I am sincerely curious if he shorted Facebook's, Amazon's, or Google's stocks. Or if he's in index funds which have tech stocks like those.

For example: I have index funds which have some of these stocks. So I, by process of revealed-preference, don't think it's a bubble, or I think I will keep my money in through the bubble's pop. I don't have that much else to say!

For the record: I would respect the creator of this site equally or more if he/she said, "I'm shorting these stocks and this is why."

The difference between say a think tank and an advocacy organization like "reclaimthenet.org" is a think tank hopefully feels obligated to think about, and pitch, a solution to the identified problem (spam calls).

Obviously reclaimthenet.org can post whatever they want on their site.

I'm curious about requiring all phone calls except to emergency services to cost a tenth of a cent. Or some amount that permits desired robocalling (prescription drug reminders for those not on the 'net) and excises spam calls.

I'd be curious why user NaOH chose to submit this. I'll offer a justification: it is notable that a car company lists all (I assume?) its past products, giving equal visual weight to the F50 (lauded today) and Mondial 8 (not lauded). By contrast, it's hard to find Ford talking about the Pinto: https://www.google.com/search?q=pinto+site%3Aford.com

I point to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Those are all situationally-valid criticisms, but I've long thought the ability to have smartphones' cameras cryptographically sign photos is good when available. The use case is demonstrating a photo wasn't doctored, and that it came from a device associated with e.g. a journalist, who maintains a public key. Of course, it should be optional.

The cynical take is: the AI doesn't know you-the-blog-post-author made TimescaleDB unless you tell it!

In terms of that example: they should link to how they got those numbers, and it should state the benchmark used, the machines used, what they controlled for etc.

Apart from the style of the prose, which is my subjective evaluation: This blog post is "a view from nowhere." Tiger Data is a company that sells postgres in some way (don't know, but it doesn't matter for the following): they could speak as themselves, and compare themselves to companies that sell other open source databases. Or they could showcase benchmarks _they ran_.

Them saying: "What you get: pgvectorscale uses the DiskANN algorithm (from Microsoft Research), achieving 28x lower p95 latency and 16x higher throughput than Pinecone at 99% recall" is marketing unless they give how you'd replicate those numbers.

Point being: this could have been written by an LLM, because it doesn't represent any work-done by Tiger Data.

The font color implies this comment is downvoted, but I earnestly encourage readers to take very seriously the difference in SLOs and SLAs between high-cost vendors like AWS and GCP and low-cost vendors like DigitalOcean. Read their docs; do not assume DO is "the same, but lower cost."

Alternative introduction: https://pbc.gov/mousercise/

Palm Beach County Library's Web 1.0 introduction to using the mouse. I enjoyed clicking.

Posting a quick TL;DW. A minute into the video Chuck Moore says that Windows updates (on 11 and 10) have caused colorForth to crash, with Chuck thinking it's a graphical problem. I may comment more, but I wanted to post this because I don't see it mentioned as a youtube comment.

Related: Oxide's podcast, "Whither CockroachDB," which reflects on experience with postgres at Joyent, then the choice to use cockroach in response to prior experiences with postgres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

I'm trying to avoid editorializing in my above summary, for fear of mischaracterizing their opinions or the current state of postgres. Their use of postgres was 10 years ago, they were using postgres for a high-availability use case -- so they (and I) don't think "postgres bad, cockroach good." But like Bryan Cantrill says, "No one cares about your workload like you do." So benchmark! Don't make technical decisions via "vibes!"

As the complaint says on page 4: https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf

Deel was founded in 2019 and, in Rippling's opinion, began competing with Rippling in 2022.

We need a different word than "hallucinate" or "bullshit" because the LLM is executing the same functionality when it _gets_ the correct answer or incorrect. It doesn't _know_ the correct answer in either case.

It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase.

I haven't paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I would have said these are advertisements. I don't dislike sustainability, but I thought those function as advertisements because you can expect to get more sustainability "for free" over time, because of many things (Moore's Law, ephemeralization, societal investment). So of course savvy corporations publish sustainability reports that say, "We're doin' great : )."

Therefore I'd argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclosure of the increase.

I don't want to fill out your contact form

Yes -- and companies or governments don't want to be _contacted_ by you. It's a cost to them. The median "contact us for a sales quote" form is clearer and has less friction than the median "file a complaint / ask a question" form.

One reason not in the article people might use forms instead of email is the "set and setting" of being a guest on a website and filling out their form. When in "your" email inbox as opposed to on "someone else's" site, you may conduct yourself differently.

An example of this is the sometimes-onerous Github issue template questions. I'm not arguing they're not necessary, but they do two things: mandate required information and _imply_ that you are a guest and you must hold yourself to someone else's communication norms.

Thank you! Will look!

