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I don't really think you're correct. It is appropriate to call it not capitalism. Because that's what's happening. Capital is not controlling the means of production. Perhaps algo-ism or something.

Firstly, there is nothing super special about most of these platforms that would make them difficult to reproduce even with a small amount of capital.

Secondly, even with vast sums of capital you can't be assured of successfully pulling users away from an existing platform.

The point of capitalism is that efficiency is created by the flow of money directing the means of production.

Instead with the platforms directing things we see massive gameification of the systems and inefficient direction of production by the platform manipulating things to make the platform more money.

Ultimately the will of the consumer is being misdirected by subterfuge creating inefficient markets which are no longer being directed by capital and not capitalist.

The platforms all reach a point where they can't make more money by simply injecting more funds to be more productive. They can however make more money by actually being worse and extracting more value from their users though.
I find it fascinating that thirty years ago, the sort of "default" unit of paper currency was a $20 bill — like, ATMs never output tens or fifties, it was always twenties, so you'd probably have a few andrew jacksons in your pocket — but today that's still the go-to.

Walk into any convenience store and try to pay with a fifty dollar bill, you're lucky if they even take bills that large, they won't want to make change, they'll pull out a highlighter to make sure it's real. But it's only worth about twenty bucks to anyone who was around for Nirvana.
that doesn't seem that hard to find.[0] plenty of regions have fallen, it just isn't a consistent decline in most cases.

[0]:https://smartasset.com/data-studies/where-home-prices-fell-2...
> the often recommended "good practice" of separating storage and compute.

This gets me thinking... has developer conventional wisdom ever recommended binding things together? Or does it only ever recommend more separation, more abstraction?
That's because business in the EU, since inception, is mostly about securing the interests of the big European tech players, at the cost of the smaller ones. SAP, Siemens, etc.
Because I will get banned for life from Uber...
Thank you for your kind words! The original dream was indeed a "one box" approach, even when they scale horizontally and to the edge. Perhaps a more accurate depiction of this is a "unified interface".
They went around to every single village and town and asked them. The Doomsday book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book) is fascinating because of its thoroughness and completeness at such an early time.
How does that work? Do you tell them it's a credit card?
The very first thing that Buckley did in the public eye was to demand an intellectual safe space for people like him at Yale and for the professors he deemed too left wing and not sufficiently Christian to be fired.
> but today that's still the go-to.

I agree with you however I think this shows how poorly people understand inflation.

Inflation from 1993 -> 2023 is 113%

Slipping a waiter an extra $20 has 113% less meaning in 2023 than it did in 1993. You should be slipping a $40 lol
For what it's worth, there is still an official talking clock phone number one can call to get the time. I don't know how much latency POTS and cell phone service have, but it's something.

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standard...
I also miss the icons for drives showing up in the finder window sidebar. Now, all drives' icons are ignored and replaced by generic, OS-assigned icons. Rather than having a visual cue of what to click on, one must read the name. Seems trivial, but it sucks and I hate it.

A couple projects tried to keep the sidebar icons alive using mySIMBL (1) and later MacForge (2) but they've sadly all been abandoned. (I think.) They never really worked all that well, requiring finder-rebooting and various shenanigans to get them to run (if memory serves.)

(1) https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL
(2) https://github.com/MacEnhance/MacForge
Thanks! Definitely fascinating
Roughly 20% of the us is under 16, which makes your 17% go up to like 21%. Also that's still ignoring full-time students in treating housewives as unemployed.
I was at a restoraunt today and was curious what the sauce was made of. I took a photo of the dish and given the city I was in, gpt4 identified the name of the dish and all ingredients correctly, as I verified with the waiter afterwards.

Felt like magic.
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Restaurant and packaged food (e.g., cookies, frozen meals) prices up an average 30% since 2020 is what I usually think too, but I also think bargains have disappeared, which is probably harder to capture.

It feels like far fewer restaurants have lunch specials than in 2020, for instance, and a lot of cheap restaurants have either raised prices to the norm or closed. Bars and casinos having discounted or free food to get you to drink has gone out the window (even where legal). And looking back 20 years, it feels like far fewer restaurants have small and simple orders available.

For instance, you used to be able to go into a diner or other casual restaurant and get a hamburger or other sandwich with no fries or side. That’s harder to find now. So is cheap, unremarkable coffee and cheap breakfast items, like small pastries or two-egg plates.

Similarly, it’s harder to find a small car, a house or apartment without central air, a 15 inch TV (though TVs have gotten cheaper), etc.
You know what, I'd play that!

