Readit NewsI was looking for some comment providing discussion about that... but nobody cares? How is this not worrying? Does nobody understand the political regime China is under? Is everyone really that politically uneducated?
People just go out and play with it as if nothing?
LLMs by their nature get to extract a ton of sensitive and personal data. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Advertising industry.
I wish I knew what it would take for people to stop treating the unholy blend of marketing communications as respectable occupation, and consider it for what it is: a guild of liars ruining lives and societies.
Similar can be said about almost any other job, except the well-paid part.
Look at the world before advertising. Everything had to be local small scale only. So everything was very expensive, because no large-scale manufacturing effectivity and massive discounting on end product. Lot of technology isn't even possible on small scale.
Nothing worse than salty uneducated devs that think they understand how world works, just because they know how to code, but know nothing about history, economy, business and marketing.
I don't like intrusive advertising either. Nobody says that it has to be pushed to the most extreme level possible for it to maintain the benefits. Not even remotely. I also use agressive adblock, I don't react to ads in Google or YouTube, because they tend to be bad and completely non-relevant. I occasionaly react to Instagram ads though, for example. I bought products off Instagram ads and I am glad for it.
Some way to promote your product to consumers is extremely valuable and healthy to the modern world. Unless you want to separate yourself from it and become a self-sufficient small community oriented society, like Mormons.
The idea of virality and "build great product and they will come" has to be the stupidest crap devs tend to believe. It only works briefly in the early stage within the new market category. 99.9% of world'S products are in mature stage, and those beliefs will get you bankrupt. World needs advertising. New startup founders of great valuable products need advertising. You can notice that those that understand that, succeed vastly more often.
So far I have not heard anyone say I GPT’d it, but Google is running very dangerously close to the edge here. For one thing the founders have checked out, never a good sign.
Something that also bugs people is GOOG wants to follow you everywhere, when you sign in to many websites that little blurb asking for your google account comes from a google server (<script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client" async defer>).
I was responsible for servers that ran 100m page views a day at Yahoo! One day I was approached by this smarmy little guy who asked if he could pull logs from the machines. Alarm bells. Who the heck was this and what was he doing with the logs. I knew of course he worked for Filo and so I had to give over the data. This was the start of the spying on the customers. Google is a master of this, and it really irks a lot of their customers. Another red flag.
Alternates like duck duck go and brave have made some inroads. Their percentages are quite low still.
There have been layoffs in the name of cost cutting. Googlers have had some very public employee dissatisfaction meetings (my name for them). Employee compensation problems, problems with businesses the company is etc.
One last thing, Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion April 1, 1999 (seriously!). “ Apollo Global Management acquired a 90% stake in Verizon Media, which included Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake in the new company, which was rebranded as Yahoo upon the deal's completion.” The deal was finalized Sept 1, 2021 according to chatGPT.
Probably just my limited perspective, but I am also noticing, it's vastly men who use ChatGPT daily on anything from random questions, to health queries or personal growth. Not sure why, but somehow, I don't know a single female who would use it much, beyond super basic queries. Meanwhile guys of all kinds of backgrounds, nerds or not, technical or not, young or old, doesn't matter ... if there is a heavy user, it's a guy. But as I say, just limited perspective, I don't know big enough number of people for substantial sample size. Just recently I see the stark contrasts more and more, even very smart, nerdy and highly curious women I know, are not interested in ChatGPT.
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We had already known from autopsies that neural density in certain brain regions is much higher among autists.
That being said, as a person that is mildly on ASD spectrum I was bit intrigued by the hypothesis of higher lactate orinted energy production in autistics. It would match two of my lifelong problems, having strong exhaustion (food coma) after eating high carbs and having similar reaction to even short (5min) high-intensity workouts. I had to adapt by avoiding large doses of carbs and focusing more on resistance training with large pauses inbetween.
I am baffled how some of my friends can eat a mountain of white rice or workout hard for hour and be completely fine after.
