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Education that allows a path for meaningful employment nut also doesn't require people to take on crippling debt.

Lots of church groups have been buying people's medical debt for pennies on the dollar and releasing people of their medical debt, that would be a great use of funds.

Universal Basic Income programs

Simple social safety net programs like food banks, non-predatory small loan and grant services to help people get over a rough patch.

Public programs that create jobs while using the purchased labor to build infrastructure that benefits us all (think TVA).

If you want more examples look at the French government and the many ways they reinvest in their people and economy.
FDIC prepares to place First Republic under receivership
Fun fact. Most botters use http/tcp proxies, but the game runs as a process, which means jagex could just send an ip packet along an http packet to detect ip diffs and detect botters.
More solid proxy tech like ipsec vpns are expensive, so people just use the cheap proxies.
That "very specific thing" does not imply it should be so bad as to be foreign, you could have your much more ergonomic python in the shell as well without all the bash baggage
Maybe that half that doesn't own a record player bought a vinyl as a gift for someone who does?
Anyone else notice how First Republic bank was bought a few years ago by Colony Capital co-managed by Thomas Barrack, who was a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign before being found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for UAE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

Probably nothing.
Let's say you sold some in-game asset/gold for $50,000, would the IRS want a cut?
Those are all things that increase the size of the money supply. A fiscal policy that cracks inflation needs higher taxes and lower spending, which in turn reduces the amount of money in the system.
I got rid of most of my LP's over the past few years as I realized I'd gradually just started to play them from Spotify instead (convenience slowly converted me), over the same speakers. Then I sold my turntable.

But I kept around 20 of my favorites and just rotate them for display on my bookshelf. If I'm playing one of them on Spotify, I'll even rotate to show that LP while I play it. The really bizarre thing is, there's a particular old album I'm thinking of purchasing just to be able to display its cover, because of what it means to me.

It's the same with books -- my favorite ones are in my bookshelf, but even if I read a book I own physically, I pull it up on my iPad because I prefer to be able to highlight, look up words, adjust text size, read in a dark room, etc.

So I'm shocked to discover that I like having the physical artifacts even when I still consume them digitally. It's almost like bringing back souvenir knick-knacks from a vacation. This is not an outcome I ever would have expected.
What’s the state of the art on whole home streaming these days?

Amazon seems to be intent on making echo dots less and less useful for that.
The concern isn't spam, but the centralization of email on gmail and few other huge mail servers.
I own one record, a used Chuck Mangioni record I bought as ironic art from a goodwill that sits in a frame on my wall. So I'm afraid I'm adding to this statistic somewhat inadvertently.
China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report
It can do a check every 30 seconds, but users configure it as needed
They have a certain number of near-polar orbit satellites. There's not yet the same level of coverage as inside 57 degrees, but they do have ground stations and offer coverage, though it seems to be of the "just barely" sort. The polar orbits are rapidly filling in, however, so it should get better before too long.
I think the closest they have to a competitor is oneweb, which hasn't completed the roll out for their first constellation yet. They are surprisingly close though, and could've been able to actually have an operational internet service if it wasn't for a scrapped launch related to the Russian invasion.

I remember thinking they were basically dead, but they have recovered surprisingly well. Though their satellites are more likely to remain in space since they don't deorbit as easily as starlink. Otherwise the "traditional" satellite internet providers don't really even count as actual competitors.

Also, I thought starlink didn't provide customers with IP addresses and that the whole thing was going through a CGNAT and the sats themselves used private internal addresses. Even starlink business users don't get a static IP, just a publically addressable one through DHCP that could in theory change at any time more or less. That means that the premium is most probably due to the added complexity that comes with making some of their network publically addressable rather than having anything to do with IPv4 costs. From what I'm reading they also seem to be working on ipv6 support (soon™), which is hopefully going to make IPv4 pricing matter a lot less for users. Until then they are probably limited by their CGNAT architecture.

I'll look it up since it could've been just some launch date speculation.
Why wouldn’t we use something like DeepSpeed? It’s a one-click on Azure. What’s the value add?
from wikipedia “Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut. In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.”

some folks wish they were too big to fail but aren’t. they’re just small big failures
Can they be powered off PoE?
Not really surprising. Playing records is a really inconvenient way to listen to music and is more about the aesthetic than anything else.
It's likely either over-hiring or a "bubble" business with poor fundamentals/prospects.

In my estimate it takes an intermediate software engineer "new hire" about 6 months to get to a point where they can add measurable value and it probably takes 2-3 years to maximize their experience/contribution ratio. From then they can still ramp up but it's a longer curve.

