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> Anyway our economic model is toxic to cooperative businesses.

I don't really buy that.

Our economic model rewards businesses that make money. In tech, you don't even need to make a profit, just having a lot of revenue is enough to get a ton of investment (although that might be changing, and that change is probably good).

If a software co-op could succeed as a business, why hasn't that happened?
Man cured of HIV after stem cell transplant in third success story worldwide
No real reason to compare a GPU core to a CPU one, but the memory bandwidth difference is pretty concrete!
It's really a treatise on good leadership and management from the perspective of a showrunner.

There are a bunch of great quotes, but this bit from 4th Law (Make decisions early and often) really hit home for me:

> But you know what "nice people" and "good bosses" actually do? They rip off the Band-Aid early, make the case for their decision, hear out any remaining arguments to a reasonable degree, then shut down the discussion and send everyone off to get on with their work.

Even worse than making the wrong decision is not making a decision at all, that's true in any leadership position.
Gritty arguments with Airbnb support resulted in a refund and 100 USD coupon
TLDR; Airbnb refunded my stay of 21.80 USD and provided a coupon code of 100 USD after gritty 38 messages with support, refund due to safety concerns.

I had recently traveled through Sao Paolo in Brazil and needed to stay somewhere near the airport of Guarulhos until public transport was available. I booked a stay that looked closest to the airport, but was not aware of the river between the terminal and my destination, which added several kilometers to the journey.

When the Uber driver arrived at the destination at 11pm, he rolled up the windows and asked if this was really my destination. He pointed out that we had arrived at a "comunidade", a synonym for favela. The street was dark and people were hanging out at the cross-sections. I feared that I would be asked what I was doing there and, with all my baggage, felt vulnerable. The Uber driver was very kind and drove me to a nearby hotel, away from the comunidade.

Unfortunately, my credit card was not linked to my Uber account and I had no money to pay in cash. The driver wrote me a debt that I had to pay before I could use Uber again. I wanted to give him a huge tip for potentially saving me from a bad situation, but I'm still trying to get the Uber support to let me do this.

Shortly after moving to the hotel I immediately contacted Airbnb support, pretty much explaining what I've already mentioned here:

- I was in a potentially dangerous situation;

- the host might have been a criminal, attempting to scam or rob unsuspecting travellers;

- refund (obviously), since I did not utilise the booked service;

- that it should be mentioned that the stay is in a dangerous neighbourhood;

Airbnb would only answer:

- that the host had a strict cancellation policy, and they could not refund me if the host did not allow it (they would keep the money once they had it);

- that I should have checked the area before making the reservation (victim blaming);

- "Because we cannot take action if there is no proof that the Host is baiting to scam Guests that are going to his property, just because the area is dangerous" (okay, so I'd first need to get robbed in order to be eligible for a refund);

- "Please do understand that Airbnb is made to connect people" (to which I replied that me and Airbnb had reached the point where two thieves are sitting next to each other, and we don't need to pretend anymore).

I had already given up hope, but I kept the chat-support going, hoping that the time and effort they spent would be worth the 20 dollars I had lost. Miraculously, one of the operators showed some common sense and refunded my stay and gave me a coupon code worth 100 USD.

Well, I guess the moral of this story is to not give up insisting on your rights even when the corporation is against you.
> Heck, I think many businesses would support this change

Also being privy to A/B testing in this area, I can tell you that we developers would looooove this kind of regulation so we don't have to build these kinds of dark patterns while holding our noses and telling ourselves that at least the pay is good.
Well, I know there's more to life than comp but when it comes to deciding what to do for work, its a huge factor. I'm just wondering how you would get a similar comp in OPs system.
Hm - Okay, you have a point there. My preferred hoster does not offer this, but many do, and if you don't want to go with a lesser known option that really is even easier. So the old way of hosting it with a shared hoster did improve, nice :)
The cleaning fee is part of doing business. I don’t pay my taxi driver for car registration or oil changes either.
It's not a terrible argument, except for resort fees. Tell me how I can opt out.
Noble? You're anthropomorphising machine learning. On possible motiviation would be to train a model, instead of training a model in order to create publicity around a model being trained.
Mininet: Instant Virtual Networks on Your Laptop (Or Other PC)
If they know how much to charge me at the payment step, they know what price to put on the shelf. Everything else is just making excuses for keeping it as opaque as it has always been in the US.

Yes, it can get a bit more complicated for internet based stores, but even there they do already know how much to charge at the payment step, so again I say that it is a (customer hostile) choice not to show the real price up front.
Oh boy, OpSec should pay attention to this.
theyre not immune to 0-days tho.

they just have more staff on hand to respond, run updates, and do the due diligence of checking and implementing patches.
The Norwegian shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen is currently working on a 220 meter RoRo vessel with sails [1].

