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It does not seem to be publically owned in most of Japan if I remember correctly.
Some of this is weird accounting stuff - I think they can't recognize income yet because they committed themselves to holding off some of it as insurance against credit card defaults.
I'm not sure how this works for more complex stuff?

What about a PO in an ERP?

Accounting functions? SOmeone adding records toa. general ledger?

editing/viewing a 3d model?

Editing a video? Multitrack audio?
Agreed. The article talks about going to politically unpopular protests. Anyone who attends those is educated on not taking their phones with them when the stakes are that high.
I don't know, do you use tabs in your web browser or do you open a new window for every webpage?
Sort of. Most sites are available everywhere with the same content, the main exception being exactly netflix and other streaming platforms. Even though language is a barrier sometimes, it's not always. Translation software is getting better every day. Whereas, real time communication between people speaking different languages is not really possible (I can't think of a way for it to be smooth, really), but everything that can be done offline is already accessible by pretty much anyone who wants to give it a go.
An obscure hippie commune would like to talk to you about an early stage investment opportunity. /s

Seriously though, to your point, existing and historical communes require 100% voluntary buy-in to work. That doesn't scale beyond a couple hundred people. So, as you say, it becomes "non-voluntary" beyond a certain size, which is a nice way of saying it is made possible via force.
Thinking Fast vs. Slow with Your Data in Postgres
Dark Side of the Ring was freakin' awesome. At least they had the foresight to run away with that. But every freakin' promo about something marijuana related was tiresome.
While it’s true that not all dark matter has to be exactly the same thing, it’s also true that no large portion of it can be ordinary baryonic matter at low temperatures. What we know about dark matter is that it is weakly interacting, which means that it just doesn’t interact with ordinary matter and ordinary energy. This automatically rules out building a machine made of ordinary matter that creates or manipulates dark matter on any large scale. We might conceivably build a giant machine that _detects_ a particle or two of dark matter every year, but so far all our attempts have failed. Thus dark matter cannot just be a waste product of some advanced civilization, and even if it were you cannot just magic up a way to avoid creating waste heat.
Could a religious liberty case be made? I mean, I am not religious, but I’d be surprised if the Christian god would be OK killing a person over a technicality. Oklahoma is a pretty religious place, right? I imagine the execution could be hard to perform if enough people didn’t comply. At least it could be enough of a delay to stall a bit and hopefully work things out…
What a bunch of non statements.

They’re just designing another tablet UI and renaming everything.

Instead of applications, virtual desktops, and launchers we have “flows, modules, and spaces”

It’d be cool to see more natural language support in OS interfaces though!
You're actually quite right - fundamentally they were fractional reserve lending institutions. The main difference with banks was somewhat selective membership, and restrictions to loans to their membership to buy property.

What actually killed them was Volker raising interest rates to 18% in a misguided attempt to cause the inflation triggered by the break up of the Bretton Woods accords and the accompanying oil crisis. (That can also be read the other way round as it happens - one of the several things that stressed the fixed rate currency exchange agreement out of existence was the oil trade imbalance and the accompanying flows of dollars. Volker raised interest rates following economic textbook theory to suppress inflation, and it backfired rather spectacularly.

Unlike today - this wasn't strictly a quantitative money inflation (i.e. nobody had just increased the US money supply by 25%), and this is very clear in the M2/M3 figures of that time.

At any rate. Key thing, then and now - the US residential mortgage market is dominated by long term, fixed rate loans. When interest rates rise very quickly, this creates huge issues for the lenders. The S&L's got caught with a lot of low interest rate, fixed rate loans, and couldn't consequently pay their savers enough to keep their deposits. As savers moved deposits into higher rate institutions it pushed the entire S&L (and many banks as well) into difficulty, some compensated for this by making riskier (higher rate) loans, and the whole sector crashed.

