The scary part of this being possible is that I would think AI could do what he is doing even better than him, and at that point there will be a service where you can upload any photo and get it's location. This seems like it will be abused, and I dont see what can be done about it.
A research team led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College, found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter—now known as X—nearly half of Twitter users identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform. These active users, which the researchers called “Environmental Twitter,” were defined as posting on the topic at least once in a 15-day period.
Norway has a "tender" system (not sure if that is the right word) where the public entity create a list of requirements and firms bid on getting the contract. Doing some research it seems that there were few bidders and in the end only Epic:
To me this system just seems destined to fail because there is no chance the public entity is able to write comprehensive requirements. Creating the bid is also a huge undertaking, and large suppliers and consulting companies will have a large edge by having experience with creating such systems and with creating bids, so they usually win. I dont know how to solve this though.
Norway has recently changed our health software to Epic and it has been a huge failure. Pretty much everyone using it seem to be very unhappy. One of the many complains is that it just doesn't fit the Norwegian system since we have free healthcare while Epic is based on the American insurance system. Interesting to hear that it doesn't work well in the US either.
I actually think it might. My experience is that the people who pay to get their replies to the top do it either because they have something to sell, or because they agree with Elon's politics. So the result is that every tweet I view have pretty much the same low quality answers on the top. That has made the experience much worse for me, and I personally would quit if there were a good enough alternative.
It also depends on how you define "killed". I dont think twitter will be gone, but there is a chance it will become a lot more similar to truth social or parler.
Do you think Hackernews would do better or worse if they introduced a paid tier that put your comment above others every time?
One thing he has done is push the paid replies to the top of every tweet. So now every tweet is full of low quality replies at the top and you have to scroll to find the higher quality ones below.
His family origins? You mean being the son of a politician who was staunchly against the vietnam war? To the point that he was honoured by the Vietnamese post war?
The same Jens Stoltenberg who was against and protested the american war against Iraq from the beginning?
As a Norwegian I have never voted for Jens Stoltenberg or his party, I am slightly more to the center in our politics. However I find the patreon article dishonest and completely speculative. It has no evidence whatsoever just tries to paint normal things in a conspiratorial light.
Its a result of a lot of trial and error and finding better way of doing things. I dont think anyone likes it, but its byproduct of moving fast and of requirements changing.
Personally I think the web-frontend ecosystem is getting closer to stabilizing. For example React has not been changing much recently in its API and most of its development happens under the hood. A counterexample right now is bundlers. Webpack was the king for a long time, but it has gained more and more features and the code bases it is working on are bigger so its getting slow and complex. Competitors like esbuild and vite that are simpler and faster are popping up. However this is not the fault of webpack but simply that the requirements has changed so much and webpack always had to follow the requirements. Now that the requirements are starting to stabilize new alternatives can be built that can skip all the cruft.
I find it interesting how people in this thread are praising python frameworks for being so stable, I'm in my mid thirties and I clearly remember a time when they weren't.
I am a self taught programmer who first learned python and then learned Haskell. A lot of concepts in python were difficult when I was new and the same is true for Haskell. I found the Haskell community to be very welcoming and very willing to explain their terms and the reasoning behind them, and I dont find the negative characterizing from you and others about them to be true at all. That's why it really bothers me how you and others are so willing to slander a whole community based on what I perceive as not the truth at all. That's also why I wonder if you would be ok with non-programmers making the same generalization about programmers.
In my experience concepts like Functors, Monoids, Monads etc. are difficult, not because they are complicated, but because they are seemingly too simple. A Functor is pretty much something you can map, and every programmer knows list.map, so what's the point? The point is that when you have some infrastructure around using them, then you can see new ways of using them, and you can see that mapping makes sense over a lot more structures than lists. Even over something like a function "a -> b". The problem is that non-functional languages doesn't have this infrastructure around them, so they are not very useful, and so its difficult for people not using functional languages to understand what the point is. I dont really think there is any way to get past this unfortunately and the only way to get comfortable with the terms is to program in a functional language.
It often makes me very mad that so much gatekeeping has been sown into programming circles through the invention of pointlessly-obfuscated terminology for everything. Programmers are really arrogant most of the time, they dont want to teach beginners their craft so they just make everything difficult on purpose. They are like medieval priests yada yada.
Does what I write above bother you at all? Do you feel that it apply to you and programmers in general? Because that is the kind of generalization you are doing to another group of programmers.
I see a lot of functional programmers spending a lot of time trying to teach others. I also see a lot of people not wanting to spend any time learning so they just talk down on functional programmers, and I think its unnecessary.
So you would say the same for programming in general then? Should programmers not use the word "function" because that word is foreign to non-programmers and might push them away?
Like how hydroxychloroquine was suppressed in mainstream channels? Like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine also had some initial positive studies, but when large scale studies were done it was shown to actually cause more deaths than not taking it.
Brett Weinstein has made a lot of dubious claims so I am skeptical to what he says. He at one point has claimed that Ivermectin is 100% effective when taking prophylactically based on a single study that has received a lot of criticism for having numbers that dont make sense. To me it seems that he needs to be more critical of the sources he uses.
> Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an economic incentive for the county of Brazil to maintain it.
Something like this exists in the Amazon Fund. Unfortunately it seems like it has broken down lately:
One adjacent example of this is the case of Sirous Asgari, the Iranian scientist who refused to spy on Iran for America. What happened to him is really a disgrace and something one would think could not happen in America.
So you are actually saying that the reason that Taleb has "destroyed his credibility" is that he shared a stage with Craig Wright, it has nothing to do with anything he has said?
And so what? I haven't watched his talk, but by the summary of it it seems like his talk was consistent with his previous statements. Did Snowden destroy his credibility when he "shared the stage" with the scammer in this video?
It seems to me that the only thing that matters in most of the "crypto community" is that you are contributing to the price going up. When Musk took away the ability to pay with bitcoins the hate for him in every crypto subreddit went through the roof. No one gave a shit about his reasoning. I have a feeling the hate for Taleb is the same, he is not contributing to the price of bitcoin going up, so he is hated by those who have invested in crypto.
Could you be more specific on how he has "destroyed his credibility", is it simply because he is negative towards crypto?
As someone using Evernote for ~10 years, it has been terrible for me recently too. I have been getting a "Sorry, we’re having some trouble loading Evernote Web." error about 80% of the time I open their web app for the past 1-2 weeks.
This thread is the first time I even heard about notion, but since they are getting so much praise here and since they made it so easy to import my notes, I just switched over.
I dont use TikTok, but its pretty clear to me there are some unique creations coming from it. Its absolutely not only about "lip syncing over existing songs". Here are some great examples of the remix phenomena:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOCR73U8t6E
The scary part of this being possible is that I would think AI could do what he is doing even better than him, and at that point there will be a service where you can upload any photo and get it's location. This seems like it will be abused, and I dont see what can be done about it.