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The article is very meta. Degrowth is definitely not a topic that is covered well in the press, but it is most likely a relevant part of solving climate change. However, communicating degrowth is hard and quickly leads to people accusing one of trying to forbid all the nice things in their life (which is not true).

Degrowth is fundamentally about having less, but people will get very defensive very quickly, when you suggest it. But the truth is: We are already using too many resources that the earth system can't replenish: https://www.overshootday.org/

The question is not if we will practise degrowth, but when. The longer we wait, the harder the change will be and the fewer option we will have to make the changes on our own terms.
for the company computers we do COMPANY ABBREVIATION-DEPARTMENT#number(-LT if mobile workstation). has worked out nicely so far but we are a small operation. for home, i use Iron Man characters. I like to name my main gaming PC as villains, like Iron Monger. I am a HUGE Spider-Man fan, but I admit I don't think it is as cool to see Doc Ock or Kraven as opposed to... War Machine... light up on the network.

*edit - Monger not Mongrel
Oof, I should not have skimmed the license.
I read it that way too, even if he didn't explicitly say it. Probably because Takei is known to be very vocally anti-Republican or anti-right or pro-left or pro-liberal, not sure of the exact dynamic there. But the comment also said Takei is "liberal" and knows what it's like if "that kind of people" regain power.

To me, it's clearly an anti-Republic or anti-conservative jab, implying that "those people" shouldn't be allowed to regain power, else some poor minority will get put into camps. Using the argument that if Takei says so, it's because he's lived through it, so we should listen to him. Ofc, not to detract from what he went through, it's horrible.
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That's not why they teach you not to cheat. That's why they teach doctors (and other kinds of students) that they need to memorize some things in order to have fast recall without requiring a reference.

But they teach you not to cheat because cheating is bad, on its own terms. The purpose of education is not just to teach facts, but also to teach young people how to be net-positive members of society. (This is why society subsidizes education.) Teaching not to cheat to get ahead falls within that part of the curriculum.
Also, have a healthy and easy to digest diet, and don't try to eat too much (don't push too much undigested food through your gut, which will cause further issues by feeding the bad bacteria). Pre and pro biotic food may also help.
The bitcoin whitepaper is titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'. Cash is private and peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer is impossible if chain analysis companies are required in the middle, as it is now to make sure you don't get 'bad coins'.

Other issues are opened up like the possiblity that a coalition of mining pools will censor transactions in the future.

Bitcoin has clearly failed at its originally intended purpose and monero is now what it wanted to be
1xH100 is faster than 8xA100 for a work-in-progress architecture I'm iterating on. Meanwhile the code doesn't work on TPUs right now because it hangs before initialization. (This is with PyTorch for what it's worth) All that to say Nvidia's hardware work and software evangelization has really paid off-- CUDA just works™ and performance continues to increase.

TPUs are good hardware, but TPUs are not available outside of GCP. There's not as much of an incentive for other companies to build software around TPUs like there is with CUDA. The same is likely true of chips like Cerebras' wafer scale accelerators as well.

Nvidia's won a stable lead on their competition that's probably not going to disappear for the next 2-5 years and could compound over that time.
I read the reviews of my company (big, so many reviews) and I find them generally spot-on. Again, with obvious filters: if one gives 1/5 on everything it tells me to not take it very seriously. Same for 5/5 reviews.
Is that due to the CCS connector, or the charging provider? Others have said on this thread that the communication protocol is similar/identical, so it seems much more likely that that's an issue on the backend that is caused by poor operations rather than the connector itself.
Sure, and that's exactly why sovereign states don't like monero and mixers - but that is their problem, not mine. Also, in many cases transferring crypto is not illegal - for instance, it is legal to transfer money to non-sanction banks in Russia, but in many countries, the banking system doesn't allow that. If you had a 90y.o. starving grandma there, you'd be grateful for the crypto.
Fun fact - I’m a photographer in rural Minnesota and I photographed 3 different senior girls from Micronesia one winter. Apparently a town about an hour from me has a little community of people from there, which I’d never known before.
The democratic position was some left wing organizations were targeted as well so it was nonpartisan, but it was far less in number and severity. It's not really a defence. They are forced to cover it here:

> Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names. According to Republican lawmakers, liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny, but at a lower rate than conservative groups. The Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee issued a report, which concluded that although some liberal groups were selected for additional review, the scrutiny that these groups received did not amount to targeting when compared to the greater scrutiny received by conservative groups.

Wikipedia being not biased puts the democrats claim up front, repeating it throughout the article several times and buries the republican perspective with things like "Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee" when they don't make the same implication when democratic controlled groups comment on the matter. They also bury the destruction of evidence that occurred. The government eventually settled with the conservative groups it targeted.
Agreed.

