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Appealing to quantum theory to defend free will does not make sense.

If the quantum randomness is fundamental, and reality is stochastic at heart, that makes it non-deterministic, but it doesn't make it any less mechanical. It's in the name, after all: Quantum mechanics. If there is any guiding light to the randomness, any pattern to how the random choices come out, then it's not really random, is it?

So, if you think that a deterministic reality is devoid of free will, then you must equally think that a Copenhagen-interpretation fundamentally stochastic reality is devoid of free will.
I haven't lived in manhattan ever, but I used to spend weeks there in 2014 for work (also in DC), and I've lived in London for a few months and now SF for years.

Cities generally have more variety of types of food (Burmese, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, etc.) that can be hard to find in the midwest (I grew up in the rural-ish suburbs outside of Buffalo - maybe not technically midwest, but close enough).

You have a lot of things close to you, you can walk out of your apartment and have a ton of options right here, in NYC you can subway anywhere else easily. The density makes things feel more like a community vs. houses spread apart where everything is by cars and strip malls.

In NYC you can go to the comedy cellar on macdougal street one night and Chris Rock or Louie CK might drop in unannounced to practice material (happened to me twice and I didn't go that many times).

If you live in a major city lots of friends pass through for one reason or another and you can meet up with them (this literally never happened in the suburbs of Buffalo).

There are also often more events and variety of people which can make things more interesting. It's also a lot different visiting vs. having your own place there for an extended time. Visiting is often more stressful because you don't have an easy place to retreat to.
According to latest data from the U.S. Census, Florida ranks #1 in total net migration, which measures the difference between the number of people moving in and the number of people moving out of a state. From July 2021-July 2022, nearly 444,500 people moved to Florida, which compared to the previous year was a gain of 185,000, the largest year-over-year impact of residents moving.

Florida also ranked #1 in domestic migration, #2 in international migration, and #1 with the most people moving in per day at 1,218. Texas followed Florida in both total net migration (349,575) and most people moving in per day (958). Florida’s total population has reached more than 22.2 million and sits third in the nation behind California and Texas, previously surpassing New York.

New York and California, two of the biggest markets to the South and South-Central regions, experienced the largest out migration, followed by Illinois.

https://tampabayedc.com/news/how-many-people-moved-to-florid...
Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
Bad service means the economy is good. Haven't you heard of the hot waitress index?
My understanding is that someone still needs your Apple ID login to get DFU mode to work.
Reddit is a good way to know what is happening on Reddit, but this feeds into the point.

there are lots of things happening online but off reddit, and also lots of people that actively don't care what is happening on Reddit.
"I've been able to make bids below asking so I'm not sure demand is as high as you'd suggest"

You can have super high demand all making bellow asking bids if the asking price is irrational.
It seems like regulations are constantly shifting incentives in both obvious and non-obvious ways that create unintended consequences, and I wonder if this is a promising area for AI/LLM research.

Take a few AI agents, let them each be an archetypical player impacted by regulations (automakers, car buyers, etc), and then have them simulate a market and interactions to see what behaviors arise over time.
I moved from Brooklyn to Miami. Mostly because I had a child IMO NYC is not a good place to raise a kid.
Introduction to Micro-Meshes for Mesh Compression
I left that kind of gimmicks behind me in C++ compilers for MS-DOS.
10 hours of Nyan Cat for your pleasure. :)

https://youtu.be/jIQ6UV2onyI
Honestly: Play a game where you are supposed to win.

There is a reason why single player video games are still popular. It is fun to win!

I play ARPGs, where, I mow down hordes of enemies with a mere mouse click with fun graphics and sound.

Is this cotton candy compared to playing PvP games. Absolutely. I've done serious PvP before. But, after a day of work... sometimes, it is just fun to save the world, or make it burn.
It might not be the only story, but it's very possible for growth in demand for housing quantity to outstrip growth in population. Say if there was a sudden move to working from home, which encourages home offices, concentrated in the class of workers with flexibility in their budget to spend more on rent (a class that's disproportionately large in NYC)?

