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But it is Microsoft Outlook, so it's not really misleading, you just assumed incorrectly.
When you own a car, you don't want to wait 20min before it's ready for you. You want to bring it in remote places where it will stay so that you won't have to wait 2h for it to come back. And you want to leave your stuff in it.

If you are ready to wait for a car to come pick you up, or to plan your trip based on the schedule of the car, and to pack your stuff in one bag that you can carry along...

... then, my friend, you are ready for public transportations :)
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I know of some black people in the C-suite at large companies (i'm not aware of any CEO, but a few one step below). While we can argue if they earned that or not, either way they are clearly rich making more than a million dollars per year.

I'm not claiming all minorities are rich, I'm saying a few are and yet their kids get advantages that others don't have beyond their advantage of being born rich.

I'm saying I know poor white people who have all the same problems as the black and Hispanic families living in the same area, but they get less help.
Steampipe runs an embedded Postgres database [1]. One approach would be to connect that Postgres database with other databases using the usual (advanced) techniques like Foreign Data Wrappers [2]? With that connection in place, joins would work as normal.

1 - https://steampipe.io/docs/develop/overview
2 - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
Sounds like my grandpa. He retired from the US Air Force when he got passed up for a colonel->general promotion... only to eventually become a high school teacher. He's since retired again, though with the multiple volunteer jobs he's doing it doesn't really feel like it lol
>Is it a "promise" if it's a guaranteed algorithmic result?

No, and that's what decentralized staking is. That's fine and the SEC is explicitly not taking issue with it.

Centralized 'promising to engage in decentralized staking on a customer's behalf' is not guaranteed or algorithmic-- which is why it necessarily causes said customers to "take on risks associated with those [centralized] platforms," to quote the SEC, and thus becomes a security.
I humbly submit either bash, sh, or zsh --- they all put dotfiles in $HOME that you can't move (zsh technically /can/, but they're still dotfiles and you have to set them in ~/.zshenv). Very annoying IMO.

Course, might not work so well with the way boxxy is run ... unless you chsh to boxxy bash or something.
Personally, I'm not convinced, in your hypothetical, that the participant does not "know" Thai at that point. Seeing a young child learn language, it's a lot more adaptive than I think we tend to see language learning, as we often think about learning language as a teenager and not a toddler. I agree the machine does not know what a pizza tastes like nor does it know what it is to _want_ pizza, but I'm not sure that is what is being contested here.
That’s still because of banning wind power on English soil. All so the literal gentry don’t get an eyesore.

It would be entirely feasible to distribute production to where most consumption happens.
> is a linear transform of the RGB

It is for every implementation I've seen. I have it defined both ways as 4x4 matrices in my code (3x3 is not in System.Numerics).
It’s just the way he tells the story, ya’know funny
Proof of stake staking with Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, Tezos, Solana, Kava, etc
Hi even the long acting insulin has been quoted to cost around $10 to manufacture (at scale)!
It seems like you are conflating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Karl Malone. They are completely different players from completely different eras. Kareem broke his scoring record the year before Karl joined the league. This analogy is inappropriate at best, and deceptive and racist at worst.

Other than race and vocation Karl and Kareem share very little in common. Different eras, different positions on the court, different lives, completely different people. Kareem has been a class act, a gracious, accomplished athlete and a devoted activist for all of his long life.

You should really think deeply about why you would conflate the two, even if mistakenly. The fact that you created a new user name specifically for making this comment leads me to believe you probably knew what you were doing.

For the record -- from Wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar)

Abdul-Jabbar met Habiba Abdul-Jabbar (born Janice Brown) at a Lakers game during his senior year at UCLA.[235] They eventually married and together had three children: daughters Habiba and Sultana and son Kareem Jr., who played basketball at Western Kentucky after attending Valparaiso.[236][237] Abdul-Jabbar and Janice divorced in 1978. He has another son, Amir, with Cheryl Pistono. Another son, Adam, made an appearance on the TV sitcom Full House with him.[238]
Wow! I'm excited to hear someone has the WAX206 running openWRT. I've been trying to get more of my networking gear running that, but since the WAX206 isn't officially supported I hadn't looked into things further.

