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European warfare repeatedly destroyed valuable buildings "made to last 500 years" culminating in mass bombing in the Second World War. Meanwhile, super-advanced Japan builds houses that are expected to be torn down in less than 100 years, with a very different history of public destruction in the name of War.
>Same problem with land.

ahh - that's where we differ; land == food. farmland is pretty good vs inflation.
Not OP but there's a cultural shift in the last couple years to acknowledge (let alone know about) this holiday.
> It took me years to convince upstream to revert the responsible dmcrypt workqueue commit and fix this.
As a regular user who would never track an issue like this down i just wanna say thank you!
The article states: "Inflation is an economic term that describes a general increase in prices." However, the European Central bank measures inflation in terms of purchasing power of consumption goods and services, not in terms of general increase in prices: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/hicp/html/index.en...
Gonna start a PAC for me and my friends’ horny fan art commissions
Only if you use RefCell instead of, say, Cell or Atomic* or RwLock or Mutex.
All correct, but more important than ownership is the fact that buying stock infuses a company with cash which gives it fuel to grow the business, unlike trading crypto tokens which does nothing except register a notch in a ledger, buying stock is literally an investment.
Debt is just a product of consumption.
> Amusingly, even spindump's symbolication step—which relies on an external daemon—suffers from this kind of problem—one which I diagnosed, of course, another well-timed spindump.

Yeah, this can get real annoying when trying to diagnose hangs…
HGT?
see History of Berlin
And those laws do help. It is harder to commit such schemes due to disclosure laws. Scams like Bernie Madoff's would be more difficult today due to more stringent auditing and reporting requirements that allow regulators to check up on trades and balances in accounts.

Such laws don't really apply to crypto schemes. And they definitely should.
Illiterate people can also be lured into crowds marching with photos of their leaders, de facto becoming themselves part of the propaganda.
They should have a system to charge in bulk up front that you can then use to support creators. Similar to how Reddit allows purchase of hundreds of thousands of coins at once.

Sell "Patreon Tokens". 100 for $100 at a one to one exchange rate. You can then spend in stores (one time redemptions) or subscribe to creators.
You try 3D printing a house on a Pentium, or running inference models. We needed the compute. We need so much compute it boggles the mind and we don't know what to do with it.

Only then, as we are drowning in compute, does it spill over into other areas and allow that compute to be used as leverage towards enhancing or automating areas compute has yet to break into. Only then are crazy ideas like having large clusters of transistors act as neurons in a neural net actually possible, and efficient enough.

This is at least what I mean when I occasionally say something flippant like "(technology/computers/software) will eat the world". Maybe our relentless pursuit of more compute isn't the best way to solve complex problems, but it increasingly seems like it may be a way.
This seems transparently like the lidar industry uniting to ask for laws requiring car companies to purchase lidar for their driving systems.
> The living standard of kings hasn't quite changed since 2000 BC.

Not true. Ancient/medieval kings still got smallpox, peed in chamber pots, and shivered in the winter cold. They couldn't hear the music of great performers who had died, or travel to another continent for a weekend trip. Etc.
AI Statler and Waldorf.

It would be such a force for good in the world that Disney should allow it to be used for free like Volvo did with their patent for the three-point seat belt.
> Apple does not advertise that Macs don’t get viruses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdF5IsyOxU4

It's even got the signature Apple infant background music.
Back in the early days that was a problem as well, but things were better for quite some time even with dmcrypt in play.

Then someone at Google landed a change prioritizing dmcrypt throughput for their use case, and many on desktop linux using dmcrypt suffered for years because of it.
Ask HN: Do you have a risk management cheat sheet?
Something that you come back to regularly to assess how your projects are doing?
Dont listen to any economist that is also popular enough to qualify as a politician. Entire generations on political discourse have centered around one hacks poor simplification.
> But happiness here is about the outcome.

Yours might be. Happiness in general is about your personal narrative of reality. I'm happier than you are to have not invested in Bitcoin 10 years ago, because I thought it was a bad idea then. I'm not unhappy at the fake money I didn't gain, because I have more exciting fantasies than that. Being unhappy that you didn't win a coin flip sounds like a pretty unfortunate way to structure the narrative of your life.

> It's the opposite. It was bad fortune, as if he had been (according to him) more ignorant he may have invested in bitcoin (even if it was a bad decision), and he would have made a lot of money with such investment.

Or they might have invested in any of the periods where it went down, or in any of the exchanges or coins that collapsed, or gotten too much money too early in their life to develop the skills necessary to make it last. The problem with romanticizing some alternative past is that it's literally just fiction.

