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This is a really interesting perspective, and made me consider what pushed me to inflate my own prices (my salary) especially aggressively the last few years.

In 2020-2022 my input costs (housing, food) went up ~20%, so I also needed to increase the price of my labor. This means negotiating a promotion or switching jobs, which is a lot of effort. And since I'm putting in that effort anyways, I might as well optimize it and try to get every extra dime, which ended being more than a 20% increase.

In non-inflationary periods, it's not even worth the effort and stress to optimize my salary like this.

I imagine the same was true for a lot of businesses in the supply chain. If you're some SAAS company, raising prices 20% requires renegotiating contracts, dealing with angry clients, etc. So if you're going to do that anyways you might as well try to raise it even more.
Sorry I was originally quoting a deadlift number. There’s a typo in the post.
"Great"* explanation. That none of those highly-paid, very select heads of prestigious universities were able to give. Which should lead them to lose their jobs anyway.

*Being in Europe, we won't agree with the very low bar the US has for free speech - to us it's as absurd as the mad "right to bear arms" as applied in the US (note I am in Switzerland, which also allows to bear arms but... without the crazyness). But Popehat is a lawyer, he's not here to rewrite laws.
My editor would find at least two easter eggs in this hopefully intentional comment. But, excellent point. What is the premise the author is deploying on?
it will be nice, if this thread can be summarized into a book list. :-)
I setup a proxmox on a bare metal server to create development VMs. The solution that works for me is IPv6. Every VM that I create is publicly accessible, it's secured by a firewall and openssh public key only access. It's standards compatible, every smartphone and tablet has access, including chromebooks. Tailscale is not available on chromebooks.
If tailscale looks interesting for your use case, but you'd rather have a standards compliant solution, look into IPv6. From an engineering perspective, it's a much cleaner solution.
So you needn't do so: SEEK_HOLE does not occur in the GitHub.com repos for postgresql, mariadb, nor sqlite. Are there system libraries they incorporate which use SEEK_HOLE?
> The decision making llm has access to non-public data it will never share but will use.

Yes, if you've already solved prompt injection as this implies, using two LLMs, one of which applies the solution, will also solve prompt injection.

However, if you haven't solved prompt injection, you have to be concerned that the input to the first LLM will produce output to the second LLM that itself will contain a prompt injection that will cause the second LLM to share data that it should not.

> Running two llms can be expensive today but won't be tomorrow.

Running two LLMs doesn't solve prompt injection, though it might make it harder through security by obscurity, since any successful two-model injection needs to create the prompt injection targeting the second LLM in the output of the first.
Unfortunately computer memory, unlike your memory, is so easily wiped. Having the infrastructure in place to make sure it happens on the other hand, seems more like human memory.
Greener solution powers new method for lithium-ion battery recycling
> > finding that the egg suppliers had exported eggs to cut supply in the US market, as well as limiting the number of hens, reducing flocks and killing chickens earlier than they usually did.

Going back to your prior comment:

>It's amusing to point out eggs as some kind of holy grail of how price moves naturally, when the two largest egg producers (Cal-Maine Foods and Rose Acre Farms) were just fined in federal court for price fixing.

I mean, prices did move naturally. The egg producers reduced supply and price went up "naturally". In the case of covid "greedflation", you don't really need an explanation to explain the reduced supply and/or increased demand: covid and stimulus checks explain the situation pretty well.
comparable to the iOS stuff at least. I was a bit frustrated to find out that a 2015 MBP I had in a closet has been out of support for a while (I have very high doubts that there was any technical reason for the line drawing on that front).

I really appreciate the iOS support window but it's messed up that their laptops ad desktops (which can last _so long_ and be useful!) just fall out of support despite still being very capable machines.

The kicker of course is I at least updated it all to MacOS 12 to give to a friend and everything still ran extremely well. But at one point these machines will stop working for purely incidental reasons
If you'd like to make oobleck at home, here's the recipe from Peter van der Linden's book Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets:

"If you have enjoyed this book you might also enjoy the text Bartholomew and the Oobleck, by Dr. Seuss, ( New York, Random House, 1973). As Dr. Seuss explains, Oobleck "squiggles around in your fist like a slippery potato dumpling made of rubber." He doesn't tell you how to make it, so I will here.

How to make Oobleck

1. Take one cup of cornstarch.
2. Add some drops of green food coloring; Oobleck should always be green in color.
3. Slowly knead in up to half a cup of water.

Oobleck has some extremely strange, non-Newtonian properties. It flows like water through your fingers, except when you work it like dough—then it immediately assumes a solid consistency. Except when you stop kneading it, it turns back to liquid. If you strike it quickly with something hard, you can shatter it!

