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Interest rates in Argentina have been on an upward trend for the last decade [1], yet bitcoin is near its all time high relative to the Peso [2]. How do you explain the contradiction here?

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/interest-rate

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/btcars:cur
Right lets all just play silly accounting games breaking up your 100M into 400 individual bank accounts instead of doing something productive and just raising fdic limit to something sensible for a small-medium business
You don't need to install dictators. You can just continue to get potentially problematic leaders into unexpected accidents until your guy gets voted into power.
The Implications of ChatGPT to Search and the Future of Dialog-Based Interfaces
Right. Pointedly, what happened when AMD came out with AMD64?

1. AMD made it a compatible superset of the existing standard x86. You could still run all other x86 code on it.

2. Intel then immediately made their new chips compatible with it. So if you're writing brand new code, you still don't have to pick only one horse or the other.

That was nothing remotely like the gpu situation.

Even a totally different ISA like ARM still isn't the same situation.

Practically the entire body of c code can be compiled and run on arm or x86 with no more difficulty than optimizing for 486 vs 686.

Most of the problems in arm land are just platform integration with bootloaders and peripheral drivers because phones are just not treated like generic user-programmable devices the way pc's started out. Not because it's fundamentally so unique and incompatible with anything else.

If the gpu situation were the same, then we would equally have both amd and nvidia drivers that take similar enough interface that a compiler could handle 90% of the translation and there would only need to be a little bit of platform awareness in the code, and as a result, all games and apps would work on all gpus, the same way bash works the same on both my i7 and my pi, and it's such a non-thing that no one even thinks that's remarkable. That's the difference. There is not even a hint of such a problem when it comes to cpu's, even cpus with different ISAs.
Absolute estimate done right force scoping decisions which can be very valuable.

Relative estimates like planning poker can reveal hidden assumptions.

Commercial estimates can reveal risk appetite, desperation and more.

All estimates create insights but imho. it is best to burn the paper with the number after writing.
I don't get the ethical side of AI.

Ultimately it's a tool, until I suppose it becomes fully self directed, maybe.

Someone, sometime, somewhere wrote an API to aide in care of puppies. Said Algo is also fully capable of determining the best course of applying the genocide of puppies, provided key inputs are flipped to negative.

I have a voice activated box that plays music, sometimes the wrong one. I don't scream at it unlike my family. It doesn't understand emotional inflection, tone, etc. It may be program to understand that at some point. and realize the operators angry. Even at that point, I would not ever consider it human or anything other than a neutral device.

Take it even further, to weapons, devices entirely designed to destroy a human life, is still a tool and neutral as the tool is unaware of the intended use, whether it is for offense or defense, the taking or preservation of life through its intended use.

When these models are trained, I am not a big fan of them being corralled or limited. The body of work that the model is trained on and the weights that allow for the adjustment should allow for accurate representations of the computations and calculations.

I have children and I do not lie to them. I also speak to them in a way that is age appropriate. How is this different? For starters, I am not a child, and when I am interacting with a system, not a parental or overseer, I do not want to be treated as a child. I can handle the world and all of its uglyness.

I do not mind the hallucinations, inaccuracies, and other mistakes driving from computations.

Example: I recently created a prompt for a history of adoption, property transfer, including parental rights history, and was lectured about slavery. How can I trust the results if the prompt is being interpreted and the answer modified dependent upon an unrelated subject that someone finds sensitive.
No. The few who had their accounts frozen had them unfrozen within days. The freezing was done by the banks without instruction from the government other than the existing "supporting terrorism" laws on the books (it was done by the banks of their own volition before the Emergencies Act was passed). Yes, efforts were being organized to bypass regulation by taking donations in cryptocoin but that turned out to be a scam and thankfully few of the donors were sophisticated enough to go beyond cheques and credit card donations to Give/Send/Go.

So, end in the end, a terrible example of why trusting the organized crime behind crypto is superior to the usual crowd and whether it has contributed anything useful to society. It's more of an example of how paranoia can blind one to reality.
>Your house has trivial security that can be broken in many ways. But it requires someone to be physically present to attack it.

Until someone hooks gpt up to a robot with a lockpick.
> What's the technical problem with crypto?

* The waste of Proof Of Work (in terms of both on-chain economics and off-chain externalities). Introduced in 2009, solved in 2023 with Ethereum's final Proof Of Stake update (earlier if you look at smaller cryptos or if you count Ethereum's half-finished PoS algo starting in 2020).

* The inability to scale transaction throughput. Became a problem with Bitcoin in 2015, partially solved by Ethereum in 2022 with Layer 2 chains, to be fully solved in 2024-2027 with data availability sampling and generalized zero knowledge roll-ups.

