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Honestly the problem is hiring teams -- they have created this whole issue. They ask for a resume and cover letter. Fine. But don't make applicants put in the work if you're not even going to provide a response, or any sort of feedback -- even when the position stays open for months. The result is that people looking for jobs have to submit huge numbers of custom cover letters, and tweaked resumes, with no feedback, all within a vacuum. Hence the feeling that they need to "pump up" their resume, just to get over the initial gate.

The world is a better place for this app. Wonderful!

The fact that this won't go "web scale" seems to be its strength. The idea of local/human/authentic trust ecosystems is super powerful. "Proof of personhood" is fraught with issues, but it seems that lightweight trust algos like this do a nice job of treating trust as a human-first emergent thing, rather than trying to be a PKI style "infrastructure". Pretty cool!

Then, there's "VC twitter". . . .

I had to look. This tickled the copywriter in me: "Mission: To extend human reach by giving everyone the code to leverage their life." so you can leverage your life? never thought of that.

You really didn't want to see Titus Pullo fighting the Picts??

But I think the HBO series Rome captured exactly this, or at least as much as it could in brief span. The life and struggles of freemen and slaves, not just the emperor. One of the greatest TV series ever, and cut off in its prime after only 2 seasons. Full set of Rome built on Cinecittà studios!

I was at a bitcoin conference in 2018. One guy in the booth told me that the company had set up a $100M fund to fund startups that agreed to build apps on their blockchain. I wonder where they are now?

I just switched to Codex after using Claude Code (heavily). The main advantage is that usage/pricing is MUCH more transparent. It's slower but generally more thoughtful. Claude Code has that bad habit of slapping together duplicates, fallbacks, mock data. Thus far, Codex is doing a bit better, but I still use (and pay for) both.

Exactly what Buffett put into Bank of America in 2011. Not sure what that means, but. . . data points:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...

I always believed in Bryan, but the day i heard the buzzword "cloud repatriation", I know there was a market.

Me too! Much rather have herds of these than fleets of cybertaxis.

Attorney and legal commentator Tristan Snell, via X: "Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was financed by borrowing money. He used his Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock keeps crashing, the banks/creditors could repossess Twitter."

Totally! Probably for a restaurant menu or something. . . It also seems likely that they added Jeffrey Goldberg, (the Atlantic's editor-in-chief) to the chat as the outlet, so the whole thing would become public. . . .

This is a solved problem. My 2009 4Runner has the perfect temp control. I couldn't tell you how it works. But my hand knows. Which is perfect tool design.

Great article -- showcasing some stuff from the p99 conference. . . .

AND make front page on HN ftw. . . .

Not to mention the way these things burn. Basically an inferno. . .

What happens when the car starts making the decisions about where you're headed, or not headed? Oddly, "autonomous" now refers to he machine, not to the human. Palantir just started training Anthropic against secret government data. Isn't it easier to have your cybertaxi drive you to the authorities than for them to have to track you down?

SignPath has a demo of the Github actions mentioned in this post. Give it a try, we'd appreciate feedback.

https://github.com/SignPath/github-actions-demo

A whole generation of workers has never seen red numbers on their 401K statements.

Energy infrastructure, a market with massive multiples!

The three most beautiful names in English: Katherine, Elizabeth, Alexandra. Pure magic.

Tom Waits provides the template here. He successfully sued Cheetos for impersonation. The major similarity: Waits, like Johansson, declined an offer to use his voice in advertising.

It's about revenue recognition. TSLA has beaten estimates multiple times based on revenue recognized from FSD "Beta". There's your fraud.

worth looking into cathy wood's role in this respect. . .

More like Plato. But cybernetics and systems theory seem more apt models, and, most interestingly, they derive as much from anthropology as from math. . . .

I don't know. It likely goes much further back. The main problem is that there is no commonly accepted definition of "intelligence". So to add the modifier "artificial" (an equally fraught term) is just to muddle the topic.

"Artificial Intelligence" is in the end just a metaphor, one that folds quickly under scrutiny.

Why is this considered the "prehistory" of AI? It's the actual history of AI. . .

I naively opened an account in the US with a local credit union. Took a small loan. Turned out to be a bizarre experience. Before wiring money out of the account, I'd get sent over to a room, where a guy would ask, so, how's everything going? What's this wire for? etc.