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Sometimes Econ101 supply and demand theory isn't nuanced enough. Wages can go up at the same time as the supply increases if the amount of money in the system also increases. How do you think software engineer wages rocketed up over the past 20 years?
I too am a socialist. But I believe people are different: hereditarily and culturally.

I assume only people like me and maybe a few like you will know what this means, but doesn't it upset you that I can freely say it?
> by disengaging whenever the FSD sensed slippery conditions

If it needs to disengage so frequently in these conditions, its not FSD.
Fitting pipes together is not "back breaking". We're not talking about framing or roofing, in the contracting world plumbing is a light duty skilled trade that anyone with half a brain can earn a 6-figure income on. If you take care of yourself and wear protective equipment, you won't have a problem with your knees in middle age. There's no "forced retirement", someone working as an independent contractor for 25 years is likely more wealthy than the average software engineer in most LCOL or MCOL parts of the country.

The problem isn't "lack of immigrants". The problem is that when surveyed, 25% of Gen-Z said they plan to pursue a career as "influencers". My opinion is that younger generations have been brought up in a world where they don't need to take personal responsibility or ever get their hands dirty.
Reddit does not use a safelist, you can post just about anything. I imagine there might be a blocklist for known malicious domains. Individual subreddits will have their own rules, and automod can be pretty easily configured with your own safe/block lists.
My uncles a roofer and did it into his 40s but eventually started his own company when he wanted to stop carrying slate around on roofs in the miserable British winters. I think that's the usual progression - you're not literally laying tiles till you're 67.
They write literary fiction, though. The selected passage is listed under "Nonfiction/Self-development"
Yet another reminder that sanctions are useless, and only really hurt the general population. Collective punishment = war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
It isn't voltage regulators and ICs. The poster that said so just made that up. It's computer chips.
You're correct, I 100% misread my docs. My package appears to be the same and really is quite generous (and makes me feel a bit better about sfdc, which is nice)

Overall will probably be a good change - as much as I liked our product, the sfdc transition was rough. For better or worse the layoffs don't seem to have been totally random: most of the affected folks I know had larger than normal equity packages
Well, as you say, the Snowden leaks are ten years old. It's good to have some more recent details.

The result was a deluge of censorship requests from the FBI. The bureau, Taibbi reports, sent over “lists of hundreds of problem accounts” to Twitter executives, often so lengthy they came in the form of Excel spreadsheets, and “thousands of mostly domestic reports,” despite the fact that the FITF was meant to be focused on foreign influence.
The problem is, of course, that there isn't a fixed pie for stuff or energy, and that we can't just ship stuff or energy for free. The Africans don't suddenly get free energy if I stop driving my Electric Hummer. They get energy if we give them the tech and loan them the capital to build power plants.

If we just stop consuming as much energy, at least coal, oil, and to a degree natgas CAN be shipped to Afria. This is not true for energy produced from renewables. So we will actually set them back.
This varies wildly by state. Where I live the cheapest bronze plan in 2022 was $700/mo with no dependents.
My 2015 Seat did that too with cruise control enabled (well, minus sone stuff that is self-driving), but he did accelerate with cruise control enabled and auto-keep-distance).

No need to buy a $x FSD Tesla to get some extra.
I've been thinking about something similar. GPT-3 has dated knowledge on a lot of libraries. If you could feed it the latest source code and docs pages, would it be able to help you write code faster?

As others have mentioned, it seems down at the moment. But will be curious to give this a go and see how well it works.
The GINI index in absolute monarchies is close to 1.

Wealth inequality implies that some people disproportionately control the life production of other people. If you're in favor of a "great man" idea of progress this is a benefit. If you're in favor of individual power to direct production and innovation (along the lines of de Tocqueville or it's left-wing equivalent) this is a detraction.
So stuff you can just buy in big bags for a couple of quid from eBay or Aliexpress?
> and compilers didn't catch up in time to make it matter.

Yes. I once saw am EE380 talk at Stanford by the HP team working on the Itanium compiler. They had to solve a complicated minimization problem for each block of instructions. It wasn't going well. Branch prediction decisions have to be made at compile time. Intel has built compilers where you feed tracing data back into the compiler to improve prediction, but that it never caught on.

> MIPS

MIPS compilers at one time had lots of flags for telling the compiler what specific MIPS model to target. All models had the same instruction set, but different numbers of functional units, which affected the optimal code order for each model. Software vendors were supposed to provide different executables for each model. That did not go over well.
Unfortunately the "loser" in this situation is the only group that politicians really care about.
The FTC does have a congressional mandate for administrative discretion.
This is off topic, but your stretchy buffer does one of my pet peeves:

(a)->at = realloc((a)->at, (a)->_cap * sizeof *(a)->at))

When realloc fails, the old value of (a)->at will be leaked.

