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“Until last year” is technically correct but not really accurate. Lifetimes were made non-lexical in 2018, but only for Rust 2018 code and newer. Last year is when they were made non-lexical for 2015 code as well. For the vast majority of Rust developers, lifetimes have been non-lexical for five years now.
None of them were highly upvoted or commented, though.
The apps discussed in the article do not allow cashing out. Sorry to hear about your friend’s difficulties.
There is a thing called voting and companies in US should be wary of antagonizing people too far. Outsourcing isn't some constitutional right. Or they can move their company and headquarters overseas too.
I agree that all sides in every argument tend to twist language, statistics, the truth to their own ends. Nevertheless is there not a meaningful distinction between crime that involved physical violence to a person and crime that did not? And could we not endeavor to identify that distinction and use it to improve policy?
Just think of it as the banks buying the shares with limited upside.
Flipping the question around, what exactly are you worried they will do?

I'm on your "side" on this in that I dislike closed ecosystems, spyware and not having control over my own devices. But I am not in tech and the vast majority of people I know don't care about this and likely never will, and every year that goes by without Apple remotely bricking their phone with no recourse only strengthens their apathy.

Trust doesn't have to be unqualified. You can accept that Apple's incentives don't align perfectly with yours while being comfortable that they align enough that Apple will provide you with the service you're looking for.

"The user controls the program or the program controls the user" is a false dichotomy to people who spend most of their time in the real world.
> Take black box binaries, for example: tarballs of pre-built blobs, sans source code, that you “just” have to unpack and run. Nix inherently doesn’t play well with these, and that can make certain things harder to do (see: games).

Sounds like it might be by design, source-unavailable software being a ticking bomb among other issues ?

(Games get their source code lost too, and it also sucks when that happens.)
Setting aside how fucked up eugenics is for a second.

If there was only one axis to a person, maybe.

But just because someone has a gene that makes them more likely to be an addict doesn’t mean that they have no good traits.

More generally, just because someone doesn’t have entirely perfect genes, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have offspring.
Why do you have no curiosity when presented with a phenomenon that doesn’t make sense to you?
Could you explain your comment about the $100 note?

A quick peek at the Fed suggests there are more $100 bills in circulation than $1s:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircv...
Hey,

I've wrote a few books (https://kerkour.com/books) with only markdown, https://excalidraw.com and https://figma.com

I've detailed my complete setup and shared the Dockerfile that I use to convert the markdown into ebooks (EPUB, PDF and Kindle) on my blog: https://kerkour.com/book-self-publishing-pandoc
For me, yeah, I might have the self control, but I also live in a society. What other people do affects me. For example, I don't want the people with an alcohol problem to have unlimited access to alcohol. I drive on the same roads as them.
One aspect is the work you do and what it pays. If you're in the right industry, you can become wealthy (being in top 5-10% or less of the population) working a normal job.

On the other hand, if you're in a industry that pays very little, then no matter how much you work, you're not going to make it. And probably you're going to make if you decide to become an entrepreneur and get a piece of the pie. But it doesn't work for all and the only thing you can do is to switch industries if you can.

And these days I think the inequalities are greater due to rampant inflation that makes everyone poorer (considering only money earned) and though in percentage terms it is the same for everyone, it hits the lowest earners the most.

The thing is that in a free market I don't know how this can be solved.
>With respect, I do not see why FBI crime statistics are considered racist. It is because it is a part of the US government?

Because this data requires serious, responsible and honest engagement, and it's tempting to use it to confirm biases.

Allow me to make a parallelism stepping aside from controversial topics. Imagine we had graphs of discovered vulnerabilities in closed source and open source software. It wouldn't surprise me if the amount of vulnerabilities discovered in open source software was way higher than those of closed source software. At first glance this may paint a terrible picture of open source, yet, if you actually engage with the subject, you would find out that the reason as to why this happens is that those vulnerabilities are found out, while they stay hidden in closed source. Yet anyone not willing to dig in that deep could point out and claim "See? Open software is terrible!"

In the same way, you can look at crime statistics by race and claim that black people in the US are terrible. This requires ignoring socioeconomic status and a whole lot of other factors, but it's really easy to ignore those and it's really easy to just point at a graph.

The data is not the problem. The way people engage with the data might very well be, this is a complex and delicate matter and it is my hope it can be dealt with in the way it deserves.

...Not that it has to be dealt with here, really, the website is pretty damn nice.
Change probably wouldn’t be so annoying if there were more to use it on, like how there used to be with 25¢ vending machines and such. These days you need a whole handful to buy anything and who wants to be the person holding up checkout lines counting out coins?
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I think the bigger thing that’s overlooked is that nearly every item today is priced assuming the 3% fee from credit cards.