Like all Dr. Seuss books, Bartholomew and the Oobleck can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. Software engineers can benefit from a sophisticated reading of Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

The world would be a better place if every programmer would just play with Oobleck occasionally. The good programmers would be more rested and refreshed and the bad programmers would probably get their heads stuck to the table. But always remember, no matter how lowly or exalted a hacker you are, you are a child process of the universe, no less than the disk controller, or the stack frame mechanism (explained at such length in Chapter 6)."

This book came out in 1994 so is dated now, but as you can see it's treasure!
I'm wondering why this is a surprise, given GoL has been known to be Turing complete for some time, and why one couldn't just bootstrap oscillators of all periods off of some kind of Turing machine construction.

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/21/a-computer-in-the-game-of-li...

Incidentally, the computer in the previous link reminds me a lot of something I've seen implemented in my favorite CA, Wireworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld
I might also note that Comcast is a legal monopoly.
Oh, the most boring ones. Anything with a C-like syntax is off to a good start.

I like pragmatic languages, with minimum boilerplate.

If I had to list: C, JavaScript, Python and PHP, in no particular order. And I like Bash too, even if it’s less a language and more just a thin veneer of control flows, loops and variables for controlling other executables, it’s still quite useful.
> This is an older article but explains it well

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/06/20170602-audi.html

From the article:

> The 12-volt system is connected to the main electrical system via a DC/DC converter

> Audi also offers the new MHEV technology with the conventional 12-volt electrical system

> 48-volt vehicle electrical system. In a different layout—without MHEV—the 48-volt constant voltage system already entered volume production in 2016 as the Audi SQ7 TDI. In this vehicle, the alternator still operates on a 12-volt basis, and a DC converter couples the 48-volt electrical subsystem

> Small consumers such as control units or lights will remain in the 12-volt system well into the future, however

The article makes it very clear that what Audi are doing is not similar to what Tesla have done with the Cybertruck. The Cybertruck has no 12v system, everything runs on 48v. The power seats. The seat heaters. The rear defroster, the interior lights, literally everything. They can have much smaller and lighter wires and use way less copper.

Using a 48V system for a mild hybrid is very common, even Jeep do that.
As a long time LotR fan I love this article.

I do have one nitpick, though: on the map of Bree that is shown towards the end, there is a North gate. But there are only two gates mentioned in LotR, the West and the South gates, where the East Road passes through. The North gate on the map in the article has a road going to Deadmen's Dike, but the road to Deadmen's Dike (Fornost) in LotR is the Greenway, which intersects the East Road just outside the West gate of Bree (and as well as running north to Fornost, runs south past the Barrow Downs and, after intersecting the road from Sarn Ford, goes on to Tharbad and Gondor).
I've never had food arrive cold.
They've committed securities fraud potentially if they're lying about this intentionally.
I'm not against wired charging per se, I just think wireless is better.

I use an extremely old wireless charging stand that doesn't even hit 500mA. It gets warm, but not hot. It takes all damn night to charge which suits me just fine.

That said, I agree with you, which is why I've explicitly disabled fast wireless charging. The heat is almost as bad as excessive charge current. Though both heat and excessive current together is much worse than either individually. Which is exactly what you get with super fast charging modes, and why I disable those modes.

Generally, phones ship with at least a 20W charger these days. It's fine, probably.

Really my whole deal here is that my phone has a non-replacable battery. Paying someone to crack it open and replace the battery would cost a lot more than I'm willing to pay. My goal is to preserve the battery for as long as I can so I don't have to trash the whole phone.

Ultimately, this is a decision made for myself based on my own professional experience with lithium batteries and associated electronics. I definitely wouldn't recommend everyone do everything I'm doing; it is a bit excessive. But that's just how I like to do things.
How does Loco compare to Rocket, which is also supposed to be Rails-like?
I prefer even more redundancy.

In general, I have 4 copies of any piece of data I care about: the machine, dropbox, backblaze, and a local external hard drive.
I Filed 136 FOIA Requests with Police and Learned Why Our System Is Broken
An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there's "no science" behind phasing out fossil fuels to keep global temperatures from creeping above 1.5 degrees Celsius, an internationally agreed-upon climate benchmark.

Sorry how did this happen? How did this guy get to be in charge of this?

I'm currently installing my own heat pumps and solar into my house using my own money. I know not everyone can afford this luxury but I'm taking shit into my own hands as much as I can. Thankfully we have the technology to be able to do this. As soon as this project is over and I recover financially I'm ordering and electric car and never looking back.
To preface, I do not intend to defend Google nor do I work with them or represent them.

That said, I have been in similar situations with large scale customers. It is hard. Some percentage of customers are pathological, and even after you fix their problem refuse to stop continuing the rumors.

Once it’s fixed, I want all communication forward looking. Some percent of people are flat out insane, incompetent, or just assholes. Sometimes you have to lock the thread in order to stop a conversation about something that is already fixed.

