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I had the misfortune of suffering through a multiple sclerosis diagnosis when I was just 18-years-old, and the bottom line cost for that (only outpatient care) was approaching $50k in 2001. I imagine that price has more than doubled since. It caused my financial condition and professional development to crash and stall just as it was beginning. It’s impossible to know what might have been, but I sincerely believe that my circumstances, and the limited options for mitigating their long term effects, cost me (and by extension, society) at least 10x that initial bottom line cost in missed opportunities, and lost productivity/wages.

What makes the issue so terribly entrenched, apart from our peculiar association between health insurance and employment, is how utterly opaque everything about healthcare costs are. Both systemically, in that it’s much more difficult to craft policy, as well as practically, in that for many (most?) individuals it can be impossible to know in advance how much any given course of treatment might cost, and no opportunities for “shopping around” or price comparisons.

For most Americans, and companies, I think our healthcare system is essentially a very short-sighted and inefficient tax. For others—people in situations such as mine, and very probably for a meaningful portion of the ~30M-50M Americans still uninsured/underinsured—it’s an unreasonably high burden that accounts for so much more than just the money spent, and a constant specter clouding their lives in uncertainty and risks. For the self-employed and entrepreneurs, it’s a crucial consideration that defies simple calculations, and just by the averages will have prevented a significant number of potential endeavors from ever leaving the initial planning stage and/or denied startups access to otherwise valuable talent. We should be pursuing bigger picture policies, and while I’m not arguing that the federal government is a good answer to everything, it’s clearly the answer to this kind of management of universal needs with clear societal benefits.

Sorry for the lengthy comment, my hamster brain was apparently restless. For anyone who did, thanks for taking the time to read.
Apple is only sticky to those who buy into the ecosystem. Those whose a single Apple device (or 2) without paying for any Apple service are not trapped in the walled garden
American here without a super expensive vehicle, but still a pretty normal life.

There are plenty of adequate cars for $5-10k, even with the current used car price insanity.

I agree that dealerships are parasites, but so far it seems like it's pretty easy to avoid dealing with them.
The copy is atrocious.
At the end of the day, there's a trust issue.
The way distribution works nowadays, mitigates a lot of those. Making it decentralised would be a step backwards.
The emergency act was used after the bridges were clear, to stop a peaceful protest in the nations capital that pissed off the minority government. You can go on YouTube and see endless live video streams of it. At no time were any lives in danger.

“You can’t protest, there’s a government here!” - Ottawa residents
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I got an Apple watch for my 11-year-old for precisely this reason - he can text, call, and play some games on it.

Subscription to cellular is $10/month.

And it let me set parental controls on it.
No way was I getting him a phone, it's already way too distracting with the other devices he has access to at home.
It's clearly targeted at the Indian market. Stellantis EVs like the e-C3 are fairly competitive in India [0], and India is crazy about SUVs and Jeeps (eg. Toyota Fortuner and the Mahindra Thar and Scorpio).

Most likely it's an attempt by Stellantis to compete with Mahindra's upcoming Thar EV [1], the same way Toyota, Suzuki, and Maruti Suzuki all use the same EV platform globally to compete with Hyundai and Honda EVs in India.

[0] - https://www.citroen.in/new-ec3

[1] - https://www.mahindraelectricautomobile.com/
Why aren’t indexes for FK relationships the default?

If you really don’t want one there should be a hint/pragma to turn it off.

It’s just such a stupid reason for a full table scan.
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Revenue is $1m. Earnings are less than revenue, because you have to pay for salaries & stuff to generate the $1m in revenue. After expenses of ~$750k, the business earned roughly $250k in profit. Thats' real money the owner(s) could put into their personal accounts.

Businesses are typically valued as a multiple of their earnings (in the stock market, this is the P/E ratio). For hardware/e-commerce companies, 2.4x is in the range of fair value.

Again, you multiply by the earnings and not the revenue. That gives you the actual sale price.
No, they are paying $500/month for 6 years. The people who buy new cars (or often lease) are getting rid of them after 3 years - long before those small things are breaking. Those cars go to used car buyers who drive them for 6-10 years, and they eventually decide $500/month is worth getting something newer that doesn't have all those small annoyances, while the car goes on to someone poor who will live with anything that gets them around cheap.
The fantastic is sufficiently detached to provide an allowed, apolitical outlet for social commentary, where more realistic stories would be censored.
It's honestly easier to buy a car private-sale than through a dealership. I did it last year and it was the least painful process I've ever seen. The seller and I went to my credit union, we both signed paperwork that gave the loan officer the legal right to execute the sale on our behalf, she conducted the sale all herself including the title transfer, I got a car, the seller got a check. Neither of us had anything to do after walking out the door.