So by not using a credit card, you’re not getting the 3% cash back (or rewards equivalent) and therefore paying more.

There are a handful of places that offer a discount if you pay with cash (or rather a fee if you pay with a card) in order to make these fees clear to the buyer, but it’s becoming rare. Usually gov websites like DMV or mom/pop shops.
Privacy aside, one thing people forget about paying with cash is that you're also not giving middle men a cut of your transaction.
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Privacy Badger dev here. Either extension is "enough" but there is value in using them together. More: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
That's a fairly unempathetic view. I don't know what it's like to be a gambler, but I do know that anyone who thinks they are completely rational is only fooling themselves. We are emotional animals with a tiny rational voice that can only shunt our emotions in a better direction.
Not really. Offshoring and outsourcing jobs has been a threat since the early 2000s and has never really manifested the way people claimed it would. High paying jobs are still here.

And if it ever did become a serious threat, we could just resort to blatant racism and stereotyping against foreign workers and that is enough to kick the can down the road a bit longer. Many companies simply will not hire offshore Indians because they believe they do inferior work compared to Americans, and Chinese are corporate spies/leakers.
Thank you for sharing your story. It's wonderful that you want to pay your fortunes forward.

I don't think they work directly in prisons and jails, but https://www.underdogdevs.org/ is a group that works to train formerly incarcerated people in software and tech. They built mentee/mentor relationships between professional development and those wanting to learn.
If a country has the capability to "lock down ports", they're probably shipping ports - do you think Australia is just suddenly going to (or has the capability to) block all IP traffic on certain ports? A notable exception is China.
The article is less about Apple's grotesque restrictions on what you can do with your hardware via software (e.g., no emulators, etc.) and instead about Apple's grotesque restrictions regarding the parts you can use to fix your phone.

I don't think too many people want the restaurant to have a say on what side they make to go with their leftovers from the previous day.
Substantially more work.

However, what people do not realize about these "toolkit ports", whether within a family (GTK 3->4) or across them (Qt -> GTK), is that the reason they take so long is that it is almost impossible, when having to go through the vast majority of the codebase and change stuff everywhere, to avoid the realization and/or temptation that there are better (or at least different) ways to do things.

If you could suppress that inclination (and its not clear that doing so is a good idea), and simply do as close to a 1:1 replacement where required (which for cross-family ports is everywhere), the port could be a lot faster. But it is extremely hard to resist that, because the non 1:1 replacement stuff just appears so right.
No because you make the models conservative. In the link marcan mentions they will improve performance over time (presumably partly by making the models less conservative) and are "shipping with a hard volume reduction limit of -7dBFS to catch potential bugs or misbehavior."
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In the US, not having a credit card is horrible financial advice.

You're paying an additional 3% on all transactions, as that's the standard credit card processing fee.

You're also failing to build up your credit score, which is pretty important if you're ever looking to rent or buy a home.
They have the economic ability to do so but China also imports a lot of critical things, such as clean water and animal feed, that it doesn't really have the capacity for at home.

There's a lot of tit-for-tat actions that the US (or the global West, for that matter) could take that would cripple China socially. A bunch of starving, young, educated men with no job prospects and no family prospects is the CCP's nightmare scenario. That sort of thing generally leads to revolutions.

The problem is that both actors have some serious leverage, and either side using that leverage in a serious, combative manner would harm the both the aggressor and the recipient. Nobody wants that.
These are all reasonable mitigation steps. The issue for me is that this major flaw wasn't noticed during construction - or if it was, passed the bar of "we only care about the first 2 years of use".

Say what you will about Microsoft, but the reason MS software grew so much bloat in its OSes was the impossible backwards compatibility required for each new version. It would have been much, much easier to force upgrades along the way but they made backwards-compatibility an unshakeable requirement at the time.

I think Apple doesn't maliciously force users to upgrade, it simple doesn't put any focus on long term support for its older products. That's always been in the DNA of the company and its products and a major reason for many of their sales.
I think what would happen is people would get their phone repaired by the sketchy corner store guy, ignore the warning (which would presumably only pop up after they'd gotten the non-approved part installed) and then some time later when their photos/emails/bank balance was accessed they'd go back to Apple to demand an explanation.
Yes, this seems pretty obvious to me. The reason SV salaries are so high is in large part because of the high local costs of the Bay Area. I wouldn’t expect those to remain super inflated as remote work continues to spread and become more viable.
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>Banana Republic will give you a CC for 20% off purchases

*first purchase
This is infinitely dumb. We’re burning carbon to pull some out of the atmosphere… the energy used to power this plant would be better spent just powering the grid and would have an actual positive impact.

