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> in practice people whose jobs are automated away become unemployed.

And then the products they used to make become less expensive because they require less labor to produce, which reduces amount of pay or hours anyone needs to make a living. Meanwhile all of the people who didn't lose their jobs now have that much more disposable income, which they use to buy something else, which creates new jobs doing whatever it is they're buying with the money they saved.

> AI is manifestly not automating away the shittiest jobs like hand-digging for rare earth minerals, subsistence agriculture, sorting through garbage to collect recyclables and so on.

You're describing work that has been under heavy and increasing automation for decades. Farmers use combines and sophisticated irrigation systems. Miners use heavy machinery, not their hands.

> It is being very disruptive to cottage industries like graphic design, tech consulting and the like.

Obviously the people who used to do the thing being automated will have to do something else, but then they do something else. If there is a something else then that's fine (and this has been the historical norm), if there ever comes to be no something else then substantially everything has been automated and the cost of living should be negligible absent some kind of government regulatory dysfunction.
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It counters the apartheid state narrative pretty hard so of course it’s swept under the rug.
> So you are suggesting an eye for an eye, we should kill a Palestinian for every one of our dead? Honestly, I find that thought disgusting.

Just to be clear: you find that more disgusting than killing over ten Palestinians for every dead Israeli?
Really weird that a disinterested third party like Apple would even make loud public statements about Beeper.
The article is not making claims of any conspiracy. The companies can act individually to exploit a situation. Corporate greed. You're missing the context of higher reported inflation being used as an excuse to increase prices beyond what was necessary.
This is silly right? It isn’t like Hamas demanded this ratio, or that they forced Israel to accept. Should Hamas refuse out of principle if Israel gave them prisoners for free?

On the contrary it seems more like a power play on Israel’s part. “Take our prisoners we will just defeat them again!”
It would only take a few of the 17 companies that own nearly everything to affect hundreds of millions of products worldwide.

https://buildremote.co/companies/own-everything/
Circa 1996-98, I worked at a Baby Bell that tried to implement CMM, I think they were shooting for level 3. They bought "QMO" from that part of Bell Labs that declared independence as "Telcordia".

Absolute disaster. The whole of CMM emphasizes documentation and artifacts (more documents) over actually writing code. I think there was a "Personal Software Process" that Watts Humphreys advocated even individuals apply, which sucked all the fun out of writing any software. The Baby Bell got a lot of documentation at first, and then output slowed as the artifacts got harder and harder to produce. Very little code got written.
"I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Palestine' is flawed." This is a fairly nail-on-head distillation, and that it exists exacerbates any attempts at substantive discourse that follows.
A good book on this topic was Acemoglu’s “Power and Progress”.

Lots of illuminating examples of how technological progress immediately made life worse for many people, until a revolt/change came about to prevent exploitation/share the newfound efficiency gains etc.

A few memorable anecdotes off the top of my head:

- In one instance, during the Industrial Revolution, they quoted a letter from a lord (owner of a coal mine) who said mines would stop being profitable if children were banned/restricted from working in them. Some new parts of mines accessible thanks to advances in dredging technology were narrow, very suited to children’s small bodies, and digging the tunnels to the size of an adult cost too much. There was a complaint that some children were suffering brain damage due to chronic sleep deprivation and being forced to push mine carts in tunnels with their heads.

- In the period leading up to the Industrial Revolution, there were proven advances in milling and agricultural technology in England, making grain production cheaper and more efficient. However, analysis of peasant skeletons showed signs of more and more malnutrition, as well as signs of damage from work. The author says the prevalent theory is that because the margin-per-hour-worked of a peasant increased, local lords had more incentive to work them harder (not an economist/historian, so can only take this at face value). Not having anywhere else to go (indeed, in multiple instances even during the industrial revolutions, it was either illegal or difficult to change jobs), they just got worse living conditions. Additionally, peasant access to the ever-more-efficient mills was tightly controlled and expensive, to the point where peasants found it better to just mill grain by hand at home. The lords/priests promptly made this illegal and would perform periodic raids to confiscate their equipment.

- Both during the construction of the Panama Canal and in the major industrial cities of England, dense worker concentrations and poor sanitation caused workers to die in droves and decrease the efficiency of the construction/factories. In the England case, diseases that hadn’t been seen in years had resurfaced. It took a long time for workers to finally convince management/government to invest in sanitation/health/sewage, which not only kept people alive and healthy, but increased productivity and completed the canal.