Investments are made against Expected Value. The goal is to have enough money to always be making more. Over a long time horizon, you need the probability of gain to be greater than the probability of loss, otherwise in an infinite game you will always run to 0. Engaging in gambling, as defined by Expected Value being less than Principle, is not a possible action for a rational actor interested in keeping their money forever.

You're looking at Bitcoin today like the game is over, like you bought 10 years ago and sell at $20K. What is your selling thesis? What made you buy 10 years ago that allows you to sell today? Or is it more likely that you'd keep holding? What are the probabilities of gain or loss over the next 10 years? 20? All investors see is a financial instrument with no backing, facilitating services we already have, at higher cost than existing solutions.
What already offers an efficient solution to a decentralized currency that no one controls?
Someone had to take the time to perform the song, there's no reason they wouldn't take a few minutes to change/improve the lyrics, even if an AI produced it.

I suspect it is not AI produced and simply a simple song.
Get ready for triple-digit temperatures again, as heat dome engulfs US
In NYC the scaffolding is eternal. Nobody gets to enjoy the street. It's better than having tools fall on the street and things like that, but the average age is over 7 months and many are there for years.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/sidewalk-shed-map...

Construction is great, maintenance is important, but why have all of these architectural facades when all you get to see is painted wood and temporary lighting?
Volunteers volunteer their time and energy for free, so you are nice to them so they will continue to do so. The only part that matches your description is the free part and that part of it doesn't really matter because the point the sentence is making is "eventhough you pay them, treat them like they are doing you a favor for doing work for you".
> This is only true in the physical sense if the universe is singular *and finite. Which it appears not to be.

Laws of physics aren't negotiable. Barring very unlikely breakthroughs humans will remain a single planet species until the sun goes supernova. And with that constraint we face a nearly closed system of resources, except for solar energy and maybe a few asteroids.

> The only thing we lack is the knowledge of how to do it.

Again even if more innovation is possible there are only so many people with enough resources to discover them. Those people have all the basic needs as well as years of education just to sustain today's innovation.
I have never seen a laptop for sale for $250. I have probably seen laptops for sale for $500, years ago. Which I assume came with malware, a 30min battery, and the worst quality components that lead to significant odds of failure within a few years.

There is somewhat of a correlation between price and quality of product. After a certain price, any lower, and you start getting into the “it’s more expensive to be poor” scenarios, where the amortized cost the product over its lifetime ends up higher than the ones that cost more upfront.

I still remember the standard advice of buying a Windows consumer laptop was to reinstall the OS after buying it. In what world should that be acceptable? In my accounting, that time and effort spent installing an OS gets added to the price.
This would be a great high school teaching aid.

Deflation is often confused with stabilization. Deflation would have prices returning to their pre-inflation numbers, whereas stabilization simply means that the rate of inflation returns to its previous value while prices remain elevated.

Deflation is the stuff of fairy tales and dreamers. Realists pray for stabilization.

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Why New Jersey and Oregon still don't let you pump your own gas
I guess those are US statistics but housing has gotten more and more expensive basically everywhere. Can't do much about that.

Thanks for the recommendation!
and "and" =)
No “just” about it; with those things in place, getting a business loan is far simpler than getting a VC to invest in you. To a (big) bank, your business is just an entity with a credit score. That credit score is based on those factors you listed. No weeks/months of glad-handing and human-factors evaluation like VCs do; hand a bank the data, they plug-and-chug, and you either get a loan or you don’t.
It’s worrying to see very smart guys like LeCun failing to grok the paper clip maximizer issue (or coffee maximizer as Russell phrases it), which is like the one paragraph summary or elevator pitch for AI risk. I think there are plenty of other valid objections to a high E-risk estimate but that one is non-sensical to me.

I think Robin Hanson has the most cogent objection to high E-risk estimates, which is basically that the chances of a runaway AI are low because if N is the first power level that can self-modify to improve, nation-states (and large corporations) will all have powerful AIs at power level N-1, and so you’d have to “foom” really hard from N to N+10 before anyone else increased power in order to be able to overpower the other non-AGI AIs. So it’s not that we get one crack at getting alignment right; as long as most of the nation-state AIs end up aligned, they should be able to check the unaligned ones.

I can see this resulting in a lot of conflict though, even if it’s not Eleizer’s “kill all humans in a second” scale extinction event. I think it’s quite plausible we’ll see a Butlerian Jihad, less plausible we’ll see an unexpected extinction event from a runaway AGI. Still think it’s worth studying but I’m not convinced we are dramatically underfunding it at this stage.
Why does the question of defining AGI even need to enter into this?