Rehiring some random person, if you already had a good person in the role that you're firing, is just plain dumb.

Likely most CEOs do not understand that.

On the other hand, keeping a person that's not a good fit is just as plain dumb. That's true regardless of the state of the economy but doubly true when times are hard.

A typical ROI on new initiatives in tech can be anywhere from 2 to 5 to even 10 years. I.e. companies that are going to be successful some years from today need to be working on that event horizon. Companies that have laid off less or no or "token" amount of people, while maybe also still hiring (there are companies like that), are likely those that think like that.
I like jwz's page on backups:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

here:

"OMG, three drives is so expensive! That sounds like a hassle!" Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway.

also (keeping in mind the subject is BACKUPS):

RAID is a waste of your goddamned time and money. Is your personal computer a high-availability server with hot-swappable drives? No? Then you don't need RAID. RAID is not a backup solution. Even if you use RAID, you still need backups.
In this case, the progress is “we learned that censoring nude statues is wrong, so we stopped doing it.”

Would keeping slaves as a reminder of the evils of slavery make sense?
Isn't this the original problem Bitcoin (hash cash?) was supposed to fix? If you send email, you do some sha256 computation to make the cost of sending an email significant, but not cheap. Spammers would go out of business.
Everyone everywhere is always in decline. Including the groups that go from strength to strength. The Byzantine Empire was in decline for more than a millennium.

The UK came out of WWII looking at the bleak ruins of a country. It was quite a bit worse than net-zero, they lost a lot of real wealth. To the point where India immediately discovered it had enough power to go their own way (a net win for the world at large, but still the proximate cause was the collapse of British strength leading to an implosion of the empire).

The lesson here is when you have a good thing going, provoking a big war will cause change and the good thing will go elsewhere. Keynes warned them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_t...
When Alexander the Great conquered Persia, he encouraged his generals to marry wives from Persian aristocratic families. He also conquered a small part of northern India (now part of Pakistan); no doubt if he had conquered more of it he would have extended the same policy to India. Can you imagine the British in their rule of India ever encouraging the sons and daughters of their leading families to court the children of the leading families of India? Which I think was part of why the British Empire failed - many ancient empires, conqueror and conquered mingled to the point that people forgot who was which. The British viewed themselves as superior and apart from their conquests, which prevented their conquests from coming to identify as “British”, in same way as many peoples conquered by ancient Rome came to see themselves as “Roman”. In the end, there was nothing to hold the Empire together.
12 years ago my wife had 4 strokes, barely lived, was in a coma, etc.

After lots of rehab she came home, but was paralyzed on left side, couldn't speak, couldn't hold a pen to write. Our communication technique was having her point to letters or phrases on a piece of paper.

I wrote a typing program back then that would accept as input any USB joystick for selecting letters/phrases and then text to speech on button press. Not terribly complicated, but also better than anything I could find at the time.
> A fiscal policy that cracks inflation needs higher taxes and lower spending, which in turn reduces the amount of money in the system.

Why would you want a fiscal policy to crack inflation? Better to crack it with monetary policy and use fiscal policy to mitigate adverse distributional effects of the monetary policy, since its easier not to overshoot badly that way than with contractionary fiscal policy.
Update: 23.10, Mantic Minotaur
I'm using it thru colima and there was very little config needed. Although occasional M1 users seem to run into some form of networking issues, I haven't.
>you will know it’s a baby AGI

The article states "Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system".

"believe" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here, and you're jumping the gun entirely and calling it an AGI, when that's not what's being said. It's a reach.

It also says this: "and we discuss the challenges ahead for advancing towards deeper and more comprehensive versions of AGI, including the possible need for pursuing a new paradigm that moves beyond next-word prediction"

So, it even states that LLMs are not what's going to create an AGI.
Lot of last mile stuff done by diesel trucks, so probably not.
The second version of the Slider programming language (https://mrsename.blogspot.com/) was released a while ago, and the third version is currently being developed. Slider features message-passing concurrency with a separate garbage-collected heap for each thread, and has tail calls, a static object-oriented type system with more extensive type inference than other object-oriented languages as far as I know, polymorphic records similar to Yeti, and fast garbage collection. The Slider compiler can infer the types of function parameters, record fields and variant cases, including recursive types. Record and variant types need not be defined manually.

This programming language (named after its garbage collector, which slides objects along in memory) does garbage collection by crawling the web of object references, starting at the roots (variables and parameters of running function invocations), building up a list of pointers to live (used) objects, then sorting that list, then iterating through it and moving each live object into the next available space in the heap.

