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andreilys commented on I am rich and have no idea what to do   vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-ha... · Posted by u/vhiremath4
bccdee · a year ago
Yeah I find that anecdote incredibly revealing as to the way wealthy people move through political spaces. No offence to the author of the blog post, but he was the CTO of a company that sold video conferencing software—what on Earth would he know about public governance? Pick a random student with a BA in public policy & administration off the graduating class of 2024's honour roll, and I bet they'd do a better job at doing whatever "DOGE" is supposed to do than this guy would.
andreilys · a year ago
We've tried that for decades, and look where it's gotten us.

Policy wonks and lawyers have run America into the ground with reckless spending and forever wars.

I would venture that introducing fresh ideas and technologists with first principles thinking will yield better results.

andreilys commented on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again   chrisholdgraf.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/ianrahman
emseetech · a year ago
When Bluesky announced they were taking on large amounts of capital to handle the growth that's when I knew their days were numbered. Capital requires returns, and a lot of the degradation of the user experience in the past few years is due to catering to investors and advertisers (who are the actual customers).

Decentralization as is promised is one way to mitigate this, but there's no economic incentive to go through with it. Investors will encourage Bluesky to kick that can down the road until people forgot they ever promised it in the first place.

That said, we will have a good amount of time with Bluesky as a more positive site before these changes kick in. But my hunch is that it'll be shorter than previous cycles. The rate of profit has fallen and investors don't have as much grace for companies that grow without revenue as they did 10-15 years ago.

Of all the sites that emerged out of the internet renaissance starting in the late 90's, it seems the only one that has hung on and still provides a good value, despite all it's issues, is Wikipedia. And that has to be because it's a non-profit powered by volunteer labor with no need to optimize revenue or make a profit.

I often dream of recreating the classic web using a very low cost subscription model (since cheap is better than free, because free is never truly free) and apps that are bootstrapped or crowdfunded instead of vc funded. Decentralization in that circumstance is much more achievable and way less of a threat, although it still comes with a ton of technical and political considerations.

andreilys · a year ago
I can't remember the last time I visited Wikipedia.

Genuinely don't know why anyone would use it when you have perplexity, gemini, chatGPT search, etc. at your disposal.

andreilys commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses   about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
dools · a year ago
I just can't imagine ever buying something like this from Facebook. I know everyone shits on about Google being bad and whatnot, but the things I buy from Google aren't really part of their advertising business. I pay for Workspace and Google Cloud Platform, and those things don't advertise at me.

I am more likely to cruise around already logged into Google as a result of using those things, which obviously plays into their ad business, but those products that I pay for aren't vehicles for advertising and I don't think Google would ever try to make them that.

Likewise, Apple does obviously advertise some of their own services (like iCloud backup) in mildly annoying ways through their devices, but by and large I'm buying a thing from them and only to the extent that I am engaged with one of their Apps (like TV+ or Music) do they try and advertise at me.

In neither case are their platforms inherently about advertising.

Facebook just strikes me as a fundamentally different company. Even if I were to pay them for these glasses I would have no confidence that it wasn't just a gigantic suckhole being fed into their slush fund of data.

andreilys · a year ago
but those products that I pay for aren't vehicles for advertising and I don't think Google would ever try to make them that.

Advertising is 80% of Google's business. If you think those things aren't being factored into their ads model.... Idk what to tell you.

andreilys commented on Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models   simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/loganfrederick
Xeamek · 2 years ago
No she can't, comments likes yours are just made up nonsense that AI hype-mans and investors somehow convinced us are a fair opinions to have.
andreilys · 2 years ago
Check out replit agents, they can make games and apps autonomously now
andreilys commented on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?   business-standard.com/wor... · Posted by u/paulpauper
scientator · 2 years ago
They're being offered loans, which they'll have to pay back. This won't cost taxpayers anything. And anyway, these undocumented migrants ARE TAXPAYERS THEMSELVES. I fail to see any reason to be outraged about this.
andreilys · 2 years ago
Yes because undocumented migrants are highly motivated to pay back the loan versus making a bunch of money and going back to their country of origin.

Also have you talked to any Gen Z or millennial? Most cannot afford housing, why in the world would you introduce even more demand for scarce housing?

andreilys commented on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?   business-standard.com/wor... · Posted by u/paulpauper
coding123 · 2 years ago
If everyone that wealthy was left with 150k, there would be no businesses, and no jobs. We'd go from a mostly employed country to a mostly unemployed country and the governing class would become the 1% overnight and the previous 1% would be part of the 99% instantly.
andreilys · 2 years ago
Everyone would be employed by a Uniparty government.

A fantastic system, just ask the Soviet Union.

andreilys commented on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?   business-standard.com/wor... · Posted by u/paulpauper
stouset · 2 years ago
I’m generally with you, though I live in CA so my effective tax rate is around 50%.

