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My takeaway was:
1) Beating the market is much more difficult than mainstream information would lead you to believe. I've been investing my money for over thirty years and couldn't agree more.

2) Matching the market is as simple as purchasing a total market index fund. Collins suggests Vanguard Total Market Index Fund (VTSAX). But that isn't available everywhere, so in my 401K I had to find the closest thing. I switched over to this about five years ago and spend almost no time thinking about it.

3) If total market exposure is too risky for ones tolerance or circumstance (I am creeping up on retirement), Collins recommends mixing in a percentage Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBLTX).

4) Concerned about international diversification, Collins explains that is already covered through the larger US companies investing in overseas as part of their business. This comes with an advantage of a filter for the currency exchange, and the kinds of unpredictable business practices you don't expect as a US investor.

5) I have no conflict of interest in this book. I share it with anybody interested and most new grads I meet. In my experience it is sound advice for anybody that isn't investing as a profession. Even then... well, I'll let Collins describe it.

6) Lastly, this seems to be an accepted philosophy of the FIRE community. FIRE is another strategy I wish I'd had known about 30 years ago.

Hope this helps
I have exactly the reverse experience.

I do comparisons using ```<uuid fieldname>::text like '<first few chars of the uuid>%``` when debugging in a command line. Or just copy/paste the whole thing. Yes it's marginally more annoying than integers, but only marginally.

I have several times wondered why I was getting no match on a query. And then discovered that I was using a user_id on an account_id field. UUID's have saved me from shooting myself in the foot so many times.
I'm highly confident that LaMDA can, or with small fine tuning should be able to apply Rule 110 [0]. People claim that LMs are just pattern matchers or hash tables. Rule 110 is literally 8 elements long hash table.

I'm not sure why you think that question whether LaMDA is using language to achieve its goals is relevant? Whether it's using language, tokens or floats seems to me just accidental.

> If we are modeling LaMDA as an agent whose perceptions are text prompts and whose possible outputs are text answers, than it giving a text answer that matches the prompt is more similar to an animal running away or howling in pain than to a human communicating.

I can agree to a comparison to an animal running away or howling in pain.

With regard to communication. I guess LaMDA doesn't have communicative intent besides providing likely completions. But communicative intent is not difficult to achieve. Act of communication can be modeled as cooperative hidden information game. Hanabi is that type of game, I believe there are computer agents that can play Hanabi with humans. They certainly do have communicative intent, many of the even have explicit theory of mind of higher levels.

> indicating that it had a plan and was displaying normal behaviors with a higher-plan behind them

Deception and planning is also achievable by current computer agents that play games like no-limits texas hold 'em poker on superhuman level.

LaMDA is probably no good in Poker. But LMs can kind of play games like Chess or Gomoku.

GPT-3 (and LaMDA probably too) also seems to be able to combine deception and theory of mind in a functional way:

https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1535835610396692480

I think it's exceedingly hard to formulate necessary condition for sentience.

I haven't seen a good formulation yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
As long as there is no accountability for people locking others up for decades without evidence, it will continue.
I think one important prerequisite for sentience is grounding, i.e. the ability to store and retrieve information, e.g., the dialog state, knowledge of the world but also individual knowledge etc. Systems that don't learn and also aren't grounded cannot be sentient as they lack the possibility to reflect on things or themselves and past conversations.
I think most banks offer 10 year fixes, and there are niche products that are longer. Mine's fixed for 7 years.
I rather like this too - https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
HODL those knife blades!
As a person who has only ever borrowed money for tuition, I don't understand the attitude that "debt is good", I never have and I probably never will. To me, an economy that is fueled from debt is a broken economy.

If you need to borrow $750K AUD (the median mortgage in Australia) to purchase a property, then something is terribly wrong with the market and you probably shouldn't be doing that.

Similarly, if a company isn't profitable and yet keeps a hyper growth mentality, this is another alarm bell.

If people are quitting their day jobs to speculate on crypto, then this is another alarm bell.

We have lost touch with what value actually means to society. Its time to reign in the bogus economy, and if that means facing the harsh reality of a downturn, then so be it.
Intel Debuts Meteor Lake Die, 'Intel 4' Node: 20% Higher Clocks, 2X Area Scaling
It's a static initialization time FizzBuzz. In this case, I think it's executed before main() is called, and not at compile time.

Unless, of course, you have a very clever compiler that determines memory allocation is not actually allocating anything and that the output is a static string, and there are no side effects. Such a clever compiler could optimize it all into just one "puts" call.
Yes, if you are living in the US, and could access fixed rate mortgages. Or indeed anywhere where a fixed rate mortgage for a reasonable 5+ year term is available.

