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I've lived through inflation. People who have not (my Canadian wife wife for one :) lack intuitive feeling to translate simple number into everyday occurrences. And every equation has two sides.

My parents did the same thing - they'd buy something expensive on loan and the loan would reduce with time in effective value. Great right? But what about the other side? The person /business that sold you that car or furniture or whatever is basically left hanging.

Worst part of inflation is that it makes saving impossible. There's no effective way to prepare for anything. Any money or earnings you have is basically slipping inexorably through your fingers as grains of sand.

Salary too! Unless my salary goes up with inflation (rare!) I'm literally getting paid less every month and every year. You may pray and hope somebody somewhere will provide for you (government or whatever) but as far as I can see, inflation comes for everybody eventually. It's a Gian game of chicken and race that tends to explode.

That doesn't mean that we can't and shouldn't have discussion what level of inflation may be "good", given myriad conflicting and contradictory goals and consequences and timelines. Deflation is bad for other reasons.
I’m absolutely with you on that. The phenomenon itself is interesting and worth discussing, but that term is just so unpalatable. Also, the term doesn’t really capture the meaning well. Ideally the word would semantically suggest the user-hostile and total capture of value, rather than just the process of becoming unpleasant.
So what? Silence is violence and silence is consent. Representatives do get and tally these emails. We must be brave.
Likewise, what a sad state of affairs that mobile-device users should have to add custom CSS to a given page to use it properly.
I use Kiwi Browser on Android. It's a custom build of Chromium with extension support. I install Stylus and write some CSS to fix anything that bothers me.
>It's a good use of gov funds to minimize risks of productization for the private sector, to give them a competitive leg up.

It's a good use to spend public funds to boost private profit?

Well it certainly is a good use, but only for one of those parties.
> The same works for binary and the two's complement, where it is even easier, because calculating the two's complement is equal to inverting all digits and adding 1.

It’s the same in base 10, if by inverting a digit x you mean replacing it by 9-x.
Yep. As I stated, you can falsify an event happening later than it really did by prerecording and only uploading later, but you can't fake that it happened after uploading. With clever cross-referencing, it might even be possible to prove decisively when the file was created.
> Have you spoken about your concerns with your congresspersons & asked them to support bans on risky gain-of-function research? That'd be something tangible you could do than just speculating on top of speculation.

US law already bans US funding of gain-of-function research.
Talent is not universal though. A great product/team/workplace can turn unmotivated middling knowledge people into heroes. Not only is massively more worth to raise talent in-house, heterogenous teams are way more healthy. Early Googlers wrote litanies on this.

They can pay it, it sounds good for investors/general public, but if you take away the brand/hype fapping on "we only have the best" would sounds like a red flag to an experienced engineer.
Many archaic forms are still perfectly valid English, and some of them don't even seem all that odd. Modern English Usage is always changing, though, and unless you're writing period-appropriate dialog, it's best to avoid archaisms.
> my papers and effects

Nice nod to the "forgotten amendment".
He is almost certainly parsing his words very carefully when he says "We are not currently training GPT-5", he means that they are not currently feeding training data into a foundation model.

He has clearly said, though, that they are working towards the moment when they do start, and they hope to have something really remarkable to show for it.
Do you mean why they don't let it die?
That’s a bit of a stretch..
Your comment doesn't seem to be related to "Inheritance" at all but merely a opinion drawn from your anecdotal experience and hence not generalizable. As a counter-point i have read/written my fair share of hairy OO-code (mostly C++) and i can assure you that while it was a-lot-of-work sometimes (due to the complexity of the codebase itself) it was never "throw-up-my-hands" difficult once i applied some system and method. I hardly ever use a debugger but use tools like Doxygen/Cflow/cscope/etc. to get the static view of class hierarchy/call graph and profiler/printf trace/etc. to get the runtime dynamic call graph. These give me enough insight into the architecture to become productive.

It is also a fact that OOD/OOP has been a enormous success in the real world in structuring "Frameworks" which give you a generic driver skeleton application for free into which you plugin your application specific code using (you guessed it!) "Interface/Implementation Inheritance".

Finally i recommended Bertrand Meyer's OOSC2 book because nobody explains OOD/OOP better then him in a thorough and precise manner which clears almost all of one's doubts.
Just imagine all the coffins / mass burials during COVID and times that by thousands. Must have devastated whole communities and scared them for life.
America: where you get shot picking up someone else's dog's poop.
Another comment implements what you describe using some crazy typing tricks.

=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458653
They don't run the place, and they simply keep it propped up as a proxy defense against the "Western" South Korea.
Large projects have overwhelmingly been written in statically typed languages throughout the entire history of our industry. Large projects in Javascript is a comparatively recent development, in that context the rise of Typescript is completely understandable.
The link between the thunderstorms and Jupiter is theoretical, but our having conscious experience is directly given.