Do you have experience using Slider? Or, do you have suggestions for new features for the upcoming version(s) or ideas on how to implement the new features already planned? Your comments may be very useful.
> When I login it jumps up to close to $200.

But when you logged in, it was very obvious that it was $200?

Its annoying, and dark, but its not so much a bait an switch. They are probably offering that $20 price to new users, so if you signed up for the first time it would stay at $20 as you logged into a new account. They just don't make it very clear. I never found it misleading because I never believed the prices until I logged in.
Put some ice in the ocean then.

But seriously, how impractical is it for sub-arctic nuclear power plants to convert ocean water into icebergs and shove it off so it can go melt and cool other parts of the polar ocean water and keep caps from melting. The goal not being cooling the ocean but at least slowing down the rate of warming. I know the oceans are insanely huge but nuclear power is also very powerful, build a dozen or more nuclear powerplants that each are powrerful enough to power NYC year round and use that energy to boil and the water for energy and then use that energy to freeze water.

ELI5 on why this is impractical technically?

Because politically getting money and support is difficult but at least it not impossible. Telling the world to take it easy in capitalism on the other hand is delusional. Not gonna happen.

Scientists are always like "take is seriously" but most of the time it isn't that decision makers don't take them seriously but that they present problems not a bunch of solutions that decision makers can evaluate and you know... decide.
You can just drag and drop APK files onto the scrcpy window to initiate an install (it just does 'adb install' basically).
Compare, for instance, the backgrounds of two elite class premiers: George W. Bush and David Cameron. Bush’s patrilineal great-grandfather Samuel P. Bush established the family’s political dominance through technical education and the management of a firm that manufactured steel railway parts.

In contrast, Cameron’s father, paternal grandfather, and great-grandfather were all Oxford-educated partners in the stockbroker’s firm Panmure Gordon & Co, while another Sir Ewen Cameron was chairman of HSBC.

That's just one president. I can scarcely think of any presidents of the US at all who have a familial connection to industrial manufacturing. Similarly, British Prime Ministers in the past 50 years have no connection to gentry besides Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Harold Wilson's father was a chemist and maybe that could be counted as a familial connection to manufacturing.

In effect, Britain didn’t have an incentive to chase development for survival, because it was the dominant power of early industrialization.

The industrial revolution started in the UK and a number of people who made a fortune were ennobled or given a knighthood, etc. The land holding noble is actually not very accurate. Most titles were given post 1800 even post 1850 when land holding was no longer the most profitable business.

The avenue into power for this synthetic class had for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries been the Oxford literae humaniores course in classical Greek and Latin, often supplemented by study for civil service exams focused on British constitutional history. These exams, both old and new, have produced a generalist administrative class with institutional and humanistic knowledge but little technical skill.

This is pretty typical for politicians to have humanities degrees. The degrees have changed over time but political sciences and law are common for politicians. It's maybe worth noting that Margaret Thatcher had a 2nd class degree in chemistry so not every prime minister was someone with a classics background.

I don't know what the thesis of this article is exactly. I think it might be that the old, aristocratic, elite, leaders is to blame for the decline of Great Britain because it didn't value industry enough to be able to compete with France, Germany, and the USA. I don't think that's accurate though and is a cliched scapegoating.
I want the internet to be free/open to all as much as anyone. But specific websites aren’t the internet work itself. You aren’t entitled to them. many websites, most startup websites, are maintained by individuals or small businesses which aren’t inherently profitable. They can’t afford to deal with spambots, ad click through fraud, etc. It’s reasonable for them to deny-by-default and only spend time (money) dealing with user-agents that can pass this proof-of-personhood test (until there are better zip proof of personhoods, a huge opportunity atm)
Are you a Marxist?
> (the game is near-unplayable without it)

Did they make RS2 worse, or is Runelite just that good? I haven't played in literally 15 years.
It's the same pearl-clutching as what happened over crypto. People who don't know any better get swept up in the hype and start jumping to conclusions that aren't supported by the evidence.
It was discussed here previously:

> Startup Playbook (November 5, 2015 — 1202 points, 232 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10514729

> Startup Playbook (2015) (January 16, 2019 — 640 points, 55 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917362
That's pretty funny, thank you.
Intel 12th and 13th gen support ECC on the W680 chipset. It appears there are even some mini-ITX boards now if you can work out where to buy them.
Indeed I agree friend, the creation of the Republican party was the worst thing that ever happened to the US, and only the creation of the Democratic party kept the US from falling into complete fascism, at least for a time.
If Scott was in the 1800s, he'd be telling us the sky was about to fall in because of Ford Motor Company inventing the automated horse.

