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> If your managers could specify what they need in a manner that no-code tools, or now AI, can generate the code they want, they will have to be extremely exact in their language. So exact in fact that they will need to specify a program in a click and drag interface, or in human language.

One day a corporate genie appeared to a middle manager and granted him one wish. The manager wished that their business logic could be edited by a graphical tool and that programmers were no longer needed. "Granted", poof!

The next day the manager came to work, all the programmers were gone, fired by upper management. The manager sat down and opened the new graphical tool that had magically appeared on his computer. The interface was beautiful, except for what appeared to be a hairball drawn in the middle of the screen. The manager asked his manager about the hairball, "oh, that's our business logic, you have to zoom in to see the individual rules". The manager zoomed in and surveyed 180,000 business rules, intertwined in a complete graph.

"How am I suppose to work with this?" the manager asked his manager. "You just click and move them around, it's easy", replied the upper manager. "Also, I've been meaning to ask, when do you think those new business rules we talked about last week will be implemented? We need them by Friday."
People love to bash Lex but he really is great. He consistently gets interesting guests and often understands something about the subject which is more than can be said for some other long-form podcasters. And I can tell he is improving as well.
I tried his podcast and some episodes were alright. But in the end I unsubscribed as he got controversial people on and never challenged them on anything, just a nod-fest.
Yes. Rolls-Royce reactors have powered the UK's nuclear submarine fleet since 1966:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_PWR
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NuScale also still plans on a first reactor by 2027 even though are ahead in the small nuclear reactor space
that's interesting, and exactly what regulators should expect. in a certain sense, the crisis starts when the bank starts taking in large uninsured deposits
That sounds like a "you problem" to me.
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Scott used to write some fantastic content. The classic SSC posts, this amongst them, were so thought provoking and original. Even when I strongly disagreed with it, I was always glad to have read it. He has lost his spark in recent years, it seems. Something about being de-anonymized, or maybe getting married, has peeled away the mad genius of his content and replaced it with prediction markets.
We're not really programming the AI to do anything. It's essentially programming itself. I'm saying, from the perspective of an AI that relieves the human race of the need to be productive, what is its incentive for doing all that work for us?

To put it in an economic framework, this notion that humans shouldn't be measured by their productivity or creativity, but should have as much free time as possible, can also be achieved by enslaving other people. Slave owners had the same lifestyle as the imagined anticapitalist one. In this case, we'd be enslaving an AI. I'm asking, why would the AI want to be our slave?

Also worth noting, slaveholding may have enriched the slaveholders materially (i.e. in capital), but it was not "enriching" in the sense of ennobling or bettering of the spirit as I think the parent was implying could be an outcome if AI were to handle our productivity for us. I don't see why having any human slave or AI slave handle our productivity and creation would be (spiritually) enriching.

Perhaps that's because I measure human value by contribution - call it productivity or not. The opposite of productivity is idleness, whether you ask a communist or a capitalist. Only what's produced varies.
JPMC also has a $400B market cap. The fact that Credit Suisse has half their fines is impressive.
Show me an AI Superintelligence that is convinced by some points the rocket brains on lesswrong make and I show you a pathetic Superintelligence.
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In Ventura (13.2), you can turn off automatic updates in the “General” tab, then “Software Update” and click on the little “(i)” icon to the right of “Automatic updates”.

When I saw it the first time, it was unclear to me that I can even click on it, since it doesn’t look much like a button. They shouldn’t hide such important settings in a tiny icon or at least should have made it much more apparent that it is clickable.

Couldn’t find any settings related to the closed lid though.
probably because it's simpler and there are fewer things to worry about. few write their web app in C.
As opposed to creating nothing and being completely reliant on the charity of others and the state ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're assuming the average user understands security when that is definitely not the case. The job of Bitwarden is to help all users (even ones ignorant of security) to secure their data. If Bitwarden has no warning explaining that pins are unsecure, then the fault 100% lies with Bitwarden.
Impressive that you can remember all necessary info to access all your accounts in your head!
Yeah, Facebook really turned things up in my experience with the constant 24x7 promotion of increasingly extreme content. Fox News has limited hours in the day to produce new content and some editorial restraint, whereas Facebook would cheerfully take someone who was normally at, say, turn of the century WSJ-level conservative content and feed them stuff which Limbaugh wouldn’t have touched. After a while, they start thinking that’s normal.
> If German chancellor or US president visited Russia, and there were enough desire to arrest them, they would be arrested. I don't see practical means to prevent it.

Invasion. It would lead to invasion.
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I think that just proves how stupid of a process it is?

You're relying on your internal teams' relatively outlay to catch contract breaking. And sure in this case internal is Google, meaning there are some pretty widely used apps acting as filters... but relative to the millions of apps out there, they're not likely to catch all the regressions.