And memory allocation failure also leads to null pointer dereference in this code.
> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations.

I remember this all too well. And PCs were expensive. $2,000-3,000 rigs in 1990 money. Today you can pick up a loaded Ryzen laptop for less than half that in 2023 money. Crazy.

In the early '90s I was still on an IBM XT clone from around 1986 with CGA graphics and monitor. Few of the new games I wanted to play would work on it. It was worse when the 386 came out. Today, with a machine built around 2017 and a GTX 1080 I can still play most new games just fine.

I do kinda miss when AMD and Intel shared the CPU socket. I had a AMD 386dx40, which IIRC Intel never made a 386 that fast.
Acclaim, publisher of forsaken, was scrutinized for a rather risqué marketing campaign for the game. Never played the game myself so I don't know if the ads had anything to do with the content.
For awhile I had trouble with Yahoo and a couple of others. I also had to get off a couple of spam lists. There was one big service that troubled me for years, can't remember which. But, the years went by and I guess my IP address got a better reputation.

I haven't had a deliverability problem in years. Maybe it's because I got better at the SPF's, DMARC's, etc.

I will say that I think it's an internet sin that these big companies make it hard for individuals to run their own servers. It seems like an attempt to make a corporate monopoly. My server has never been used for spam a single time. There is no reason I should not have been able to remedy problems instantly.
> Github has kindly asked me to remove all the links here.

Kindly asked? That's not what it looked like to me.

I do think all of the needless speculation here was silly, and I also know that it will all happen again next time.
Nr 2 is just bizzare. I pay premium to not get ads and as a thank you I am constantly bombarded with other ads, ehum…sorry…suggestions, for bad podcasts. Wtf.

Otherwise Spotify is one of things I am happy to pay subscription for. Sure it sucks a bit when some good songs go away, but it’s rare and there are thousands of other songs that I like and never have time to listen to anyway, it all just works, has great suggestions and is super convenient otherwise, outweighing the few negatives.

Hoarding mp3s and syncing to devices just in case one out of thousand favorites go away simply isn’t worth the time anymore. For nostalgia reasons my old teenage mp3 collection is enough and can double as providing local music needs in case of a zombie apocalypse.
What would it take to shake your beliefs?

You of course can think whatever you want, but it seems to me that many people, myself included, once felt like you do about Tesla and Musk. But for many of us, his actions over the past several years have caused me to adjust our perspective. I no longer believe he has good intentions, or will deliver on most of what he promises. I wouldn’t buy a Tesla at this point, and I definitely would have a few years ago.

I’m just curious if you’ve thought about what might make you adjust your view of him.
Mister ffmpeg/tinycc/qemu/(much more) did just that: https://bellard.org
2000kg+ EVs still have substantial lifecycle carbon footprints even if their local emissions are much lower than a gasoline car. They are certainly useful for 200 mile trips, especially with a group of people, with well-developed road networks & underdeveloped transit networks, but the relative development/utility of different transport networks is a political choice. And 200 mile trips are a small percentage of trips — most are short & local (with the specific radius of local generally depending on a locale's land use regulations).
I have Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Prime TV. I will search through all of those before resorting to the high seas. If I didn't have a family though, I would cancel all of those services because it takes me less overall effort to download from torrents.

It's amazing how ridiculously easy it is to pirate these days. I didn't know jack shit about anything other than a handful of torrent sites and qBittorrent until recently. Yet it took me only 15-30 minutes to set up a full media-server stack for the whole thing.

Here's my full stack:

- ProtonVPN at $120 for 2.5 years of service, approx $4/mo

- qBittorrent: torrent download client. Free

- Jellyfin Server (PC) + Jellyfin Roku Channel (Roku device): similar to Plex media server, it's like a Netflix-style UI for your local content. Free

- Sonarr: searches for TV shows and can automatically download them into qBittorrent. Free

- Radarr: searches for movies and can automatically download them into qBittorrent. Free

- Jackett: search indexer so you can search all your favorite torrent sites through one service. Integrates into Sonarr and Radarr. Free

EDIT: Oh I use Spotify for music since that one is reliable and all the music I want is there. Plus they have offline download options.
Limewire and Kazaa weren't safe?
Because our current houses and fittings are largely ancient, non-standard and ad-hoc.
Kind of wish HAMMER2 development switched to Linux and got a big boost in visibility and exposure. I've been excited about it for ~15 years, but I've never gotten enough round-tuits to put it to any real use. I'd love to switch my rsync+ZFS snapshots backup servers over to HAMMER, but ZFS works great except for deduplication.
Please don't repaste the same comment in multiple threads cause then the mods have a harder time merging them.
It's probably quite easy to have a non-sanctioned 3rd party buy the parts and then they deliver the parts to Iran.
Non-Competes are absolutely sprung on employees and I am an example of that. The company I worked for was acquired and the 2 year non-competes were high-pressure "Sign it or you're fired" conversations. So I sit at the same desk, doing the same work, for the same compensation and can now not take another job with anyone doing work in my field.
Available food/calorie supply has dramatically increased over time[0] so many ancestors probably didn’t have the opportunity to get fat even if they had the genes.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply
Extend that out to 10 years from now and I'll take that bet.