I never got why many people hate on Google Meet.

It’s one of the few that don’t push a download to join a meeting, everything is lightweight and sandboxed in the browser.
Yeah but I didn't buy AMD stock! Clearly I should have though.
What a strange recommendation. I do research in CS theory and machine learning and I try to find arXiv preprints when I can, they are usually more complete than conference versions of papers. If you stick to papers from authors you know or to those from well-known conferences, arXiv is often times the best source.
Ok, you got me at Mario 3 and Tetris!
TPUs are available on GCP, but working with them has been frustrating.

My experience has been that it takes not insignificant effort to convert training scripts and then some weird unexpected bug takes a while to figure out, I’ve heard similar things from peers in academia.

Additionally, at least in early 2023, PyTorch had a substantial throughput reduction on TPUs so you’d probably need to use Jax (or god forbid TF) for efficiency sake.

Granted, I’ve heard some of the PyTorch XLA issues have since been improved.

Regardless, the H100 currently significantly outperforms TPUv4 in throughout on transformer loads, we’ll see what TPUv5 looks like to be fair but it’s not a given that Google/Amazon can outpace Nvidia in manufacturing and chip design when this is their core product and they also have amazing engineers + a large open source community building around CUDA.
I don't see cryptocurrencies as something to be killed. I think the vast majority of them are illogical, based on wishful thinking and severe ignorance or outright scams. People will point out one among twenty thousand without realizing that the exception proves the rule.

Yeah sure keep speculating on your "digital gold" I don't care. Unlike holding dollars as demand deposits or cash, you can't hijack the economy. You are accountable for the risks you take but that doesn't mean anyone is going to use Bitcoin or Ethereum to pay their groceries, especially since so many of the crypto credit card companies love operating in jurisdictions where they are completely unaware about the tax implications of their product. What a well thought out business model...

Even though Europe/EU is embracing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and making it easier to do business, crypto exchanges operate in regulatory safe havens, engage in shady practices or get hacked and lose your money.
Definitely Qdrant is a great option. It's an open source vector DB, so you can experiment locally without any cost, but if you prefer managed solution Qdrant Cloud is an option: https://cloud.qdrant.io/
`ros install sbcl-bin/2.3.2` fixes the log4cl compile error issue
I guess we have to confront whether we think that HTML fundamentally is a string that happens to contain tokens that could be interpreted as a data structure, or whether we see it as a data structure that has a string representation.

I think it just happens to be that the string representation is one of the most familiar and accessible formats to many people.

I don't subscribe to the idea that HTML somehow fundamentally is a string. However, even if we see it as a data structure, to many languages, data structures are not at hand, while objects with parochial APIs are. So you end up with a flurry of different libraries with their own way of doing things, instead of "this is just data, I'll use my language's generic data manipulation tools to deal with this".
Consider the letters section of Phyicical Review, that turned into a weekly journal Physical Review Letters back in the 50s. It was a blog or forum back when papers were distributed on paper.

Basically because of the slow pace of review and publication the letters column became a way to talk about recent results or problems, and then follow up letters (i.e. comments on the blog posts) became common. So the editors decided to hive it off and speed up its publication schedule.
Too true, and the larger orgs definitely have that as a concern.

And some specific managers who would be better not leading people (aka fired) are a weird case where the in-person interview can kind of discern that. Basically, one has to learn what to ask and how to ask to suss out which team leads are good and which ones aren't. Then again, it's a definite problem where you are in an org can make or break you.

However, we have to separate "shitty manager" from "shitty organization forcing managers to enact shitty policies". And this is where I think Glassdoor 1 and 2 star reviews can show policy trends (versus bad manager trends).

And of course, you may get a company that avoids most of the reviews in scummy ways. I know that the company I worked for that got bought out had a clause they wanted us to sign that stated "no negative comments about us anywhere". What's funny is this is actually illegal under the NLRB. But to me this was a massive red flag to get the hell out (and I did).
Think about the problem deeply for several days. Take a 3 day break and then start working in the solution. Allow the associative cortex to do the work.
For sure, still, congrats on some gains.
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Interpolation should have been added to the HTML specification over a decade ago. It's one of the many things the standards body has gotten wrong.

This is something that literally every single framework, front-end and back-end has had to deal with in some way since the 90s. From chucking ugly <?php tags to more elegant solutions like curly braces.

Having one standard in the spec would standardize something that is currently done a million different ways.
The tipping system exists so an employer can pay next to nothing and pretend the system is meritocratic. It was an end run around the fact that you couldn't underpay slaves anymore in the US.