How much of a pain was it to compile? The post doesn't seem to describe any changes made (understandable, most people probably don't care) but there must be some changes if you had to compile it yourself, right?
U.S. investigating Elon Musk's Neuralink over hazardous pathogens
I'm not actually salty. Rather, sometimes I half-joke that I have 28 years of Rust programming experience, and when people do the double-take I explain that I'm including ML-derived languages with explicit lifetimes/regions, so close enough.
Given the murder rate, mass shooting rate, incarceration per capita and domestic violence involving firearms in the US ... I'm not sure drawing that parallel is as convincing an argument for safeguarding encryption as you think.
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That’s not what a ponzi scheme is though. The most important thing about what makes a ponzi scheme a scheme is that the person running the scheme is obfuscating where the money being paid out comes from. It’s when someone pretends they’re doing something highly profitable to attract investors, but actually when they pay people with what they claim is profits they’re actually just using the money from other investors. The defining feature of a ponzi scheme is not that if no one would be willing to buy if off you, if would have no value (that’s definitionally true of all objects). It’s that if new people stopped investing in the company, the company would fall apart. There is no value in a ponzi scheme separate from more money piling into it.

This is very different from a stock that doesn’t pay a dividend. While you’d never get money out of it if no one was willing to buy it, what stocks generally promise is some amount of ownership and voting rights in a company (which theoretically could result in dividends, if enough stock holders agreed). That said ownership ended up not being valued by other people does not make it fraud. You can certainly feel free to believe that stocks that don’t give dividends are worthless though, that’s a separate question really.

I generally come down on the side that the major cryptocurrencies aren’t ponzi schemes, or fraud in general. (Plenty of fraud in the shitcoins, of course). Ultimately you decided to buy a data point on a ledger in a distributed system, and that’s what you get. But…well, mining sometimes confuses that. Without enough people coming into the system to buy new coins, the miners would start shutting down until none were left. Much like a ponzi scheme, crypto currencies seem reliant on new blood to keep functioning to me. Don’t know if that makes them a scheme necessarily, but they’re more adjacent to it.
Nice idea but it didn't work for me... you need to look into why "poppadoms or bread" isn't turning up any results.

It's one of the lines in every episode of the Off Menu Podcasts, one of the biggest podcasts in the uk.
> This person lost a lot of credibility over decades of promoting corsair engines which failed.

As someone not familiar, can you explain? How have those engines failed and how does that impact credibility regarding this, rather than just being something that didn't work out?

> ...but newer ones offer very few advantages.

From the article, it seems like cost is the biggest advantage (70% cheaper to run), followed by ease of use. And then of course the lack of toxic lead, although I don't know how to quantify that.

What am I missing?

You make a lot of points, but it's not immediately clear to me how they refute the article.
How’s the SaaS model working?
I think this would be a tough one. FWIW, I think your question highlights a great example of why so many companies don't offer the pricing you want, even though it's probably true that the majority of users would prefer this pricing.

My bet is that selling "10 pro edits or something like that" would nearly completely cannibalize any subscription sales. Thus, I think OP is probably likely to make a lot more money by only offering a subscription than by offering one-off pricing that kills subscription sales.
Yesterday, Gitlab hadn't had a layoff.

While Apple did have a much smaller increase in headcount over the last few years, I wouldn't use Apple as an example while we're still in the midst of everything. In December, people were touting Google as an example of one of the layoff-proof companies. I didn't trust that logic, and I don't trust the logic that Apple is somehow immune when they're so closely tied into the tech industry. For example, I'm theorizing that a non-trivial part of their profits comes from supporting the developer ecosystem (who else buys max-spec Macs at scale?). Regardless of the underlying reason, mass layoffs and tightened budgets are going to dry up B2B profit streams.
Ok I like your thought experiment. Lets change it a bit.