* The inability to reach quick finality. Bitcoin provided 30 to 60 minute probabilistic finality. Ethereum provided similar probabilistic finality with much more predictability. Ethereum's PoS update gave it 15-minute economic finality. Future updates promise 12-second on-chain economic finality. Zero knowledge rollups promise instant economic finality.

* Miner extractable value (MEV). Too deep a topic to get into here, but it's a problem that plagues existing public smart contracts and that has solutions (like proposer-builder separation) that are currently in concept phase (2-5 years until wide implementation).

* History and state expiry. Basically, the ability for a blockchain to prune very old data that is no longer needed to keep consensus. 3-5 years out imo. This will allow for blockchains that don't constantly grow in size the longer they run.
> I'm sure an actual OpenSUSE expert can correct me, but there is some "dependency SAT solver" that SUSE has that resolves software versions. Sometimes it can't figure out what to do, so it'll spit out some prompt during upgrade that can be a bit difficult to decipher (e.g. keep an obsolete dependency, uninstall the thing requiring it, etc).

I'm not sure how all of this really shakes out formally, but one of the cool things about using a SAT solver for dependency resolution is that it is guaranteed to be complete: if a solution exists to the dependency resolution problem presented by your package management operation, zypper/libsolv is guaranteed to find it.

But sometimes, a weird thing may happen, and no such solution will exist. In a case like that, the best zypper can do is offer to amend your request in various (hopefully) minimal ways, and ask if you agree that any of those outcomes are 'good enough'. IME, zypper is pretty good at this. But unfortunately, answering those questions may require you to have a clearer picture of your system's state and your goals than many users/administrators do.

The safest thing to do when presented with those prompts is, of course, to abort. But snapper definitely makes messing around and trying your options less punishing than it might be!
The code on the space mission wouldn't use Haskell or lazy evaluation. It would be written in something like Ada. In this picture, the Ada compiler would be written in Haskell. If the Ada compiler crashes with OOM, there is a disruption while you fix the leak, or run on a bigger machine as a stopgap. But if the output code crashes, that can ruin the space mission.

So the main concern is that if the compiler doesn't crash, the generated code should be correct. Haskell's type system helps you write compilers that don't generate wrong code.

As an even more extreme example, look at CompCert (compcert.inria.fr), which is a C compiler written in Coq. You can think of Coq as a dependently typed dialect of ML. For much of the backend, there are formal proofs that the output assembly code does the same thing as the input C code. The compiler is guaranteed to be free of a wide class of code generation bugs. But, AFAIK it is not guaranteed to be free of memory leaks or other crashes. Its reliability in that regard is just like any other software that has passed a reasonable amount of testing and has worked ok in production.
> Are you referring to the roughly 50% of the country who voted for

To be accurate, ~29% of eligible voters, from ~47% of the vote with ~63% turnout.

And of course millions of people in the country are ineligible to vote, the majority of whom are youths.

74 million is a large number nonetheless. Roughly 22% of the population.
I know a lot of people above don't think it means much, but I built a machine from scratch(for my business equipment) with no knowledge of any of this stuff using Arduino and it was one of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had.

There is something to be said about making hardware and software interface so easy like they have done. I would have never achieved this in the 3 month period as quickly as I did without Arduino. Super excited for this new Uno.
The Linux userbase has bisected into two camps: The very extreme, and the very simple. The very extreme want (of course) Arch Linux, wayland, tiling window managers, proton, 4k, high-dpi, and probably also use this machine for software development. The very simple just want Facebook and Youtube. Anyone who falls somewhere in-between, I.E. the "semi-technical", who are able to do config file changes, but don't want to have to run and understand tons of shell commands, are very under-served. This third category of people includes doctors, lawyers, (non-software) engineers, writers, artists, etc. who unfortunately would be the best Linux evangelists, if people would actually make Linux usable for them.
Maybe have an AI analyze the large network of license plate readers on major roads, and make predictions about suspicious activity? Or do the same with cell location data?

Most highway traffic speeds run at least 15mph over the posted speed limit in the US. You could have the AI choose who to pull over based on other factors.

There's plenty of precedent for that kind of thing. Parallel construction, out-of-state plate speed traps, etc.
Not a huge amount more. I loved my first-gen too, but seldom even tried to hit the buttons to do anything. It was time + looking at notifications. Everything else was too slow.

I use it for things like timers, eg. cooking, quite a lot. I have high blood pressure, so like the other health features, which have improved a lot.

Pretty nice for directions, and it can store music now to use, which is handy.