One of the unfortunate side effects of this was that it led to Salmon Brothers developing a massive loan securitisation program (to buy the loans from the S&L as a way out, kind of), and that led directly to the Mortgage Backed Security crises of 2000 and 2006. It also somewhat resulted in the South American crisis in the 1980´s since that was another place the US banks went looking for high interest rate loans.
Canada already has this law, for as long as I can remember.
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Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS

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Custom email client written 10 years ago. It stopped spam and reminds me to write down ideas.
The dark mode in this concept looks like a complete afterthought.

I like consistency of UI; fluidity at the expense of muscle memory (like having the Windows 11 taskbar centered makes no sense for muscle memory with icons moving about as you open things). The shortcut system sounds laborious.

Pretty? Sure. Practical? Not really.
Savings accounts are tax-disadvantaged; interest is taxed like ordinary income. I'm not sure about money market funds, but municipal/treasury bonds don't have that problem.

Remember, taxes are designed to benefit rich passive investors, so you gotta act like one.
And it brings no value in the end when English is spoken in many places outside of Canada
Say more about your theory
Vice used to be pretty innovative in the beginning, then something snapped and they ended up bland.
Don't worry about it; more alpha for you.
> I think it's kind of wild that you can just take a latent or otherwise inaccessible source of power and now convert it into waste heat

Fixed that for you. Bitcoin mining does about as much good for society as hooking up thousands of 1500W electric resistive element space heaters and dumping the thermal output into the atmosphere.

Might as well install some mini split air conditioners backwards while we're at it.
end of an era; they used to be very good. but they completely disappeared from my radar in the last years.
> There is no explicit power for the executive to ignore the judicial.

But there is: it's called the Constitution. Not any particular clause or article, but the whole document. The executive is allowed to check the judicial if the judicial ignores the Constitution. How else is the executive supposed to check the judicial?

> It would be a VERY BAD precedent to do that again.

It would be a bad precedent, but it would be an even worse precedent for the Supreme Court to force the government to default on its debt. The least bad of the two evils would be for the government to continue paying its debt by waving the debt ceiling away.
I’m assuming that you’re implying that their job is hard news, but you’re hard pressed to find any hard news organizations any more. The AP survives because they sell to other news outlets. Other hard news outlets seem to survive on donations and government funding.
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YouTube recommendations make me incredibly sad, to the point where I start to lose hope for humanity. I know that's a strange thing to say but bear with me.

My web browser blocks all cookies and therefore no matter how often I visit YouTube, it thinks I'm a brand new user. The video recommendations I see are therefore YouTube's "default" set; presumably what's trending at the time.

The recommended videos are, without exception, pure trash. We're talking everything from Buzzfeed-level clickbait with blatantly Photoshopped thumbnails to the lowest-effort softcore-porn-level sensationalist crap which is mostly composed of lobotomised talking heads, mouths agog, "reacting" to other people's content.

Quite often YouTube presents starkly contrasting recommendations, for example a video of violent combat footage right next to some kids dancing, or stuff like this elegant pairing of the sexualisation of women next to some cUtE pUpPiEs: https://i.imgur.com/TcxhVhH.jpg

It's psychopathic.
A bit like icognito/private mode in browsers.

It is only private on your side, it changes nothing for the sites you visit or their partners, they can still track you, and your IP address is still visible. It is not a blocker like uBlock, though in the case of Firefox, turning on private mode also enables a builtin blocker.

It is explained clearly when you open Incognito mode in Chrome, and people complained that it doesn't do what it says it doesn't.
Everyone knows they track your MAC address
GoPro was never a serious contender for the drone game as much as any other player like Sony/Olympus/Nikon/Canon etc.

DJI was already making a name for themselves in the camera industry with their gimbals. they moved their stabilization tech into drones (often to support gopro or third party camera attachments) and only realized later that they could easily cannibalize the camera makers
I'm under the pretty strict rule that if an article about GPT doesn't have a clear version indicator, it's probably worth passing.