It's also possible for supply of housing to reduce simultaneously. Say if there was a change in rental laws that strongly incentivized landlords to pull units from the market?[0]

[0] https://reason.com/2019/06/17/new-yorks-progressive-backed-r...
> if you disable the plugin, it will be enabled when you restart.

Must be bug or misunderstanding , I disabled it last week and it stayed off, the ticket complains that the plugin can't be wiped but this is not the only plugin that works like that.
More taxes. Less service.

Everything is outrageously expensive.

Middle class gets crushed.

If you've wealthy, no point in having your main residence in NYC (see, more taxes).

Will get worse before it gets better.
"just build more housing" is definitely viable here in NYC. NYC is not that dense in comparison to many other major metropolis in the world.
That assumption obviously has an availability heuristic bias / selection criteria bias, like speeding down a road is safe because you haven’t died yet.

NYC no doubt has a lot of things going for it, I think being the financial center for the hegemony is the deciding factor. In my view survival of NYC probably has less to do with local crime than the outcome of future wars.
Of course every other QM interpretation is also unfalsifiable, e.g. Copenhagen (we have no definition of what constitutes an observation) or many-worlds (obviously unfalsifiable save for actually tunneling through into another universe and coming back to tell the tale)
Open plans have visual and auditory distractions. Cubicles with decent walls at least eliminate the visual distractions. On the other hand, glass-walled offices might have decent soundproofing but have the distraction of people constantly walking by.

There's also the question of form vs. function. A lot of people in leadership care a great deal about the workspace looking "modern" and care less about it being effective for the people working in it.
I think you're looking at this from a nuts and bolts perspective rather than a broader security mindset.

The incentives and goals for malware are what matter here. The first steps for satisfying those are always achieving undetected write and execution. In this context, RTs and everything else are just means to that end.
The laser spot can reach half the size of the continental united states. Though I'm not sure how large it is now because psyche is still relatively close to earth.
When people (including myself) talk about New York not being fun any more, it's almost always in relation to the price. Rent is incredibly expensive at this point, and that drives up the price of literally everything else, too. New Yorkers also don't understand that the "tier 2" cities in the US actually have most/all of the food, culture, and activities that they think are exclusive to New York.

On the other hand, lots of New York evangelists in 2023 are lifers who have locked in their rent-stabilized apartment rates 20 years ago, and enjoy all the amenities that (largely) the rest of us are supposed to pay for.
Add in the considerations regarding moving every couple of years and doing it all over again.

There's no long term stability to be had, so it's no wonder that people left when given the chance in the form of increased remote opportunities and a lifestyle "reset" in the form of covid.
It is also acceptable to shoo away the scorpions. Much less acceptable with Bonnie from HR.
Typically in these dip situations, you can hear the PSUs being very unhappy about the situation. A cringe inducing high pitched squeal can be heard from any PSU that's doing work as they try to continue doing their job while in this undervolt condition.
This is just a sample size of n=1.

I personally don't use these but
worked with a guy who leaned heavily on LLMs for a group project. He was really good at quickly shitting out boilerplate but couldn't actually explain any of it or understand the spec in the documents

Imo, the consequences of letting people who suck appear to be doing stuff is more severe than a 50% productivity boost for others. I would rather work somewhere that bans using them outright after this experience. There's my n=1 for anyone interested
What do you think about https://play.date/ and https://www.commanderx16.com/ ?
The comptroller’s report makes it look more like white flight. Especially figure 6.
>They should be treated as such by users (generate random responses) and devs (hash and salt them).

