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I don't know, but I do strongly believe that the "conventional wisdom" that deflation is a horrible phenomenon that leads to a decades-long depression is bullshit. The entire process of industrialization was hugely deflationary Yet still the 1800s were the first time in history where quality of life for the average Joe improved by leaps and bounds. Diet, medicine, child mortality, wealth all started improving exponentially.

Meanwhile under the monetary alchemists and "stabilizing" regime of central banks real wages have stagnated, crises still occur every 10 years and the entire system is so fragile that one major event could collapse the whole house of cards.
Settings => General => Startup => Open previous windows and tabs

That setting should solve the restart losing tabs/windows problem you're experiencing.
Are diffs really the best we can do though? Can't we come up with a better model of interaction?

I find that looking at code and looking at diffs are different mental modes, for lack of a better word. For me, parsing diffs seems to engage a different part in the brain, and is much more exhausting than reading code.

In comparison, reading code while someone makes changes to it seems to stay in the same code-mode. And I don't want to switch back and forth from code-mode to diff-mode all the time.

How about after being prompted, Copilot acts like a remote user in my code base, with its own cursor, changing the code at the speed that ChatGPT currently writes out answers? Perhaps even commenting on what it does next to it. You could still have accept/modify/reject buttons at the code change locations, but they would change the new version, not a diff.

Getting this slightly wrong will of course make you curse the whole thing to hell and back.
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Leave it to the British to find a clever way to take the piss out of you. Just imagine the sit down toilet analog of this, timing your bowl movements to drop bombs out of planes. Explosive diarrhea? Extra points! At least you can feel good about that.
I find the irony here quite amusing: While we usually marvel at the cyberpunk dystopia laid out on paper/screen in front of our eyes, the characters in the story typically never stop to question any of it. They take the world they live in completely for granted, making it clear to us, the reader/viewer, that they don't know any different, adding to the extend of the dystopia on display.

And here we are discussing a toilet that probably films you piss, analyzes the data and uses it as input for a video game, all using a built-in computer and display mounted on top. A touch screen no less, because the team involved in developing this, despite probably countless meetings, never even gave a second though towards hygiene, I guess.

A marvel of technology that I could imagine the likes of Neal Stephenson describing in loving detail over at least two pages, describing how the data is hauled off to some remote machine in a data center, collecting statistics of no use to anyone, from hundreds of such installations, all secured only by a couple default passwords.

And our reaction to this is: So? What off it?
And these peripherals can run at hundreds of MHz doing real work in every cycle. I can probably do very low latency audio processing with an interrupt firing at the sample rate. Delay is a few samples instead of at least couple of ms like on a PC with an audio interface.
this just tells me it’s only a matter of time before they will be forced to split.

windows, office, xbox, devices, github, azure, zenimax, activision blizzard and so many others i’m forgetting.
Buying a house and renting an apartment are substitute goods, so falling home prices should lead to falling rents.
If you're interested in this kind of narrative of brilliant scientists accidentally making things worse, I strongly recommend When We Cease to Understand the World [1] by Benjamin Labatut. A brilliant hybrid fiction/non-fiction book that goes into the story of Fritz Haber and other scientists whose inventions had an unexpected and negative impact on history.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/10/when-we-cease-...
You know, when a working class dude busts his ass taking two, or even three jobs to improve his family's living standard, he's admired and they call him hard working. But when an office worker manages to slice up his day such that he can take two jobs (and do them up to performance expectations) they call it fraud. Not sure I understand this double standard. People get so hung up on this idea that full time should imply exclusive.
But long after the taming of horses, the invention of roadways and carts, and the proliferation of dense urban areas.

"International" trade has surely always existed - we know people far from the sea decorated their bodies with cowrie shells in prehistoric ages. But the scale of contact and interaction has not remained constant.

Arguably, the Middle Ages is when Eurasian society was at its weakest WRT disease.
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Almost never. Real estate prices going down does not affect the costs to the landlord (assuming it is an investment property), their mortgage expenses are fixed. If they don’t have a mortgage, it’s still unlikely, because having a lower property value doesn’t translate to pressuring them to find renters more easily by lowering the rent.
> Do you mean a stationary exercise bike?

You may be surprised to learn people do text and bike. I’ve done it on occasion when running late to a meetup with friends.

It’s … not very safe.
Can India clean up its holiest river?
I don't totally disagree with you that his behavior was irresponsible but under what law would he be tried?
> ...though they do take the Fed rate into account.