Large scale customer bases are just a different beast. Once you experience it, you know what I mean. That doesn’t mean Google took the right path - only people with a comprehensive perspective can evaluate that, and I’m just some idiot on a forum who knows nothing about the specifics.
I’ve been getting increasingly crazy permutations of login flows recently. I swear one of them recently was: Enter email address, go fish code out of email inbox, cut and paste code in, then get a password field.
That is one of my favorite books! I stumbled across it years ago and read it without even reading the summary on the book jacket — I highly recommend the book, and also going into it knowing as little about the story as possible.
Yeah, but to be honest the entire time I've been baffled that Apple advertised such a useless thing as a feature. I've never once dropped my phone in water. Not in some 15-16 years of owning a mobile phone. It's not really onerous to take a little care to not get my phone wet.
A lot of 48V infrastructure comes from the marine world - where 4 x 12V lead-acid batteries in series is common for this reason. So a lot of components already exist and can be made to work in the automotive sector with simple modifications. (In the marine world, it's much simpler to combine and split batteries in powers of 2 for cell balancing - you can take 4 x 12V batteries and charge them in parallel, discharge them in series)
The phone number input requires dashes, which are entirely optional in general for communicating telephone numbers (dashes and parens only serve as decoration for readability these days).
No. I mean two things:

1 - human experience ends up informing human ingenuity. A sketch of Wile E. Coyote comes from someone’s (Chuck Jones?) experience of dogs and seeing coyotes, plus innumerable experience with things that are funny, constraints from experience of certain features that do or don’t work well on animation cels etc. Perhaps a stray tweak in his ears come from a Rembrandt seen as a child or from a glance at a sketch in progress by the person sitting at the next easel in a drawing class long ago.

In todays’s jargon our experiences are all parts of our training set (though today’s massive RNN models are infinitesimal by comparison).

And I think of my tools the same: a ton of inputs stirred together is fine by me.

2 - a difference is that fb’s model is made from public posts: posts offered for anyone to see. In the human case even my private experiences are part of my “training set.”
Title slightly changed due to title character limits.

For efforts such as this, I recommend https://www.muckrock.com

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> Working at Google, I had my cls modified without changes from my end.

You can't make an accusation like that without furnishing some sort of evidence/documentation. Even if you're not trying to post this for internet points, it'd be still worth the effort into collecting the evidence, because you can use it later to convince your coworkers/managers that you're not at fault.
Well, the phones haven’t been through an architecture change recently, while the laptops and desktops have.

I think you’ll be safe on ARM macs for 10 full years.
Gorillaz owe their sound to the Omnichord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0NtSNeQEQ
How to think about the OpenAI Q* rumors
That's really all it takes
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If you don't recognize the YouTube ID by now... :)

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23andMe Breach Compounded by Theft of Ethnicity Data
I am really sorry this happened. Depending on your financial situation, you can take a break and prepare for the interviews. it is really hard to work at a place where you are not treated well.
I think you are missing the point. If I do use it, then my result will be a broken and defective product. How exactly is that not clear? That's the point. It might not be observable to be, but whatever I'm affixing with the staple gun will come loose because its not working right and not sinking the staples in deep enough...

If I don't use it, then the tool is not used and provided no benefit...
The first book is The Darkness That Comes Before, and it's the beginning of two trilogies (the second of which ends up with four books...) The first three books are as good as anything in the genre. They're quite dark, but have very deep metaphysics, the stakes are incredibly high, and the central character is fascinating. I would tempt you more but I'm trying not to spoil anything.

The books do go downhill (as does the author's mental health, I believe). But they are definitely worth knowing.
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LinkedIn won't provide contact emails.
Twitch exit from S. Korea is latest fallout from "sending-party-pays" model
I still use Google reflexively, but its quality is so low these days...for most of my searches ("[local business I don't know the URL of]", "[foo] wikipedia", "[foo] reddit", "[some library] docs") I'm pretty sure Bing or DDG would work fine.

YouTube is uncontested. Let me throw in a couple of others: for desktop maps, AFAIK Google is still tops (on my phone I use Apple Maps and it's...fine). For free email, AFAIK GMail is still the standard (despite various UI changes over the years that have made it worse).
You're at least on the right post. The only example I could find of a cellphone using 18650 cells was a modded Fairphone - https://forum.fairphone.com/t/making-a-phone-that-would-use-...
Redundancy can fail.
Did see an interesting thing recently about mist showers. You run them hotter than a normal shower, but they also use significantly less water, and therefore energy. That's always something to consider.
> The EV and hybrid electric world were talking about 48 volts when Musk still worked at PayPal, if not earlier.

You are confounding the two electrical systems in an EV or hybrid (or mild hybrid).