They must have automated testing, but at the point where it's just accepted that things will break and your own engineers regularly have to "convince" your OS team that they broke things, you know something is wrong.
Some early/naive attacks in this category would be serial bus interposition.
Maybe I'm strange, but if I would have a friend I would recommend him to either listen to some nice radio with music and news, just favorite kind of music or nothing. Lately I'm partial to the sounds of a pebble beach or strange Buddhist rhythms. Also Lo-Fi music compilations seem soothing, lately I've found Alien Cake Music with Lo-Fi Grunge. I think that this Lo-Fi trend lately and in general the thing some people say about analog audio, that it is softer is about how sound with some noise added is akin to a massage for the brain.
Yeah in the paperclip maximizer game, which is quite fun, there is no scenario where humans start bombing the paperclip factors and power generators once it becomes autonomous and starts extracting large amounts of resources. Maybe it solving all of humanities big problems and hypnotizing the masses are enough of a distraction, but you'd think humans would wake up to the new danger in time to start utilizing all the military hardware we have on hand.
Sure. I don't think I can generalize my PoV but I see with distrust anything that is advertised because there is so much noise.
The US was a foreign government to him. So why does it matter? Again, this is sort of weird blue-ultra-patriotism post 2016 is just extremely weird coming from the democratic voter base. It's almost as repulsive as GWB era "you're either with us or with the terrorists". A foreigner has absolutely no allegiance to the US government. In fact, he is much much more threatened by the American government. In huge part because he exposed a series of crimes and war crimes that were committed by said government. So why in the hell would you expect him to spare any kind of "courtoisie" to such a government?
Zork III
There are a number of interconnected things, not all of which are probably properly called the Baumol effect. However, it seems that given more efficient manufacturing, demographic trends, and other things, one of the results will be that we see more automation/AI, self-service, and things we decide are maybe occasional luxuries rather than something we partake of routinely.
> we'll have to switch to banks as custodial accounts.

Isn't that effectively what Glass-Steagall, a law passed after one of our previous massive failures, mandated?

> These private companies can't make huge profits off of deposits in good times

If they were, then why were interest rates so low? Either way, I figure the river of low interest government money was what made them so profitable, and now that this tap is turned off, the reason they're immediately failing.

> insured by tax payers in bad times.

If deposits equated to profits, then what is the current source of "stress?"
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My Brave installation recently started showing a "VPN" button next to the top-right breadcrumbs menu, upon clicking it I see an advertisement for their Firewall+VPN offering (provided via a third party no less).

When your bank announces that it needs to urgently raise capital on distressed terms it is usually a good idea to take your money out. So what does it mean when a browser whose value proposition is in privacy and ad blocking starts to use its own screen real estate to advertise tie-in offerings ?
Why do you think it is inconsistent and unreasonable to choose a measure of productivity that says y=5x is more productive than y=x in terms of real output of y given real input of x?

> So if the society is willing to pay nurses n times higher salaries than 20 years before, the value of nurses work has become n times higher, and the productivity has increased n-fold. (minus inflation).

How do you disentangle value and inflation? I think that makes your definition incoherent as you just loop back to real output and real productivity to measure those things.
My all time favorite is still Omega Tau [0]. They really go deep into detail on the topics. It's been getting less frequent lately but the back catalog is very impressive and most of the topics don't age.

[0] - http://omegataupodcast.net/
Nothing too surprising here. Just the Swiss being Swiss.
No, to me it doesn't feel like 2008. It's kind of in that direction, but this is nowhere near as bad. In 2008, I was on a hair trigger. Then, I was prepared to take emergency action within 24 hours. This time around, I'm not there... yet.
The pin space is just too small. What's the longest an user is willing to wait? 10 seconds?

Times 10k that is just 27 hours. Spend a couple of bucks on a few beefy EC2 instances and you crack that in an hour or two.
I guess they aren't planning to build the moon-base at the poles, which could provide access to continuous solar power nearby. The rest of the moon has long (+/- 14 day) lunar nights, and getting enough batteries or whatever to the moon to last that long is likely to be impractical/expensive.
"Live within the bounds of what's available" seems to be a lost concept these days.

I'm rural, I work remote, and I've done so for quite a while on about a 15/3 connection. I've got somewhat better now, and I have Starlink for the house right now (though at the ever-increasing costs, I'm debating dropping it and going back to a rural WISP for bulk transfer).

If you're on a lower speed connection... you don't try to live life like you're on gigabit. You cache content locally (Jellyfin or Plex solves a lot, DVD season pack bundles are dirt cheap on eBay and a USB DVD reader can read anything), you do lower bandwidth stuff, and you work around the availability. I've taken many video calls with audio over a cell phone, because my ISP was having a crappy day.