Of course, a lot of this is mixed with differing hierarchies or political scenarios, and isn’t a comprehensive before->after of every advancement etc. However, it certainly put a heavy dose of nuance on the optimism behind technological advancement, and made me wonder if we could have pre-emptively enacted the necessary social/political changes which allowed for the wide-spread benefitting of technology without first going through the preceding periods of intensified suffering.
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If I can do 10x more work in the same amount of time I can probably charge way more money for my time. Sounds like a great deal.
Pretty much all Adtech comes to mind here.
Funny thing about this is

1. it certainly can be true.

2. but also if other countries print money, it can still cause inflation in your country.

3. and you can't stop them from doing that.

So "don't do it" won't save you. You also need diplomacy and an army.

Also, a better explanation of the theory isn't "money printing" but "higher money velocity" aka MV=PY, which is why it's managed with interest rate hikes.
I'd assume the anti-Israel views could be caused by the actions of Israel.

Is that not a reasonable interpretation? Normally a country killing many thousands of innocent children, women and men, in an act of bloody revenge is not thought well of.

That's not to condone Hamas's acts on October 7th, but to point out that indiscriminate violence is usually not an answer to anything.
A disease (covid, as they later stated) that 99% of people recover from naturally is not incurable. It is literally curred by your own immune system.
Not enough competition is the problem.
Yeah, and Mistral doesn't particularly care about lobotomizing the model with 'safety-training'. So it can achieve much better performance per-parameter than anthropic/google/OpenAI while being more steerable as well.
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We MUST get right to repair as not having it deeply widens the inequality gap. I am a conservative Republican, and this legal change will do a lot to resolve legitimate grievances the left has been pushing on.
What do you think capitalism optimizes for?

I would say capitalism is a system which innately maximizes for greed. When the money supply expands, greedflation is outright expected - no collusion or conspiracy required.
This is true but inflation isn't happening right now either, it mostly already happened.

There were a lot of other supply interruptions; one is Ukraine produces a lot of wheat, but also neon gas, which is needed for computer chip fabs.
You learn this at quality shops. 10-15 years ago roughly FAANG.

Today? TailScale and stuff like that.

You can just noT have a bunch of pointless micro services and docker in your runc and layer on layer of json de/re, and unit test to get coverage but ignore quickcheck and hypothesis and fuzzing.

You can use stacked diffs and run oncall loops out of the team authoring the code and all of it.

You can minimize dynamic linking and all the other forms of unforced dependency error.

You can understand and play towards the runtimes of all the managed languages in your stack. You can insist that a halfway decent verbal grammar for the languages is “readability”.

It gets shouted down over and over but it’s public knowledge how to ship quality software.
Something which should be taught is the importance of coming up with the simplest abstractions possible and sticking to the business domain. IMO, if you can't explain an abstraction to a non-technical person, then you shouldn't invent it.
Yes, the explanation is pretty simple, buyers assumed that it was due to the Pandemic and the War in Ukraine, and all the effects on supply chains and all that.

It's not even necessarily "they got greedier", even CEOs expected troubled times ahead, and rising costs, so they also increased their prices, but they did so preemptively, instead of as a reaction to actual rising costs. What happened then is that they raised prices higher than the costs ended up being, and they did not immediately correct this, until they started seeing buyers change their behavior where they now feel the pressure to lower prices again (in order to sell more).
You are confusing it with Starlink. SpaceX has all sorts of contracts with NASA and the Space Force.

But we are talking about Starlink customers. It's definetely not 100 million a year or even close.
It looks like Halo cosplay to me

edit: have come to the point now with vehicles where it's nice to have one that doesn't stand out too much
> A correctly implemented end-to-end encrypted protocol would be safe for all participating clients.