Occasionally I search for something simple like character counter, text editor, etc. but google keeps giving me only ads-ridden login requiring options. I feel like you have to know the URL, they tend to do poorly with SEO as they have no marketing/SEO behind them.
And yet nobody would move there to find a job, not even from Italy, Greece or Portugal.
Their salaries are simply too low and the ROI in terms of quality of life it's not remotely comparable.
There's over one million Romanians in Italy, making them the largest foreign community in Italy.
Lets talk pay, US tech workers, lets just say Sr SWE and up, and lets look at SF as the author uses this as a focal point. Salary is roughly $300-400k a year(in SF FANGish company), in Europe or England its about half of that, and maybe even less. I know as I have family I married into that points out this fact, the best workers all go over to the US and make large salaries over there at US tech giants.
Lets talk about taxes, especially in the northern European countries taxes are extremely high when you get into professional wage bands, ie. above 120-200K euros(50% tax rates in some countries compared to 37% top US tax rate) and capital gains which is a huge issue as some employees get a majority of their income through this - 30% cap gains tax rate and above for a decent amount of western/northern EU countries, compared to 20% top tax rates for US.
Lastly lets talk about employees, you hire someone and they don't work. In Europe you cannot just term them and give them a severance package of a few weeks. In France you are not allowed to even layoff employees unless you are close to bankruptcy(I think this was changed a few years back). But in general it is very hard to fire employees who are underperforming in the EU.
All of these facts really highlight why alot of top talent and founders from the EU come over to the US to make money and start companies. I am not saying one way is right or wrong but just want to pint out the points that both ICs/managers and founders have all told me(I am US based).
as for firing employees, many tech workers are not employees but contractors, conditions about the job are set by the company in the begining ... also what I noticed that US workers can and will quit on the spot if they decided so ... the othe side of the coin with EU employees is that they won't and can't do this ... the employer can rely on this ... if they are given notice and fired, they will responsibly continue working for the law mandated X months, so that the employer has time to replace them, and they will train their replacement and do proper handover ... at least from what i've seen, americans in tech once they learn they are being let go, they drop everything and are gone
the EU way isn't that one-sided towards the employee, it has implications both ways ... and if you don't like the protections and stability, just get the person on contract instead, which many smaller startups do, as they don't want to be locked into their decisions too much
- it's fast (great!)
- it can't play videos in preview pane (very bad) or display some types of images (webp)
- design is nice but there is too much padding in thumbnail view and no way to control it (not good)
- it's super similar to Files - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nghp3dx8hdx?hl=en-US&gl=U... , except that one can play videos and is more than 20x cheaper
- price, the Files I mentioned cost $8.99, I'd never thought i'd dish out any money on file explorer but here we go, yours is faster and if the full release will perfect the areas i mentioned, id pay up to $19 for it ... now asking $200 for file explorer is just mad ... i am in B2B so I know pains of dev software, but if I see such price, Id just be giving imaginary thumbs up to people who pirate this instead, unless this has some crazy super powers and is meant for some very specific professionals for business (I don't see the use case), there is no justification for such price, even from point of view of maximum greed I highly doubt with such prices youd be squeezing the most revenue out of market you could, the yearly plan is more of a slap in a face, software without updates is useless, especially since its early in development and will see lot of basic polish in first few years if worked on .. i wouldn't buy it, but something along $49 for it wouldn't at least scream offensive ... id just look at that with disappointment and move on, even that would be basically asking for the price of AAA videogame, for minor improvement of utility in Windows
- that said, good luck ... I saw lot of people here post what they use; i dont want to offend anyone, but seems devs don't have cells for visual taste, those don't compare with yours, but you seem to have the speed of those (sort of, once i opened folder with 4k images, it completely froze for a full minute, windows explorer wouldn't do that, so ... speed is good, but can't sacrifice reliability for it.)