Give me a new Zork story, great font, great music, I'd be all over it.

Obviously you'd chose actions from a list due to the controller, but with progressive disclosure you wouldn't really feel like cheating the game.
For sure. Every bartender in my ’hood loves me because I'm the only person who tips more than a buck for a beer.
Do you think it's possible now?
this exists as a plugin for a popular MUD client (MUSHClient) already, it's pretty neat.
> got vaccines and boosters as soon as i could simply due to my political identification (i don't care about virus itself

Did you also have any reservations about the safety of the injections,
or just assumed it was safe?
Which of course there was no way of knowing.

Because if you had reservations about safety or anything else but still got it because of the value you saw in it as a “political marker” that is surprising to me.

What is the deal recently with “political markers?” The term itself seems to have even come into far more use recently. Why is it do you think that “political markers” have come to take such precedence for some people?
You’re describing human communication as “nothing special”, just a string of patterns that have no significance beyond their low entropy.

Frankly that’s solipsistic, bordering on pure nihilism. When I read another person’s writing or talk to them, it enriches my life because it gives me a slice of their experience. When I read LLM output, it just definitionally can’t do that, no matter how plausible and semantically meaningful the words are. What is the purpose of literature for you? Just consuming a pleasing string of words?

That’s not to say they have no value, just that I can’t learn anything about another person’s experience of life through an LLM, because they aren’t people
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That medical sparkline is so straight I could use it to level concrete.

Is this driven by some % annual increase policy?
Sorry if what I wrote was unclear, but I mean the back button in the spotify player. The buttons that are used to "rewind", "go to previous song", "skip song", etc.
How does this "law" apply to virus that evole a very short DNA to reproduce faster?
I believe they look at what people actually spend their money on to determine the basket of goods. All their data and methods are on the bls.gov website.
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“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”

Literally the cold opening of "On Bullshit".
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/hVJNqY9JlFI
I am aware of kdb, J and others in the space! Love their brevity and ingenuity.

As you rightly point out, the idea behind Omnigres is to make a lot of these concepts available broadly.
Very helpful, thank you for responding!! I do see one or two bioinformatics adjacent software positions at a nearby uni so I'll try applying there!

I did previously interview at a FHIR related place a few years ago, but it seemed to be quite far off from the medical or biological side of things, more about billing and administration.
Indeed.

Every time a special interest gets funded, everyone else holding that currency loses purchasing power.

The power to print money arbitrarily is (quite objectively) the to power to levy taxes without going through the democratic process.
Slashdot's summary covers it.

Two men from the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area scammed Uber Eats out of more than $1 million over 19 months, local police say.

The suspects carried out the scheme — which began in January 2022 — by creating fake accounts on the Uber Eats app to act as both the customer and courier when placing grocery orders, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. This worked because Uber Eats provides couriers with prepaid cards they can use to purchase up to $700 to complete customers' orders.

Police claim the suspects would show up as couriers for their fake grocery orders before canceling them and using the prepaid cards to purchase gift cards at the stores.

According to the sheriff's office, "On January 24, 2023, detectives conducted a surveillance operation and observed Morgan and Blackwood travel to 27 different Walgreens committing fraud that totaled a $5,013.28 loss for Uber that day. "
It deserves to be explored. A lot of research is just applying existing techniques to problems with a few tweaks and documenting the results.

I did not read the paper, but it could be that the authors find it is not effective.
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If it was done for social clout then we'd have seen the video circulating already. So it's probably not that.
Thanks. That's good to know.
Really, that's a real shame if it is. I havent been back the US since late 2014. I remember walking around Manhattan near Times Square I think, just exploring and seen so many signs for $1 slice of Pizza, I think it tad more with some sales tax thing applied when I had one, another breakfast time I got bagel with cream cheese from one of the vans I think near one of the big banks near wall street I think $1.50-$2.00. I was staying in a top-end hotel courtesy of a company I was interviewing with but unsure of expense policy I just got the food around and about myself and found it extremely cheap if you were a little careful. How much has this changed? My memory of facts could be a little off, but I always had US down for cheap plates of mountains of food, and takeaways that were next to nothing price wise.
“Putting in a 100%” is the exact opposite of what I’m recommending. You have to put in 0%, a friendship has to be effortless, something you don’t spend brain cycles on.

A key part of this is being reasonable and level headed and making friends with the same mindset.
Some ultranationalists would consider this behavior anti-Semitic
Over the past ~20+ years, the milk tea at NYC Chinese bakeries has gone from $1 to $1.10 to $1.25 to now $1.40.
I'm a software developer, I live in the concrete world.