There's not a clear indicator if the answer is from 4 or 3.5-turbo, at the end of the article. With the conclusion mid way that 4 can do things that 3.5 can't, meaning I have no idea what's going on at the end of the article, or if it's relevant.
<off-topic> I couldn't stop giggling for 5 minutes straight after hearing the name of this system. Brilliant!
Paywalled, but given The Economist's biases, I'm guessing "no".
Treasury bills are a great option. A 3 month treasury pays over 5% and they are exempt from state income tax. There is not meaningful interest rate risk in a bond that matures in a few months, but you can still sell before maturity if you need the money. So in almost any scenario you can come up with, it’s better than the savings account.
Analog computing and hybrid computing: The view from 1962
This looks like the exact opposite of what I would do if I were to redesign operating systems. The job of operating system is just to run application and get out of the way, and most importantly be deterministic and reliable. I don't need my OS to "predict what I might need", I know what I need myself.
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They would be a voiceover artist, a storyteller, a voice actor, a narrator, a performer, even an entertainer. Depends whose book it is and if the book already exists to be read from.

Ever heard of radio plays? Audio dramas?
Software engineer with 4+ years of experience delivering full-stack applications.

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Are self driving cars going to be the same as all the big platforms? If you're a platform, making it impossible to contact a human when your account has been wrongfully disabled / blacklisted is pretty much the de facto standard for support, as users are a cost that has to be minimized "at scale". What happens when self driving car peddlers decide that having access to human oversight is not viable "at scale"?
Does the bill single out netflix and amazon prime? Will the independent youtuber also have to support indigenous languages?
If you asked most people to perform that task, they literally wouldn't have a clue what you'd just asked them to do.
They had great news reporting and incredible deep dive series (reporting from war-torn territories).

Gavin, one of the founders, was not a Proud Boy when he founded Vice. Then became a Proud Boy when he was not contributing to Vice.
This is a CBC article so keep in mind its bias in favour of the Liberals who pushed this bill through.

For anyone interested in a more balanced view, Michael Geist is law professor, research chair, and overall internet policy nerd. I highly recommend his review of the bill: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/04/billc11end/

It's also interesting to put what the Trudeau Liberals are doing in perspective. This is just one of three internet censorship bills that they will pass before 2026.

C-11 (this bill), will allow the Liberals to dictate what platforms show. Simply put, the books aren't being censored, they're just telling the book stores what should be on the shelves. It also adds what is effectively a new tax for content creators which the Federal government will distribute for Canadian content. Keep an eye for scandals about how these funds were distributed in a couple of years.

C-18 is the next one. In short, the Trudeau Liberals will implement another a tax on links, so aggregators such as Google may be forced to pay when they link to say the CBC. Google has already said they may simply stop linking to news services in Canada if they pass this, giving the government funded Canadian news agencies even more power. Good write up: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/02/billc18reality/

The Online Safety Bill - not yet formally proposed - will likely be the coup de gras. Not much is known yet, but given how easily you can censor anything under the guise of "safety" and the Liberal's proclivity towards extra-judicial action, it probably won't be good.

Overall, Canada's internet will look very North Korean by the time the next elections roll about. If you're visiting, you should probably have a VPN ready to go before you cross the border.
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is it as easy to use as streamlit? I like the auth part. Does that include connection to a firebase or supabase for db and auth?
Read the article, and others. All indications are actual innocence. Literally no evidence links him to the crime.
Aldi, Costco, three different local grocery stores depending on what I'm getting and how big a hurry I'm in, and Target if I only need a couple non-food things (that I'd otherwise get at Costco), yeah.

Basically everywhere except Wal Mart.

[EDIT] Hell I even go to Dollar General or Big Lots sometimes (used to go a lot when I had less money, LOL) and even those don't make me feel like my soul is being drained, like Wal Mart does. I actually kinda like them.
> Kind of sucks for the transgendered applicants, but understandable I suppose, given the circumstances these days.

Yikes. That's true in exactly the same way that segregation kinda sucked for the black kids, but was understandable given the circumstances of the postbellum south.