The fact that something for which, unlike phlogiston or the Aether, we have direct incontrovertible evidence (denial of which evidence puts one on pain of having to justify one's own sanity and fitness for discourse), has yet so eluded definition in strict functional / scientific terms, points more to the likelihood we're suffering from some collective conceptual confusion, afaics.

Rather than consciousness being a primitive pre-scientific intellectual construct, perhaps our current scientific / functional ontology will later be regarded as pre-X, where X is the name for whatever resolution of the aforementioned conceptual confusion we achieve such that it allows us to integrate the fact of consciousness into a unified rational account of the universe.
In this case, there was no sign, only a rule. The sign was made up by the gp along with a bunch of other contextual details.
Not directly funded by tax payers… the exceptional tax breaks that oil companies have received from our shat government are astronomical.
Regulations are rules, this is a formalized incentive structure. They're a tad different.

Regulation is good to a degree; there's a balance to strike between overly burdensome regulation and regulation which basically may as well not exist. The lines between these are sometimes vague as the times evolve and are also subject to regulatory capture by interest groups (political groups and companies).

The incentive structure generally makes spending money free or more free so long as an entity abides by the guidelines set out by the incentive.

You need both and both need to reflect the correct goals for the times.
If you've ever played Mario Kart, the first thing you might notice is how much fun it is - it's pretty much the only game that gets me excited to play with friends in a long time. Another aspect that you'll figure out is that it has mechanisms to assist you when you fall behind (you tend to get much better item drops) and aspects to prevent anyone from getting too far ahead (the dreaded "Blue Shell" that rockets to the player in the lead and nearly unavoidably targets them to slow them enough to usually lose a few slots). It certainly makes for an engaging game when it has mechanisms to keep the race competitive.
This is why Sam wants regulation.

All this money spent, yet if the open source world can catch up, it'll all be for naught.

They need a world where everyone sits atop OpenAI, not a thousand different startups with their own models.

OpenAI might pay its engineers $900k, but an AI startup founder can easily get to a $5M, $10M valuation in under a year.
> If we ask a lawyer they will probably cite precedence […] interpretation of the legal framework is already not how the legal institutions see it.

Well, now this is an entirely different discussion, and FYI "precedence" is only a thing in half of the world's legal systems. Specifically, the common law (English) half. The other half, civil law (French) based systems, have no concept of "precedence"; verdicts from other courts have absolutely no law-like meaning. For every case and every judge, they are supposed to find the correct, applicable meaning of the laws as written by the legislative.

Personally speaking, I find the "precedence" approach taken by English / Common Law incredibly silly — and actively harmful, it intermixes two branches of power (legislative & judicative) that should be 100% separated. Judges' interpretative rulings should not have (almost) the same effect as the legislative passing a law.

(Google "Common Law vs Civil Law" for more info.)

Anyway the original argument was that you could apply some license-like terms onto spam mails, and for that — no, you very much can't. The situation for AI is, to my knowledge, still very muddy at this point.
"You agreed with the majority. 18%. <Confusing insufficiently explained chart.>"

That could have been presented better. Is it trying to tell me the majority of people are "wrong"?
Ah, YMMV. I don't do any graphics/precise movement - mostly coding/shell/typing) and in this case trackpad is simply excellent - movement is precise and it's perfectly handy/accessible.
Unless you have at least $10k of liquid savings, you're one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. I have great employer sponsored healthcare and still had to pay around $1k for a kidney ultrasound that didn't find anything and a 30 minute zoom call with my PCP.
Wagner Group forces said to be advancing towards Moscow
>In an ever inflating economy, why 'save' when you can do literally the same thing by taking a loan, getting the thing now and paying for it over time?

Because you cant get a loan. Lending is much more risky if the borrower doesn't have a down payment and their current income is meaningless in comparison to the loan interest compounded over 10-30 years.

Edit: another fact to consider is that in an economy where your only option is to borrow, you pay a premium to the lender and have no option
What I find more interesting is this:

A sole proprietor landscaper making $45-50K a year in California is paying $675 a year in annual registration fees just to keep his newish pickup truck on the road. Why newish? Because the people he's servicing trust a guy with a nicer work vehicle than a beaten down 30 year old Tacoma.

A $900k developer with the same pickup is also paying $675 a year.

Extrapolate this seemingly trivial example across literally EVERYTHING in life.
No even on a highly paid team of engineers making 250-400k, half of them are actively producing technical debt. One good engineer can replace 2, and then leave the code base simpler and more maintainable.
At least the movie's title is grammatically correct.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36460680
What are the hurdles?