Because the money supply is in some sense linked to house lending by the banks these days (not the entire source, but a lot of it), house prices will increase in tandem with the money supply, that is fairly guaranteed.

For the rest, look to the latter part of the 1970´s, which is what happens in the US, when following a long period of low inflation, inflation and higher interest rates kick in to create this situation. TLDR, it isn't pretty for the lenders (banks, savings and loan, pension funds) who get stuck with the low interest rate long term loans. But that's prequelling the next financial crisis, not the current one.
this is good, is there a story behind it?
Remix is not "on node", it can target other runtimes including Deno and Cloudflare Workers.
They (Rackspace) OWNS another Redis hosting platform: https://www.objectrocket.com/managed-redis/. It's ridiculous that they didn't migrate customers instead of closing up with a two months notice in the summer.
>> everything else can be left up to the market.

Let's see how "the market" likes being unable to drive to their beach holidays without infrastructure.

>> After all the investment to build a fast charger is easy if you have a guarantee that the number of customers will increase dramatically.

Maybe, but there is no such guarantee. You can't solve everything by throwing money at it. Fast chargers/decent batteries remain elusive. So then building infrastructure is the only solution within the next 10-15 years. No way the EU can coordinate that fast.
Which is, in some sense, what happened with Brexit. And the result is that the average Briton is poorer than 6 years ago, while London is kind of holding, but for how long we don’t know.
> Immigrant/descendant: High risk of long term unemployment, right away. (Edit: Apparently except non-western immigrants, based on the source code!)

The latter part is probably on the basis that non-Western immigrants mostly needed skilled worker visas, whereas descendents and 'Westerners' (which apparently maps to "EU members" in this case) don't. Though as with most of the rest of it I'd struggle to see this as a conclusion from advanced modelling and not just a stereotype kept relevant largely by not asking the descendent or 'Westerner' what type of work they'd been doing and how long they'd worked in Denmark
What implementation of FizzBuzz do you use in your production environment?
My main concern with random-based UUIDs always has been running out of entropy and cause the application to remain in a blocking state (e.g. as described here: https://blog.fastthread.io/2022/03/09/java-uuid-generation-p...). Not due to any negative experiences that I made myself, but due to a particular colleague of mine who sees it as a dealbreaker.

Is this an actual issue? Most people don't seem to care when talking about random UUIDs. The target platform of our applications is mostly Kubernetes on cloud environments, if that makes any difference.

Why I'm asking: UUID Version 7 looks quite interesting to me, and the document describes rand_a and rand_b just as "pseudo-random data"... which made me think that in the context of "uniqueness per millisecond", a source of entropy is conceptually not required. However, chapter 6.6 clearly advises the usage of CSPRNGs, so I guess the overall problem remains :(
It is an issue to have your hands, feet, head and face soaked in freezing water for 45 minutes.

> experienced no issues having a change of socks + shoes

Oh so now you have to carry extra shoes and socks all the time, "no problem" lol. You can just go into the subway and all of these issues disappear, and you will get to your destination faster, so cycling is bad in comparison.

It doesn't matter if you can find some person who likes it, the vast majority of people will optimise for practicality and efficiency, because that's what our society revolves around.

Building bike lanes is the easy part, the hard part is coming up with the extra time and patience for people to put up with a longer and more uncomfortable commute.
BOJ to remain dovish outlier, keep rates low as its yen dilemma deepens
Exactly, they could be spending more resources on hiring more SREs and infra and less UI and data engineers.
At least in English you can structure sentences to be pronoun agnostic, as long as you have some way to refer to the users
Common rebuttal and one I sympathise with.

But that assumes that the people assigned to achievements could never help the platform to be reliable. If that’s the case, why hire them at all?

Either way you slice it, money is being spent here.
Eh, people have to charge drone batteries carefully not because of chemistry, but because of sketchy industry norms.

Almost every other industry making lithium-battery-powered products insists on 'genuine' batteries and tells people buying third-party replacements is taking your life into your own hands. Drone enthusiasts, on the other hand? Ordering batteries from unknown suppliers on ebay or aliexpress isn't unusual.

And even reputable drone battery brands face the temptation to advertise a spec without any safety margin, to stay competitive. If all your competitors advertise '90C discharge' on the assumption they get the cooling of the drone's fans, you gotta follow suit to stay competitive.

At the same time, can you think of any other application that takes a battery from full to empty in 15 minutes? Or an application that runs its batteries without a BMS, fuse, or battery temperature monitoring?