Discrimination against a minority solely for the social conveniences of the majority is a terrible sin. Haven't we had this fight a thousand times already? Why do it again?
Cities have a long list of attractive qualities that drive prices up. Being in a tiny box with high density is not one of them. Nobody is going to choose the 500 ft apartment downtown when they could have price.

Every city has already run this natural experiment. You have units that are high density and low density that are completely paid off. People will pay more for a larger space in an urban center. If people wanted density for its own sake, rent would be higher for a tiny apartment in a large house in the same location. It is not the density that they want, it is the short commute and high paid job. This is what I mean by causality.
You've totally failed to respond to GP's comment. Do you think this will be ineffective at its stated goals?
I think it’s to be taken at face value — they don’t want unauthorised people seeing what’s on screen.
> since statistically everyone I know who delays updates does it because their phone is full of pictures & videos

As someone who doesn't use iCloud to store pictures or videos, can you explain what this has anything to do with updates? Is it because their device is so full that they don't have disk space to download the update? And Apple doesn't temporarily grant them additional iCloud storage?
There is one system, also widely-deployed, other than LLMs, that's well-known to be vulnerable to prompt injection: humans.

Prompt injection isn't something you can solve. Security people are sometimes pushing things beyond sense or reason, but even they won't be able to fix that one - not without overhauling our understanding of fundamental reality in the process.

The distinction between "code" and "data", between a "control plane" and "data plane", is a fake one - something we pretend exists (or believe exists, when we don't yet know better), and keep up by building systems that try to enforce it. There is no such distinction at the fundamental level, though. At systems level, there is no such distinction in LLMs, and there is no such distinction in human mind.

Sure, current bleed of LLMs is badly vulnerable to some trivial prompt injections - but I think a good analogy would be a 4 year old kid. They will believe anything you say if you insist hard enough, because you're an adult, and they're a small kid, and they don't know better. A big part of growing up is learning to ignore random prompts from the environment. But an adult can still be prompt-injected - i.e. manipulated, "social engineered" - it just takes a lot more effort.
Facial Recognition Powers ‘Automated Apartheid’ in Israel
> no code can be art. For instance, videogames.

I feel like this is probably a pretty bad example, generally the "art" in video games comes from things like dialogue, storytelling, level design, graphical art, not the physics engine or the renderer. There is simply not art there, it's more engineering.

There's little more art in the code portion of video games than there is in a jet engine.
> Interestingly, packing books badly was a conscious decision by Amazon. I know this because for the first few years they packed them well. Then they switched to just dumping them in a box, presumably because it was cheaper and most buyers didn't care.

Is "we changed the packing for less focus on quality-of-preservation, for reasons related to quality-of-broader-experience" really the same as packing books badly being a conscious decision?

IDK, seems a bit of a difference there; you don't even have to decide "let's pack the books badly" to move in that direction if your refinements are focused elsewhere, so it may be more accurate to say it was probably an unintended knock-on effect.

Also, I've found some purveyors of new books that do a phenomenal job of packing & shipping. Gotta say that if you're shopping at the Abebooks level though, it seems like this kind of recommendation may be wasted? Not snobbery, just curious why Abebooks is the next step up from Amazon if quality is a concern.

Maybe "Abebooks + noticing which warehouse is shipping me books at which level of quality" could be a helpful next step, if one is looking to stay in a similar orbit with minimal figurative delta-V to retain the comfortable feel of one's past shopping habits?
One other thing that is great for your mental health in any job, is treating it as a job and nothing else. Something you do for 40h per week to get a salary to pay your bills.

You're not there to make the world a better place, to belong to a family, to improve anything. Just do your job and go back to your life at the end of the day. When you're off work, do your best to forget about it. In fact, always prepare yourself for interviews, so leaving your current job it is easier when the time comes, and it always comes.

This detachment always served as protection from toxic workplaces, and I worked in a few of them. Don't let anyone fool you that it will harm your career, the only thing that will harm your career is not putting effort to learn skills that are in demand.