I agree for tech savvy users it's prudent to treat them as passwords, but it doesn't extend to the general public. If they should be treated as passwords, what's the point of having them then? They're most often used in password reset flows. If it's a random string/phrase, they're basically useless in that use case. In what situation would you have the randomly chosen string for the security question, but not the randomly chosen string for the password?
plus many other places do the chaotic metropolitan vibe much better, e.g. London.
The sweet spot is don't force people to work a certain way. I was in an open office place before 2020, was remote friendly, we mostly would come in except when we needed personal time or whatever, but if I wanted to focus, I'd pop in headphones and crank out code, as would anyone else. If I wanted to peer program I could, and if anyone wanted a quick laugh, we'd just talk for about five minutes, because sitting staring at code non-stop in an office environment can be draining too. I prefer WFH, and I can peer program with devs by calling them on Teams and screen sharing, but if I have to be in an office, it wont make much different to me, just the risk / wasted time from the commute.
I moved here about 10 years ago in my mid 20s. It's certainly more expensive and annoying to find housing here than other places I've lived, but it's more than balanced out by needing to own an automobile. The average cost of car ownership in the US is in the $10k-12k range. I certainly don't spent an extra thousand dollars on rent here vs say, any other place I might reasonably move. So I figure I'm still coming out ahead.

I can't speak to the bedbugs problem, I've been lucky I suppose.
> erodes my faith in humanity

Opposite for me. Maybe people still care about freedom and agency after all.
> While Nintendo's software implementation of USB-PD was flawed in some ways, it didn't cause this problem.

I stand corrected.

The dock however, still rejects non-Nintendo chargers. I have an MBP, a Thinkpad, an iPad, and a Switch - every device works with each other's (and third-party) chargers, except the Switch, when docked.
There are a random amount of New Yorkers in my tiny city in N. Georgia. lol. Something is amiss. haha. They seem to fit in well though taking up shooting, four wheelers, and other traditional activities.
Covid maybe in part but it’s mainly because of the demands that enforcing laws must stop by activists and certain political organizations. So crime is up and the city looks shabby and there’s drugged out zombies and homeless everywhere. So people leave.

It’s what happened in the 1960/70’s - lots of political changes made cities hospitable to crime and people left. As cities managed to become nice again, people moved back and tax revenues rose.

NYC needs another Bloomberg that’s willing to cleanup the streets and keep them nice and to stop pandering to the worst aspects of society. To put the fringe idea weirdos back on the fringe where they are better complaining about things than actually getting things done.
Electrified cloth extracts uranium from seawater
I lived in NYC for 10 years (the majority of my 20s).

Yes, people talk about their rent and their apartments (amongst many other things!), but it's because it's one of the things they all have in common— they rent. And because we loved to collectively complain about things.

And not once in the 10 years did I have bed bugs. I think I knew one other person with them (barring I'm sure a few who never shared).

All that being said, there is absolutely a housing shortage AND things in NYC are tougher than anywhere else. But I liken NYC to the doughnut added to the baseball bat when batters warm up— once you take it off (and live anywhere else) everything feels easier.
I think the Bay Area and NYC have their own strengths. The Bay is more of a morning city and has a lot of nice nature and day trips around it. Easy to go to sonoma/napa, yosemite, tahoe, nice places on the peninsula, half moon bay, etc. The bay is much better for cycling too. I think the bay remains better specifically for tech (especially now with AI).

I think SF is also prettier than NYC and a lot smaller while still being a really nice place to be (also much better weather year round).

I love NYC too, it just has different advantages imo.
Ukraine war: Russia's 'undefeatable' missile doesn't work well, UK Intel
To quote myself in the YouTrack thread.

> This is excess hubris from a Product Manager who decided it was a good idea to force a plugin on users. This is hostile behaviour. I bet the conversation went like this: "Yeah, they'll learn to love it; it's soooo great what we have to offer with this cutting-edge technology!"

I really do hope they reconsider this Product choice.

> I reckon they need to recoup the investment of running AI servers; I know it's crazy expensive, but JetBrains, this is not the way.