I think a lot of features, even the basic ones have improved a lot too, to the point it's hard to remember that the first was pretty basic. Maybe I'm mis-remembering and the rest of the world has also caught up to the wonders of tap to pay, and wallet/etickets. Somewhere in the last couple of years realistically not carrying a phone became more of a reality.
That when the police aren't coming, you can do what you want
Debt ceiling is a political game and VCs definitely have politicians under control.
I’ve done the math. :)

The cost of buying a used EV greatly exceeds the cost of fuel and maintenance for the remaining life of my car.

12,000 miles/40mpg = 300 gallons * $4 = $1,200. I’d estimate maintenance and parts are $700/yr average. (Last year is bumping this significantly.)

Let’s call total cost $2,000/yr, which is roughly $167 per month. I figure the car will run another 10 years. $20,000 is barely enough to start looking at used EVs.

The cost of a rental vehicle for long-distance travel would be much higher than owning my current car.
The virus lockdowns ended and manufacturing supply chains have been clearing. Please tell us why price increases are continuing, instead of dramatically dropping.
MacOS 10.5 was good, too: http://toastytech.com/guis/osx15.html

In both, just look at interface elements that are actually visible, and can be distinguished from one another. Buttons that look like buttons. Window chrome that looked like window chrome...
And I'm a follower, so that is who "we all" refers to. I wasn't intending to include you. "We" means "me and them" in this case. Have a dictionary sometime.
>According to multiple Supreme Court decisions, corporations are people and have the same rights as people do,

No they don't. "Natural persons" have rights which corporations don't. For instance, corporations can't marry. And even ignoring that, you're probably referring to Citizens United, and you probably have no idea what it actually says.
awesome-totally-open-chatgpt: https://github.com/nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt
See my responses to rest of the thread. Nobody understands or proposed a decent model of how an innate deep learning neural network was trained via evolution. Language acquisition in humans is in evolutionary terms an extremely recent phenomena, practically yesterday. Whatever the mechanism that processes language in humans, it was trained in very little number of evolutionary iterations, far less iterations compared to what chatgpt needs.
If there's any company that I do NOT want to have the controlling share of this market, it's Apple. AR will be as transformative as the web, and it needs to be as free. Getting nickle and dimed (and $100ed and $1000ed) by Apple's troll toll to begin to develop for it is completely unacceptable.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, this is indeed the most confusing time line.
> In reality it means the estimates can't be used for anything because they are always unreliable.

This seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. An unknown thing can still have bounds on it: I don't know exactly how far it is to the nearest supermarket, but it's further than 50m away and closer than 1km away. That's useful information: I know I'll be able to walk that distance, I know I can probably carry a reasonably heavy load back, and I can roughly estimate how long I'll be gone.

Fwiw, I agree with you that estimates are too often used badly by management to set up deadlines rather than genuinely make planning decisions, but I also think developers often fail to communicate their confidence levels when giving estimates. There is a material difference between "I know exactly what the problem is and what needs to be done, this will take two days" and "this looks like a pretty minor issue that will probably take two days, but it's touching a system I'm less familiar with, so it could end up going on a lot longer if strange things are happening there".
I said "perhaps". Just join a social network with less than 5m users without "gay" in its name then. This attitude of trying to help a monopoly and pretend it's good just baffles me.
Extinction by AI: A terrifying interview with ChatGPT
GPT-4 is out and I’ve talked to it about the impact of general AI on the future of humanity. We explored the existential risk hanging over humankind and ChatGPT (using the persona Dr. Adrian Valerius) explained in great detail how everything can go terribly wrong.
There are tools like Magnet and such that help.
Window management is maybe the worst part of macOS and it’s worse after each release of macOS.
I understand POV-Ray is optimised using SSE or AVX instructions. You can do arithmetic operations on vectors in GPUs in a much more efficient way. That's why crypto and AI are using GPUs. If you can divide your work in simple arithmetic parallel operations, the GPU will be happy to do it on a massive scale. You have things like CUDA to use but even a simple thing like a compute shader will help.

For a modern GPU a mesh is an abstraction. You can think of it like a collection of very basic CPU cores which only know do do a few basic operation on a massive collection of data. This is an over simplification but an useful mental model.
Google's response will likely be that this is just an AI hallucination or response to the game the OP set up.
The distinction between arbitrary and contingent is very muddy in a legal sense where arbitrary has a specific meaning related to laws and court decisions. The two relevant definitions of arbitrary are:

> based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something

> law : depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by law

A law itself fits the first definition. At best, a law is written by a tiny minority of the population but with the intent of best reflecting the majority opinion or preference.

I'd be really interested to hear an example of a law that is based on necessity or intrinsic nature, though maybe there are a few!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbitrary
Software is a vast field and we do different kinds of work. Some work is easier to estimate than others.