Instead of it being an unknown language, its English (a language you know), but every single Noun, Verb, Adjective or Preposition has been changed to Thai (a language you dont know).

The Mæw Nạ̀ng Bn the S̄eụ̄̀x.

If you had sufficient opportunity to study this pile of text, you'd begin to pick out patterns of which words appear together, and what order words often appear in. Suppose you study this giant stack of Thai text for years in isolation. After all this study, you're good enough that given a few written Thai words, you can write sequences of words that are likely to follow, given what you know of these patterns.

Right, and to get good at this task, you'd need to build models in your head. You would think to yourself, right a Mæw tends to nạ̀ng bn a S̄eụ̄̀x, and you would build up a model of the sort of things a Mæw might do, the situations it might be in. In an abstract way. As you absorbed more and more data you would adjust these abstract models to fit the evidence you had.

You dont know what a Mæw is. But if someone asks you about a Mæw, you can talk about how it relates to S̄eụ̄̀x, Plā and H̄nū. You know stuff about Mæw, but its abstract.
Those behaviors could be better described as "looking" and "facing", couldn't they? Pointing means something pretty specific to humans, especially when we're talking about human-animal interactions.
How is the request that someone provide a clear set of definitions and some empirically falsifiable hypotheses a "dead end for scientific theories"? It seems more like the foundation of the scientific method.
Spodumene is roasted and treated with acid to make the lithium salts needed. It does use water, and heat (energy) and you have waste water settlement ponds.

Atacama lake deposits are different, and have a different treatment path which I think has a higher risk to a fragile ecology in salt-pan type evaporation and depletion of a high-altitude water table.

I'm kind of hedging: I want to believe our (AU) spodumene waste cycle issues are both different and smaller (we can use PV to do the heating, and its recyclable water) but I think thats unknown. A geologist/ecologist could say.
Does Ziply Fiber exist down there? We have it on the East Side and it's so nice. They just rolled out 2 and 5Gbps as well.
That sounds pretty terrifying in an emergency situation. What is the reason for the rear doors working differently? I can't picture someone referring to their user manual or looking under the seat to open the door when the car is on fire.

This reads like a terrible design.
The issue I have is why should an air cooled engine designed in the 50’s cost 30k to buy?
For some people. The distance you can go is less on a regular bike. When I was young the idea of putting a tent on my bike and camping someplace remote sounded good, but these days I actually do put that load on my bike only for very short trips.
>I also bet you'll guess a different one than me, so maybe more than one ;-)

Only thing I'll say is it won't be Apple, since they did none of the above/didn't get into the "hiring Spree" in the same way all the rest of the tech giants did, which includes what I'd call FAANG-adjacent spots like Uber, etc.
Well, I'll be! An article like this? On ZDNet, of all places?! When did this about face happen??

Maybe we are closer to the Year of Linux on the Desktop than ever before!
Your Thai text generator example seems like a reformulation of the "Chinese Room" thought experiment, except you're running the system using a single human brain instead of many. I'm not sure that makes a difference. The human running the system doesn't understand Thai, but perhaps that system itself does.
> not clear they're a financial net positive

What could possibly be more clear than

"we were spending $X and now we're spending $(X - c)"

> Both with direct and indirect costs

Employees themselves are direct costs that are removed with layoffs.
Sounds like the company is paying HCOL salary in a LCOL state then.

Colorado isn’t even comparable to California in terms of cost, it’s also a state that most companies pay a national salary band for since it’s not considered a high cost state.
You may have to rephrase the question to what Microsoft is having on/for managers that make them keep sucking up to Microsoft. So much that people are forced to use their crapware.
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No, you are most likely correct, I personally haven't found anything that even gives a reason to hope. But as reductionism and Laplacian Determinism are taught as cannon and not as the best option I sugar coated it.