As long as the clients are closed source, this is a circular argument. The client itself is a vector. Not just for a good E2E implementation but for the 3rd party company to not outright steal everyone’s messages, create a backdoor, etc. You have to be willing to trust every client used in the thread.
i will never understand the absolute hatred people have toward imessage. it's an app that runs on apples platform, for apple users. people can still communicate or text between android and apple. if you want inter-OS encryption then use whatsapp or signal or whatever the hip new thing is today.

apple owes nothing to anyone. they have created an ecosystem for their walled / gated devices that works extremely well. they don't have to let anyone else play in their pool.

this is really about blue bubbles vs green bubbles, it's the most asinine thing to waste thought on.
That example is much better, thanks.
From beepers website, there’s no use of apples servers when iMessages are sent from a beeper user to a beeper user. Rather, they only pass through Apple when sent to an iPhone user and in that case it’s the iPhone user that’s utilizing apples resources. And in that case there’s an Apple device owner, who is paid for the right to use iMessage servers.
If they're planning to just kill everyone, why haven't they just leveled the place? Militarily speaking, they can do that right now and have been able to do that for a long time. So if that's their true goal, then what stops them from giving the order right now?

Meanwhile, Palestine has shown no restraint at all in their 10/7 massacre and no Jews live in Palestine, whereas many Arabs live peacefully in Israel.
The woes of entropy.
As mentioned in the article, they are paying for social media ad campaigns. That is not the behavior of people wanting to avoid attention.
You could also have room if you went one-way for sidewalk, parking, car lane, parking, door space, double bike lane, sidewalk.
Yes. I planted three of those plants (small bare root things) on my property this year.
This is like preventing to develop weapons, at the end if you don't have them you will lose the war. It is suicide. Others will do.
> but if so, that should be a temporary effect

Isn't that what we are seeing, that prices are starting to come down?
Blackrock owns some part of everything
I think the prevailing problem is that quality software often doesn't outperform shit software in terms of revenue, right?
one day you’ll have to deal with a person like you, and you’ll remember this and have to sit down and ask yourself some difficult questions
"Greedflation" describes an observation that is independently verifiable. Publicly available data.

"the report finds that company profits increased at a much faster rate than costs did, in a process often dubbed “greedflation.”
Yes. I may also run it on top of IPv6 and not care about all that, except for public key distribution.
Holy shit you really are this obtuse.
The last time you were in a meeting and someone said "well my hands are tied..." did you boggle and demand of the room to explain the invisible rope?

No. I would calmly listen to what they were telling me. What I did not do was swear and declare they were being really obtuse. And I would certainly not claim they were literally spitting on me just because I got an answer I didn't like or that was inconvenient to me.
> Perhaps this hyperfocus on the Cybertruck

What hyperfocus?

Do you spend a lot of time on social media? If so then these platforms will be feeding you more of what they think you want to see, which will result in you having a faulty perception that there is some hyperfocus on the Cybertruck when it reality there isn't.
There's a famous saying in economics about market forces:

> In the long run we're all dead.
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Are you referring to the step where Beeper's servers make a persistent connection with Apple's APN service to listen to new messages ?

So your point is Apple can presumably distinguish between an actual iOS connection and Beeper's connection by looking at "how many connections per IP"? Still seems prone to false positives to me, unless there is something else I missed.

(Upon re-reading the post, I realized that the phone number registration is actually done by Apple. Wonder if this might provide another basis to block Beeper, i.e. all this SMS infrastructure is not cheap to maintain and Beeper's integration is arguably using it in an "unauthorized" way.)
I guess the problem is I don't believe there are solutions. So many of our problems stem from a collective insanity to solve every problem we set our eyes on. Not everything that hurts is bad, not everything that kills is harmful. Death and decay are part of all systems, resistance is the path of suffering.

Possibly the ultimate poison and deconstruction? We would be better off unlearning so many things we think we know.
Ahhh and to think all this time I thought I knew what a metaphor was. It’s literally any comparison! Silly me!
I'm trying to figure out if this post is sarcasm.

The first half definitely made me think sarcasm, then the second half... I mean I know some people actually believe this... Then I noticed you said "encryption" instead of "protocol". Breaking an encryption standard is obviously very hard, breaking a protocol is obviously not nearly so hard.

On the other hand, taking this stance would be insane given the post we're talking about. A company that actively circumvented apples security measures. So you must be being sarcastic. You just have to be.

Remember, on the internet it's kinda hard to tell. Make sure to throw in a /s unless you really REALLY sell it.
That was my second point.

If we must be willing to distrust one closed source client, then we ought to distrust both.
At first I thought it was useful that you were elaborating for others

but no, you were actually triggered by someone that was affirming the same information as you

its like you skipped the part about acknowledging why people are accurately skeptical of an entity that undermined their trust

in favor of copying the exact same article for anybody that looks, because you didn’t like the way a different part was summarized, cute.

lesson: if you want the support of people that actually are invalidating a group entirely, you need to acknowledge the parts they would agree with, and then add in the conclusion, like I did.
Very much this, and low risk bugs compound at scale.

