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Your comment reminded me of this Asimov short story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question


That's from Indeed. And, Indeed has fewer job postings overall [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS]. Should we normalize the software jobs with the total number of Indeed postings? Is Indeed getting less popular or more popular over this time period? Data is complicated


Look at that graph again. It's indexed to 100 in Feb 1, 2020. It's now at 106. In other words, after all the pandemic madness, the total number of job postings on indeed is slightly larger than it was before, not smaller.

But for software, it's a lot smaller.


This website has its own graph which looks different.

https://www.trueup.io/job-trend

I have never gone to Indeed to apply for a job.



I've seen articles saying that it would be hard to find any large enough investors to buy it who also don't cause a monopoly. Can ByteDance spin off TikTok to a separate company which would have an IPO and go public and in the process no longer have Chinese owners?


IPOs usually involve selling only a small fraction of outstanding shares. Aramco sold less that 2% of it's shares.


Anthropic's Claude summarized this, too (the article was too long for ChatGPT):

    In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 million. He was an average office supply salesman but felt calm and destined to make the nearly impossible shot.
    The shot went viral and sparked a boom in in-game contests at sporting events. Companies like SCA Promotions started insuring these big-money contests, which remained popular crowd pleasers.
    Calhoun initially feared he wouldn't get the money because he had played some college basketball recently. This violated a common rule that contestants couldn't have played the sport recently.
    The Bulls held a press conference saying they would pay Calhoun the $1 million regardless of the insurance outcome. Later, Michael Jordan privately told Calhoun that the Bulls players had pressured the insurance company to pay him.
    Calhoun got Jordan to sign the winning ball years later after persistence. He kept the autographed ball not as a collectible but for his kids to play with, symbolizing how the shot changed their family's trajectory.
    The $1 million was paid out as $50k checks over 20 years. It provided a nice supplement to Calhoun's middle-class lifestyle but did not make him wealthy. The experience and memories were priceless.


> In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 million.

Wrong. It was a three quarters court shot (behind the penalty line of the other half of the court).


Not wrong. Misses the last act (Clarence II).


Kinda fascinating, it almost surgically removes the entire human interest angle which is the soul of the story that makes it land so strongly. This summary is flat and boring, like a summary of a quarterly SEC filing.


Anthropic more than the other three really tries quite hard to depersonalise and dehumanise their LLM. It must be particularly important to them.


Mission accomplished I guess? Utterly soulless and boring - for a computer no less - but if that’s what they wanted, sure.


Yeah, I suspect your result is exactly what they want. I don't know if they fully realise that people don't want that, but they will eventually.


Eh, they seem to have a holier than thou attitude, I’m sure the Know What’s Best.


I have a deck of these cards from the 80s in very good condition (except the box is not in good shape). Let me know if you want it and if you live in Seattle I'll give it to you (or I can mail it if you want to pay shipping).


It seems like this area is ripe for a non-profit, open source platform to help out. What options are out there along these lines?


The problem isn't technology but logistics. How are you going to find a large pool of drivers ready to take food instantly from point A to B in the city at little/no cost?


Woops, I guess I was thinking more about ordering online and picking up the food myself. I usually just call the restaurants to place my take out order, but tend to prefer places where I can order on their own app or website, pull up and re-order the last thing I got, and then hit submit. Like someone else mentioned, there is a lot of friction with calling and placing an order, explaining the modifications, paying in the store, etc, etc.

I thought this was such a fabulous idea, I bought a domain name for it: https://inmytown.org/ As usual, I just haven't done all the other hard work. But, in the old days last year, I thought it would be cool for local shops to have an online presence so that online shoppers could see where to buy stuff and place orders and then pick it up. So, have an e-commerce platform for shops, restaurants, delivery would be great. Try and keep money local instead of shaving 10-20% off of all transactions and sending them to big tech. Does anyone want to help me build this? Totally committed to non-profit and great apps for local companies.


you could check this out:

https://coderealprojects.com/


I mean, if I'm going to pick up food anyway I'd be happy to pick up someone elses food and drop it off if it was on the way. Presumably someone might do the same for me.


It wouldn't help now but could restaurants make their own platform that every restaurant can join or leave? Not sure what the legal form would be.

Also, maybe they could found a bank too that has a payment system. I'm not sure if this is realistic but I really don't like middlemen.


Ride Austin is an example of a non-profit ridesharing platform, it would be great if that idea could be expanded: https://www.rideaustin.com/about-us#overview


For this to be true, you’d want the 3rd party delivery apps to be wildly profitable. Are they?


Under the proposed model, wouldn’t you just need the platform to break even? It’s a common tool for all restaurants or all area restaurants.


See here: http://www.counsyl.com/

But, about 30 genomic mutations are spontaneous every generation. I have one that causes brittle bone disease. So, just knowing the parents' genomic profile and screening out with IVF will not be sufficient.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322360/


That paper is a mini review of this paper which actually has the data in it: http://emboj.embopress.org/content/37/14/e98597

In there, they did work on A549 cell lines and showed that removing nutrients from the media decreased their growth rate. They also showed that putting these human cell lines into immune deficient mice and doing a couple 24hr fasts per week had a small (p=0.03) effect on the tumor growth rate (Fig 2). But in the in vivo study, it appears they didn't directly compare A549 vs cisplatin resistant A549 - they seemed to have run 2 studies both vs control.

There are literally thousands of papers showing drugs or treatments which can cure lab mice of "cancer" and many more which can kill cell lines in vivo, but only a tiny percentage of those work in patients. There is a reason this is not in a higher profile journal.


If I am European and I ask Facebook to remove my data, will they also remove pictures of me which are owned by my family? I doubt it, and that's also the problem with providing consent on these DNA databases - they don't require the consent of all of your relatives.


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