Understatement of the year. It's based entirely on what they think the Fed will do in the future.
Full disclosure: My understanding of economics is heavily influenced from what's called the Austrian School. On that understanding, we have two main factors that are contributing to the rise in prices. Only one of them is, properly speaking, inflation.

Putting the subject of inflation aside for the moment, the first cause is the destruction of capital. Capital destruction, which broadly speaking includes our ability to transport goods, has curbed the economy's productive capacity. We produce less, and so what we are able to produce becomes more dear. This is the supply issue, but it's not inflation.

The second cause is inflation. The definition of inflation I'm using is the increase in the money supply. Until very recently, this is what the Fed (and other central banks) have been doing. More money chasing the same amount of goods—all else being equal—causes a rise in prices. This is the demand issue.

I realize that this understanding and use of the term inflation isn't mainstream. But I think it makes it easier to understand what is going on.
We’re manipulated yes but it’s not that easy. The propaganda machine is big, incessant and expensive. Saying this not so much as a consolation but as a reminder to take the manipulation very seriously.

Millions of us think in sound bites provided by propaganda.

Our universities teach flawed unsustainable economic theory as reality.

Our politicians are at the forefront of the science of dividing voters into two equal parts attacking each other and voting on non-essential issues.

Please see the work of George Lakoff on framing - it is crucial.
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What Chrome does is that it markets “Download Google Chrome” on every Google property, and comes reinstalled on Android phones.

It is not realistic advise to expect Firefox to do what Chrome does.
Nah, I’ll leave the bay once salaries drop. Not years before.
We are going to be drowning in a sea of autogenerated noise. I think the early excitement is going to fade into a bit of frustration and misery.

It is very difficult to reason about the future as it becomes even more unpredictable each day. Emotional well being requires some semblance of stability for people to plan and reflect about their lives.

I've spent many hours contemplating how this is going to shape society and the outlook is very concerning. My much deeper thought explorations - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
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Apple has always had its own hardware based silo to some extent (excellent products and design, fully integrated).

Still, I suspect the AI stuff will be hard for them. They were first to market with Siri and it’s still trash 13yrs(?!) later. It’s always been what they’re weakest at, I’m not sure LLMs will be different for them.

The headset could still give them a nice hardware platform advantage though if that UX becomes the main new interface.
The funny thing about hardware and non-nerds/non-EEs/etc. is that most people don't care if the components are "junk". They care if they can make their project work on it. They care how much time it takes from beginning to end. They care how easy it is to get help when something doesn't make sense.

It's small, it's inexpensive, it gets the job done.
Understand your point, specifically that your claim is that subset of the intellectual property released by Facebook in your opinion is not protected by copyright law and that as such, it’s possible to use LLaMa given per you, none of the property required to use it for commercial use is legally protected property.

What you have failed to do though is address that if: there been a breach of contract; laundering the property as a means of separating the current use of the related property from its original terms is legal pretext including if party receives notice of the terms directly from Facebook; and lastly, most importantly, that it is your position that Facebook lacks any legal basis to forbid the commercial use of any of the property it made publicly available in this specific context based on the existing facts of the matter.
for now, Apple is in a different league

if Tim Cook wants $10 bln in new profits, he can simply pass some arbitrary judgement like "the next iPhone will only be compatible with new AirPods we will introduce at the same time" and everyone will comply
I’ve been sidetracked with work but planning on tuning llama 65B to produce alpaca 65B, will distribute via huggingface or torrent..

FWIW running the 30B alpaca-lora model quantized to 4-bit via llama.cpp has given me great results, and while I don’t expect much of an improvement from 65B at FP16, 65B will probably perform better than 30B when quantized

The interesting next steps in my head are more focused around curating a better instruction-tuning dataset using GPT-4, then fine-tuning again, and integrating the LangChain project with the resulting agent
> When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again.

I agree with this. And what I think is so fascinating is how much they left on the table during this very same time. Steven Sinofsky's Hardcore Software substack is an amazing read[1]. And it really shows how much they got wrong as well as how much they got right.

MS is firing on all cylinders. Both the OpenAI partnership and the GitHub acquisition are looking like genius moves right now. Google in particular should be very afraid.

[1] Though quite long. Very, very long. But it's well worth reading all of it. There's untold numbers gems in there.
I call it Universal Pet Income. Because at that point won't we just be AI's pets?