To put it in layman's terms, LLMs are to software developers what power tools were for tradesmen.

Sure you can still use your old screw driver, and for some work, it's not worth getting your electric drill out; but it's a game changer.

Sometimes, the hype is justified. I believe at the OS layers, LLM support would make sense. It's full of old mental constructs and "I have to remember how to do this".
The article mentions these towards the end, it seems the light gun for Sega's Master System did the same.
This view is known as (or extremely closely aligned with) Monetarism, originally championed by Friedman. It was very popular at the time but when the velocity of money became more volatile in the following decades the assertion that the growth of the money supply is the only factor in inflation did not seem to hold which cast severe doubts on these types of claims, despite the simplicity of the argument.

I.e. that other methods of measuring inflation try to capture the advances in technology for a basket of goods is something done intentionally and not in error (or maliciously... by the majority of economists at least). Capturing this accurately is very difficult since quality can change, the basket of goods that makes sense to measure itself can change (what's a computer?), consumer behaviour can change, and so on. I don't think anyone has a perfect model but "ignore it all, just look at the money supply" didn't turn out to be a great model either. At the same time, in my understanding of most models (including the basket of goods CPI approach), monetary supply remains a key influence on the changes found in measurement.
Show HN: Chat with Zephyr 7B over voice message using whisper.cpp and llama.cpp
Just my small weekend project, experimenting with LLMs. I made a Discord bot that uses the Zephyr 7B model to reply, and whisper.cpp to transcribe voice messages into text. So you can send it voice messages and it replies.
It is possible it’s the end of an era and when an era ends another one begins. Maybe something good will come out of the ashes but it will take a while…
I too have noticed more silver in the penny tray lately. The other day it had to be close to $1 total including the 20 some odd pennies sitting there.
The Whataburger I got way-too-frequently for just under $6 in 2001 is like $10 bucks now.

MSRP of a 99 M3 = 46k; 2023 stating at $74300.

Outside of housing and gas I'm hard-pressed to think of anything that's more than double the cost. GPUs, I suppose, but that's a weird hobby transition + a lot more industrial uses.

That said, housing+gas == huge parts of people's day to day lives, obviously.
Mostly it's just that standup devolves into a non-useful transfer of what's happening.

If everyone is alone doing standup - and so often they rather are more alone than not - it illuminates how little the business groks itself. It defeats purpose when no one does a good job sharing yours.

Ideally we would have check-in points there meaningful exchange of what happened occurs.
My gut metric says it's a ~20% increase in perceived interpretation and output complexity, whatever that means exactly. But there are plenty of eval result aggregators out there.
Compounding is the 8th wonder in the world for this reason. It's amazing how in the span of a few decades how much prices have gone up. Except for clothes and electronics, everything seems to have gotten way more expensive compared to cpi. but even iPhones still cost a lot. The situation seems out of control for things like tuition .
in what ways have they not stood the test of time?

baldwin and his contemporaries were influential to the civil rights movement, which had a concrete impact on improving the nation.

> The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.

i don't think it was "the competition of ideas" that caused them to fizzle out. unless you consider state propaganda to be a part of that?

and i don't think it's fizzled out. the new left is the dominant mode of american leftism at the current moment in time.
Strava’s calorie estimation is awful.

Re-reading your post made me think: I bet this is intentional design -- overestimate number of calories burned. Then, people will tell their friends about this amazing device from Strava that burns an unreasonable number of calories...
What did you enjoy about reading it?

What was the plot?

Which characters leapt off the page, so real you could swear you met them last year?
It was the worst and the most embarassing of the "campus moral panic" texts.
Why did you leave Denmark? A job? University? That sounds like a terrible trade for quality of life, including raising a family.
If it's possible, Android support would be so so great because currently Android Firefox has absolutely zero tab management addon.
Economist here. Causal inference is more alive than never, in Economics at least. A publication in an applied top journal practically has to use causal methods.

The DID literature, for instance, has been expanding at the speed of light -- it has never been so hard to keep up as it is now.
All copyright is way too long but authors go completely off-piste at anyone who suggests that it should be something more reasonable (I kinda like 21 years myself).

Part of the issue is that the loudest voices are that 0.01% of authors whose work still has some commercial value decades after its creation.
Can German engineering solve the challenges of fusion?
> It hallucinated a lot

How do we (the "LLM community") solve this/overcome this?
The very first image highlighted on the front page is a topless woman [to hypothetically talk to?]. Should there be a NSFW warning somewhere?
No.