I legit don't think I'm ever going through a dealership ever again.
Your second point I either don’t correctly understand or seems to fly in the face of a lot of proven techniques. Chain-of-thought, react, decision transformer all showcase that order of output of an LLM matter because the tokens output by the LLM before the “answer” can nudge the model to sample from a higher quality part of the distribution for the remainder of its output
How is color grading applied if not with LUTs? You know that when you do color grading with apps like Resolve, it is stored in memory as a LUT, right?
Is there a vscode extension that could plug any model out there and have a similar experience to copilot. I always want to try them but I cant be bothered to do a whole setup each time.
Sam Altman "Wrecks" OpenAI – Jan Leike Joins Anthropic [video]
This is legitimately super interesting, but I can't help imagining a wave of "alpha male bootcamps" where you pay thousands of dollars to handle cat feces for a weekend in the hopes of being infected.
I don't think he took an L at all. He now has successfully built, and sold a company. While being a dev at Google is somewhat elite, the number of people who have executed a successful sale is a tiny fraction of the number of FANG devs (or whatever we're calling FANG now).

There is a very high probability he gets offered a CEO position at some company that is looking for an exit path. That type of thing will usually come with a nice salary and a minimum 7 figure payout on exit.

As of this specific date, his bank account might be slightly lower than had he stayed at Google. 5 years from now it will almost certainly be significantly higher, and if it is not, it is more likely because he chose a path that he preferred.
The characterization of the scientific method as proposing hypotheses and then putting them to test was given by a philosopher in the previous century. While the hypotheses that this is the character of the scientific method is still very common, it was refuted long ago, both by observations and by logic reasoning.
Postgres calls these foreign data wrappers (FDW)

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
> If something brings a 5% boost to the productivity of the World, it has a value of 5 trillion per year.

What happens if something brings a 5% reduction in productivity? It's already getting harder to find reliable information thanks to AI spam.
Is it possible to download an entire copy of zlibrary?
Note that I am ONLY talking about a mode to use for limited, trivial OLTP style queries. The kind where the query planner will never be in doubt -- if you just have the right indices in place.

The kind of simple backend software queries where people consider NoSQL instead to avoid SQL's oddities.

The mode I talk about is very inappropriate for any kind of reporting or analytics query or ad hoc queries etc.

> "Slow" beats "not working at all" in almost all cases.

In the specific context specified above, I disagree with this.

Mainly because "not working at all" will be caught during testing (because you should have test coverage of your SQL queries). Slow = undiscovered during testing.

But even assume you didn't have test coverage and the code made it to production -- yes I probably want a seldomly used "DeleteUser" API call to crash if foreign keys were missing indices, instead of doing it anyway and consume lots of DB resources.

> Just keeping an eye on slow query logs and/or query performance statistics is the general approach.

The feature I proposed was to help newbies learn SQL.

This requires expertise in the team, and easily shifts work away from the newbies in the team writing SQL (don't think properly through indices during development) to the single SQL expert in the team.

Depends a bit how your work is organized etc; I like that SQL indices etc are as closely linked to the backend development process as possible; not considered a post-optimization..

If you get the error, you can either make the index you need for a perfect and trivial query plan -- or declare "non-trivial mode" and be back to today's situation.
The point was that for many tasks, AI has similar failure rates compared to humans while being significantly cheaper. The ability for human error rates to be reduced by spending even more money just isn't all that relevant.

Even if you had to implement checks and balances for AI systems, you'd still come away having spent way less money.
And what is that, in your perspective?
I would be glad if the bomb actually landed on my house.

Unfortunately I live near Paris and an explosion there would mean that I would suffer with all the consequences without dieing on the spot.
ICE engines today can got 500k miles - most cars don't last that long though because other things go first. My wife's car runs great at 220k miles, but we want to replace it because of all the little things that are broken - things that are completely unrelated to the engine and would fail just as likely on a EV.
There was a ~€20k electric car from the VW group. It was called Skoda Citigo iV but they axed it. Seems like they are walking in circles.
They did for a bit and then Powell was wheeled out and everyone got in line.
The board's primary responsibility is to hire and fire the CEO and ensure the company's mission and values are upheld. The board's decision to fire Altman was within their rights, but their communication and execution were criticized.
You probably won't find out exactly what they're doing any more than anyone's going to find out a whole lot of details on what OpenAI is doing with GPT. But, as the popularity of GPT demonstrates, it seems that many business customers are now comfortable embracing closed models.

There is more information here, though: https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-embed-v3
Wouldn’t BFS only require Lombok’s presence at the build step rather than after deployment?