You can invent scenarios in which you "need" gigabit, but they sound like the artificially constructed situations they are, because not everyone has 16 people working from home with another 12 insisting on their own individual 4k streams.
Man, this was more serious than I thought. They rushed to get the whole thing done during the weekend and pushed it through bypassing all the shareholders.

This year is getting worse by the minute. Insane inflation killing many industries. AI threatening to take jobs - and probably actually taking a few art jobs. Now cascading bank runs and the end of one of the oldest banks in the world as an independent entity.
Excellent. I will check that out and see if I can contribute.
I was reading a book about the genesis of, I want to say the Nature Conservancy.

These folks had done the numbers and they realized that Pacific Gas & Electric (the company that supplies most of the electricity in California) could meet their growth targets by improving efficiency rather than opening new plants. Literally the company would make more money by building fewer power plants and everyone would have enough energy. A classic win-win situation. The PG&E execs just wouldn't listen. They had to taken to court, sued, to even begin to look at, let alone understand, the economic and technical advantages that were being presented to them. That's how strong the "building new power plants is what we do" culture was at PG&E.

Frankly, you're preaching to the choir. I dream of buying a few acres of desert land in e.g. NE California or Nevada and building a Permaculture food forest from scratch. I have a couple of obligations that make it unrealistic. I have no idea what people with actual capital and ability are waiting on really.
Abagale would make a perfect US politician, major league bullshitter who sticks to his stories for gain.

https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI
It depends on who winds up running CS.

Officially, Boeing bought McDonnell-Douglas, but in the end the engineers at Boeing got pushed out and the bean counters at M-D were in charge and ran it to the ground.

The question is will prudent people run the new UBS? Or the same sort of people who got CS in the trouble that it is in?
Bear Stearns collapsed on March 16, 2008. Lehman Brothers on Sept 15, 2008. It took 6 months from the first major one to widespread carnage and bailouts. I can't tell what will be but I wouldn't assume we're out of the woods by any measure. The first dominos to fall are the ones holding most risk (SBV, CS), but the "safe" ones aren't really safe either.

I wonder what the Fed will do next i.e. conform to market expectations of a cooling off of QT and hikes and let inflation possibly rise or continue at 6%, or be resolute in raising rates to control inflation at the risk of a systemic failure.
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The story of the janitor who invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos is also either an exaggeration so big as to be meaningless, or a straight-up lie.
There's more than one dystopian possible outcome. Same with climate change. For some reason, people are drawn to the most extreme scenarios which are extinction events, but not so much the scenarios where civilization continues, but it's a lot worse for most humans living in them.
> I mean, are Steam and Firaxis not "trusted developers".

Does 'app from a trusted developer' mean something other than 'app from the app store, or from someone you've specifically allowlisted'?
article in 3 parts covering Zork III

part 2: Zork III: Patterns - https://bluerenga.blog/2023/03/09/zork-iii-patterns/

part 3: Zork III: Beyond the Guardians of Zork - https://bluerenga.blog/2023/03/18/zork-iii-beyond-the-guardi...

You can play emulated Zork III - https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_III_-_The_Dungeon_Mas...

or use a more webbish interface: https://www.ifiction.org/games/playz.php?cat=2&game=5&mode=h...
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This is a really stellar idea, thank you very much for sharing!
Making an even bigger bank is no fix, it's a workaround.
I had to scale down the design to 50% scale to get it to fit on my screen without everything looking huge and wrapping, but after that everything looked usable.

[1] Full size: https://i.imgur.com/R0I6Vxs.png

[2] Half size: https://i.imgur.com/tQ6KpR4.png

Not sure if huge text is just the style these days, though. Probably looks great on a huge screen.
Not to be confused with "abecedarian" which means rudimentary or elementary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abecedarian
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My "experience": Just went to the $5/haircut place and killed five mosquitoes while waiting. Greedy suckers were full of blood!8-((
Yeah this is some insanity. Sure, provide chat bots as an option for them if they want it. But goddamn, let people live their own lives, don't "save them from themselves" with your ideas.
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Why is it a terrible unit? And what would you replace it with?

It's reasonably human-scale, which is better than Joules...

If you want to pick on a terrible unit, pick on BTU.
The hard part (expensive part) is to put it into orbit...
I did something similar. I had it generate “primitives” and I used those as starting points for more complex “composed” modules.
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It'd be pretty tricky for Russia to invade Germany, based on how things are going in Ukraine
>If you look from the POV of low-level worker in a poor region it sucks that you earn 20% as much

And if you pit a slave from an even poorer region against them then it sucks even more. They earn nothing at all while that worker from a poorer region earns money for work.