Aaronson's post only sort of obliquely touches on AGI, via OpenAI's stated founding mission, and Yudkowsky's very dramatic views. Most of the post is on there being signs that the field is ready for real progress. AI safety can be an interesting, important, fruitful area without AI approaching AGI, or even surpassing human performance on some tasks. We would still like to be able to establish confidently that a pretty dumb delivery drone won't decide to mow down pedestrians to shorten its delivery time, right?
Juneteenth is now an official national holiday, so it’s not just a cultural shift, it’s recognized by law.
>Why is Bitcoin so heavily correlated with QQQ and interest rates?

Large miners didn't sell the coins and borrowed real money to fund their new mining operations.

Since the rates are going up, they have no choice but to sell.

And that is not to mention the poor folks who borrowed money to buy bitcoins.
What an absolutely insane narrative from a new account. The entire crypto expansion directly correlates with Tether printing $40,000,0000,000 in assets. Tether is used to move funds to and from unlicensed off shore exchanges. That's it. That's what is popping. Do your research.
Akin Gump is a large law firm.
> How did this living system die? Well, it became infested with parasites, didn't it? Parasites of the neoliberal globalization investor type, who sucked it dry, then fled overseas for riper pastures.

Also: inflexibility, non-adaptation, and homogeneity.
"Nonbinary"
If someone is running a pump+dump scheme, it could be useful to produce a flurry of writing that pretends that those cryptocurrencies are somehow serious business. It might help lure more unsuspecting victims into the market.
Banks will loan you at most 10% of your last 12 months revenue for an uncollateralized loan. Not in the same world as VCs. And "just" do an IPO, wow.
They do. It's just not for working people. Plenty of over 50s retired early and will do nothing but leisure until they're 90 etc. They sit around voting for crazy republicans and complaining about their kids (who work 12h a day) don't visit enough...
What is GFC?
One should mention that this is applied to civil liability not criminal (in Germany).
BTC et. al. are a form of currency. That's like saying dollars are worthless because money isn't real. It's worth exactly what you can trade it for.
> Accessibility: I'm not well versed on accessibility.

Lol, you’ve pretty much torpedoed any credibility right off the bat.

> Power Use: mobile games are a thing. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that, on average, mobile games use less battery than electron apps

This is a flawed take on multiple levels.

> Regardless, that wasn't my point. My point is that video games are doing much, much more than most desktop apps could ever dream of doing in terms of pure work

This is very hand wavy as to be meaningless. What is “pure work” and how does it have anything to do with architectural complexity? I think you underestimate a lot of of the complexity that goes into the underlying stack of components for desktop applications. If you hand wave away (text) layout, text rendering, accessibility and performance optimization - then you can claim anything.

As already mentioned UIs in games are typically much more limited in scope and complexity.
> value in the technology ecosystem of crypto/DeFi (e.g. in smart contracts as a substrate for security tokens; in NFTs as legal deeds; etc.)

Security tokens would need to follow the same securities laws as centralized solutions but I can see an advantage in having liquid shares. Price discovery would be pretty powerful. Although the founders might not like what happens to their valuation.
The web page there describes this feature working correctly, not the bug this article is about. Low priority Time Machine I/O is throttled to allow regular I/O to run at full speed.
The latest huge AI models that may germinate into an AGI all come from private corporations, largely because of the requisite resources and currently there’re very few if any public or nonprofit AI-focused organizations with such resources.
Try-hard edgy energy here. Just enjoy the day off dude.
We haven't done away with slavery.

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...
I've seen a lot of applications posted to Godot subreddits, so it's clearly a thing. Godot has some clear shortcomings when it comes to application development, particularly with layout and text rendering, but it's not at all infeasible. I wouldn't do anything important with Godot at this point, though, at least not without C#. GDScript ... is better than GML and Dark Basic but worse than any language you would actually want to use.

I think the important takeaway from reading the article is how crucial editor design is.
The fact that BTC ever reached $20K in the first place is crazy to me. Of course, BTC at $0 or $1M in 50 years seem like equiprobable outcomes.
I've never had or heard of a company giving people time off on father's or mother's day.
As someone who has spent many years supporting users including desktop backup systems, backup programs that are even slightly 'visible' to them in terms of slowing down the machine are deeply reviled.

Apple's target market is creatives. Lots of audio and video folks. Folks who really, really do not want their computer screwing around making a backup when they're in the middle of trying to get things done.
The impression I get is that is all already "known".

Over the past 10 years, I think the assumption is that Apple laptops cost more for equivalent computational specs, but are prettier* and built better (controversies aside), and have MacOS (which is a plus for many.) (I did pick this laptop for comparison because its RAM and SSD sounded good above its base numbers.)

I guess my main argument is that there's not enough here to "debunk" this trend, even with deeper insights into hardware. This might be different with the M1, which I have no experience with.