People are literally celebrating a net positive carbon activity like they’ve accomplished something.
You are a brave soul. I can't bring myself to share my pathetic early teenage exploits on Usenet. Hexen was awesome though. :-)
Every time Oberon comes up, I wonder how it would have done if it had had a "normal" graphical interface, and some aesthetically minded person such as Keith Ohlfs or Susan Kare to make it attractive by the standards of the average user/developer.
If the only value you provide to your employer is that you're physically present for a job that _can_ be done remotely you are close to being offshored anyways.
Is it a net benefit for society for folks to lose out on all their assets and money for the sake of gambling?

This is generational wealth that gets lost in gambling. It is the responsibility of a strong society to prevent scams, and to protect people from very damaging forms of manipulation.
I don't remember the terms, really. The point is, you're just leaving money on the table with offers like these, if you don't take them.
CCP will start a war just to give those guys something to do.

It's all explained in Dead Kennedy's excellent "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round"
Funny that this comment was made by yet another Hamlet character
What I'm seeing in this thread is that OpenAI is actually diminishing the appetite for AGI, or muddying the waters in terms of what AGI even means. Most of the commenters here, as knowledge workers, should be well aware of the value real AGI would bring to the table (assuming, of course, that it is more cost effective than hiring a real human -- even if it's quite cheap, humans may be cheaper in some parts of the world -- not that I condone such inequity).

Nevertheless, regardless of whether OpenAI is close to AGI (I don't think so) or what value LLMs bring to the table (definitely non-zero), the problem is that LLMs are being increasingly commoditized and no one has a real moat here. I think that's why these firms are so desperate to kickstart regulations and are trying so hard to somehow pull the ladder up behind them.

OpenAIs fears don't come from "no one understands LLMs", but rather, that too many people do, and that large models have already fallen into the hands of the community who can do more with it in a week than OpenAI can hope to do in a year. Ever larger models might be out of the reach of the public, but real world value is more likely to come from a well prepared, smaller model (cf. vicuna) that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run inference with -- and building these is cheaper than most might think.

If I had to point to a company and call it as a market leader here, I would point to Meta, not OpenAI. Meta has a huge workforce working for free on its model, after all, and they have made progress at a rate that bigtech cannot match in their wildest dreams.

There are also far too many eyeballs on this, in my opinion. For a company to truly dominate a market it needs a bit of air cover for a while building what will eventually be its moat.
Pixelated space invaders imagined as generative fractal:

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfrac...
> even in wars with heavy and broad destruction there wasn't a collapse of civilization

This is something that has puzzled me before. Like when I'm reading about the destruction in Ukraine, the active targeting of their electrical grid by Russian airstrikes, in juxtaposition with stories and photos in which it seems that day-to-day life for much of Ukraine is much closer to "normal" than "collapse of civilization."

To be clear, I don't mean to downplay what has happened there, or suggest that everything is fine. I'm just surprised by the apparent robustness of the infrastructure, civilization, etc.
PUR-coated copper wire, .15mm diameter is pretty good. .1mm when needed. Use flux, good lightning and some (~10x) magnification.
I go to high end restaurants, the Michelin being the only north star I rely on in the day and age of fake reviews and terrible average consumer taste.

Sure, I want the restaurant to control the initial offer, and at this price I expect it to be amazing.

But I guarantee that at this price range, they will let me do what I want with my food.

I can bring my own bottle of ketchup and put it on it. They will look disgusted, but I can.

In fact, as a vegetarian, it's not rare I ask them to adapt their ENTIRE menu just for little me. And they do it.

So the comparison does not hold.

But I get your point, a lot of people do want Apple to tell them how they should use their device.

That's something that is hard to swallow when you like FOSS, but it's a reality.
> And trading out that security system is not an option.

Why not? iPhones are premium tech-fashion items that attract criminals due to their value. Apple is trying to negate the value of the stolen item through DRM, but it seems perfectly reasonable for someone to say "the solution is worse than the problem", and opt to buy devices that don't implement hardware DRM on e.g. their screens.

> so far the amount of realistic and effective solutions are NONE.

I'm not sure this is true...I've travelled a fair bit, and my approach to managing theft of my belongings is to limit the value of what I carry. This both limits the incentive for criminals (a $30 Tracphone is much less interesting than a $1000 iPhone) and limits the damage/cost-to-recover in the case of theft.
As far as I know, Graydon hasn’t been working on Swift for a few years now.
This was my first thought too. The reliance on shipping and the resulting emissions.

