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> Yes, they'd still need to spend (using my made-up numbers) $160 instead of $80 on care/benefits, but the profit pool still increases -- a perverse incentive to raise premiums.

So they're still not just increasing profit by jacking up premiums, they have to actually find another $80 of benefits to pay out. If subscribers don't have those costs, they can't just increase premiums. If they raise prices to $200 but only end up with $90 of benefits to spend they have to cut a refund.
Sure, I agree that 600+ MB of RAM use is not a big problem for most people, but the context here is in the comment I was responding to, which pointed out that it's not much more than the "lightweight" DEs, so you might as well just use Plasma.

My point is that that's a recent-ish change, the lightweight DEs used to use less than 150 MB of RAM, and it's rather surprising how much the gap has closed. I don't know any truly lightweight DEs; to get small you have to use a tiling WM like i3 or sway.
If you're on the fence about putting time into something, and they start micromanaging you in a way that you don't agree with, you're less likely to bother.
Can't tell if you're trolling or serious, or what your specific situation is, but you should be either telling your tech lead to please stop doing that, or asking your manager or HR to tell them. This is not acceptable behavior in a normal workplace.
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How did scientists figure this out? Did they attach a flying bird to an MRI machine?
The 1964 Surgeon General's report was the first major government acknowledgement of evidence that smoking was harmful. You might visit this hyperlink: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/history/index.htm
Hopefully people justifying these firings don't also unironically post stuff like "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" at other times...
Humans anthropomorphise everything, I’m pretty sure it is how we run general intelligence software on small pack hunting tribal creature hardware: we model evolution as a clever sentient trickster and speculate about how does things.
Wow, so much potential here!
> numerous

Yes, numerous
No AI, No LLM, No BS, just Pure C and WASM (with a little bit of magic)
Google is well past the “good times” period and is now in survival wartime mode.

Good times exposes the very weak folks when the company starts to fight for its own existence.

I expect this to happen to all companies where the perks, free money, etc begin to disappear.
yup, 1-6 were super easy, for 7 i had to change strategies. got nothing on 8.
IIRC it's RSS reader features are fairly minimal; I switched to converting rss to e-mails and injecting them into a folder on my IMAP server; then any e-mail client I uses handles thinks like "marking as read"
It’s just as wasteful to put the food on my ass as it is to put it in the trash, as I tell my spouse on occasion.
What do you use on the frying pan? I mostly but sunflower because I like the taste but also use olive oil often
Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking – some 'rapidly'
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Honestly, they’re all great. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Bilbao.

I had almost no idea about Spain before I moved to Europe and soon realised that it is a friendly place with amazing reasonably priced food and some of the most amazing artwork. Every new city has these qualities and adds its own stories and beautiful architecture.

Also Spain is to gin and tonic what New York is to pizza and Australia/New Zealand are to coffee: they did not invent it, but they certainly perfected it. a giant fish bowl of gin mare and good tonic water filled with ice and maybe some rosemary for scent.
This is remarkable! I had goosebumps talking to the AI agent.
We’ll see what happens next.
> Meanwhile new media is full of new names making money and pleasing audiences who are wondering why Old media got so stuffy and boring.

Wow, that’s quite a stretch.
Is Platonic realism valid? I need to know before I plug in this toaster.
You might be extra sensitive to noise, and if so, you'd be entitled to reasonable accommodations from your employer.
> Does Japan National Tax Agency also let you see other details - like parent company of the entity, or any other information?

Not from the tax agency. For a KK you can get a list of investors from the legal affairs bureau for a small charge, and for any kind of company you can get a history of who has ever been representative director or equivalent. AIUI it's possible to have a "silent partner" setup where you have a partnership or GK and the representative is a lawyer rather than the person actually operating and profiting from the company, but there always has to be at least one publicly named representative.
The episode was parodying the hype around a product code named "ginger":
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/dean-kamen-viral-my...

Personally, I'm offended they omitted the Cobra Buzz Boar. That's all I see when I look at these monowheel photos/designs.
I felt this way in Europe too, excluding perhaps London.

A lot of people just seemed content and satisfied with their lot in life, without much ambition or drive to improve their position. Is that a good or bad thing? I honestly don’t know. In this point in my life, I don’t particularly like it. I love visiting Europe but would not want to live (and work) there. Maybe I’ll think differently when I’m older and or retired.