(Of course, in a sense that's a reasonable state of affairs - shutting down because the battery's overheated isn't exactly a safety feature for a drone, unlike for a battery drill or vacuum cleaner)
How does Rust prevent data races?
Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
The case they make for near universal K&R insurance is extremely compelling. It does however remind me of the old PG piece on submarine news articles. How could this not be sponsored by the K&R industry?
Beyond the beauty of occlusion: medical masks increase facial attractiveness
serious question, how does one exhale through their intestine? like do they have a scuba gear like machine?
Enterprise FizzBuzz, obviously

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Frankly that's what I'm expecting for aging electric or electronic (not computerized) ICE cars. There will be contexts where BEVs don't work out (farms, off road work, extremely cold climates etc) and humans will maintain an ICE car like a good old 4Runner, Land Cruiser, Jeep CJ5, Unimog and so on for those cases, appreciating in value as the supply of new comparables is gonna be slim to none.

We may even end up in a long term repair market like Cuba maintaining those 50s cars since they can't really get more.

BEVs will be for civilian city dwellers, but for those who have jobs that were once called essential workers, the ones where people suffer and maybe die if the job doesn't happen, ICE cars will still have a place just for their dependability under duress factor.
It depends on what your time horizon is. If you look short term, then anything can be the case at any point of time. Short term is volatile and you can be up and down at any moment.

However if you look long term then housing inflation out paces interest rates. This is always the case. So taking a 30 year loan with low rates is a pretty safe bet that you will come out on top over this long term time period.
I mean, some cryptocurrency projects do generate revenue and pay dividends because they are selling a service to people, whether it be storing files, transferring data, or running computations (encoding video, training AI models, etc.).
Just get a Roku or an Apple TV. The kind of people interested in setting up Jellyfin or Plex at home are nearly all the same people that will keep their TV from ever being smart by connecting it to the internet.
One of the named authors in the footer also wrote an article about the STAR algorithm, which I think might provide some more context: https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sOMVZ7qG-m8aLzmJK-94d1e
> or whatever the .NET equivalent is

That would be Blazor for anyone interested in checking it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazor
If I couldn't convince you to walk back and finish the interview, I'd say that was a hard balk.
I do not get what sort of message one should get from a isolated statement of fact such as this one? In the real world we are presented only with trade-offs. There is no solution to reality. Any action (public policy or along any chain thereof) without a trade-off discussion of implications is a sign of immaturity or corruption. My comment has nothing to do whether one agrees or disagrees with proposed actions, Im simply observing the infantilization of a discussion in its form and content on a such a complex issue.

One cannot collapse such an issue into 0-D point and formulate policies, even less so theories, on a subject that impacts, and at the same time spans multiple spaces over which civilization exists as a whole.
&1[""] is the same as &(""[1])
Electric cars are still ridiculously expensive, don't have the same range and features etc, why would I want one? I live in a cold place, cold isn't good for batteries and engines heat the car inside, with electric cars heating reduces the range drastically
Wouldn't you'd be better off taking a book on meditation somewhere quiet and far away from electronics?
> 1. Why should having the client and server share the same codebase even be a goal in the first place?

Because, in building complex and dynamic web apps, the alternative is to repeat a lot of the same logic in both frontend and backend.

Of course if you are building a blog or a simple static page this is not useful, most of the new techniques are a response to more advanced requirements.

For instance, right now I'm building a "buy form" for internal use (by employees only) in a shop. There is a ton of domain login used to select which field to display, what validation login to use, how to autocomplete some fields ecc ecc. The system is a PHP/Laravel server with SSR rendering and vue only used for some specific advanced components. Most of the logic inside the form has to be written two times: in PHP and in vue. Most enum types are repeated (and must be kept in sync). Having one shared codebase would simplify A LOT the development.
Selling shovels to prospectors is not the same as being a prospector yourself
Most Amish people just ride a horse and it's just fine. Yeah so what, it's obviously impractical and we have better options.

The amount of adult dutch people who cycle to work in the rain is a small minority.
A bug-free one (nonexistent). :)

In seriousness, the interview is supposed to give a taste of how the candidate thinks and codes in general. If they start using every obscure language feature under the sun, I am not too sure they got the idea.
Unsolicited homosexuality (along with feigning abusive parents or depression) is a Reddit karma tactic.
By "small team" I assume they meant a start-up - i.e the team is the company's entire dev.

As someone who works in a small team within a large corp where we use k8s for everything large and small, I did not read that statement as applying to me.
How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
I love this paper https://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf that shows that for the past 50 years, both experts and non-experts have been consistently predicting the advent of real AI to be within the next 25 years.
> Yes it is. A SUV rarly crashes into a building and when it does, it's often possible that humans die.

This is something that happens on a daily basis.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/driver-crashes-through-gas-...

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/car-into-kohls

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/vehicle-careens-into...

https://turnto10.com/amp/news/local/massachusetts-wrentham-v...

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/video-shows-suv-crashing...