Not every first-tier (economically speaking) European or Asian country has a first-rate medical system but I think there are enough, so it must be logistics
or legal issues?

Japan and South Korea come to
mind for Asia. I’m guessing Germany and France still have first-rate care in Europe?
For text-to-image models there are currently two major lawsuits because they were trained on copyrighted pictures. I'm not aware of any such lawsuits for text, but in terms of copyright, text isn't very different from images.
Good analysis.

> 5. Hardware accelerated GUI initiation vs 'dump everything to frame buffer in kernel GUI32 library'

Even on my fast workstation, this seems to account for most of the percieved startup latency in modern, well-written GUI applications. The Nvidia drivers seem to do this stupid signature check every time a d3d11 device is created..
I did use a lot of gestures (especially in browsers, Opera from 10-15 years ago?) but with trackpad you have virtually the same? Single tap=left click, two-fingers tap = right click, cmd+tap = middle click. Two fingers swipe left/right = navigate forward/backward?
Sailing Faster Than the Wind – How Is That Even Possible? [video]
Now the problem is how to get into this kind of companies. Is LC hard mandatory for junior-senior (below lead) IC job?
Indeed, imagine a world in which something much closer to bare, structured content was delivered and the user agent decided how to present it.
I'm also building an Anki clone (sigh) that I'm calling "Github for flashcards".

>A free, open source, local-first, spaced repetition system that works offline, has p2p syncing, plugins, and first class support for collaboration.

https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive

Very much a WIP, completely unusable, but I recently made a video demoing the technical proof of concept. I plan on it being more or less Anki-compatible though, so there'll be cloze deletions, note types, etc.
Hmm I’ve worked at “elite” startups and “elite” big cos, all jobs of which I’ve gotten by directly applying. At several points have exceeded 7 figures too.
Sorry to be perhaps slightly rude, but you don't seem to have added anything other than saying the same thing as the person you replied to?
> With basic needs covered, people work on stuff that they care about personally regardless of how much or how little it earns them.

They also do nothing. Or go on vacations. There's a very small group of people (on a percentage basis) who develop enough drive and passion to work on FOSS at the level of domain expertise and dedication necessary to get anywhere.

It is important to make a distinction between developers who devote a non-trivial amount of time to FOSS and those who might scratch an itch once or twice in a codebase, never to be heard from again. While all contributions are valuable, GitHub is full of stagnating projects where occasional contributions from random developers simply isn't enough to keep them going.

Look at real active projects and you'll discover that the number of dedicated developers devoting the kind of time and effort necessary to sustain and drive the project forward can often be counted with one or two hands. That is evidence enough of what I am saying.

Why?

Well, there are millions of qualified software developers around the world who cover every domain in software development. I think we can agree that most of them have their basic needs covered. And yet, you don't see millions of developers flocking to work on FOSS.

Why is that?

Because the scenario you paint, for the most part, does not align with reality at scale.

The number of people who, as you say, "work on stuff that they care about personally regardless of how much or how little it earns them" is very, very small, a rounding error. You can't get very far on a FOSS project --particularly if measured across years-- without a very small core group that does all al heavy lifting.

BTW, the fact that FOSS can thrive with just a handful of developers driving a project and little random contributions from others here and there is fantastic. The ecosystem work very well and there's plenty of evidence to show this to be true.

My only point is that we should not pretend that millions of people will flock to FOSS if their basic needs are met. This sounds like one of those universal basic income arguments. And it simply isn't true. People don't function that way. If their basic needs are met, the last thing most people would do is sit in front of a computer for ten hours a day to write code for free.
Indeed. And unfortunately, unmoderated and less moderated subcultures have this in spades.

It's also why I chose to link to the ADL in this description, rather than other meme sites. It provides the much needed context that the initial linked picture was done in the 1990s, by "A. Whytt Mann".

Naturally, the Ferenghis were made as a personification of the worst that capitalism has to offer. However, the caricature itself of the Ferenghi turned into something quite terrible indeed.

And as some have said here and claimed of me, this isn't my antisemitism showing. In fact, scholars have mirrored my own thoughts:

> In his 2007 critique of The Next Generation for the National Review, the commentator Jonah Goldberg described the Ferengi as "runaway capitalists with bullwhips who looked like a mix between Nazi caricatures of Jews and the original Nosferatu."[28] The scholar of religion Ross S. Kraemer wrote that "Ferengi religion seems almost a parody, perhaps of traditional Judaism."[25] He wrote that the 285 Rules of Acquisition bore similarities with the 613 Commandments of Judaism and that the Ferengi social restrictions on women mirrored Orthodox Judaism's restrictions on women studying the Torah.[25] Historian Paul Sturtevant wrote in 2018 that not only are the Ferengi "extremely legalistic" and "defined by their greed", echoing common stereotypes of Jews, but the major Ferengi characters on Deep Space Nine were all played by Jewish actors.[29]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

And the 285 rules of acquisition vs 613 commandments ties back to the main article, since I like to keep tying back in.