Versus the US and Asia where many people are trying to claw their way to the top. Obviously most will not get to the top, but many do end up improving their socioeconomic status to varying degrees.
Maybe at 1 or 2 bits of quantization! Even the Macs with the most unified RAM are maxxed out with much smaller models than 405b (especially since it's a dense model and not a MOE).
No, being obese is never healthy. Somehow society has been brainwashed into thinking obesity is normal and healthy. Completely wrong. I highly recommend exercising and being in shape. You can eat more calories if you exercise more, if you just like eating a lot of food.
>Or is there some other mind-bender that would explain why "the" single electron appears to have a trillion times it real mass when that electron's timeline happens to be considered at a particular slice of space and time?

Wouldn't this be explained by the mass attraction of the electron alone in point A, vs the aggregate attraction of the electron creating a larger "cloud" by being at multiple points (to e.g. form a whole sun)?

As long as this "jumping from point to point" is immediate (or much faster than the speed of transmition of gravity attraction due to mass), that would appear as a much higher mass, no?
> there's reasons that kids should absolutely not ever do this, because there's a lot of really crappy humans who might try and exploit the kids or do otherwise horrible things

I know you're just making a CYA disclaimer, but that's not an effective approach to creating future adults. It just produces old children.

Good on you for doing this and hopefully your parents would have assisted you in staying safe (and polite) rather than stopping you.
It might be large enough Q2 won't impact performance too much (not guaranteed), but that's a great point.

Time to invest in a Milan-X! (Already have the 512GB of DDR4)
I have my queue workers maintain a list of task owners they've already processed, and prefer to get a task from an owner they've least-recently seen (or haven't seen) using `ORDER BY array_position(:seen_owner_ids, owner_id) desc`. Each new task's owner_id is inserted into the front of the list (and removed elsewhere if it exists).

But I have a relatively small number of possible `owner_id` values at any given time.
"Censored" is the word that you're looking for, and is generally what you see when these models are discussed on Reddit etc.

Not to worry - uncensored finetunes will be coming shortly.
HBO, aka Max, has gone downhill a bit now that they've mixed in Discovery channel reality-tv-filler with HBO cinematic offerings. It just doesn't fit together. Luckily, HBO is licensing to Netflix.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-04/hbo-s-...
Disrupted/hijacked multiple trainings and seminars to push his agenda, and persisted long past the point where it was made clear to him his input was no longer welcome on those matters. He was also arguing a lot on mailing lists with a lot of people about the same kinds of ideas that were in the memo. Basically turned a lot of people off who didn't want to be working with him after that. It was more than just writing that one memo; it was a whole pattern.

Did that merit firing? Eh, I'm not particularly interested in reopening that debate. But it was certainly more complicated than that he wrote that one memo.
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> underfunded and not charging appropriate premiums

Sure. But Sacramento has a secret disaster recovery plan: Appeal to Washington for a bailout.
Yes, looking into that for sure.
How an Obscure Chinese Real Estate Start-Up Paved the Way to TikTok
It could be the way you're talking down to me while stating obvious facts, or it might just be that I don't appreciate someone coming in here to "what about" a thing I said about one single, specific CEO, the subject of the thread and the person all these comments are about, but I'm done with this conversation.
This is a bug in how Minecraft does things, not a bug in the generator itself (which has long been known to be vulnerable to such things).
It's the fallacy of perpetual motion and conflation between a Turing machine that requires net external energy to operate and a passive Rube Goldberg machine.

While one can create combinational "logic" out of valves or dominos, it's impossible to create sequential logic out of passive physical objects.

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It's my firm opinion, and that of many people who've looked at it, that flipping over the bars is caused by the rider not bracing themselves as they use the very powerful front brakes.

https://www.renehersecycles.com/how-to-brake-on-a-bicycle/
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

If most cyclists don't use the front brake, that is their loss. Most advanced cyclists, in my experience, rely heavily on the more powerful front brake.
The problem is never arbitration. The problem is mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements which have, after considerable research, shown to be a negative for consumers. If it were really better you could always select arbitration as a part of the ADR process during during a standard Civil suit.

This is also an area I care deeply about. And have read north of 2000 pages of cases, analysis, and position papers on the topic.

I also have a list of about 90 more documents to read. Slow but steady progress.
Richest country on earth and still there not enough money to clean up this child's bedroom.
> I cherry-picked a sentence from the summary section for the sake of providing a representative statement of the content of the article relevant to the discussion.

"cherry picking" is a term used to talk about picking the "nice" context and not picking the "not nice" context, and therefore depicting the situation in a misleading way. The article that you quote was a reaction from the APA to the Black IQ controversies and is widely viewed as the APA taking the position that saying "Whites are smarter than Blacks" as not supported by APA. It is what someone understand when they read the full conclusions (other interpretations do not make sense).