Price goes up dramatically in the face of supply shortages, because when there's a shortage you pick your customers instead of them picking you, and some customers have a lot more money than others. Same reason software engineers make $300K/year after a few years experience (when I started my career 15 years ago $100K was considered a very good mid-career salary, and still is in some locales), and good childcare in the Bay Area now runs about $3000/month, and homes are $3M.
Just wanted to point out that Scott Aaronson is not one of those anti quantum curmudgeons. Besides bashing on companies with questionable claims, I think he's been pretty open minded about looking for problems and algorithms with actual quantum advantages.
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> not ideal to have such an important repo side by side with a "WhitesOnly" rimworld mod

Or a "PeacefulProtests" rimworld mod that "adds George Floyd" as a storyteller. It also adds an all-black tribal faction called "peaceful protestors" (with a BLM reference in the source code) that has a high chance of addiction, adds a status effect called "socioeconomic status" that disables all work abilities and creates recurring raids by the aforementioned faction with in-game messages announcing them as peaceful protests and friendly visitors and even showing their names in blue (i.e. friendly).

No matter your political leanings, it should be obvious what the joke in this mod is supposed to be. Combined with the "WhitesOnly" mod this certainly gives an impression.
It is pretty confusing but what you got is about right. It's about building a whole new computational stack - hardware, software, and systems - that ditches the traditional requirement of deterministic hardware, and replaces that with a requirement for 'indefinitely scalable' hardware.

So it absolutely cannot be Conway's Game of Life - though people often think it is - since GoL assumes deterministic execution (plus other issues).

The basic architecture is called the Movable Feast Machine (MFM) and yes, that is a 2D cellular automata engine with a bunch of unusual details (asynchronous, large R/W neighborhood, ..).

Looking downward, the T2 tiles are specific prototype hardware that implements the MFM. They could be replaced by some other tile that does the same, like x86 could be replaced with ARM given suitable software mods above.

Looking upwards from the MFM, some specific cellular automaton - called a 'physics' - is implemented in a custom language called 'ulam'. The physics in the T-0 video involves some 208 ulam classes: Some deal with the 2D diamond grids, some deal with the 1D linked lists within the diamond grids, and all sorts of infrastructure classes and so on.

Then on top of all that, a subset of those classes represent instructions for a 1D 'assembly language' with operations like 'extend an arm one step', 'deposit a processor node', and so forth. The 'Ancestor 1312' organism/structure/pattern demonstrated in the video is encoded in a 1D chain of those instructions that is loaded (step by step, using MFM events) into an empty diamond grid at the beginning.
The old bait and switch :)
//but I fail to see how it was optimal for everyone.

It was also optimal for me as the employee because the fund could (a) hire me and (b) structure my role in a way that I could quickly learn and make impact which (c) enabled me to earn what I want.

Without the non-compete, the role/hire would not have been possible and would have to be structured in some less optimal way.

Like I said, if I didn't think this role was even w the non compete I'd have done something else.
The GPU people are also reaching for simd and fixed matmul hw to increase perf. Tensor Cores (int, fp16, tf32 and even fp64 on A100) and the new DPX instructions. RT cores are a different kind of horse but still specialized for BVH traversal and ray-triangle intersection.
> The bottom line is, a non compete is not something that springs on you.

It's pretty standard now for employers to spring on you a previously-unmentioned non-compete clause at the time that you're onboarding. I've learned to ask for it before accepting an offer but I don't think most employees know to do that.

I'm a capitalist and I think non-competes have a very valid purpose in a limited set of circumstances. But the ubiquitous use right now is to make it harder for employees to leave.
The cognitive dissonance is palpable.
Ukrainians claiming something doesn’t make it true. The effects speak for themselves.

Here's an example of “air defense doing it's job” that somehow ends with an explosion on the ground and lights going out: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1610326116757114880
Sorry for your misbelief, but that is precisely why they need these chips. They have the satellites, but they can't utilize them without the chips.
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Yes! I grew up in California and my dad was a tradesperson. The union is the only reason my siblings and I had health insurance growing up. He never got any vacation time though, insurance was the main benefit of the union I think.