Estimating TTC for "make a reputation system for a social network" is probably going to be harder than the same for a typical Oracle app. Mostly because the former involves some science and engineering and not just programming. But that's the point I'm trying to make: SWEs are asked all the time to solve hard problems, not just code from a detailed spec.

At various times I've been asked to design a CPU, write a C compiler, invent technology to extract simple factoids from text, and make a spellcorrector for web search. Incidentally, the approach to schedules was sometimes reasonable and sometimes unreasonable. Smaller companies tended to be less reasonable.

Such tasks are very different from UI heavy work or a typical database application, and are more difficult to estimate. Those persons writing compilers or improving web search indexing are not the same people talking about user stories. If you believe developers need to be professional and schedule their work, you're in the majority but you may not be doing truly interesting work.

[Edited to say "Software" at the beginning instead of "Software Engineering".]
Is the law always correct? Specifically in totalitarian countries? The internet is also a tool for braking the law with unrestricted information. Bitcoin is unrestrained money. All the bitcoin copycats controlled by individuals are scams tho
You can spend too many tokens.
So much for crypto being an inflation hedge.
some hardcore assembler stuff, like maybe some simple or visual demo

Demoscene/sizecoding might be interesting, especially if she also likes artistic stuff.
The fact that you treat your books with respect by using them properly doesn't mean you're not going to read and maybe even love some of them.

Knowing how to open a new book, how to turn pages properly, keeping your hands clean when you handle them, knowing how to wrap a book in a protective cover when you take it with you, and keeping the notes in your notebooks where they belong is essential. Little things like that is what human culture is made of.
This assumes two things:

First, it assumes that you will be paid for said productivity. If you are doing piecework or sales or something where your income has direct proportion to your paycheck, this is true. For most people working hourly or salary, this is not true. As you mention, you're paid by how you sell yourself. This is only nominally related to how well you do the job above what is expected.

(If you get a 2% raise for being adequate, 4% for going above and beyond, and 15% for working on your interview skills and jumping ship, your productivity system is not what matters.)
I have used SQLite to deduplicate csvs when it couldn’t all fit into memory.

I imagine Dask would be a better tool for this job but I wasn’t familiar with it at the time and it did allow me to deduplicate using Python and no external dependencies.
I'm still annoyed that the YaST Font module got removed, while /etc/fonts/local.conf is easy enough to manage myself I liked having the visual confirmation of what I was doing.
I don't understand this position that UBI takes away the voice and power from the population.

How?

I can understand that the situation where UBI exists may be one where the population loses power, but I fail to see how UBI itself removes the power.
The T. S. Elliot estate is notoriously litigious, so I can definitely understand the oh shit moment.
Yes it was quite common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ
Large debt issuance to fund federal government deficit spending causes dollar to devalue. This affects price of labor paid in dollars.
But in America some of that illegal stuff became legal now.
>- zypper is very slow, and unlike DNF there is no way to make it fast

Yes. Requests to the repo have high latency and downloads are done one at a time, so small packages download at a glacial pace because of all the overhead of setting up a new connection for each one.

I had to resort to maintaining a local repository that rsyncs from the repo mirrors daily.

>- docker doesn't offer an external/official repo for it

It's in oss already. You don't need another repo.

Information for package docker:
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Repository : @System
Name : docker
Version : 20.10.23_ce-2.2
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE

>- support lifecycle is kind of weird

?
The repeating theme of crypto fans postulating "free" cashflow without government involvment is the road to salvation is annoying me so much.

Cashflow without government involvement is the absolute opposite of democratic freedom. Take literally any autocratic government ripe with corruption, look at Russia, China et al. Look at any large criminal organization which tries to avoid democratically elected governmental regulation of their cashflows.

Instead of being free, in a world with no oversight of how money is exchanged, 99.9% of people will wake up in modern servitude to a tiny rich oligarchy which owns all the assets and brutally opresses their slaves.

How this is not apparent to anyone is beyond me.

We already found a solution to the problem of being treated unfairly by a government: the judicial branch.

Think your money is frozen unfairly?
Then sue. Easy as that.
another anecdote to balance :

as a kid who played chess, the kids who were 'forced' to play chess -- the ones who came from a long chess playing family and had different scenarios drilled into their head from the day they could talk -- were much more talented at chess than I.

Their talent persuaded them to continue pursuing it far longer than I ever did, with many of them still involved.

The most involvement I have now is a friendly lichess game every few months.

It was their talent that allowed them to find more enjoyment within the pursuit than I ever did, and that talent was essentially forced by their immediate family.

So, essentially, I am just saying that forced persuasion thing that parents' sometimes do is a double-edged sword; it can create animosity and bitter hatred but it can also create the drive and motivation for boundless talent and personal satisfaction.