> Feel free to provide the studies that demonstrate this.

It's very easy to find them. The fact that you are not aware of these shows that you are not very aware of the state of the art in the subject.

But for example:

Kaplan, Jonathan Michael (January 2015). "Race, IQ, and the search for statistical signals associated with so-called "X"-factors: environments, racism, and the "hereditarian hypothesis"".

Birney, Ewan; Raff, Jennifer; Rutherford, Adam; Scally, Aylwyn (24 October 2019). "Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer"

Dickens, William T.; Flynn, James R. (2006). "Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples"

Nisbett, Richard E.; Aronson, Joshua; Blair, Clancy; Dickens, William; Flynn, James; Halpern, Diane F.; Turkheimer, Eric (2012). "Group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin"
Meta: the minimap is quite interesting, it's 'just' a smaller copy of all the content.
That's about as useful as "there is only one complex plane no matter how many regions and functions we work with".
Well, it does makes sense, and there has been research and experiments to see if it is something else (and, compared to early descriptions of an electron, it has been shown to be something else: QM, further subatomic particles and all that).

You can argue that this is because we measured better, but even for some of the things we can't measure, we still opt for specific explanations of how they "really are" over others, even if they describe the same phenomena and have the same measurement accuracy.

If anything what you say is just a particular philosophy of looking into what those models mean, not some definitive truth.
insightful comment. I'd like to think that Google will integrate AI in an at least mostly useful way, but it's clear that large scale reorgs like this around chasing a competitor can and do end badly.
I worked the job. I was on a white crew mostly and more than half of the guys I worked with drank on the job or came in hungover. A lot were on oxy and nearly everyone smoked cigarettes or did dip. Some were high (very few) but you can’t really function high, those types self selected out.

The clean guys were christian or the overseer/managers. So imagine a team that high/buzzed out working a very hot physical job, up and down a ladder, things going over your head… people make a lot of mistakes.

It is not heat! We’d already slow down noon (take a long lunch break) and did not pick up fast until 2:30 or 3:30 depending on cloud cover.

You can McKinsey me with statistics but I’m trying to very explicitly say it’s not the heat. It’s everyone on the crew being wasted and hungover on the jobsite. I had a guy throw a roll of flashing clear off the roof into me. People fell going up the roof. You could have these guys working in the shade, having 2 shots and a monster in you is gonna still gonna cause problems.

Software engineers are not drunk or hungover and doing something physical or else there would be a higher injury rate for them. If you stick a pointless law of roofers need heat protection, it’s only effects the Mexicans and takes their work. If you want that then fine by all means.

Come to Florida and go to a roofing job. Nail guns are quieter during the hottest part of the day.

The Mexican teams work through the heat and faster this way :

1. More of them. 20-15 vs 7.

2. They pay each guy less because some are illegal so they can afford more guys

3. They switch off more often. If you have 7 guys you can’t switch often. 15 you can stand in the shade more often, recover faster.

4. They don’t drink as much! I worked 2 weeks on a Mexican team and everyone was sober. Some of the younger kids looked a little hungover a few days but it was night and day difference. The jobs went much quicker and if there was no language barrier I would greatly prefer that team.

If the Mexican teams disappear roof prices go up. I don’t think it improves the substance abuse of the white teams. Everyone else can charge a little more.

My main point is the idyllic work environment you are hoping to enshrine with law is really a wage protection law against illegal roofers and doesn’t help the substance abuse.

The Mexicans are not loaded, carrying shingles up a roof while all the white guys are hungover getting outworked and realize they are losing bids. Rather than lay off drugs or lower pay so the crew can enlarge they smartly sponsor a bill to allow them to continue substance abuse while scaring the Mexican teams out.

Do you deserve a cheaper roof or do white drunk crews deserve more money? I side with the Mexican crews because they make even less, live in the US and don’t use so many substances.

I got hurt 6 times, once was my fault - the rest was my coworkers!
I have the same electron, but more fun than yours, since it's making my hair stand up funny.
Yo Leijurv this is so sick! As a fellow game hacker this sort of stuff is super inspiring.

My girlfriend and I watch all the fitmc videos even though neither of us play minecraft, and love the ones detailing your insane tooling the most.

Ever since we watched the nocom one I’ve wondered what you do professionally - are you in the infosec space?

