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> Jobs back in America is great in the abstract, until you have to pay for it. If everything in your life costs 50% more, then your effective income has fallen by a third. Are people actually going to be ok with that? We'll see.

This is a short-sighted, narrow view of what's possible for a superpower.

HN isn't going to like this answer, but this is how the world actually functions and always will.

First, everything isn't going to cost 50% more. Most things can reasonably remain unchanged in terms of globalization, imports/exports.

How about the US strategically breaks most of the world's supply chains re chips after we build up our own production domestically? It provides a new, enormous point of leverage to wantonly undermine other powers that don't have that positioning. What if Taiwan's factories get turned to rubble by an assault from China, while the US factories keep running and then export, at greater cost, to the rest of the world (as with US natural gas recently)?

It's the oil / natural gas / energy scenario now that the US doesn't need the Middle East's energy. There will likely come a time in the near future where it's beneficial to destroy the House of Saud in the style of Syria, to damage China and others (look the other way while a very violent civil war breaks out to topple the kingdom, wiping out the majority of their oil production). The US can afford a global energy shock in a way that most of the rest of the world can't, which has recently been demonstrated in the gap between the prices in the US and the prices in Europe due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

If the US can meet its own chip demand, new options open up strategically on the table for a superpower to damage its enemies. The US can better afford a conflict in and around Asia, the less it depends on Asia for eg chips.

Energy, chips, USD, weapons. Moats for a superpower.
Obsidian for notes, wikis, and, anything that needs to live for more than a week. This is, by far, the most used knowledge management app used by me.

Simplenote's free, one-click web publishing feature for single pages I need to check many time or share with some people.

For stuff that needs to be stored for less than a week, I use Notes app by Simple Mobile Tools.

For utility stuff, I just use Samsung Notes. For stuff like ISP customer ID.
Different problems also have different scales. The road that they've repaved outside my house has had far less scrutiny than the new bridge they've built down the road. And NASA have very different coding guidelines to Shopify.
Getting an adult ADHD diagnosis on the NHS is very hard and time consuming. Most people in the UK get a private diagnosis - there are many online websites now that will diagnose you completely over zoom in 1 hour.

In the US it's even easier. There is a profit motive in the US to get people onto lifetime medication, and many websites for online diagnosis and delivery. If you have private insurance, it's easy - just self refer to a psychiatrist, list your ADHD symptoms, get a prescription. There's even an Adderall shortage in the US right now - demand is outstripping supply. Adult ADHD seems to be rising dramatically in western countries.

My thoughts are that a lot of people, esp. intelligent ones, will have a lot of symptoms of adult ADHD. It might even be something normal in people near the top of the IQ bell curve - so especially common in tech workers. I think that what you have, and others, could be diagnosed as mild ADHD, maybe moderate. It's nothing at all like severe ADHD - which would make it literally impossible for you to have a career or get a degree without medication. These are the cases generally diagnosed in children because it's so obvious.

So... what to do? You can get a private diagnosis and get medication. It will probably help you a lot, at least initially - you'll be able to crank out 8 hours of boring ass work no problem. Over the long term, you will suffer some side effects - worse sleep, tolerance builds up, and your ADHD symptoms will likely get much worse if you stop medication.

I have mixed feelings about it all. I also identify w/ a lot of the ADHD symptoms (and I've been trying to get an NHS diagnosis for ages, and am going to seek out a private one next year). But with good sleep, exercise, and various other techniques, I think I can manage a successful job/career without needing meds. I found WFH really hard though, but in the office I can manage. It's really hard to know where I am on the "normal" curve though - I don't know anyone who doesn't suffer from procrastination to a degree, or struggles with boring tasks, who themselves are not on medication.
If this were really his ploy, I think he'd get more mileage out of less contentious stunts, like making an electric monster car and using it to drive over ICE cars at county fairs, ...or something like that. The political tweeting seems like a bad idea as a sales stunt, so I suspect he's mostly genuine with the political stuff.
What about the Android derivatives like LineageOS? Can't they just patch these stupid "features" out?
The two free technical writing courses by Google [1] are worth doing, especially if you didn’t study/grow up speaking English and want to improve your writing skills.

These courses can be accomplished in a pair of weekends or a couple lunch breaks.