The solution is to abolish tips in the tax code/minimum wage laws and have employers pay the full wage directly. No more tip jars anywhere, just like in every other developed nation in the world.

"Service est compris."
Worth pointing out that sometimes things really are impossible. If an MBA tells you something is impossible, it is probably just really hard. If a physicist tells you your idea violates conservation of energy, it is probably not worth wasting your life chasing it.
I don't understand what you wrote. Are you saying that outside the US, every manufacturer offers low-friction online sales, with no need to visit a dealer?

Because I don't think that's entirely true...
People underestimate how meme-y both the stock market and the underlying customer market is. I don't think there's anything like the level of TPUs shipping as there are GPUs? If people end up with an "AI accelerator" in their PC, it would be quite likely to have NVIDIA branding.
I have. But if you have a point that isn't ad hominem, I'm happy to listen.
I’m salaried and would not accept tips even if offered.

However when I eat at a sit down restaurant, the size of the tip I pay is very much determined by the quality of the service I receive. If you frown the entire time, don’t come back to refill our drinks at all, screw up half of the orders at the table, and make me wait a ridiculous time after we’ve finished our meals for the check, you don’t deserve a good tip.
> By the time CCS1 was looking like it would win over CHAdeMO, the supercharger network was so large that switching would have been well beyond Tesla's financial means.

Sure, just like adding CCS2 plugs to their European chargers sent Tesla broke and that's why the company folded and we never heard of it again.
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In the market for a car here in Canada.

Really loved the idea of an electric car / plug in hybrid but it feels like EVs are just not adequately designed for Canada.

The main issues are (A) not enough charging infrastructure (fixable) and (B) poor battery performance in cold weather.

I think the cold weather thing could be fixable but from my perspective it seems like EVs are designed with California in mind so there seems to be little incentive to fix those issues.

Additionally Canada wants all new cars to be EVs by somewhere around 2030 but it seems like a not very well thought out plan.

Personally I ended up going with a standard hybrid.

- Fantastic mileage in the city.

- Good cold weather performance.

- Highest reliability by consumers reports and other publications.

- No range anxiety.

- Battery lasts a very long time since it is used less and stays at a medium charge.
FDR is an example of how a politician can be called a Socialist in the United States while also being extremely reactionary and push racist policies.

If nothing else, this goes to show how far the scale is tipped in favor of right wing ideas and policies in the states and still is. The fact Biden, a fairly conservative politician, can be called a "Communist" with a straight face is an indictment of the American education system.

The labels don't even mean anything after a while. You can actively be enforcing fascist policies and still be labeled a socialist due to a population wide inability to understand what words mean.
It's the easiest solution in many cases.
What car do you have that costs 1/7th the price of a tesla and has no maintenance required whatsoever (including oil changes)?
No different than spending money on the military to accelerate heavy arms ordinance manufacturing instead of hospitals and schools.
Meditation, mindfulness, reframing, emotional self-care, movement, exercise. The usual things.

Not trying to be smug.

But I noticed on a three week vacation, where I was walking 15K steps a day, I lost weight and had zero gut issues while eating freely in restaurants for the duration. Got home, day one the old issues came back. I definitely had a stressful association with my day job and the attendant life. I let a lot of things slip because I allowed that my situation required me to reward myself with lethargy and vices. When I’m above the baseline on self care, I don’t turn to the vices as much and my physical systems generally work better.

I got back into my “me first” routine and my gut issues subsided. For me it was like a switch.
I've been designing a worker-owned (both the startup and the user data owned by those 'worker' users) Glassdoor alternative. Wonder about how to grow interest in it. Pay sharing is another useful feature of Glassdoor that could be done better in a worker-centric way.

Another aspect of it is to refer/resell self-hosting for users to completely own their own data (such as Bunny CDN which has very wallet-friendly prepaid schemes and a referral program) so they don't have to worry about what the service owner does. It would then be a kind of decentralized network of mini Glassdoors about the workers current or past employers, where one worker would spin it up and their peers can use. Each would decide what to leave public-facing and private-facing for the workers, and could even monetize for the workers via selling their data as Glassdoor does for things like market comp survey data so that workers could privately share comp data amongst each other and publicly sell access to extra anonymized summaries of that data.

This would be tied together into a user friendly iOS/macOS app to manage the deployment of the site. How does that sound?
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> Even open book exams can be gamed

Of course, yes, nothing's perfect. But Open book exams are far better bargain than what the most popular method of exams is as of today.
I know what you're talking about. For me, it was a show-stopper. I felt destroyed. Yet, here I am! That's the most important thing for you right now-- keep the problem in perspective. Hard times pass. This is the best news I can give you.