It wouldn't surprise me if the huge cargo ships produced more emissions than cars globally.
It would be, but there is no incentive to solve it. If anything, the move is toward outsourcing and centralizing inventory and payment systems meaning that if the provider goes out, multiple stores, even disparate chains may be affected.
> 10GB is hardly enough. Once you import Pandas you’re on the limit. You can forget Pandas and scipy at the same Lambda.

This sounds way off to me. 10 GB to install a Python library?
What I always guessed: if you don't want to bite the bullet of trusting SRE scripters (with an s) to the role of building the CD that actually makes sense for your use case, why do you expect some random company will have more of your interest at heart? At least with Joe's python deployment scripts, Jane can do a code review. So much of cloud CI/CD lingo translates to "believe in magic, and also our bigness-based authority" when actually proper software deploys itself properly without making a fuss or glueing your fingers with sticky Yaml...
We don’t actually know that addiction is genetic or that eugenics is effective in preventing mental illnesses like addiction. Recall that Germany killed all their schizophrenics in the holocaust, but just a generation or two later Germany has just as many schizophrenics as anyone else.

Edited to add: addiction also generally shows up later in life. For example a mother of two is prescribed pain medication and becomes addicted. Should her children, who have no presentation of addiction, also be forcibly sterilized along with her? Or a grandmother, should all of her normally functioning adult children and grandchildren be forcibly sterilized since she’s already hit menopause? This is an ultimately shortsighted view garnered only by ignorant understandings of societal wide illnesses.
I've been migrating some Workflows to dagger.io. So far it's amazing.
This are the reasons I don't use GitHub actions. I don't want to add another hard dependency into my development environment and testing actions looks like a very slow feedback loop, very time consuming.
To add to your point, these are companies with the ability to spend millions to get research done on the most efficient way to manipulate people.

This isn’t just gambler vs some other person.

This is one person against a resource pool worth millions of dollars. No individual in aggregate has a chance against that.
You would be correct if we could simply declare drugs illegal and then they all just vanish. But that's not how it works unfortunately.
It's a proof of concept for how it could do more complicated tasks
Are you perchance listening on laptop speakers?

With real speakers or headphones the difference is extremely striking.
> Nah, it's not.

It’s what I’d expect, because that’s how most markets look to me—pay in time, overpay in money, or probably get crap—but perhaps experiences vary.
Another tip that took me longer than I wished to figure out.

Use CUDA, vice graphics APIs+compute. The latter (Vulkan compute etc) is high friction. CUDA is far easier to write in, and the resulting code is easier to maintain and update.
what's the phenomenon? how dumb and gullible the average person is?

> We lie in bed next to each other, we have two tablets, two phones and a computer and all these apps spinning Reel Rivals at the same time

am i supposed to feel bad?
We did, but if you don't live in a big city that might mean quite a drive to reach.

> Using cash was a challenge.

Uh? Where did they not accept cash?

> 7-day public transit pass

This doesn't exist in every city. We don't have it for example.
So if you win, you can't cash out?
that is not nearly enough. You need to make sure the system still works after the update, so you need to carefully control all the versions that go in, test them in lower environments. Also, for any serious application, you will need to do this multiple times, for hundreds or thousands of machines even for small companies.

I am on your side, actually, I think managing machines is better than serverless, but it's not that easy.
But you still need to carry the contents in a truck from and to the port.
What you say is true, but mostly about the US government. Other governments seem to have much more state capacity.
Those circles still exist.
As someone who has used computers since the early '90s even if you take away speculative execution CPUs are still ridiculously fast. The problem is that people are doing very slow stuff on them (Python, Electron, layers upon layers of abstractions) and only getting away with it due to (sometimes) dangerous hacks.

Let's look at a random processor, like, say, the Intel Pentium G3420. A budget CPU released in December 2013 (coming up on its 10th birthday), it's a duo core CPU with a 3.2 GHz clock speed. Now I don't know what your usecase is, not many problems are nicely parallelizable, however at the scale we're talking it doesn't really matter that much. Because 3.2 billion instructions is a really big number. Now don't get me wrong, a million is also a quite sizable number; while 1 dollar won't even buy you a loaf of bread a million dollars will buy you a real fancy house, but a billion goes even beyond that. For example if you live to be 85 years old and from the moment you are born until the moment you pass away you do a thousand calculations per hour, every hour of the day, every day of every year, you will have done 750 million calculations. That's less than a quarter of what that ancient budget CPU does _per second_.

Unfortunately some people, when given access to such power, have a tendency to abuse it. And that's what leads us to things like a chat app taking 9 seconds to launch.
Trade is a relatively low percentage of gdp for the USA, which I imagine would make it more resilient to a trade war than China. See link below: ratios of 25% and 38%, resp.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ranking/trade-gdp-rati...