[1] https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
41 years from the first flight, right ? So even older for the design and development of the engine.
And my eyes hurt after 1-2 minutes when I am forced to use light mode. My life is better after realizing this.

Clearly everyone is different. It's discouraging to see the number of people in this thread not understanding this. I'm glad the general consensus in technology is to offer us customization.
It is a real shame that Ubisoft Nadeo hasn't really marketed Trackmania outside of Europe (they mostly focus on just France). Streamers have been driving a ton of growth in the game (particularly in the US) because it is so intuitive and enjoyable to watch.

Unfortunately the competitive scene has quite a bit of catching up to do as it is still very France and Germany centric. They are making strides to do that with the new world tour but it is going to take awhile before some new players get up to the level of the primarily European professional base.
Surely we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, no? Trying to control this is surely futile — how long until a company like Stability AI releases an open source, uncensored version of GPT?
That's not a helpful comment either. Society as is isn't based on laws of physics or any natural law. Constraints have changed over centuries and will have to again.
Glad to hear you are working on such a project. There definitely will be a lot of privacy concerns in any such project so it may be difficult to open source the data to broad public.

But could still be useful to research institutes who follow privacy guidelines.

It might be best to do a short stint of 1 week to test the feasibility. That should give you a good estimate on future projections of how much data it will consume after a month, 3 months, and a year.

I imagine any intelligent system could work with reduced data quality/lossy data at least on the audio.

As long as it's consistent in the type/amount of compression. So instead of WAV/FLAC/RAW. You could encode it to something like Opus 100 Kbps and that would give you 394.2 Gigabytes of Data for a single year for the audio.

As for video... it would definitely require a lot of tricks to store on a hobbyist level.
If someone can't have a fair judicial process the "path forward" is for them to have "jail time"? Fuck that, I praise Ghosn's actions.
Yeah, I agree with what you are saying. I was viewing this article on mobile and it was hard to spot these examples on mobile, because all sections are collapsed by default and none of the sections had the examples stand out at a cursory glance on mobule. Now that I am on a laptop I easily spot them. I also agree with what you are saying that an explicit section named examples would be good. Especially for mobile reading.
The chance to become part of the capital holding class.
If you had just bothered to click on my username you would realize my account is older than both yours and the one you are replying to.
It is not believable that someone would pay humans to label 400mln or 5bln images/samples to train a model on them, but I guess if you argument is "everything is possible" then gotcha
Hey. Sorry to hear this.

I have also been fired a bunch of times, and people describe interacting with me in the exact same way as you just described it.

Your brother is consistently going for the wrong kind of
job, from the sound of it. Operations jobs.

I eventually succeeded when I switched to work that is more strategic and creative.

I got really into language learning, blogging, website building, and then just followed things forward.

I then eventually became head of marketing for two different startups.

And now I run a bootstrapped company that is exploding in growth. We’ll probably do $10m+ next year in revenue.

I pay people to take care of details while constantly explaining to them what my vision is.

I KNOW the feeling when you see people lose faith in you. You can literally see it in their eyes.

And I also - finally - know the opposite feeling. That of admiration and appreciation.

Please show this to your brother.
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I'm not grumpy but companies do export jobs to countries with "looser labor standards" and perhaps treat employees like slave labor (or actual slaves!) but more importantly lower salaries. Other [competing] companies who didn't export their jobs will still have to compete in the same market. If the product involves enough labor we cant pay very good salaries. The other company must now do the same. It is like multinationals are not sneakily trying to avoid taxes, if it is possible and everyone else is doing it they must also do it.

The "robust middle class" is a misconception. Jobs just vanish which renders people without any income and it pushes salaries down where products are not very labor intense. It would be preferable to scale down all salaries to match those paid in other countries. At least people would have work! (which isn't actually all that important) The political wiggle room is not sufficient to lower the salaries to you know 1 dollar-ish per day or anything in that direction.

The real issue is that people in all those other countries get to elect or otherwise install their own law makers or dictators. We have been unable to manufacture good law makers, dictators and other rules. They are of unbearably low quality, their price can be in the hundreds of millions of lives. You would think at prices that high you would get a decent product but nothing could be further from the truth.

You could have their country men make your pants, your shoes, your computer, your food, your bed, your car, your... your... everything and they will do it really cheap, big profit margins for the companies.