I bet because of the investor pressure, they had no choice but to jump on the AI bandwagon this way. Between the sword and the wall, CoPilot is going to eat their bacon.
Hmm, looks like DNA debugger with breakpoints and step by step running.
I came here to remind everyone that college radio streams are almost all ad-free and still a great means of music discovery.
Also many many many hobby/community radio stations streaming narrowcasts focused on your favorite obscure musical genre.
Radio.Garden is a fun place to behold the breadth and depth of what's available, right now, subscription free.
Remote work has made people pursue more space. I live in NYC in an 8 apartment building. 7 are 2 bedrooms, yet only 2 apartments have more than 1 person living in them.

Somewhat ironically, you have people choosing to stay single and not have kids, which gives them more money to spend on themselves for more room, which eats up housing and drives up prices.
Yes, Bonnie from HR gives me the shudders. The enthusiasm!
The stigma that many UNIX circles still think .NET is Windows only, and will describe you .NET Framework as the current .NET.

Quite common in many circles that haven't kept up with .NET, nor are the kind of people to waste their lives in places like HN, Reddit, or spend evenings and weekends coding the next great app in Github.

Many of these people do hold management positions, and will favour non-M$ technologies for their company.

Yes I wrote M$ on purpose to stress the company culture.
What makes this different from other low-code/no-code editors out there? Retool, Appian, Kuika, etc.
As well they should have. You realize you don't need a gym to exercise right? Walking and body weight exercises are totally sufficient and free.
I don't care to be in the center of attention I guess and I'm very comfortable with silence.

When I socialize with friends typically 1h is enough.

I don't "collect" friends. I only get close to people when it makes sense. I am not socially inept however, just selective
Can we just have financial penalties per compromised user for these companies already?
That stereotypical image is wrong. Also, there is real complex stuff created there. Some people like such environments and wouldn't like sitting in quiet places - being where stuff happens has its benefits, too.

How is success defined in those studies? Honestly curious.
The interesting experiment is could self policing work. As in somebody reports a crime with a cellphone. People of the public collect evidence, evaluate surveillance, catch the culprit, force him via service boycott to face a judgement of his peers and enforce a house arrest.. Could that actually work.. The whole institutional behemoth replaced with apps, databases and transactions.
Email notifications to replies?

Actually, this is a terrible idea don't do it.

Edit: I think there are bookmarks if you just click a comment timestamp and then click Favorite.
Extreme weather cost $80B this year. The true price is far higher
> life in NYC is largely spent just trying to figure out how to have a place to live

There's a lot going on in NYC, possibly more than anywhere in the world. And in fact, that's why people want to move there.
How would one go about receiving and decoding such transmission at home? I would assume it's doable, no?
Xfinity discloses data breach affecting over 35M people
They're just recovery codes by a different name and with a built-in hint. I could reset the password of half of my friends from what I know. For a random person, I could probably just use something like this https://www.fastbackgroundcheck.com/people/gavin-newsom/san-... and get almost all the way there.

As a user, if you want guessable recovery codes, that's fine. It's all in the threat model. The password for this account is very guessable. It used to be 000000. I don't care about any possible threat to it.
If you’re at a FAANG, especially at a $300k+ total compensation, NYC is very livable. In unit washer/dryer might be a stretch, but you can comfortably get a 1BR luxury apartment without much effort in a nice part of Manhattan.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2016/03/i-will-liter...

https://www.thewrap.com/hollywood-stars-donald-trump-violent...

‘I hope Trump is assassinated’

- Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal
Detroit was the center of manufacturing for "the hegemony," which is currently in the process of losing its control of the financial markets, just like they did in manufacturing.
> Coming from the Midwest, it feels very old, dirty and poor yet somehow expensive and desirable. What am I missing?

A counterpoint.

I don't live in NYC but do live in a similar major "coastal elite" type city.