Orcelle Wind is a wind-powered Pure Car Truck Carrier, a type of deepsea Roll On, Roll Off vessel. It will be 220 meters and have a capacity for over 7,000 cars, but will also be capable of carrying breakbulk and rolling equipment. Orcelle Wind is a crucial part of Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s fleet decarbonization strategy and the ambition is for it to commence sailing in late 2026 or early 2027.

Orcelle Wind is the first vessel from the Oceanbird concept (see link below) for primarily wind-powered vessels. The concept shows that it is theoretically possible to reduce emissions from vessels by up to 90 percent if all emissions-influencing factors are aligned.

[1]https://www.walleniuswilhelmsen.com/news/worlds-first-wind-p...
First of all, you are talking about something from 1882. If we are going to take that approach, let's go back to the Vikings then. Why not?

In all seriousness, my thinking is that the behavior has to be reciprocal.

The scenario might be something like this:

- A allows citizens from access to X
- B prohibits citizens from A from access to the same X in their nation
- A adopts the "I will treat you as you treat us" policy
- A prohibits citizens from B from access to X
- If B's policy changes, A reverts to their normal treatment of others

As a point of fairness, why should anyone let someone enjoy freedoms if they do not, in turn, offer the same treatment in return?

I did say that the simple statement of this principle isn't at all perfect and is likely a slippery slope. So, please, let's not argue against some ridiculous proposal I am not making.

One example of this might be how to handle the case of dealing with a totalitarian regime? Pick North Korea as an example and, say, France on the other side of the equation.

Citizens from North Korea --if they are able to get out-- can move to France and buy property, own a business, etc.

Can French citizens do the same in North Korea? I don't know the answer to this question.

If, hypothetically speaking, the answer was: No. Would it be fair treatment of North Korean refugies to deny them property rights in France? Likely not. Not at all. What would be fair, would be to deny rich North Koreans from owning property in France. I don't think I am wrong in saying that wealthy North Koreans are likely very connected to the totalitarian government. Normal people actually emigrating to France should not have issues owning property.

You could have a requirement of citizenship or having lived in the country for, say, ten years, etc. In other words, a set of rules to ensure that there's mutual, reciprocal equal treatment and fairness.

The situation with China and, well, the rest of the world --not just the US, assuming that would be naïve-- is that they are buying-up everything they can, from the tip of Patagonia to Alaska. To that point, look at what they are doing in Argentina's south:

https://www.gauchoholdings.com/news/industry/2011-09-17-chin...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-argentina-china-ins...

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2...

If you think the farm land question in the US is what we are talking about here, you might want to take some time to google around and get a picture of what China is doing around the world, in every continent. They are not benevolent actors at all. They have reached a stage where they can flex their financial and technological muscles. China is, and will likely be, the single largest driver of ecological destruction around the world for years to come.

This is why I went out of my way to talk about countries "A" and "B". This isn't about the US alone. This is a global issue, has been so for over a decade.

In a nutshell: China should not be allowed to own anything we (the world) cannot own --really own, not borrow from their government-- in China. We treat them the way they treat the rest of the world.
Microsoft Hyper-V Nested Hypervisor Support Comes for Linux 6.3
The Air Force’s top recruiter is personally reviewing recruits’ hand tattoos
A more practical AI skill to teach would be to install face and voice recognition devices in the class and let them spy on one another. Catch those that have uttered disallowed words and punish them.
Very true. I picked one that uses the last two letters of my last name, so that my website it just my last name!
> It's also how you backed up/restored midi data from early synths.

In a weird closing of the circle, I now store the internal sounds backup of my vintage Juno 60 synthesizer as a WAV file recorded from that tape backup output.

So the digital info of the internal synthesizers gets converted to analog audio in the synth, then passed as audio to my modern computer’s audio interface, which converts it to a digital representation of the analog audio.

And vice versa to restore the backup into the synthesizer’s memory.

Incidentally those backups are more reliable now than when using analog tape decks, since one doesn’t encounter physical tape degradation or a cassette deck “eating” the tape.

I haven’t done any testing with compressed audio formats, but I would expect even lossy formats to perform well, if one keeps the lossiness within certain bounds, so that the highest frequencies in the audio file are preserved.
Not parent and not arguing that this model is common by any means. But a noteable example is Motion Twin [0]: a game company that had a couple of mainstream hits (most recently Dead Cells).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Twin
Also worth reading https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-i-built-my-blog
I could be very wrong about this, but I always thought observation was a property of measurement?

IE to get any info, we have to interact with the system, so we "observe it", by say colliding a photon or something.

This action interrupts the existing system.