Luddites must be rejected because they're simply never right. Extreme poverty has never been lower in history thanks to automation driving the price of food to the raw cost of production.

Remember, 90% of the population used to work in agriculture toiling away. Now it's ~2% and yet poverty has absolutely plummeted.

A significant portion of the population today is toiling away in manual jobs, tedious jobs and pointless jobs. This will all be automated away leaving those people free to pursue their most human pursuits.

I work in software, and I cannot wait until AI does 90-99% of my job. I can't wait until I rarely write software manually. To me, writing software is the most boring part of my job. The best part is outcomes, and I can achieve 100x better outcomes if all the grunt work is taken care of by AI.

Luddites have never been right, and they've consistently been proven dead wrong. This is no exception.
There is no social value to raising FDIC limits as a technicality via financial engineering. The money spent to maintain these schemes is pure dead weight loss on the economy.
The link should say (2022) instead of (2020), if that matters to anybody.

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The article poses a good question, perhaps unintentionally. Is our work in tech, comp sci, math, etc for its own sake or a facile search for meaning from which we cannot really profit?
So only 25% of people are playing music using vinyl
You contact the potential user, explain who you are and what your trying to build, they like it and are comfortable signing an LoI. Thats pretty much it.

If its a big B and you need credentials, you'll need to get that first. You can do it by looking and sounding professional, bringing in advisors who add some weight, getting an intro from the CEO or owner (you'd be surprised how many will pay it forward). If its a small B just wander around and say hello.

People generally want to help people who are making things that help them. And your not getting anywhere without understanding your user so you'll need to talk to them, emphasise. A lot of the earliest discussions will be more around you figuring out exactly how your product will help them.
That's a totally different problem and it can apply to analog or digital systems and those with and without tactile feedback.

I had a car radio with volume, tone, balance controls etc. that used rotary knobs for adjustment. The trouble was that instead of the knob being connected to a rotary potentiometer which adjusted an analog circuit that responded instantly to rotation, it was connected to a digital rotary shaft encoder which converted the rotation of one's hand—an analog function—into digital which then changed the level of the analog audio.

So what you may ask. When I rotated the knob a finite and very annoying delay occurred, one's hand could be already off the knob before the volume altered.

This is not a slur on digital systems but on bad shoddy design. First, one questions why bother with such digital complexity in an otherwise analog radio, the second why put a complex digital system in place of about the simplest adjustable system around—a variable resistor. Third, if one designs a digital replacement for an analog system then one would expect it to be better or at least as good as the system it is replacing. In this case the digital system was far substandard to an equivalent analog one.

We see shitty design like this everywhere and it's very annoying. I could spend considerable time outlining why but that's a whole topic of itself. I'll just say this, if enough customers complain then it wouldn't happen. This story shows that consumers can get bad design problems fixed if enough complain, however garbage design would be rectified much faster if many more did so. Unfortunately, many people have high tolerance, it takes a lot to make them complain (manufacturers know this and use the fact and there's essentially no laws to stop them getting away with building crap products).
Wow can it really achieve 2.5gbps throughput on its ethernet?
Your statement makes perfect sense to me. I think the folks who believe that quality of life is meaningless for non-human animals are the crazy ones. I don't know how someone could spend any amount of time with animals, wild or domestic, and not realize that many have a great depth of experience and emotion.
It was good back in the 90s, but recent versions were terrible IMO.
The president can't unilaterally put anyone in jail, and I doubt it would have much positive impact at all.
LiPo is an absolute nightmare to ship in nontrivial quantities. The trickiest part is all the paperwork. Shippers really do not like it, because it places a lot of extra restrictions on the way they are allowed to ship it. This is made 10x worse when you are trying to ship bare batteries.

This is also why companies like Sparkfun don't sell batteries internationally. Adafruit used to have this restriction too, but they seem to have recently changed that.
FDIC historical limit was set/raised eight times, essentially a bit higher than tracking inflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp...

FDIC(+NCUA) are allowed revise the limit every 5 years, next is 2025. Unless Congress acts sooner.

Should the FDIC limit be indexed on inflation?
Specifically, I'm getting SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
Except for the question on there wasn't the question that was asked. Do you understand how q&a (or for that matter court) prep goes? The question on there was an example question that they expected would be along the lines of what that person would be interested in and how they would phrase it (or what particular things they would try to attack/draw out). The article you just quoted even said that.
Who gets to decide what a socially desirable norm is? And what happens to those who don't comply?
Only if you assume that everyone is either a vinyl buyer or record player buyer :)