When I visit the downtown areas of cities in the Midwest I'm always flabbergasted at how bad they are. Car culture reigns supreme, there's sprawl, while there's usually some portion of the inner downtown core that's seen a renaissance for the most part it's just empty buildings, especially at night.

Sure I can hop in a car and drive to some other area of the city limits, but that sucks. I'd rather be able to walk or take a short metro ride to my next thing. And my next thing. And my next thing. Similar, sure there are (usually) good restaurants. But they're also often a car ride away.

I'll grant that NYC is *so* large that it has similar issues. If one is in lower Manhattan and wants to get to Queens, good luck with that. But there's always something to do in a walkable radius.
To the given lists I'd append Ted Chiang and Peter Watts.
> Can you also give an example where "true randomness" would differ from the randomness I describe on the actions a human would take? That is to say, if a my internal model of the world tells me a coin landing on heads is 50/50 how does "true randomness" or not of the resulting coin toss impact how I should gamble on coin tosses?

It's pretty simple. If the world is fundamentally deterministic, then you should only gamble with someone who you believe doesn't possess knowledge you don't. If an advanced alien or an angel offers to call a coin toss, you shouldn't take their bet, since they might know how to determine the result of the coin toss based on the weather and the color of the coin tosser's pants.

On the other hand, if the universe is fundamentally random at every turn, then you can safely take the bet: nothing they know could give them more information than you have about the result of the coin toss.

This is very similar to the difference between pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) and sources of true randomness in a computer. There is no test you could do on the outputs of an RNG to determine if it is a (good, cryptographic-grade) PRNG or if it is a "true" RNG. However, if you're gambling based on the results of a PRNG, you should try to find out if the one you're gambling against doesn't happen to know the seed (in which case they can predict with 100% certainty what the next number will be).
Those issues are not separable. The performance of memory and caches can determine which algorithm is best. This is the basis of the entire field of cache-aware algorithms, which routinely beat the pants off of theoretically superior algorithms.

In my experience (which is in video transcoding and in research astrophysics - both domains where it matters!), if you really need to squeeze out performance, you have to design with the target platform available for profiling and benchmarking from the beginning.

Edit to add: I agree wholeheartedly with your top-level comment! I just am perhaps more extreme than you; I don’t think “laptop benchmarks” can ever be twisted into being useful.
*statutory penalties

You can already seek financial compensation through the tort system[1]. It just sucks right now because you have to demonstrate harm, which is hard. Having a law that's like "each breach equals $50" makes lawsuits go much more smoothly.

[1] eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach#Litig...
People don’t believe it, but cities used to be cheap.

I wasn't really aware of this, but was just wondering about it the other day, as it seems like logically they should be cheaper; economies of scale ought to help for both housing and infrastructure, I would think. Interesting to hear that expensive cities aren't necessarily inevitable.
I'm in the middle of a massive migration. Tables, joins, APIs, and lots of plumbing are changing. (Ordinarily we'd sequence this into phases, but we're moving fast.)

I got a 3,000 line change in yesterday without getting bored. All while I'm also juggling a ton of other responsibilities.

Tab, yep that's right. Tab, yep, tab yep. Tab, yep.

This tech makes a huge difference. It even helped write the tests.

I'm not being lazy. I'm a recent convert.

Moreover, two of my colleagues are entirely new to Rust, and the time at which they've both been able to learn not only the language fundamentals but the codebase astounds me. They're of course reading all they can, but this tooling makes for one of the best tutors.
While primate studies are useful to understand some of the human behavior I question their use to explain all human behavior.

I would like to think that we have evolved new ways to live in complex societies.

We have non-primitive languages for instance.
It would be nice to have an international standard color to signify that "this agent is not under human control". It could be used for self-driving cars, LLM generated text, a symbol for diffusion generated images, etc.

When direct human agency becomes the exception rather than the rule, we'll need a contrasting color to signify that instead. The complementary color to turquoise is amaranth, #E04050. Not quite blood red.