Once again this could be not the right way of looking at it, but that's always how I've interpreted the observer to not be this magical thing.
> Would you volunteer to run the ethics training and do it properly?

Yea but I doubt they'd have me. I'm just a disruptive individual. With regards to the question of why I would make a scene in the lecture, it's because of the contradiction of agreeing to be ethical and at the same time walking out of the ethics lecture knowing it was meaningless. It's the complicity in society that leads us to being led by a bunch of fucking jellyfish.
> this ease of price comparison has resulted in unbundling of services in a number of industries - e.g. airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing"

<cough> I'm literally just booking a trip with Ryanair, Vienna to London, in just less than a month's time. It's costing me a shade less than $20 for a 770 mile flight, no hidden fees during my purchase...

No, it doesn't include a large carry-on bag, never mind a checked bag.

No, it doesn't include priority boarding.

No, it doesn't include reserved seating.

No, I won't earn any frequent-flyer miles/elite status.

Also, the in-flight F+B will be overpriced, so it's safer not to waste money there either.

However, for a two-hour flight and a short trip, I don't need any of those things!

I just want to get from A to B, safely, and preferably on-time. FR is at least as likely to do those two things as any of the 'legacy' carriers I could pick instead.
ao486 FPGA.
Your "maybe" is grossly unnecessary! Get an editor, sir!
Wow, you just invented open source software.
It has way less to do with any "awareness campaign" and more to do with how tax rates are different in many municipalities that are very close to each other and how hard that makes advertising.

For instance, the famous "$5 footlong" from Subway couldn't be advertised that way nationally, or even within a single state or metro area due to different taxes on prepared food.
Some of the code snippets have lines that vary in font size by a very noticeable amount in Safari on iPhone.

https://imgur.io/o44Fkjt

https://imgur.io/OypYkcQ

https://imgur.io/yeK9IwK

It’s definitely legitimate to ask what’s up with that
Based on my read of the article, this just means ads will be surrounding the chat bots, not included within them, which I feel like we all expected given these are products from companies who make shit loads of money selling advertising
1) There are other ways to do that that don't annoy people so much.

2) Surveys about understanding of how taxes work, of personal or typical tax burden, and even about whether a given individual believes they were affected by some new high-profile tax law or other (versus whether they actually were...) demonstrate pretty damn conclusively that this approach has entirely failed, anyway.
Overall I agree with you - the only caveat I have to offer is Cloudflare's support of eSNI. My opinion on CF used to be quite black and white, but there is at least someone in there (for who knows how long) contributing to the actual security of the web. Not mutually exclusive with doing harm in other ways.
Now you’re just arguing about what percentage of wealth was fairly earned, which is not at all the same as the original terrible claim.
Really interesting. Did you make this? Is there an API to Apple Notes? I've been wanting to programmatically interact with my notes for some time but found it to be a strangely closed ecosystem.
How I Built My Blog
>Buy a $3.00 coffee , $1 tip is expected.

Is this a fancy coffee shop thing? I admittedly don't go to cafes often, but my impression was that it's a "tipping optional" type of place (as opposed to something like full service restaurants which are tipping defacto mandatory).
> This is also a case where consumers say they want one thing, but their behavior is a different matter. For example, pretty much everyone says they prefer the full price to be shown up front in search result pages. But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and fees are only tacked on during checkout.

Consumers are very consistent here. You are comparing what consumers want: clear, upfront pricing so they can pick the lowest cost option, with what companies want: more sales. The fact that putting your pricing upfront causes you to lose customers because your competition is hiding costs is as you point out a dysfunctional market problem. But the consumers involved are not being hypocritical.
I think OP recognizes that, but is simply stating that product decisions are based on user behavior, which rewards bait and switch
Your view of "offloading" things to a faster language is wrong. It's already written in a fast language (C++ or CUDA). Python is just an easy to use way of invoking the various libraries. Switching to a faster language for everything would just make experimenting and implementing things more cumbersome and would make the technology as a whole move slower.
>Worker coops will work great for the successful products, but most are failures. Who pays for those?

The people who invested to start them. A co-op is just when the stakeholders get together to buy something (shares in the startup, in this case) instead of having a handful of not-so-informed and partially disinterested investors provide liquidity.
> I've often seen people launch mailing lists and pre-orders for products, books, courses, of which they have not yet written a single line. So their early users get a discount in exchange for providing invaluable feedback during the development process.

Or, more often, their users get nothing at all.