One is used to drive the wheels - these are very commonly 48V in a mild hybrid and something like 200V or 400V or 800V in an EV. This is only used to power the wheels - nothing else.

The other electrical system is used to power literally everything else. The infotainment system, heated seats, power windows, lights, powered seats, electric power steering, electric assist brakes, etc. This has always been 12V in every car ever ^ (ICE/hybrid/EV) (including every Tesla).

The Cybertruck is the first vehicle ever to move the 12V system to a 48V system.

^ Before about 1955 it was 6v. The move to 12v then was the last time it has changed.
Your example is a poor one, and does not represent the actual risk of money market funds.

Customer assets at brokerage are required to be held by a 3rd party custodian. Customer assets
are not held at the brokerage itself and cannot be touched. An executive cannot merely "dip into customer funds" to cover a bad investment. Brokerage firms are regularly audited for this exact scenario. If your assets were to go missing, the SIPC would liquidate assets of the firm itself as necessary and cover the rest up to $500,000.

The actual risk is of a MMF "breaking the buck" and being unable to return your money. In 1994, a fund went under and was only able to return 94 cents on $1. In 2008 a fund went under because of its toxic Lehman Brothers holdings. This is why you should understand what is inside of that fund before investing in it.

For example, VUSXX is "is required to invest at least 99.5% of its total assets in cash, U.S. government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized solely by U.S. government securities or cash." These are not unregulated funds either; the SEC has been significantly increasing the scrutiny and regulation of MMFs both recently and historically.

The question you really should be asking is whether you think US treasury bills are sufficiently safe, not whether Vanguard is doing something both obvious and illegal.
I don't understand why this is such a priority for people. I've never had to have a phone repaired, and unless you're buying top-of-the-line phones aren't expensive anyway. Changing my phone out every 3 years isn't exactly adding piles of e-waste.
That’s amazing. Never knew.
By not staying in that role, denying them being able to make that kind of decision about your value. You can't stop them thinking like that but you don't have to go along with it.
I wonder if celebrity doppelgangers can't find modeling work. Like, without EVER referencing your celebrity twin, how closely can your work implicitly approach Swifthood before your free expression gets violated? To dramatize for effect:

Can you act in films? Or model a company's products like a guitar/microphone? Or genuinely start a band? Can your credits/band name reference you, if your given name is coincidentally also "Taylor Swift"? Can Facebook AIs train on your Facebook images, and produce a "celebrity female singer" images (with/without a "Blank Space" reference)? What if your LLM's purpose is strictly "parody, caricature, and images whose likeness is purely coincidental"? Can generative AIs have intention? Let alone intention to break copyright?

The consequences are endless in both kind/degree when pretending that "likeness" is some unique fingerprint. Ditto for thought-policing what (artificial or human) neural networks can learn from without paying royalties or whatever. It's all absurd.

What's more, our society must face these issues. We can't dismiss them as all hyperbolic catastrophizing about slippery slopes. Our system is already subjective, inadequate, and incapable of sorting itself out. The situation becomes more dire each day. Given our trend of sacrificing public interest for private greed (e.g. Disney's hatchet job on copyright), I'm worried about our future.
Don't bother going to work anymore then wait for the call. Tell them your contracting rate is 500$ per hour.
Maybe he forgot to remove himself from the excel file with all employees doing a =RAND() to determine who's out.
TherapSID (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion too) [1], looks to my eye to be a viable alternative to the SidStation. I have a deep love for the SID sound, despite never having a Commodore as a child (I am just a wee bit too young) and the SidStation and now TherapSID tempts me to try to learn play an instrument despite being an adult. They just look like so much fun.

[1]: https://www.twistedelectrons.com/therapsid
Don't think I said that
My numbers were similar to yours, but I agree with OP that it wasn’t really “difficult”. Sure, you have to turn up to the gym regularly and put in the hours, but there’s no real skill or practice involved. It’s not like tennis/judo/your_sport where you actually have to focus to get good.
There is just not enough competition any more. When you have only a handful of competitors in a market, even without collusion, its easy for them to all to just decide to raise prices at the same time.

I think you need significantly more competitors so that there is less chance for "accidental collusion"

What I really think will get be down-voted around here, but I think there should be state run (nonprofit) (but run at cost) offering in every market, and if the for profit companies can't compete against inefficient government run businesses then they should not be in business themselves.

We should leverage our collective power to set a baseline performance metric.

For example: Australia Post runs at a small profit rather than at a cost to taxpayers.
You’d have to randomly sample the set of all objects to do that. But I’m not aware of a database technique that lets you pick randomly. So I’m not sure how you’d validate the objects exist in practice. Checking 100 trillion objects seems expensive and time consuming. Doing it in flight while objects are being accessed is free but also heavily biased (ie those are files you’d be more likely to repair in the first place anyway)