Or is your stance here against it showing up a a transitive during development when including sources written with Lombok? If so, that’s pretty extreme; the build dependency surface of many packages is really huge. Do you have issues with other large or opinionated build depends (protoc, schema downloaders like buf, test frameworks)?
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Your bar for violence is so low you might accuse me of it for laughing in your face

It is 100% inconvenience, and if there’s one thing that can not be tolerated in these times, is any sort of inconvenience.
Aren't the RPMs signed?
I don't want this to turn into a big support thread, but I'm always surprised by this stuff. It's not like the algorithm has some case for small services like this, like Google's spam detection is heavily based on "you sent lots of messages, they're very very alike, significant numbers of users marked them as spam", because that's the actual spam problem. Source: I've worked on political campaigns. I'm not saying you did anything wrong or incorrectly, just that I'd love to know what was really going on.
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I think you misunderstood. The author explicitly says they are motivated. They just don’t want to be more motivated than that.

> Maybe it makes me less motivated, but I don’t really want to be more motivated. I consider wanting to be more productive very lame, like you’ve been cucked by the patriarchy and capitalism. I have goals like everyone else, but I feel like achieving them quicker or more efficiently is less important than my overall enjoyment of life.
Nuclear survivability is weird. See Akiko Takakura who survived the Hiroshima bombing with essentially nothing but minor cuts, bruises, and burns (requiring minimal medical intervention) due to the pressure wave and heat despite being less than 1/4 mile (300m) from the center of the Little boy explosion and well within the supposed "lethal range".

What she had going for her was that she was inside a reinforced concrete structure (in the lobby of the bank of japan) and not standing directly near any windows or doorways. That she wasn't crushed or injured by damage to the structure was the true stroke of luck. The people who were inside and away from windows or doors were largely safe from the unique threats of the bomb (fire, radiation, pressure wave) but were still subject to the extreme lethality of being inside a large stone or concrete building that has been largely destroyed by a bomb.

Also she limited her exposure to radiation contamination by getting out of the city ASAP and not drinking the contaminated water. As a result she didn't even suffer radiation poisoning I believe.

With modern knowledge of nuclear attacks, the survivability seems a lot better. If you happen to be in a good, sturdy concrete building (which many are nowadays) at the time of the blast and you don't succumb to mechanical trauma that renders you unable to escape, your odds are quite good if you follow some basic rules:

1. Cover your airways with a mask or at least a rag to reduce dust and particle inhalation.

2. Avoid drinking or eating from unsealed sources where possible. Doubly so for uncovered sources. i.e. bottled water (or anything else sealed) is best. Liquid in an unsealed container is OK even if it isn't ideal and water from open bodies of water or the rain is very very bad.

3. Get out of the immediate disaster area and find a gathering point for medical attention, evacuation, and relocation.

4. Maybe keep some iodine tablets on you to help protect your thyroid (however this is really only a concern for reactor failures and only minimally so for bombings). Take within less than 4 hours and once every 24 hours after that.

If you are in a good position at the time of the blast and you can do those big 3, you have really, really good odds for survival. If you are lucky enough to be able to check box #4 as well that's just a nice bonus.
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> People are greedy af.

Personally, for smaller developers, I attribute this more to ignorance than malice (greed). Pricing is hard so they just look around and pick what they see happening around them without taking a moment even to think, forget about doing actual research.
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Pro-tip: use a portion of your freedom to exchange goods and services for money to pay rent and purchase provisions from Food & Stuff®.

“…it’s where I buy my food, and most of my stuff.” ~ Ron Swanson
Relative to gas it’s still good in some locales. But it depends on your local Supercharger pricing (e.g. 11 cents per KwH in PDX, hard to beat that) and your local gas price. Ymmv.
You know that packages are signed right? That's why everyone can be a libreoffice or ArchLinux Mirror...or Fedora?
I think it’s pretty simple with S3, and the permissions are basically “keep the bucket private”

That said, this is very much an MVP and I’m sure I’ll encounter some dragons as I push for scale or as I receive feedback from customers
It's very serious. The BEAM had a problem in that it lacked solid number-crunching libraries, so some folks solved that, and when they did distributed ML-capabilities kind of just fell out as a neat bonus so some folks did that too.

So now it's integrated into the basic Livebook, just boot it and go to that example and you have a transcriber or whatever as boilerplate to play around with. Want something else from Huggingface? Just switch out a couple of strings referencing that model and all the rest is sorted for you, except if the tokenizer or whatever doesn't follow a particular format but in that case you just upload it to some free web service and make a PR with the result and reference that version hash specifically and it'll work.

Python is awful for sharding, concurrency, distribution, that kind of thing. With the BEAM you can trivially cluster with an instance on a dedicated GPU-outfitted machine that runs the LLM models or what have you and there you have named processes that control process pools for running queries and they'll be immediately available to any BEAM that clusters with it. Fine, you'll do some VPN or something that requires a bit of experience with networking, but compared to building a robust, distributed system in Python it's easy mode.

