You could record memories then because of generative ai you could relive them making different decisions constantly second guessing everything in your life. Then you stream this all on twitch.
You are a creative second order effect thinker. I like it!
I thought you were going to say "You could relive them and then pretend the past didn't happen" in a kind of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind kind-of way.
The search failed. This happened last time this was posted too. I’ve never been able to get this tool to work. And tbh I don’t understand what it offers compared to asking some llm to do the same task.
I feel like there is too much emphasis on telling the story of Apple as THE history of the personal computing revolution. Of course it had an outsized impact. But so many other stories happened too that deserve to be told.
A person arrives on a 18 month funded postdoc (believe me, plenty exist). They have just completed a PhD which means they probably have a couple papers published and maybe another one or two in the pipeline. So as they spin up their time with you, they are also finishing these papers from their previous job. By six months in they are done with that and fully onboarded to the project. So they spend six months working. But now, they only have six months left of contract. You don't have money to keep them or perhaps your country will require you to offer a permanent contract if it is being renewed so you cannot offer them to extend their position with you. So they spend the final six months of their postdoc looking for a job. So, for 18 months of salary, you get six to eight months of work. It's unreasonable. Things need to change.
Or lets say you have a mission critical project that must be done by a postdoc. You offer them a 3 year contract that is grant funded. It is three years because most grant agencies work on three year cycles. The project requires a year commitment to building an apparatus (maybe its a lab experiment, maybe it's training some foundation model, whatever). After that year, the apparatus can be used for science. Your postdoc comes to you in year 2 month 3 and says, well I have been offered a faculty position at university X so I am leaving in the fall. So you get 18 months of work out of them and now cannot hire anyone else because you only have 18 months of funding left, but your country requires you to offer a minimum of 24 months contract. Things need to change.
It's important to note that academics often keep projects from their former positions going at their new ones. But as soon as someone leaves to industry, this falls apart. Because industrial positions expect the person to work on the project they specify, they rarely hire someone to work as an academic, pursuing their own research directions.
I think the solution here is as others have suggested, spend more money on hiring people for longer term and with higher salaries. But we shall see if anyone listens to that advice.
I see a huge problem that the annexation of crimea started in 2014, escalated in 2022 to a full war and invasion, and eu countries can’t be bothered to move off Russian gas before 2027.
Cookie warnings are a sign of companies not willing to accept that they cannot just collect data on you and monetize it.
How does that make the EU regulation something bad? The bad thing is that the companies are willing to bombard us with the worst possible cookie banners, in order to monetize our visits.
Maybe the next EU regulation should be to prohibit those banners and allow companies to add a small toggle somewhere on their site so we can toggle it to allow them to set 3rd-party cookies.
-> [Accept all cookies] [Accept only essential cookies] at the bottom of the page.
Sure, I don't understand why they don't remove it if they know that an average-iq'd person would accept only essential cookies, but that cookie banner belongs to the top 5% of friendly cookie banners.
I was talking about those you find on the typical website, usually news sites, who make them as annoying as possible.
Cookie warnings predate gdpr actually. (Random discussion from 16 years ago - https://www.theregister.com/2009/11/25/cookie_law/) The funny thing is 99% of cookie dialogs are illegal anyway (it should be opt in, not opt out)
I never understood the crying about the cookie banners
They're not the problem, they never have been. It's the fact that so many parts of the modern internet rely on selling user data to make a profit, not the regulation that they now have to do the outrageous thing and (gasp) ask for consent first.
The problem with GDPR and cookie banners is that GDPR allows the cookie banners to be worded so indirectly. "To improve our service we share collected information with 5723 partners..."
If the law would force them to say "Do you want Larry Ellison to get richer by looking through your webcam? [Yes] [No]" it would be a good law.
Ideally it would just be like the Do Not Track flag, with one flag for each category of opt-out tracking, but actually enforced (even if on by default) so no popups would be needed at all.
I love to give talks but I find I only do them at science conferences where I’ve submitted things out as an invited speaker at universities. How do I find new places to give talks about my interests?
Depends on your hobbies. I'm into cybsec, there's a ton of small events where you can either be on stage (so submit a proposal), but there is often what we call "rumps" which are usually unplanned 5 minutes talks about a subject. They're a great way to practice.
Besides that, i guess schools/student groups that seek professionals. Non-profits works as well, I did that when I was younger (advocacy).
Tbh this just looks like a website. It’s unclear why I need to pay you hundreds to optimize a schedule when I could just ask ChatGPT to do it. It’s unclear how all these things go together. The demos seem like they are fake. And I get the sense that if this is a product it’s a n8n workflow or something similar.
Also, if you have 20 years experience in the industry, why do you need this website at all? How do you not have the relationships necessary to at least demo the product and test it at your friends restaurants or hotels or whatever? That’s the biggest red flag imo. That you need hacker news feedback at all.
This is a fantastic and completely fair critique. Thank you for laying it out so clearly. You've hit on the core challenges of communicating a project like this, so let me address each of your points directly. This is an insightful comparison that highlights the key difference. A workflow tool like n8n or Zapier is a "dumb pipe"—it connects existing services and passes data between them based on static rules. HaleES is the central nervous system. It doesn't just connect the POS and the scheduler; it understands the relationship between them and actively optimizes their interaction based on a constantly evolving model of your business. More importantly, the vision for HaleOS is not to build a lifestyle business or a consulting tool for a few friends!
* The `Critic Brain`: ChatGPT can't tell you if a schedule will result in 45% labor costs or if it violates three different state labor laws for minor employees. Our Critic Brain runs dozens of financial and compliance checks before a schedule is even proposed.
* The `Prediction Engine`: ChatGPT can't tell you that a tech conference two blocks away is going to cause a 300% sales spike on a Tuesday afternoon. Our Prediction Engine can, because it integrates external data sources.
* The `Learning Engine`: If ChatGPT gives you a bad schedule today, it will give you the same bad schedule tomorrow. Our Learning Engine compares every schedule to real-world sales and labor data and gets progressively smarter. It learns that your store's "best" cook is actually a poor fit for slow Monday mornings.
It's to create a new standard—a new operating system—for how all physical businesses are managed. You cannot achieve a mission of that scale in private. You must build in public. You need the scrutiny and the brilliant, skeptical feedback of communities like this one to stress-test the ideas and ensure the architecture is sound enough to support that vision. So yes, being here is a flag. It is the flag of ambition. It's a signal that I am not trying to build another app. I am trying to build a new kind of operating system, and that is something that requires a global community of experts to get right. Thank you again for the sharp questions.
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