I steer clear of people doing this. It's one thing get other people's feedback on what's clearly communicated as just an idea, or a work in progress. It's another thing to claim you have a ready (or launching any minute now!) product/service, while all you really have is a webpage full of lies and a textbox for victims of your con artistry to leave their contact information, so you can "gauge interest" / "determine market size" (and possibly spam those e-mails later with something else). The latter I consider dishonest, and on the off chance someone doing this actually launches their thing, I'll already be biased against purchasing/subscribing.
Alcohol is optional! Money is too. I know I recommended playing for money, but as long as people respect the game and don't play overly recklessly you don't need money. I will note however that there's a big difference between gambling for a small amount of money with friends, and gambling for real stakes in a casino.

If poker is completely off the table then board games are a great alternative. Make sure to pick a game that forces players to regularly interact with each other. I would recommend Wits and Wagers or the classic Settlers of Catan. If you're looking for a more serious strategy game (and if your group can tolerate the emotional highs and lows) I would strongly recommend Diplomacy.

Pen and paper RPGs like D&D can be great fun too, but they're harder to get started with and require the same group of people to play every time. If someone can't make it to a session the entire group can't play, and it's hard to bring in new people. But if you can get a game established with a good group it's amazing. I'm still friends with the people I played with in high school.
Here's my little folk "wisdom" addendum to your great point:

* Try to replace any judginess you feel, with curiosity

(Easier said than done - but a little humility is a great first step towards getting to that curious state of mind)

Curiosity places understanding something ahead of justifying something. It makes self-interrogation easier and less threatening to the ego. It makes engaging with those who hold differing beliefs more about understanding/exploring, and less like doing battle.

That's my theory anyways, but it could be my bias talking.

And I fail at taking my own advice, often. ;P
All good. Just making sure I wasn’t missing something myself.
Are they paying more than your current FAANG job?
It interferes with the sacred Right of Contract.
Are hidden fees like the fuel taxes that get bundled into the stated price, or like sales taxes that are calculated at purchase time?
>You can choose to label that neglectful and insulting, but I doubt it will overcome the incentives and market forces that are inexorably pushing in a different direction.

I don't think it's just about incentives and market forces. There is an inevitable trade-off between implementing the features that people want and working on ever deeper platform integration. This trade-off exists and will always exist irrespective of financial considerations.

Some people (not you) make it sound as if putting more work into platform integration is somehow a more noble goal than building other features, and if it wasn't for those greedy, cost cutting capitalists the natural steady state of all software would be some sort of "native" ideal.

I disagree with that. As a user I don't want developers to put time into every single thing that platform providers invent in order to make their own platform more unique, however useless or even detrimental that differentiation may be for me. Platform providers don't want to be replaceable pipes because that would hurt their margins.

In many cases one size really does fit all my needs when it comes to infrastructure. In a minority of cases I do need really deep platform integration. Both goals have their legitimate place in software engineering even before considering any profit motives and financial constraints.
Hopefully somewhere here or at similar companies, solving some of the important issues of our times.

https://github.com/pogopaule/awesome-sustainability-jobs
Many people have the wet dream of Navalny replacing Putin. First, this is not happening, second, Putin is one of the most liberal feasible czars of Russia! Most other alternatives are worse and Navalny is more nationalistic than Putin. Putin is a liberal, he keeps calling the West "partners" and he didn't want this war - in fact, most of the criticism of him is that he didn't start this earlier, not that he started the war!
Mine's fine (#1b1b1b on #ffffff, chrome windows).

Are you running some low contrast mods, dark mode, or some such?
Airlines are an interesting an example because the FAA required them to advertise all-inclusive pricing a decade ago. The extras they charge for now (checked bags, bigger seats, nonstop flights) really are optional —- I routinely pack light and pass on any upgrades. People who need to check a bag can include that in their price comparison. For hotels, it’s fine to charge extra for access to the pool or whatever as long as it’s possible to decline.
A complicated law only helps big business that has the resources to follow it.

Look no further than the shit show of the 11 chapter 99 section GDPR.
I hope this applies to like Airbnb, Ticketmaster and so on who disclose late service fees.
That's the thing! You don't!

Conversely, there's no way for me to know that you _are_ sentient (a la Solipsism).
People often don't realize that C++11 only brought syntactic sugar. Even unique pointers and move semantics can also be done in C++03, as e.g. demonstrated by Boost.Move. So if people insist that "modern C++" started with C++11, they actually claim that it was the syntactic sugar which made C++ "modern".
> Interesting, though apparently the OPT175B model is 350GB:

Only in FP16. In the paper they use int4 quantization to reduce it to a quarter of that. In addition to the model weights, there's also a KV cache that takes up considerable amounts of memory, and they use int4 on that as well.

> I wonder what FlexGen is doing.. a naive guess is a mix of SSD and system memory.

That's correct, but other approaches have done this as well. What's "new" here seems to be the optimized data access pattern in combination with some other interesting techniques (prefetching, int4 quantization, CPU offload).