- Not all problems need to be solved.

- People can relate to your struggle and may be willing to share time with you to think about your problems (me included) if it would help

- Take a break. Go outdoors, into nature, for an extended period of time. Focus on the present, not your work.
> As a brown guy, I certainly didn't feel safer in 2015-2016 when folks tried to turn Trump's ban on refugees from certain countries designated by Obama into a conversation about internment of Muslim Americans.

As another "brown guy", I'm absolutely comfortable with this necessary conversation happening. Especially since Trump immediately ramped up forced internment of legal immigrants, some of which we later discovered amounted to literal ethnic cleansing via forced sterilization practices.

The thing that makes me feel unsafe is the fact that this stuff is happening, and has been happening for years, and that by and large people don't talk about and instead ignore it, not the fact that people very occasionally try to use relevant history to shine a light on the shadows under which we still live.

> Also, I'm skeptical that Americans are even equipped to teach this history in context. Imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot. Japan had a large population of Americans, and America had just launched a surprise attack on Japan. What would imperial Japan have done to those Americans within their borders?

This is a really disingenuous presentation of what actually happened, so yes, I agree that you are probably not equipped to teach this history in context, but that doesn't mean everyone is.
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Because that’s the agreement they chose to enter.
I think perhaps the big omission is a sunset clause. "This constitution is good for no more than 40 years, after which we need another one."
I would probably be ok with the abuzz, but you can't but it in the US yet.
What I see is that these companies would be happy to waste 1000 hours of customers' time to save themselves $5. So even if the useful cases of the IVR/automation is rare, it's still a net win from their perspective. Especially in markets (most of them) where it's not going to be a competitive difference because they all do it.

The insult to injury is the prerecorded "Your call is important to us" Yeah I'm sure it is, that's why you have a nearly-zero-cost robot telling me that while you put me on hold because you didn't want to hire an adequate numbers of reps, right?
Yes, there exist stuff that behaves like this.

MHD isn't one.
This amounts to saying ‘but I want to be able to generate invalid HTML!’
The modern American welfare state was also reactionary and bigoted towards black people and minorities. It’s important to recognize that much of the social programs explicitly excluded people of color and then used their understandeable lower quality of life due to lack of safety nets as a justification for further racism. Black people have bad neighborhoods, but of course black people didnt get government housing assistance to repair anything, because the federal programs for that explicitly excluded them.
The stock price makes absolutely no sense, but the AI hype is real so I won't be shorting.

Just give you a crude metaphor - buying NVDA is like buying a $10 million dollar house to collect $10,000 in rent a year. The price to earnings is bonkers. This valuation only makes sense if somehow Nvidia is using alien technology that couldn't possible by reproduced in the next two decades by any other company.
The article doesn't actually state the question, just links to a very large document that probably has it in there but I couldn't find it.

What was the question in particular?
It’s a dying country, with lowest fertility rate in the world and an ultra conservative president backed by evangelical nutjobs. I know they are quite good partner and they tend to listen to us when we need to contain China but still I think they peaked. They will probably end up similarly to Japan with several lost decades.
Rocketry and self-driving are completely different domains of difficulty. Rocketry is a solved problem - the basic math works, we've done it before, the challenge now is building upon that knowledge, refining it and increasing efficiency, but the basics have been figured out and proven since we've launched the first satellites in orbit. SpaceX is successfully doing this.

Unsupervised self-driving in an unconstrained environment is a completely different game. The reason humans can drive is that they have millions of years of evolution in both low-level image processing, reasoning, etc, diverse knowledge of the world that an individual obtains during the course of their life which can be blended in various ways to make driving-related decisions, as well as a sense of self-preservation that generally forces them to err on the side of caution. Short of a major AGI breakthrough, safe self-driving on existing road infrastructure is impossible.
Where does my computer get the time from?
Total substitute. And they have to be, because once you have them you ONLY look at the screen. There is no chance I'm even glancing in the useless top mirror, nor over my shoulder. I do switch between rear camera and 360 camera though, but it varies between car brands if that's necessary. In the best implementations you see both at the same time.
If something is better than some other thing at achieving the same goals, then it is just better, period. If it turns out that, what people really wanted was an efficient way to launder money, then Monero is not really 'better' than bitcoin perse, but it rather solves a different, more popular problem instead.

Presumably it matters because the person you are replying to cares more about the less popular problem.
I'm still holding ~600 shares of NVDA from a $1,200 investment back when I thought it was amazing that this company made cards that made Quake 2 look incredible.

300k Investment on $900 dollars.
Agreed, the fundamentals are off and drunk on hype. Where else can investors put their money?