The Wada property arising in simple models like predator/prey models with simple added factors like fear/cover probably also suggests that even simple models may be indeterminate at least with binary operations like modern algebra is based on.

Three attractors or exit basins can make this unintuitive topological feature pop up. Note that that fractal behavior is topological and not scale invariant noise like is typically studied with topics like fractal scattering.

Indecomposable continua like the Wada property aren't solvable with probabilistic models using automata like in the standard model, which is lucky enough to have less than three exit basins.

Here is one fairly accessable paper on the Wada property.

Hopefully some n-ary algebras may come forward to deal with restricted problems, but even if we could create a logically consistent model of arithmetic, binary operations will still be indeterminate with feature like the Wada property even with perfect knowledge of initial conditions.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365233050_Organized...
(Oil author here) We're making great progress on polishing Oil -- namely semi-automatically translating it to C++ -- but can still use more help.

In particular, starting in October, contributor Melvin Walls has almost single-handedly enabled the interactive shell to be translated, including some of the hardest bits like shell traps, signal handling, and GNU readline bindings.

I was a little worried that we'd run into difficulties with our style of Python and this "inverted" / callback-heavy component, but the result is better than I expected. Melvin came up with creative and solid solutions.

So we have a tiny garbage-collected runtime, and the rest is statically-typed, memory safe Python code. (We learned first hand that memory safety is especially important when you're interfacing with a garbage collector.)

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So we need more people who can put in some elbow grease. You can even be paid to work on open source code! We just got a second grant from NLnet, which I mentioned on the blog.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221617

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/

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There are a few misconceptions in this thread which make me realize I need to update the blog:

1) The Oil project contains OSH, which is not only POSIX- compatible, but bash-compatible. Some people don't believe that it could be both things -- how could it be both compatible and new? But that is absolutely true (and a major reason why it's a big project!)

You can type 'osh' and it will run your existing shell scripts, or type 'oil', and it's a brand new language. ( Tour: https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/oil-language-tou... )

(Note: I also plan to slightly rename the project, to address this confusion, since I've encountered it before. It's confusing that "Oil" is both the whole project and a component of the project.)

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2) On the other hand, the Oil language is NOT "just waiting to be deployed". There are a few TODOs in that doc, and they're actually quite big. Though filling them in is going to lead to something pretty great which spans a variety of domains, IMO. I hope to write a few blog posts about that in the coming months.

As always feel free to check out the code and join Zulip. On most Linux distros you can get a working bin/osh in about 30 seconds:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Contributing

The code is in great shape, and completely different than it was 6 months ago. Especially the C++ side. But you can just hack on Python, with MyPy, and it just works!

The tools are also very solid now, with dozens of cleanups/fixes even in the last few weeks. Getting the GC working was a big breath of fresh air that unlocked a lot of possibilities.
We're entering an era of rapid subversion in tech. What the banks thought were deep moats are quickly being filled-in. Imagine being told that, by surface-area, Intel and AMD would both become virtually meaningless, from 2014 to 2022.

As the current players jockey to get next-generation model use-cases monetized, a pocket will emerge for players whose moat doesn't depend on keeping that data hidden... governments at all levels are supported in better reporting data to the public.

Advertising money is going to begin to migrate to the crypto economy, models like Fountain seem an obvious end, since there are already virtual moats simply waiting for infrastructure like this to be built, and eyeballs to be thusly magnetized.

Qualcomm-Meta merger, becomes the adult in the room and forks Android fostering a vibrant ecosystem to support any incumbent competitors. VR practical-interface to worky-type-stuff.

Non-transistor, room-temperature substrate with pm-node scale for statistical modeling compute units invented.

Starlink available to a handset as an alternative to the cellular network. At least one competitor.

Neural data compression standards substantially reduce bandwidth usage and fidelity across streaming media.