If you're in a very large FANNG type company, and say you have 1000 components that each ship 1 bug each day that has a 0.1% chance of breaking something critical, that translates to a less than 50% chance you ship a working OS on any given day. And that may mean the entire company's productivity is impacted for the day depending on how broken it is.
> a basic level of device security across all iMessage threads I have

Is that really true though? Jailbroken phones, iMessage may still work. Any device security gets thrown out the window.

You also can't expect everyone to have an Apple device for security, which we've seen time and time again SS7 being weak - So is the requirement to remove SS7, for everyone to jump on the Apple train?

I see Beeper as doing Apple a service, not so much a competing platform, but a gateway to the iMessage ecosystem - 'Hey, this would be pretty cool to use without this app and have it native' vs the 'Only Apple devices can use this.'
We're not on target for deflation; American consumers love spending money and are currently doing it as hard as they can. We seem to, amazingly, be hitting the soft landing.

Some other countries are doing poorly at the moment, but that's always true.

If you want to see the money supply shrink more, I'm told a good way is better tax enforcement.

https://x.com/bbkogan/status/1733190102245888366 (sorry for the informal source…)
Well - importantly, they continue to exist.
Correction:

“The United States has at least 1,350 GW of wind and solar capacity and 680 GW of storage is waiting to be connected, which is enough to double the country’s electricity supply.”

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/12/08/solar-lcoe-now-29-low...
I could not finish the OP article. Just pages and pages of special pleading.
There's also a graph claiming to show colonization results. I don't know how good it is, but it's supposedly actual experimental data.
I've seen, routing boilerplate, js to make the api requests, js to modify state(redux), unit tests, interfaces, until you get to the actual table.
That article provides no data to show that the conglomerates mentioned “own nearly everything”. It would be quite easy to add up their US revenues and compare that number to US consumer spending, but they didn’t even bother. In addition to the post’s polemical nature, it is crammed full of pop-up autoplay ads.
My bet is on them working their way into being put into a vehicle classification that allows them to do whatever they want.

I can see some enterprising Tesla lawyers propose that because of weight and towing power its actually a tractor if they just add some special legal connector.

Cause it’s electric they would wedge it into some newly defined class of “electric tractors.”

I’ve seen crazier
> "While details of our agreement remain confidential, it is important to note that Microsoft does not own any portion of OpenAI and is simply entitled to share of profit distributions," said company spokesman Frank Shaw.

Weird agreement to have with a non-profit
I wish Google would let me pay for Bard. It’s annoying me that they haven’t addressed the monetisation model yet. I want to start using it as a search engine replacement but I’m not willing to change my life that much if I’m going to get in conversation ads.
I have quantized Llama-2-chat-70b to 2q_k with llama.cpp then run on a 4090 for 50/83 layers. I was able to get 1.3 tokens per second. It answers this question, which smaller models have trouble with:



Hello. The functions addition, multiplication, and exponentiation can be considered each as a higher order of the previous. For example, 2+2+2 = 2*3 which is significant because there are three twos, which is the multiplication factor. Likewise 2*2*2=2^3, again, the power number represents the count of the numbers being multiplied. What is this concept and what is the next higher order function?

The concept you are referring to is called the "iterative" or "recursive" nature of arithmetic operations. Each operation can be seen as a repeated application of the previous operation, with the multiplication factor representing the number of times the operation is applied.

For example, the addition of two numbers, 2+2, can be seen as a repeated application of the multiplication operation, where the multiplicand is 2 and the multiplier is 3 (i.e., 2*3 = 6, which is the result of the addition). Similarly, the multiplication of two numbers,
2*2, can be seen as a repeated application of the exponentiation operation, where the base is 2 and the power is 3 (i.e., 2^3 = 8, which is the result of the multiplication).

The next higher order function would be the "tetration" operation, which is the iterative application of the exponential function. In other words, tetration(n,x) = x^(x^(x^(...(x^n)...))), where n is the number of times the exponential function is applied.

For example, tetration(2,2) = 2^(2^(2^(2))), which can be simplified to 2^16, or 65536.

It's worth noting that this concept can be extended even further to higher levels of abstraction, such as "hyper-operations" and "super
-operations", but these are more advanced and less commonly used concepts in mathematics.*