That just seems to be way too many "coincidences" for me to be comfortable with.
If you are on android, try glider, a 3rd party client from the Play store.
The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo
Sure but why does TypeScript have to be even less graceful than C# which is arguable the Gold Standard of static typing?

It's simply a hurdle rather than a blessing all too often.

No issues with C# however.

I use C# as comparison as it comes from the same house and was arguable used as inspiration for TS.
Bélády's Anomaly Doesn't Happen Often
I did not meant it in terms of coordination or someone giving orders to someone else.
We can move food around. Famines historically tended to be regional; bad climate, or natural or man-made disaster, devastating food production in an area. Before the 19th century moving enough food from another region, or even from another continent to address that local shortfall, was much more challenging.

If the 1930s American dustbowl had happened to a densely populated non-industrial society, it would probably have been one of the worst famines in history. Agricultural yields fell by like 50% for several years in the affected region. But they just brought in food from California and Saskatchewan. It was still a disaster, of course.

The Russian famine of 1921 was one of the first times industrial societies really mobilized in that way. At the peak grain grown in the USA and donated to the USSR was feeding about 1 in 10 Russians during the famine. One of the largest logistics operations in history up to that point. It's why Herbert Hoover was nominated for the Nobel peace prize five times.
Has there been any famous industrialized capitalist countries during famines? I'm curious how they fared.
There is this thing called "copyright".
The [dead] comment replying to you doesn’t seem to understand that “Staff Engineer” is not typically the same as “Member of the Technical Staff.” Not sure why they had to express that misunderstanding in such a tone. Usually it’s better to approach a situation with curiosity when you don’t know what you’re talking about, rather than anger.
The article says those Chinese imports have largely dried up though
Nothing is free. Even where health care is extremely generously subsidized, there are tradeoffs. People over certain ages or in various categories are refused services, including life-saving ones like dialysis. Many of them pay to go to American hospitals for treatment.

Ultimately, the supply of healthcare is increasing, but still finite. The demand for healthcare is unlimited.
Verified Links make it so if the official YouTube app is installed and enabled, other apps won't be launched for the same URL patterns with a simple ACTION_VIEW intent.
An example of over-engineering?
Seems like there should just be a fastmath mode that doesn't consider it UB. IIUC most of the gains come from being able to assume addition, multiplication etc are associative and commutative.
> matches the intent of the sign

GGP made up the sign. The instructions describe a rule, not a sign.
It's too bad about their outdated stance on remote work. They could pay $2m and many of the best engineers still wouldn't consider working there on that point alone.
No it was seemingly not related to Dominion. Tucker wanted to interview Putin. His emails to someone in Kremlin trying to arrange it were intercepted. Then messages he was sending through Signal were also read. Somebody who knew him in the government warned him that he was under surveillance and knew what he was sending. He has explained this in various interviews. Whatever you might think of his views, he is pretty honest and would not be making it up.
The fact that countries like Venezuela struggle to feed their own people in the modern era, during the time of greatest abundance and production, while the bulk of the world figured out food production/trade a century ago really blows my mind. Not sure how people tolerate that sort of thing and still pretend the economic system is a good idea. Or hand wave it away that it's all some foreign conspiracy.

Iran is sanctioned, CIA works against them, etc too but they still managed to feed their people over the last decade plus (ignoring the recent global food crisis).

Edit: the Iran analogy might have been a poor choice, they recently enacted Venezuelan style price controls. Idk why governments think they can make things cheaper simply by just saying "this is now the new price and you can't change it".

> The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran began direct payments in the form of cash subsidies to Iran's public instead, with the government deploying an electronic coupon system as a form of price control to prevent price gouging in place of the import subsidies.

> Despite Raisi promising that "prices on wheat, medicine, and petrol will not increase in any circumstances", the price of some food products rose by over 300%.

Price controls always amplify existing supply issues and are used as short-term Bandaids to mask more fundamental issues.

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2019/01/iran-inflation-...
Open Source isn't sustainable anymore [video]
OSI made that argument https://blog.opensource.org/the-importance-of-open-source-ai...
Show HN: TEG, a linguistic game powered by large language models
TEG is created using OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 model for similarity calculation and DALLE-2 for visual clue generation.
wouldn't there also be +/-/+/+ for negative space dimention?
I got 11 when I did all the questions

18 when I stopped after just the first 7 questions