(*This is a quality that I don't mean to dismiss. A better screen is important for a device that might see >10h of use in a day.)
No one works harder than farmers and ranchers. Up before dawn and work until dark. My occasional 50-60 hour weeks with a deadline approaching are easy compared a normal week for my rancher grandparents. To say nothing of lambing or calving or harvest seasons.

Forty hour work weeks are relatively new too.
Deflation is what technological progres giveth and the guys with the money printer taketh away
Japan may be too far on the disposable end. Apparently buying used is a bad thing so they rebuild every 20 years or so.
Jack Henry—we get it off as a floating holiday.
I work on self driving vehicles. I would also like more walkable, bikeable cities.

But I've also sat in those city council meetings and seen the inane opposition people have to any sort of positive reform in that direction. Self driving vehicles have the potential to actually improve road safety because local governments won't be involved.
Just for the record, this is essentially connected to the changes in safety rules, it changed roughly at the end of the '90's here in Italy when requirements (certification of workers, need for projects for even the simplest scaffolding schemes, etc.) were introduced/made compulsory in more (now in practice "all") cases at the exact same time when - for a number of reasons (financial, fiscal, and more) - construction companies were essentially forced to sub-contract the scaffolding works because it became a cost (as opposed to being a resource).

Until then, having a good sized but not too large scaffolding inventory was something any construction company would have had, as well as the internal resources to mount and dismantle them.

Scaffolding is generally paid with a price (per square meter or in some cases per pipe/joint) for the installation, (usually) up to 1 month rent, and dismantling, then there is another price per month of the scaffolding being on site, a "pure rent" of the structure.

This latter tends (tended) to be remunerative (essentially beacuse there is no work involved in it, so it becomes essentially "interest on the cost of the scaffolding") and sort of monthly fixed recurring income.

If I recall correctly, the break even point was around 18-20 months, in some cases 24 months or two years, after which the scaffolding was paid for and the "rent" became just income.

More or less the same reasoning is (was) for site cranes (but also for other site equipment), that as well were once bought by the construction companies while nowadays they are almost invariably rented from some specialized companies.
Aye, that just further reinforces my last paragraph.
Last year, inflation was running at under 5%. There was no fuel crisis, and no food crisis, spurred on by the war in Ukraine. Covid was widely believed to be going away a bit quicker than has quite turned out to be the case.

Should we have locked down the economy in 2020, which really is why massive monetary stimulus was needed? Perhaps not. But that wasn't the Fed's decision; they were reacting to the fact that it was done (by politicians). Should we have neglected to use this fresh money to prop up an infrastructure bill, to grow our way out of inflation? Probably not, but that boils down to Congress doing what it does best; failing to competently govern the nation (this isn't a partisan statement; compromise wasn't achieved either cross aisle or even intra-party). And should we be propping up the Ukrainian resistance amid the invasion? Well, that's complicated -- we probably shouldn't have backed the Orange Revolution or Maidan Revolution in the first place, but asking the US not to engage in regime change is like asking a baby not to fill its diapers. In any case, the actions taken there have led to the fuel, fertilizer, and food crises we're not facing. None of this was caused by the Fed.

The Fed, however, is on the hook for attempting to navigate the currency through this $#!+storm they've been handed. Have they done it perfectly? No, I won't try to argue that. But have they done it adequately given what they have to work with? Personally, I'm inclined to say yes, but that's up to you. I'd just argue strongly that looking at things as if the Fed has been behind the chaos we're looking at now would be entirely unfair, and would be letting a lot of filthy politicians off the hook in the process.
That’s not a problem, that’s a solution to a proposed problem that might not even be a problem.
2 more uses as some people would have had sex with you if you gave them bitcoins.
President Biden made it a federal holiday last year.

I work in manufacturing and I haven’t met many companies that are taking it off. I had hoped it would immediately be a paid holiday for most folks, but I think it’s going to take a few years to get to that point.
Yes, HubSpot
The people of the US torture people in black-ops sites despite knowing that torture does not work, and then go on to not prosecute the criminals who planned and approved the use of torture.

The people of the US are going to ban abortion despite knowing that this will kill women.

Pull the other one, it has bells on.
You can move the dock to the side on MacOS and this has existed for years.
Some price to pay is an understatement. Almost half of all released prisoners in the U.S. return to prison within the first year. You’re trying to experiment with people’s lives by taking away their totally normal and rational desire not to associate with such people and the effects are utterly predictable.

And as I mentioned in a previous post, eliminating background checks backfires anyway, because people simply stereotype more when you take away their ability to look at specifics.

If you care about reintegrating criminals, then be the change you want to see in the world, but don’t try to tell me there’s anything wrong with someone who chooses differently.
This begs the question: then what is the “killer app” for blockchain and smart contract technologies? Has it simply not surfaced yet?