I am very troubled when people who proclaim to be liberal move here—an area with high potential—to “strike it rich”, do so, and then immediately fuck off to another state where they can sell their vested shares without paying CA tax rates. CA does try to claw back avoided taxes from the worst offenders of this, but mostly they only go after people who move out on paper but still lead lives here.

One of the biggest problems though is that bumping marginal rates doesn’t affect the ultra-rich, who use tax-avoidance schemes like loans against invested assets to live off extreme wealth with nearly zero taxable income.

andreilys · 2 years ago
Probably because CA politicians want to spend tax money on things like providing $150k of housing loans to undocumented migrants

Losing out on a house bid as an American citizen to an undocumented migrant thanks to this policy, truly the type of stuff only a CA politician could come up with.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-democrats...

andreilys commented on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?   business-standard.com/wor... · Posted by u/paulpauper
hungie · 2 years ago
I make 750k a year, give or take. I think I paid 150k in taxes, more or less, last year.

I would gladly pay 600k a year in taxes if it meant healthcare, education, housing, and food were secured for all.

Let me keep 20% of my work for luxuries I like, but the fact that I'm only paying like 20% is fucking criminal while people are starving in this country.

I recognize I'm differently wired and have different values than most, but like, there has to be a line between 20% and 80% tax rate that we can live with.

andreilys · 2 years ago
"healthcare, education, housing, and food were secured for all."

Ah yes all of this provided to you by Big Government, who can at a whim withdraw these services if you are found to engage in WrongThink.

We already have seen Western governments like Canada financially banning grandmothers who donated to a trucker protest or the UK imprisoning people for tweets.

Do you really want a bunch of DC politicians to have the power of life and death, not to mention access to swaths of capital that they will inevitably use to engorge and enrich themselves?

Your 600k in taxes will go into the pockets of various interest groups that markup their goods and services because they know Uncle Sam will foot the bill.

andreilys commented on Artificial intelligence is losing hype   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/bx376
crystal_revenge · 2 years ago
> this time there exist a bunch of clear products

Really? I work in AI and my biggest concern is that I don't see any real products coming out of this space. I work closer to the models, and people in this specific area are making progress, but when I look at what's being done down stream I see nothing, save demos that don't scale beyond a few examples.

> in the 80s there were less defined products, amd most everything was a prototype that needed just a bit more research to be commercially viable.

This is literally all I see right now. There's some really fun hobbyist stuff happening in the image gen area that I think is here to stay, but LLMs haven't broken out of the "autocomplete on steroids" use cases.

> today's stuff is useful now

Can you give me examples of 5, non-coding assistant, profitable use cases for LLMs that aren't still in the "needed just a bit more research to be commercially viable" stage?

I love working in AI, think the technology is amazing, and do think there are some under exploited (though less exciting) use cases, but all I see if big promises with under delivery. I would love to be proven wrong.

andreilys · 2 years ago
1. Content Generation:

LLMs can be used to generate high-quality, human-like content such as articles, blog posts, social media posts, and even short stories. Businesses can leverage this capability to save time and resources on content creation, and improve the consistency and quality of their online presence.

2. Customer Service and Support:

LLMs can be integrated into chatbots and virtual assistants to provide fast, accurate, and personalized responses to customer inquiries. This can help businesses improve their customer experience, reduce the workload on human customer service representatives, and provide 24/7 support.

3. Summarization and Insights:

LLMs can be used to analyze large volumes of text data, such as reports, research papers, or customer feedback, and generate concise summaries and insights. This can be valuable for businesses in fields like market research, financial analysis, or strategic planning.

4. HR Candidate Screening:

Use case: Using LLMs to assess job applicant resumes, cover letters, and interview responses to identify the most qualified candidates. Example: A large retailer integrating an LLM-based recruiting assistant to help sift through hundreds of applications for entry-level roles.

5. Legal Document Review:

Use case: Employing LLMs to rapidly scan through large volumes of legal contracts, case files, and regulatory documents to identify key terms, risks, and relevant information. Example: A corporate law firm deploying an LLM tool to streamline the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions.

andreilys commented on Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder   github.com/tryglow/glow... · Posted by u/alexpate
smeej · 2 years ago
Good question.

For the team: From the term "personal dashboard," I was expecting something that would allow me to track data that's important to me, locally, like if I want to track my sleep stats and my spending and my food intake and whatever else. That's what "personal dashboard" means to me, and I was excited for a self-hosted, open source, clean way to do that.

Maybe that product exists, but sadly it has nothing to do with this one.

andreilys · 2 years ago
I haven't updated this in years but this was my attempt at building a real time personal dashboard, connecting various API's and components.

Was pretty helpful for me, basically acted as a heads up display that I could look at to track my stats over the day (steps, meditation, focus time, etc.)

https://github.com/Andreilys/personal_dashboard

u/andreilys

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