Unfortunately, other states in the US have much weaker unions or none at all, especially in the south.
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A subscription to a kids science/news magazine like Muse or Ranger Rick or whatever they're doing these days.
A big roll of paper and tons of paint and markers. (Way more fun than normal sized paper!)
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If you have speculators (foreign/corporate) buying all the new supply then does that really help in the long run? We have more vacant homes than we have homeless, for example.

What would help is restricting foreign speculation and appropriately taxing corporate ownership of homes. A good example is what's going on in Canada [1] & Vancouver [2].

It's not like other countries haven't made meaningful attempts to address their population from buying homes. It's just that the US doesn't want to do it because the elite who own & constitute the political spectrum think it's bad for their bottom line and don't care if it's destabilizing the rest of society.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/business/canada-bans-home-pur...

[2] https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
I grew up in a family of laborers and this feels very far from my experience. Can you do this through your 50s? Yes, if you avoid a major injury (your risk of this is high in these jobs). Even if you do avoid injury, your ability to do the jobs starts to rapidly decline because doing a job like this day in and day out does take a toll on your body, even if a single day of work isn't back breaking.
Stop treating them as sources if profit for investors?
You mean like the Citroen Ami (2020), from 7k€ ?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-114...
You could just do what happens everywhere else, price fixing. (I mean everywhere else as in the real world, not the soft interior of an “economics” textbook).
THIS!

The investors are being "made whole" at the direct expense of the customers.

The outcome here is shocking, stating Celsius owns customer assets? when did this transfer of ownership take place? if so, why is it referencing the customers at all?

Seems like stealing from the customers to minimize the losses of the investors?
You can always turn it down. Contracts have whats called consideration.

I've seen companies try to get away with NCA/NDA by tying severance to signing one. I would have to be truly desperate to take the money over the health of my career, yet that is exactly what a lot of companies rely on.
Pretty sure "he didn't have the numbers in front of him" when he answered.
Well obviously. If a self driving car caused a fatal accident after just 1,000,001 miles it would be like 80x more dangerous than the average American human driver.

The reason we see summary dismissals of current autonomous vehicle technology is because even the best systems by Waymo and Cruise are literally orders of magnitude away from human-level. No discussion or societal cost-benefit is necessary when they are years away from reaching the bare minimum level worthy of analysis.
Ok, there is no change.

But how much die real estate for 8GB/16GB of sram in such fantasy world?
>unsubstantiated talking point

That is literally what happened, not sure how much more substance you need.
No offense taken: I strongly disagree with my dad on politics, and a big part of the reason why is because of just how bad the conservative media was in those years.

Also, even he was appalled by the turn the Republican party took with Trump. I doubt he would argue the same today. He's a diehard believer in constitutional law, and he projected his ideals onto people who didn't actually hold them.

That said, I do believe the same tendency occurs on the liberal side. It's easy to notice when your opponent cheats, it's much harder to see it when a teammate does.
I'll be curious to see how viable Tauri Mobile is long-term, considering their recent alpha release.
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I mean, have you seen how much pay has gone up in low-skilled jobs? There are signs at all the local businesses in my area offering $15+ an hour for cashiers and fry cooks and whatnot. The same kind of jobs I worked 7-8 years ago for $8 an hour. They are taking advantage of supply and demand to force jobs to pay them a closer-to-fair wage, instead of selling their time for less than it's worth and perpetuating the problem indefinitely.

To be fair, I do agree that on an individual level there are tons of people screwing themselves over and messing up their lives, being a burdon on their parents or whoever ends up supporting them financially, etc. I don't think most of these people are refusing to work out of activism or anything. But from a sociological perspective it's a natural response to a problem(a problem that goes much deeper than low wages imo, but I won't get into that) that acts as a corrective measure to one of the main symptoms of that problem.

In other words: there will always be a bell curve of in terms of competence and work ethic, and from a relative perspective the curve will maintain it's shape throughout time periods/generations among large enough populations. The people on the low end of that curve deserve the same amount of criticism(how much, if any, they deserve, is up for debate) regardless of whether the curve itself shifts towards one side or the other - as movements of the curve in it's entirety can be attributed to social/environment factors. I do think we've seen the curve move towards it's lower end recently, and I have plenty of headcannon about why that may have happened, but I can't see any reason to blame all individuals within an entire generation, and I can't see the point in condemning the low end of the curve for a certain generation over that same portion of the curve from other generations.
I'm a family of five, three kids and my wife and I and we commute around using this method all the time. I do on average 20-30km per day on week days and a little less on the weekend. My 12 year old son bikes along side me on his own bike. If it rains, we put on waterproof clothes. As the Dutch say "we're not made of sugar!". When we need to visit another city (or other parts of Europe) we jump on the train!
If you work on Mac, there are a lot of great ways these days to script in a better language than Bash. Here's how to write easy scripts in Swift, without learning a new language: https://rderik.com/blog/using-swift-for-scripting/#our-first...