I don't know what the goals are, but I perceive the Nx/Bumblebee/BEAM platform as obviously better than Python for building production systems. There might be advantages to Python when creating and training models, I'm not sure, but if you already have the models and need to serve more than one, and want the latency to be low so the characteristically slow response feels a little faster, and don't already have a big Kubernetes system for running many Python applications in a distributed manner, then this is for you and it'll be better than good enough until you've created a rather large success.
I did not give consent to train on my software and the license does not allow commercial use of it.

They have taken my code and now are dictating how I can use their derived work.

Personally I think these tools are useful, but if the data comes from the commons the model should also belong to the commons. This is just another attempt to gain private benefit from public work.

There are legal issues to be resolved, and there is an explosion of lawsuits already, but the fact pattern is simple and applies to nearly all closed-source AI companies.
Wait until their Mexican factories spin up! We'll finally get our cheap Chinese cars, via Mexico.

Viva Mexico!
So they can hire me instead, of course.
The point of an MIRV system is flexibility.

Yes, smaller targets might get one RV.

But larger targets (the 'cities' under discussion here) are allocated whole missiles as a "cluster" as (due to the inverse square law) it's more effective to have multiple middle of the road warheads (in the 0.5MT range) than the single multiple MT warheads when you look at if from the perspective of damage over surface area.
Packages can be and generally are signed and verified.
Au contrare, the toyota hybrids are some of the most reliable vehicles on the road. Don't blame fuel efficiency for a lazy design from an automaker.
God is the root of all evil, he created it after all.
Wouldn't the radiation also excite the scanner?
My neighbor has BMW z3. He has same story about its lights, which fail more than you'd expect.

Also: It's a hard top convertible. The mechanicism stopped fully opening or closing. Bummer. Two repair shops gave ridiculous quotes to troubleshoot and repair.

Using a scanner (generic OBD II scanner with BMW's specific codes), we narrowed the search. The ultimate fix was just two $15 switches. Being noobs, it took us some effort to detach and reattach the hard top.

I don't mind the labor effort (costs). It is a BMW after all. But it's ridiculous that these cars can't report their failing electronic bits.
> Reagan era neoliberalism

Personally, I loathe Ronald Reagan, but neoliberalism and deregulation started in the US under the Carter administration.
>They make plenty of EVs at that pricepoint in Europe (especially France and Romania)

The Dacia EV is made in China, not Romania.
I actually wish this were true because of more predictable gc pauses
> herd immunity absolutely exists

Yes. Who said otherwise?

> and is an effective way of reducing the spread of viruses at scale, sometimes significantly so.

I don't follow. Doesn't herd immunity mean the herd is immune? As in, there is no transmission and the pathogen either dies or fades to the background?

Either way, eventually almost everyone caught covid (obviously with some exceptions), no matter how many shots you got or didn't get.

The strongest point in favor of the "social good" argument is that the shots reduced severity of infection, thereby reducing hospitalizations and freeing up hospital beds for random accidents. But the overflowing hospitals issue wasnt nearly as bad as it was made out to be as I understand it. And we'll probably never know for sure how many hospitalizations were caused by the shots themselves, because only lunatics think that something with vaccine in the name can harm you.
mhhh, and the phone operator too
> these are also costs that you’d pay for postgres replication.

Some places define a 2nd (private) network interface for their VMs, and you can transfer data between your VMs over that private interface without cost.

Not sure if AWS does it that way though.
Is there any particular reason we need to speculate instead of simply letting the case happen and seeing what it looks like? This is basically fanfic masquerading as reporting? I assume the parties involved will not be forming their legal strategy by reading wired.
Was there not research in the past few years that took a look at motorcycle deaths and there was some correlation between the individuals that did not wear helmets and those that were also infected with toxoplasmosis?
"The economy is doing fine — it's just the people who aren't."
Update: if you choose one of these names, I’d like a lifetime free account please.
I will probably make a post when I launch my app! For now I’m trying to figure out how I can host the whole system for cheap because I don’t anticipate generating much revenue
The horns died down after a few short days, after a reasonable concession was made.

I have a feeling hardly any Canadians at all know what really happened in Ottawa even though there was and is extensive live video evidence streamed and stored on YouTube.
Exactly this. People feel like wages have not been increasing. In reality wages have been increasing, but employers are passing most of the increase over to health insurers.
The market is pushing for all SUVs, more than 70% of new cars sold are SUVs or Trucks. The car companies don't decide to make all SUVs, the consumer decided they only wanted those vehicles and the car companies obliged.
That seems to argue for a first pass with a blocklist to filter out the well-known ad providers, and then possibly a followup step with the ML to catch things that are trying harder to slip by? But the extensions would have to cooperate to make that possible.