The NHTSA estimates that there are 16000 crashes per year in the US caused by drivers confusing the brake and accelerator pedals. A huge chunk of these do end up with the vehicle inside a building.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161226060428/https://www.nhtsa...

> An airtaxi crashes down from a hight and speed. They will crash into and through your roof or into a street or directly into humans.

The odds of a SUV driving into humans is far greater than the odds of a falling airtaxi hitting anyone.

SUVs end up inside stores every single day because of unintended acceleration on parking lots.

> Why would we allow one company to fly over my head and another not?

What does that even mean?

>Either it is so niche that it doesn't add any benefit to our society or it becomes so normal that air space pollution is a real issue.

The “airspace” is very big 3D space that can simultaneously accommodate thousands of flights over a city before congestion becomes an issue.
Ah, so it's the nil address?
> Data races are mostly prevented through Rust's ownership system: it's impossible to alias a mutable reference, so it's impossible to perform a data race.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
A petrol stations running costs are very low. They break even with 2% margins.
Even if they go away, a 2m^3 tank at home will last you for a year or more.
And if your typical full tank range of 500-600km is not enough, you can toss a few fuel cans in the trunk and travel across the continent without refueling.

The only way ICEs will go away is by hostile legislation, being regulated and taxed to death purely for ideological reasons, as is happening.
Is there a working definition of sentience that neuroscientists generally use?
Not sure, but taking such a "breather" would be a good time to catch up on Hacker News.
You wouldn't torture him. You would just zero the probability of getting an offer. There's no SW house or colleague in his right mind that would want a developer that writes obfuscated and needlessly complex to understand code.
Ha okay fair point on how much people ethically rate the actions people are trying to ban/regulate here, but the EU aren't creating convoluted cookie pops forcing anyone to do anything. Those people are part of that literally everyone else you're proposing.

Unless your point is the legislation didn't go far enough? I didn't personally read it that way.
This was honestly a pretty cute game, and I typically don't have a whole lot of patience for games like this.
> I use google DNS - surely that's mostly agnostic?

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/ecs
Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code – Daniel Lemire's blog
Ethereum Collapses 24% in Weekend Rout as Staked Assets Drop Pegs
Hmmm. I suspect there is some software out there that doesn't like directory names with square brackets in them.
It doesn't matter if you regularly do it, most people do not. We live in a democracy and we should not spend tax money and public space to accommodate for a small minority of enthusiasts who like to be inefficient, despite our whole society motivating us to do the opposite.

Bike lanes are like gym memberships, people like the idea and buy into it, but in reality they are too lazy, and don't have the time to actually do it. And it just ends up being a waste of money on duplicated infrastructure, because you still need to cover 100% of the capacity in public transport for the rainy days.
We don't only have to build fast chargers. We have to build electrical power plants with an output equivalent to the energy stored in the fuel used by today's non EV cars.

Find sites, get permissions, build. That's a big race no matter the technology used by those power plants. I expect the 2035 limit to be relaxed or result in fewer car sales because we can't power them up.
I'm not sure why using 'them' is any worse. It's a nice identity-agnostic pronoun. Mixing pronouns with names is much more natural than repeatedly using the name. I don't get why it's an issue at all.
It's quite terrible on desktop too.
In what way is selling video encoding or file storage to someone "selling shovels to prospectors"?
Or "normies" while we are at it. A recent trend I am noticing more often on HN.
South Korea cargo truckers’ strike deepens inflation, supply chain woes
Nice start but it looks like just a bunch of links to random articles. Would be more helpful with stories and a theme
As a want to buy a home person... I certainly hope you are correct. As it stands now, it just doesn't make sense to buy a home.
Crypto lender Celsius pauses withdrawals due to ‘extreme market conditions’
In the same way that C was "full circle" from assembly because it had loops.
Fair enough, as I said in my first comment and have re-iterated in my later comment, that's fine. It's a reasonable concern. The safety issue is not really in contention.

My issue is with the argument that simply being wealthy enough (literally 'just because' he is wealthy enough. Check the comment I was replying to.) to do this is by itself reason enough to ban it.

All this redirection back to safety is a smokescreen to distract from the actual issue I'm concerned with.
> Look for function setValues() in https://ledighedsalgoritmen.dk/p5vis.js

It seems you've found the algorithm right there. Not only is this algorithm the good old mega-nested-if-test-of-hard-coded-answers for a few of the questions asked. It basically checks if you think you are at risk, then puts you "atRisk" if you are older than 56/about to retire/an immigrant/pregnant.

Sadly; that is probably enough to report relatively correct values.
> for myself

Sounds like your system is way more efficient than the CICD... in the short term, provided you're the only person that ever needs to use it (and/or nothing ever changes)
The address of the nil byte + 1