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Looks like they forgot to scrub an old confirmation page too - I can still join Google+! https://www.google.com/toolbar/ie/done.html

Google Toolbar is back, baby!

Found a $1.99 app for Apple TV that's pretty good. Now "screen saver" for downstairs television. Will play around with a spare Pi when time permits. There appear to be several options out there. A fun waste of an hour.

Damn you HN, I went down the rabbit hole on Geochron. No, I don't need this. Yes, I want it, but not the old version - this one: https://www.geochron.com/product/geochron-digital-atlas-2/

Certainly someone has hacked/recreated this with a Raspberry Pi. I must now go waste a weekend...

From my experience in general aviation, I've never met anyone who intentionally turned off their ADSB. It is generally wired into the transponder, and the bulk of air traffic worldwide happens where a transponder is practically required. Yes, it is technically not needed but you can't get help from ATC, can't fly instruments in the clouds, and you can't fly high.

Sure, it can happen but these are edge cases. Space-based ADSB solves this problem with a fraction of the effort and much better data. Spooks might need this for military stuff, but for the bulk of planes, it doesn't make sense.

It was meant to be an open-source compilation of the crawled internet so that research could be done on web search given how opaque Google's process is. It was NOT meant to be a cheap source of data for for-profit LLM's to train on.

*edit: added "for-profit"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

So then copyrighted content scraped is not needed for training? Guess I missed AGI suddenly appearing that reasoned things out all by itself.

Yeah, probably right. If you want a great rabbit hole, look up "Common Crawl" and see how a great academic project was absolutely hijacked for pennies on the dollar to grab training data - the foundation for every LLM out there right now.

They might get into the micro-licensing game too. More power to them.

25% of the top 1000 websites are blocking OpenAI from crawling: https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking

I am betting hundreds of thousands, rising to millions more little sites, will start blocking/gating this year. AI companies might license from big sources (you can see the blocking percentage went down), but they will be missing the long tail, where a lot of great novel training data lives. And then the big sites will realize the money they got was trivial as agents start to crush their businesses.

Bill Gross correctly calls this phase of AI shoplifting. I call it the Napster-of-Everything (because I am old). I am also betting that the courts won't buy the "fair use" interpretation of scraping, given the revenues AI companies generate. That means a potential stalling of new models until some mechanism is worked out to pay knowledge creators. (And maybe nothing we know of now will work for media: https://om.co/2024/12/21/dark-musings-on-media-ai/)

Oh, and yes, I love generative AI and would be willing to pay 100x to access it...

P.S. Hope is not a strategy, but hoping something like ProRata.ai and/or TollBits can help make this self-sustainable for everyone in the chain

One of my favorite books. The Information is also excellent. Time to fire up DOSBox.

I wish there were some way to get something like Polis (https://pol.is/home) in place for web results. As screwed us as X/Twitter is, Community Notes (Polis-based) has real potential. It is much harder to game. There are so many times I wish I could "downvote" garbage Google results, and it seems to me with a good trust algorithm that, those who did this responsibly would be considered pretty good gatekeepers. Absent that, chaos might be better than a committee choosing for us. Right now, we have the worst of all worlds - a committee (Google) vs. a gagillion spammers.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Also, African and European swallows...

OP: I don't sell digital courses, have a podcast, or influence much of anyone, according to my kids. I just love small business (well, business in general). There are certain people, processes, and tools that work well for SMBs that don't in the enterprise. And enterprise stuff rarely work in SMBs.

This all started with a friend of the family who asked for advice on payroll systems (love Gusto) and then a few months later, this was written. Most of it is based on the tons of mistakes I've made so hopefully, this helps a few people with filtering through to what has worked. For us, at least.

It will be regularly updated so feedback is appreciated as I'd love to add the wisdom of others. Thanks!

Zeihan is as critical of the United States as anyone. He’s just more critical of China and Russia. While capital may always chase cheap labor, his point is that it may not be able to in a fractured economic and security environment. It’s gonna be a hell of a decade.

All hail Pud

State and local jurisdictions are even worse. It is nearly impossible to see what lawsuits someone has been involved with. I have no idea how anyone could truly do a national search of every county courthouse. All if them are behind paywalls or on paper.

I’m from Sylacauga. This is our claim to fame. All I can say is I’m glad it didn’t hit the woman from BC. Mostly because I don’t want anyone to get hurt. But I’d be lying if it weren’t a little bit about losing our bit of trivia!

Wish we would have known about this years ago. One search would have prevented the hire is someone that ended up costing us a ton of money. Most background searches don’t get local or state court cases like this without major expense that small businesses can’t afford.

PACER fees are high, but at least federal records are centralized. Try searching for lawsuits at the local level. To my knowledge there is no online service at any cost that lets one hunt for civil actions. This is how the legal systems stays obfuscated for the average citizen.

Some of my own code did all of this all by itself...

Yep. UBeam. Wonder what is left of all that money?

Whatever happened to that company trying to transmit power via ultrasound?

Jimmy and misunderstandings kinda clash

Now contains 100% less radium...

Makes me think of line from fuckedcompany.com during Bubble 1.0: “You can have my Aeron when you pry it from my cold, dead ass”

Disney owns ESPN. Notice this was done by Disney and NOT ESPN. This is another shot across the bow of other sports networks given how much BAM already controls of digital rights - and cord cutting is rolling along...

There is a reason most banks exclude government receivables from line of credit borrowing bases. It is a legitimate market, but it is hiding in red tape and not plain sight.