I pay for Youtube Premium, which uses third-party cookies to not show ads on embedded videos.

https://privacysandbox.com talks about advertising, but not "logged in elsewhere" functionality. Does Youtube or Google have something ready, or will all Youtube Premium subscribers see ads on embedded videos?

Transfer fees and title fees equally affect any buyer and any seller in the long run, don't they?

Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential buyers and sellers of that same property at the same price.

Sure -- this is why I was asking for examples. "Rich people having more options than poor people" (which is what I think 1031 exchanges and your nod to capital gains refers to) is true across all domains without exception. It's true that I tend to discount that, acknowledging its unfairness. My point was prices are public(!), and historic sale-prices are public(!). A _particular_ (rich) buyer may have individual reasons for buying a house, but the market is almost perfectly competitive, because prices are public.

I'll try to invoke Cunningham's Law by saying: Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market.

I think the above is true, but I'd welcome counterexamples.

So, the way to depress housing prices is to build more houses. _Most_ housing regulations, including making it illegal for people to own four houses, reshuffle the ownership of existing houses, and don't depress their prices. As regards that regulation: if the super-rich aren't able to own $many houses, the merely-rich will buy more, and thus housing prices would be the same.

This is not the answer to your question, but it is what HN has to say about submitting paywalled links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

To the commenters saying, "So what?" I would suggest thinking of instances other than distant political targets.

I in fact searched for "chloroform" because I wanted to read the Wikipedia page. Imagine I'm accused of a crime I _didn't_ commit, and my Google searches p-hack into a pattern. This hypothetical recalls the excellent "Don't talk to the police": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

For the record, the Dilbert comic[0] whence "here's a nickel, kid" mentions Unix, not Linux. macOS is a certified Unix.

Accordingly, Macs c/o Unix have been used to perform real work for decades.

Even so Don Norman, Apple Fellow, wrote the forward to the Unix Hater's Handbook. I say this to say there's serious thought behind Apple's OSes _pre-Unix_ and criticism of Unix. (See e.g. John Siracusa's encomia to the spatial Finder).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/z96dZ0x.jpg

But they do need to expand to feed the monster.

Take that as given, it still doesn't explain why, among all business opportunities, Apple picked 1 An area they had little experience in 2 That already serves its customers well 3 That is according to OP low margin.

On (2): Cell phones in 2005 were way worse than Netflix, HBO, ESPN were when Apple would have been market-researching Apple TV+.

I don't know the source for the above stat, but for another frequently-mentioned one, "40% of Americans can't cover a $400 unexpected expense" it looks like the fed accounted for that:

When faced with a hypothetical expense of $400, 63 percent of all adults in 2022 said they would have covered it exclusively using cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement (referred to, altogether, as “cash or its equivalent”). The remainder said they would have paid by borrowing or selling something, or said they would not have been able to cover the expense.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2022-repor...

https://archive.ph/y77f8

Irrelevant compliment: I'm impressed by your idea and execution of gitbook-as-blog! (Or if your gitbook is your homepage and your substack is your blog, gitbook-as-homepage.) Nice taxonomies, information-dense: https://www.bhavaniravi.com/

The commenter probably meant this coincident submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581

That they both involve Saturns delights and confounds!

Stylitics | Clojure Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote, East Coast or US-timezones preferred, NYC HQ | https://www.stylitics.com

Stylitics is a fast-growing retail B2B SaaS company with HQ in New York City & a global remote engineering team. We take retailers product feeds (mostly but not at all exclusively apparel) and turn them into shoppable outfits/bundles that our clients can showcase to their customers on their sites, apps, marketing emails, ads, etc. We drive customer engagement & purchase lift and need more engineers to expand both our frontend client-customer facing products, and our backend automation, data analysis, and content curation workflows.

Job board: https://boards.greenhouse.io/stylitics

Clojure Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/stylitics/jobs/6107241002

Stack is clojure, clojurescript, postgres, redis, ansible, solr, GCP.

The job as-written is mid-level, but you should apply if you are senior, too. I (a hiring manager) am interested in tracking HN applicants separately, so please send me (matt@stylitics.com) an email when you apply. Just a one-liner "I'm Rich Hickey and I applied via HN" is all you need, but feel free to say more.

Is clojure the newest popular-language-you-can-get-a-job-in? It's initial release was 2007.

Rust (2010) (edit Kotlin (2011) perhaps), but point being there aren't many newer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...

That metric is subjective and arbitrary, but it's on my mind because my company is hiring for clojure developers (see my immediate comment history & apologies for the advertisement).

And it's on my mind because common lisp and scheme are _old_.

One of the nicer things about clojure is relatively frequent mentions of how common lisp did things, then a choice to hew or differ. And common lisp and the lisp family of languages have a long history. I like this as an art-piece of lisp's age: http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Lisp-code-typography/in...