Not that I'm against it. just call it for what it is.
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Plenty for a PhD and then more. And no, you don't just make a wild claim and then expect people to provide tons of evidence to the contrary. Go learn.
Maybe we should say it's a mature and finished project. The requirements haven't changed in 15 years.
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Supply in the number of rental units available is what drives down prices. This is extremely obvious to anyone who visits Dallas or Houston Texas where developers are allowed to build as much as they want vs the bay area where supply is extremely restricted.
I did 6 weeks of interviews last year and landed multiple good offers. 2 from recruiters and 4 direct hire at companies I applied to blindly.

I'm still getting offers to interview daily. I've helped people land jobs, but all of mine have been posted online and applied to by me.

Just another data point.
Well played. I do find HN to be full of "expert" commentators on any subject matter even if they aren't ;) Remember David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day) figured out how to defeat the alien invaders by uploading a virus to the alien ship. He used MacOS 8! Wasn't it a modem parity issue (8N1) or some other such nonsense for a space-traveling, gravity-defying spaceship?
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I'm thinking over the medium to long term, we'll lose jobs but we won't see them, they just won't have been created.
According to the U. Michigan survey of consumers there has never been a worse time to buy a house in the 65-year history of the survey. It's a 2-sided market so you can't really expect houses to sell briskly under those conditions.
Internationally aging populations are a systemic source of inflation in the cost of producing goods.

I recommend Manoj Pradhan & Charles Goodhart’s, “The Great Demographic Reversal” (2019) for more on the topic.

Covid occurring since then has exacerbated the international debt issues, as well as plucked more of the valuable remaining years away from our labor force’s working years. See the number of early retirements that occurred during the pandemic.

That we’re also seeing a hot war, a trade war, and the ripples of a goosed economic system during covid at the same time? Can’t make it up.

Edit: I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the fed to resolve this, they’d have to crush assets to oblivion to keep pricing of labor the same as it dries up due to retirements.

AI on the other hand has a lot of potential to bail us out here
Okay. Good for you.
Do you mean real-estate prices decrease? Or real-estate supply or demand?

Price decreases: More people can buy homes and exit the renters market. Rent, in theory, should flatten/decrease. This may not be the case because as we've seen in the past couple years, corporate landlords are raising and holding rents in sync.

Supply decreases: Lower supply, same demand, rents go up

Demand decreases: Lower demand for real-estate should decrease prices as fewer sellers can sell at the price they bought at or at whatever price point they feel their homes are worth. This could take a long time to play out though. Lots of options for owners to hold-out on selling til a better market and many have very good interest rates on their homes with very little reason to move, especially for a much more expensive monthly payment. Anyways lower demand should in theory equate to increased supply, which should lower prices on homes and on rents. With the caveat again of the corporate landlord cartel.
I wouldn't consider Austin low COL.
I think this actually works in their favor. If a candidate invests a week into you, they can only match that commitment a few times with other companies, and they might not actually get offers everywhere. Then you don't have to negotiate offers as hard, and they are more likely to accept your offer.

If candidates can get an offer after only a half day, they may as well have a dozen options, and you only have a 1/N chance of getting picked.
Homes should be depreciating assets, like in Japan, and like every other item. Furniture depreciates (with few exceptions, like antiques). Clothes, motor vehicles, electronics, carpets, gym equipment, lawn mowers: name it. With rare exceptions, everything depreciates over time. That's how it should be.

But what about mortgages ending up underwater? Well, that's life. And if home prices were low enough, it wouldn't be a concern. I don't expect to turn a profit on the above items. I buy them for their intrinsic utility, not as a speculative instrument, an investment vehicle, or a way to finance my future retirement. So should it be with housing. If you want to save for retirement, open a 401K, a Roth IRA, and a non registered account. Small time landlords are okay. There is a market need for rental units. But corporate landlords need to be broken up.
> their mortgage expenses are fixed. If they don’t have a mortgage

The article is about the US but if it's interesting, there are quite a few countries around the world where variable rate mortgages (for example following Euribor) are the default, so in this environment their payments would've actually gone up (with higher interest rates), at the same time as the property value would go down.
> Governments will have to ponder about what to do with a world of people who became inferior to machines at almost everything. Universal Basic Income?