For library usage, yes.

When I want the code, yes.

For everything else, no, never impact my decision.
Sometimes the terminal will ask Debit or Credit, sometimes it will just prompt for a PIN (meaning it wants to run it as debit) and you can just hit OK and it will run it as credit instead.
So if prices for good A go up and people stop buying it then it is considered less in the calculation?

Seems a bit skewed to me.
I agree, back in the day I tried to setup Blackberry SDK on Eclipse and it was a miserable experience.
College tuition and health insurance :)
I've been meaning the finish return to zork for a while now. Tried to install it in scummvm with luck. I need to try it again so i can play in bed before going to sleep
>Can you imagine if Amazon allowed you to cancel your order after it shipped?

Yeah that's a return and theirs entire forums dedicated to return scamming.
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And that is why to have true capitalism Microsoft should have been broken up a long time back.
You mean a video recognition task.
But that stands in direct opposition with the claim

> Friends are extremely loyal to each other and you have to be able to trust that the other person will act in your best interest.

because you're trusting your friends will act with above 0% effort.

I actually expect a lot of my friends, and they expect a lot of me. I'm not talking financially, or anything like that. I mean I expect them to be invested in the friendship itself. I don't care to associate with people who don't see friendships as investments. Things to be nurtured, protected, grown and depended upon.

Many people are very OK with having such friendships but I am enough of an introvert that friendship has to give me some amount of value that is more than what I create for myself when left to my own devices. And that requires a level of commitment from myself well above 0%.
That sounds promising. So let’s say I only watch 2 creators judiciously. Will the share of my monthly membership distribute equally to them after the maintenance cut? Let’s say maintenance and google’s cut is 50%. Will the rest of 50 split evenly between the two creators? I genuinely want to understand that. Somehow I doubt google would keep their part of the deal and not put their hand into the honey. If they did keep their word they’re basically a utility and I would not mind paying for it, I would even encourage more to do it.
good gracious. I think this poem might be worse than the original.

Indirection, subtlety, and allusion are absolutely critical elements in poetry - maybe even fundamental.

There is not a hint of that in this autocompleted piece of dreck. It's more blatant than the terrible evangelical preaching-"poems" I used to see forwarded on AOL in my teens.
Which was always what anyone with any sense wanted. CSS selectors were a mistake, no-one actually writes web pages like the CSS Zen Garden nor should they. The only problem with inline styling was the verbosity (and even then, we've had transparent compression in HTTP for about 30 years now).
It doesn't have to go down to support an 85% average increase. An equal number at 50% in the Midwest cancels 110% increase in sf.
> when clearly oligopoly is the end game of unconstrained capitalism.

The trouble (or benefit) of unconstrained capitalism is that as soon as you do anything compelling, a thousand people will jump in to copy you. This makes establishment of an oligopoly highly unlikely.

We see oligopolies in our constrained environment because the artificial constraints (e.g. intellectual property laws) we apply help build 'moats', keeping those thousands away.
Forever is such a short, long time
> You have much more context about your environment- you know what you need to connect to, what needs to connect to you, and what ciphers, key length, and other configuration that you must support. Therefore if you take all that into account you might be able to optimize for security by disabling compatibility options you don’t need.

As long as that's what you actually do. If instead you want a checklist to blindly execute to "harden" your system, then the grandparent commenter is correct: either your can accept that your distribution's defaults are actually good enough, or you're removing functionality such that you'll find a hurdle you've left for yourself sooner or later.
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As a college professor the descriptions from ChatGPT remind me a lot of freshmen writing: they are often flailing around on extraneous details and have difficulty determining what is and isn't important.

It will be interesting to see how it improves.
When I opened my checking account at Bank of America I was issued a ordinary debit card. After a couple years they replaced it with one with a Visa logo. I argued with them on the phone long enough to get them to replace it with an ordinary debit card. After than one expired they did the same thing and I gave up. I haven't seen a debit card from any bank without visa or mc in a long time.
Those are usually subtitled.
The great flattening basically took away some of the best UI apple had.
Twain/Clemens was up there with Arthur Conan Doyle as the highlights of my childhood reading. I'll happily watch him take a stroll and puff a pipe, it's cool to see a historical figure I care about moving around in a real recording.
very similar to foam, isnt it?
My ATM is now trying to give out $50s unless I override it. It tries to find the fewest bills using $50s and $20s.
https://foambubble.github.io/foam/