With the amount of math and computer science knowledge you put into your work I would guess more in algorithmic trading or something like that. No worries if you don’t want to answer, just curious!
Right, exactly. This is like those companies that buy new cars, tear them down, and sell anyone who wants a 1200 page report about all the new technology in the car. Frankly, I think you'd be crazy to not understand your competitors technology in depth. They might be onto something. If they don't want you to steal it, that's what patents are for.

This process seems a lot more ethical than, say, hiring an employee and "hoping" that they'll have the same thought process at your company that led them to an innovative trade secret at their former job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#Large_onl... ?
As far as Safari-compatible ad blocking extensions, I've been reasonably satisfied with AdGuard, and it's free with some paid nice-to-haves which I don't use, but hear good things about. It's available on nearly every browser and operating system, including Android and iOS. It's also open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard

https://adguard.com

https://github.com/AdguardTeam
UT2004 was released half a year before Halo 2 though.
Well there is our confusion. I think that WW2 had a great distortion on what is considered "normal". I think that we have been living in a wartime economy mentality ever since.
I working towards a more local scale which is pre-ww2.
With the recent Easter holiday, I noticed that a lot of the chocolate candies were hollow chocolate shells, rather than solid chocolate that I remember as a child. I chalked it up to shrinkflation.
I'm seeing the same behaviour. It's as if they have a post-processor that evaluates the quality of the response after a certain number of tokens have been generated, and reverts the response if it's below a threshold.
Yeah I'm in the toughest phase of idea extraction. Which is: hey I want to talk to you but I have nothing to say, YOU do the talking. That's CRAZY hard, especially on LinkedIn (the low hanging fruit I admit). I already extracted a few ideas from motivated docs or 1st/2nd degree real-life connections, and I could move forward with those on a separate front. But what I thought was going to take me 2 hours a day is actually taking the whole damn day, every day.

I had this doc tell me in the most condescending way possible that she could make good bank if she charged my kind for all the free advice she's giving out... And denied me the advice until I demonstrated my worth. And then her advice was a bunch of shitty platitudes.

I had this psychologist basically suggest I write an essay about why docs are driving change in healthcare. I obliged.

On the other hand I had a wonderful doc out of SC who straight up shared his screen with me, unprompted, to show me his problem. This is the kind of guy that gives me hope.
There goes my expression "Nobody ever got fired for picking AWS" ;)
> JIT optimizations like devirtualization

JIT devirt can be nitpicky, PGO has improved the situation greatly but until around 6.0 or 7.0 devirt was easy to 'break' in a lot of common scenarios.

Heck, tying into the generic composition bit, ironically static generics still have issues right around devirts. Go figure.
For many searches I'm using Chat GPT now. No ads, cleaner, text only, I can ask follow up questions.

I can't ask (yet) what's the weather today or Champions League matches today. Also I know it might has errors, but Google Search first results are doubtful this days.

I look up some searches that I did on Chat GPT lately:

- Types of leucemia

- Miles davis discography

- Hour difference between Buenos Aires and Bogotá

- What's Romeo and Juliet is about

It is great to me. Besides TikTok and Reddit I will add Chat GPT to the Google Search list of current threats.
nix modules have types. in flakes they can be quasi statically verified
If you can go forward and backward in time, you can make your mass appear in multiple places. Your 75 kg (or whatever you are) can appear in NY Times Square, simultaneously with an appearance in Champs-Élysées.
If you are in the US, doctor's offices are typically small businesses that function different from hospitals. When I was in insurance, doctor's offices tended to be less savvy about HIPAA.

They became doctors to practice medicine. Most likely, their pain points have to do with all the non-medical parts of running a small business, including staying in compliance with regulations like HIPAA.
Call it what you will, but it'd be silly if Meta let these 700M+ customer mega-corps (Amazon, Google, etc) just take Meta models and sell access to them without sharing revenue with Meta.

You should be happy that Meta find ways to make money from their models, otherwise it's unlikely that they'd be giving you free access (until your startup reaches 700M+ customers, when the free ride ends).
Yep; I definitely log the seed and re-seed every few seconds.

Most software I work on these days is non-deterministic anyway (it involves the network, etc.), so CI is fundamentally going to fail some runs and not others.

Even stuff like deterministic simulation has this property: Those test suites rely on having a large number of randomly generated schedules, so there's always a chance that running the test one more time (with a new seed) will find a new bug.
If TikTok made a "game" where you watch and click ads to earn gift cards, I do expect EU would also ask TikTok to "explain this so-called game".
Japan doctors sue Google over negative reviews on firm's map app
Meta Releases Latest AI Model, Seeking to Build Out Rival to ChatGPT
https://archive.ph/VwRY2
I wish you could download this without giving them your contact info