And then, one day, it all ends or it might not end but they may make any demand, however insane the implications you would have to suck it up or at least consider sucking it up with the alternative being no pants, no shoes, no computer, no food, no bed and no car - all simultaneously!

We are currently trying the no gas thing here in the EU. It seems an obvious problem but then prices are going all the way up even in countries that produce their own gas!?

Not having pants or shoes might be the least of your problems.

I'm not grumpy, I'm confused people trust Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that much. They logically have no reason to.

What you want is a world where each country can take care of it self and, if a crisis or natural disaster strikes we can be there for them.

If any one crazy ruler can take the whole world down the abys you would have to wonder why we build it like that?
> You won't manage factories as good with phone calls and jira tickets.

Do you think that the tesla factories won't operate well without elon being physically present at each of them multiple times per week?

Do you think they'll fall apart if he doesn't immediately fly to them in a private jet?

Do you think elon's presence at twitter HQ is making his code slaves work better? harder? faster?

I could see the argument that perhaps during the initial phases of setting up a factory and talking about updates/maintenance it'd be useful to have the CEO present to understand exactly how the layout might need to change. However, unless you think tesla is constantly moving equipment around in their factories (Which, how could that result in better production?) then what value does elon's physical presence actually imbue?
Twitter was profitable! They made a profit in 2018 and 2019 and would have been profitable in 2021 were it not for a one-time legal settlement. Or if you prefer to do it by quarters, they’ve been profitable for 16 of the last 20 quarters. Twitter’s main problem wasn’t that it wasn’t profitable, it’s that growth was slower than ideal and they had been unsuccessful at diversification.

Now with Twitter facing a new $1.2B per year in debt, servicing hitting profitability again will be a challenge.
ChatGPT isn't stable tech. It has been improving dramatically and qualitatively in its short life.

Its interfaces are currently quite primitive too, so its current value may be underrated.

I would love to be able to edit an outline, while watching a filled out essay update side-by-side. The ability to tweak the outline, add hints, and tweak wording or completely take responsibility for particular sentences or paragraphs in the produced essay, would be a massive time saver, and productivity multiplier.

Note that demand for documentation tends to be a secondary, not primary, concern of the products they serve. So demand for documentation is not likely to grow dramatically just because documentation got vastly cheaper to write.

In other words, a productivity bump like this could eliminate a lot of jobs in just one category of knowledge work.

Add in the ability to use sibling tech to generate lively images, diagrams, figures ...

And translate ...

Note that the outline prompts, and other prompts, used to generate a document this way would be orders of magnitude easier to refactor to reflect future changes, than a manually written document ...
They can't squeeze you without squeezing themselves.
You say that like it's a fact but diagnosis is not based on genetic/neurological testing, it's mostly just observing behavior in interviews.
Imho this whole ADHD/adderall thing is just the pharma industry peddling medication and shilling super hard. I wouldn't be surprised if pharma dollars somehow influenced this BBC article getting published

If some people like paying an additional tax to the pharmaceutical industry, good for them. For me personally, I'd rather jump off a cliff then support it

Before someone gets shitty with me for "denying their experience", no I'm not denying it. I'm saying it isn't universal, and the pharma way isn't the only way
For regular employment: stable product company with long term development plans

For b2b: $$$$, like make it rain or gtfo

Ideally I want to join a company with devs that vibe like real bros <3, and feel the magic. Haven't found that yet.
Definitely not intended to take anything away from people with ADHD, but this is true for a spectrum of mental/cognitive problems. My wife has suffered from long term depression, and seeked treatment, but still has had to lose jobs because every now and then it creeps up. And you don’t get a lot of leeway in the modern corporate environment.
This is crazy. It seems like SBF is determined to go to jail. Put another way: it seems like he's so full of himself and deluded that he thinks these interviews, Tweets and (now) an appearance before Congress are good ideas.

They are not. The one thing you should do when facing a likely criminal indictment is to shut the F up. Every statement you make can be used against you and remove your legal options. You may be admitting to things that the prosecution would otherwise have to prove. Yes, interviews aren't given under oath but then you have to argue what you said was a deliberate lie or you were mistaken. The prosecutor will have a field day with this: "what else did you lie about?", "were you lying then or lying now?", "how are we to believe anything you say when you've admitted that you lie?", etc.