Inferior to machines at almost everything? Most jobs are safe, look at the 25 most common jobs in the US - cashier, food preparation worker, stocking associate, laborer, janitor, construction worker, bookkeeper, server, medical assistant, bartender, administrative assistant, marketing specialist, police officer, electrician, mechanic, etc.

In theory, if all developers are replaced, they should be able to find a different job. The problem is that the different job may have lower pay and status.

There's really no need for UBI.
The US federal government does not have ballot initiatives.

Some states do have ballot initiatives but obviously those can't override the Constitution. For example, see California Proposition 187 on illegal immigration which was passed by voters in 1994 but then largely struck down in federal court.
so what. the other mobile browsers don't even have extensions... just thanks to firefox you can have a sane web experience on an android. because it supports ublock origin.
Genius mathematician and an excellent expositor as well!

One year, he was invited to give the inaugural lecture for undergraduate math in my university. The title of the talk was something like "four derivations of the heat equation". And it was really that, he explained some independent physical models to reach the same mathematical formulation. One of them was particles moving in random walks, another an out-of focus lens, etc. At the end he said that it was important for mathematicians to understand the connections between these interpretations because they lead to many new insights into the equation. For linear equations the story was already pretty well-known, but developing the corresponding methods for nonlinear equations was an ongoing story on which he was actively participating.

It's not an exaggeration to say that most undergrads could follow most of the talk, which may be a unique occurrence as inaugural lessons go. Typically lower-level mathematicians that give these talks tend to explain complicated proofs; but he did just the opposite: only talk about modelling, with subtle side hints at methods of proof. The talk was so engaging that many attendees became extremely excited to work on nonlinear PDE. (And some of them did, to great success!)
Where can I read about the second sentence?
My dev machine is sufficiently beefy (32G of RAM). I recently tried https://lapce.dev/ and was very surprised that it was noticeably more snappy than VSC. (I am not super sensitive to that kind of thing after years spent in Eclipse/IDEA.).

Made me realize how I can just become accustomed to a certain amount of lagging....
I wouldn't own housing there.
> Doesn’t mean they’re dumb, they’re just heading where the work is.

And the money is much more lucrative in Web Dev than it is in embedded right now.
> Stripe is raising $3.5 billion to help pay the tax (tax rate 22%?) on (some of) the bonuses of its employees from the last 13 years.

Other than the word "raising" that statement is completely incorrect.

> $3.5 billion

Recent article mentioned this was north of 5B

> tax rate 22%

That's not accurate even for US and they have employees worldwide.

> In no year has Stripe ever made a profit

Source?

> (some of)

Almost all employees get stock based compensation at big tech companies

> bonuses

These are salaries or stock based comp, not bonuses

> comparision in 2019 Stripe had 4,000 employees

Source?
yea i think their marketing push got a little out of hand...
Sorry, I thought you made your prediction 18 months ago – the generally accepted start of the invasion is 2022-02-24. If your prediction was after, then yes I agree the Fed should have accounted better for the global landscape.
Surprised no one has already mentioned climate change.

The truly terrifying thing is that the reason fungi have not been a big threat to humans is that there was not evolutionary pressure for them to thrive in human body temperatures.

Now, due to the warming climate there is immense pressure. As fungi evolve to adapt to the warming climate, they are evolving to be able to infect and kill us.
Is there any other way to control inflation? I guess you could try to have some kind of price controls to limit corporate profits. Break up monopolies since they have too much pricing power.

My understanding of economics is that median wage is everything- it's the basic unit of wealth. The wealth of rich people is measured as a multiple of this value. So if median wage goes up, the wealthy are less so. Thus upper classes care very much about this. What is wealth other than the power to control a bunch of workers?
You are thinking in the short run. Rental contracts and mortgage contracts are difficult to extricate yourself from,
and make prices "sticky." Demand cannot immediately respond to market changes.

But in the long run, it is based on your alternatives. If prices are falling, that means lots of people are able to get mortgages more cheaply. More people getting mortgages means less people renting... which means less demand, and lower rental prices.

If a landlord is locked into a 30 year mortgage at one rate, and feels that the "have" to rent a certain price, that doesn't mean that this landlord will be able to find someone willing to pay that price.
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/15/us-rents-drop-at-the-fastes...
It's because central banks can't do much more than adjust rates.

This problem needs to be addressed by policy makers in the form of tax increases (primarily on corporations).

Tax increases are unpopular and so they only tend to happen when shit really hits the fan. And policy makers always wait for shit to hit the fan before doing what's necessary.