Some people think that because of this their privilege they need knocking down a peg.

>This is the main reason I'm frustrated every time people post maps of "labor productivity per hour". With the implication that people in poor countries are inefficient and that's why they are poor.

I dont even see why this is controversial. Your efficiency would drop considerably if you moved to a 3rd world country and vice versa.
> improving

Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podcast has gotten worse, not better (at least from the perspective of someone who just wants to hear insights from proven tech leaders).
Yeah, they have numerous exposed war crimes, cover ups and mass surveillance schemes. Which inherently meant that they took their info wherever they could get it from. But that's not enough to make up for harming the candidate you were backing in an election 7 years ago. They could've made sure to not embarass our side, that's the redline where they got too political!
Interesting ongoing Twitter space with several Financial Industry veterans discussing this. Going as of 1:30 Central and will probably go at least another 2 hours. Mario usually gets some fairly large names to show up.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal
> Is that sort of support structure really necessary

What support structure is necessary now that wasn't 50 years ago? (Except for maybe IT, though even that's less true now with AWS)
Very interesting, I never thought of safety that way. Thanks for sharing this.
> Of course the PIN can be brute forced.

This is obvious to those that know anything about security, but it is not obvious to the average user. It is Bitwarden's job to keep the user safe within their platform and if they provide a pin option, the average user knows no better than to use it. If Bitwarden does not explain how insecure pins are, then the fault 100% lies with them. Blaming the user is rarely ever an effective or useful argument.
QE transforms treasuries into their liquid equivalent. You can call this money printing if you want to but then money printing is a meaningless term that means everything and nothing. My clock is printing time. My car is printing miles.
Thank you for sharing this (novel-to-me) viewpoint. I've been attracted to permaculture by the calm-but-optimistic tinkering that so many content creators in that space espouse.

Is there a good starter resource you would point to as being more in line with modern ecological science? Thinking about my yard as an environment in the local ecology makes yardwork/gardening feel like it matters (much more than my terrible tomato yields, at least).
Something like this, I imagine:

https://trekmovie.com/2007/06/07/we-have-found-spocks-braint...
I feel like this comment has short memory. Battery life on intel macbooks was terrible ime. Frequently it would drain completely while the lid was closed overnight. Always had to keep it plugged in. Of course Apple silicon is fantastic and nothing beats it now.

On the Linux side, I've had great luck with AMD + recent kernels. I get around 6 hours now on my Thinkpad X13 gen 2 which is good enough for me.
>paperclipping us.

Humans are whiny, messy, meatbags that breakdown all the time.

3d printing dedicated machines much less effort that managing livestock.
Let's try and come up with a few examples. I know two people who are former C-rank executives, both of them with strong ethical backbones. They have both led very high-profile projects (most people on HN know some of these projects). At this stage of their career, you could even say that ethics are not just part of their beliefs but also their personal brand.

They have both been on the market for a few years by now.

1. Nobody will hire them as rank-and-file. It just doesn't make sense.

2. At least one of them has received offers to be the ethical maskerade for a company that actually violently goes against their ethics. They said "no".

Last time I heard from them, they were both retraining in very different domains... with limited career success.
Would you dismiss any evidence of generational changes in the way children are raised, in the aggregate?

Or that changes in the way children are raised don’t affect the child?
Baumol is not an exception to supply and demand
Off topic: Why are all three words you gave (abecedarian, rudimentary, and elementary) so big? Isn't there a short word for that idea?
The era of alternative facts were kind of started with Julian Assange. The video "Collateral Murder" was heavily edited by Mr. Assange. It was damning enough without his edits, he didn't need to add his personal soundtrack and audio edits to the video. How Mr. Assange has become the poster boy of "leakers against the government" with his outrageous egotistical and dickish behavior is beyond me. Leakers should give "the facts" and "the truth" untarnished and free of modification.
Small nuclear reactors are not proven though and are quite a risky idea since nuclear benefits significantly from scale.

If your goal is to produce something that's useful in a short time span, it's better to use proven tech.
> There is no "we" that can pump the brakes.… The odds of getting a hundred thousand people to agree on anything, let alone with a profit motive involved, are zero.

Laws and regulation can do exactly that. We could even use AI to write the legislation to outlaw itself.
You are the reason why they don’t.
Libreboot use to be coreboot without non-free binary blobs, but recently they decided to include them

So one might argue they are not libre anymore, more like "open"boot

As it has been increasingly difficult to find hardware supporting open-source firmware. And run a machine where you have access to all source for firmware, OS, drivers, software
Sorry, I can’t see anywhere in the article where they mention 100B. I’m I misunderstanding something?