His parents are lawyers. They should know this. He should have legal counsel. They will definitely know this. So he either doesn't have legal counsel or is ignoring their advice.

He will absolutely spend the rest of his life in prison or on the run.
Well the official video stream was quite lackluster, with NSF or Everyday Astronaut streams being IMHO better, not to mention some of their beautiful recorded footage.

But the in flight pictures and videos afterwards were pretty nice! :-)
You see the same thing with most con-men (and women) when someone finally pulls back the curtain. Most won’t admit they were doing anything wrong even once they are in prison.

Near as I can tell, it’s the rationalizing part of the mind trying to protect them by trying to convince themselves and everyone else they are actually not bad.

It’s why it is so important to ignore what people say, and look at what they are doing and the results of their actions over time.
There you go, lying again. Lomborg has specifically advocated for taking urgent action to deal with climate change. You cannot honestly claim that is denial.
ChatGPT will end high-school English
Tomorrow, somebody will become the first person in history to play League of Legends against a person who is simultaneously testifying at a US House hearing.
This is a losing battle. Basically they are providing training data for the surveillance companies. It's pretty scary that soon we will have more powerful surveillance than Orwell imagined in "1984".
There's more to it than that. There are two resources involved. One is using Ghost's (jsdelivr-backed) CDN. The other is just using jsdelivr's CDN for any and every NPM package that gets published in the clear.

The asset that thefp.com is using is the one that gets loaded from the latter (the one served from the public CDN), and you can see that this was true even at the time that O'Nolan's screenshots were taken. For some reason, he mixed them up; the only evidence that we have of anyone here using the CDN that Ghost is (presumably) paying for is Ghost's own use of it themselves.
What I was (jokingly) told when flying paragliders is, if you just put your hands in the air and scream, the problem will probably resolve itself.
Reminds me of the cannon ball run, is there a flight equivalent?
It seems like more than an issue of DNA to create a 50 ton dinosaur that could survive in a modern climate. Dinosaurs were able to reach their sizes precisely because of the oxygen-rich environment, not just their DNA.
Typical use of 'narcotics' means opiates and similar drugs (narc = sleep), and not amphetamines.
Thanks, yes that does sound like an unfortunate limitation but I wanted to say your graphics really look fantastic! I really enjoyed reading this.
https://archive.vn/6Clhk
Could be, absolutely. But I'm guessing there's more than enough evidence to convict him already. The real question is just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I bet this is what the prosecutors are working on. Meanwhile, "never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake".
Please don't post duplicate comments! We'll leave https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958955 up.
After reading the paper and watching the lecture, I think I know what it means that Types are first class values.

In verse `=` is unification and not assignment or comparison. Meaning its a constraint on the lhs and rhs. Unification is also an expression meaning it can be normalized to a value e.g. `x=3` normalizes to `3`

Expressions can be sequenced with `;` but note this is nothing like imperative programming due to unification. These sequences normalize to the last expression in the sequence but the unifications in all subexpressions apply to the whole sequence. Thus `=` appearing in subexpressions in any order does not change the resulting value (since the compiler uses normalization)

Now functions can be seen as lambdas or anonymous functions to these sequences of expressions where the arguments are also constraints! These functions themselves are values. Thus functions are first class.

Another key aspect of unification is that functions can run backwards. Thus `swap<1,2>` will return `<2,1>. But so will `swap(p) = <1,2>` constrain `p` to `<2,1>. Thus the meaning of function is no longer just a procedure. But more of a specification or constraint.

And this is exactly what types are in Verse. Types are functions thus first class. When we say `i : Int` it is akin to saying `Int(i)` constraining the variable `i` based on the constraint `Int`.

Thus if you have a function that succeeds when given an even number, that function can be seen as a type of even numbers.
The efficiency of a thermal power plant is around 40%, depending on the temperature of the steam it can produce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_power_station#Thermal_...
The STM32 is not responsible for generating the laser frequency and will not produce much heat on it's own
One thing I think a lot of folks don't realize about ADHD is that even with treatment, there is still a whole skillset to pick up regarding organization, self-management related to time etc. Many neurotypical people pick those things up over time, but those of us who are diagnosed late usually need to develop those skills, often for the first time.

That said, gaining those skill and having treatment feels like a superpower