Big wave of streaming media disintermediation, akin to the Twit-trot.
It is interesting that lossy compression algorithms are better, despite the Eckart–Young–Mirsky theorem. I guess “best low rank approximation under unitarily invariant norms“ doesn’t mean much to eyeballs though.
> something something quantum entanglement blockchain AI?

You need Rust in there somewhere.
Someone needs to make a bumper sticker for developers that says “fast and wrong”. I’d imagine non-programmers would buy more of them for other reasons…
TLDR edited down from https://hivinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv/fact-sheets/what-l... (I couldn't read TFA because uMatrix)

Finding ways to target and destroy latent reservoirs is a challenge facing HIV researchers

Some HIV-infected immune cells go into a resting or latent state. While in this resting state, the infected cells do not produce new virus. A latent HIV reservoir is a group of immune system cells in the body that are infected with HIV but are not actively producing new HIV.

HIV medicines prevent HIV from multiplying, which reduces the amount of the virus in the body (called the viral load). Because the HIV-infected cells in a latent reservoir are not producing new copies of the virus, HIV medicines have no effect on them.

People with HIV must take a daily combination of HIV medicines (called an HIV treatment regimen) to keep their viral loads low. If a person stops taking their HIV medicines, the infected cells of the latent reservoir can begin making HIV again and the person's viral load will increase. That is why it is important to continue taking HIV medicines every day as prescribed, even when viral load levels are low.

Finding ways to target and destroy latent reservoirs is a major challenge facing HIV researchers. Researchers are exploring different strategies for clearing out reservoirs, including:

Using gene therapy (manipulating genes to treat or prevent disease) to cut out certain HIV genes and inactivate the virus in HIV-infected immune cells.

Developing drugs or other methods to reactivate latent HIV so that the HIV can be destroyed by the immune system or new HIV therapies. This means of eliminating latent HIV reservoirs is sometimes known as the “shock and kill” or “kick and kill” strategy.
The structure described is an element of a "symbol table" and not a Lisp pointer. Which makes it even weirder honestly.
Nice work. I can see the utility since I manually do this for some of my blogs [0,1]. But a subscription model doesn't work for me.

[0] https://www.islandix.com/blog/announcing-1-1
[1] https://www.islandix.com/blog/radar-re-homed
Not sure why they're not just axing a whole bunch of staff like everyone else.. fees on-top of this marketplace is still a profitable concept and/or you could find a buyer
Ideally in that scenario you'd have a model that unified vision, language and an understanding of 'doing things' and manipulating objects. so it wouldnt just be an LLM, it would be a language-vision-doingthings model. There's no reason why we cant build one.
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It's no weirder to say "ChatGPT gave me advice" than it is "Google search gave me the link to Wikipedia" or "the sun gave me a tan." Regardless of the exact status of ChatGPT, why be on an ideological warpath to reject that inanimate things can be the subject of a statement?
A follow up question: as a human doesn't start with "knowing" something either and first creates definitions for objects or words, which it then uses to build increasingly abstract concepts that we eventually classify as "knowledge" on the thing, is there anything that would stop LLMs from being able to do the same thing? I fully agree the capability is not there yet, but I can't say what would stop an appropriately designed model from being able to do so myself.
Like enum said, I want the face-to-face interaction. Not to say I haven’t tried to make small talk, I have. Talking about non-work things with natively remote co-workers is awkward. It’s clear that they don’t want to do it and I don’t want to force myself on them.

I’ve heard the argument, “well think about how they feel when you’re in the office and they can’t get away from your asking about their weekend,” but I’ve never worked in an office and not created genuine friendships that persisted outside of work.

I’m sure full remote work is fine for a lot of people and if I weren’t married and raising people, I’d probably be one of them.

Still, remote is preferable to full in-office. A couple of days of the week, maybe less, feels like the right amount of time in the office. Companies could downsize and schedule certain teams for certain days.