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The same reason the US props up any other militarily relevant tech, whether or not always used for that purpose. Protectionism of local industry.

See: chipmakers, telecom tech, aerospace tech, etc.
I would contend the coal lobby successfully killed terrestrial fission power. It would have been a good replacement in the 60s and 70s when solar was still underdeveloped but now solar has worked out enough kinks that it's intrinsic advantages (larger exposed construction surface allows for better parallelization, less significant failure modes allows for weaker regulatory environment, less significant scaling advantages allows for easier "right sizing" of installations, and others) are going to be hard to surmount.
> Sony had established the PS3 would use Blu-Rays a year before the Xbox 360 was even publicly announced.

How is it related? We all knew Sony would use Blu-rays, but if HD-DVD won the battle, then PS3 suddenly loses a big chunk of its value - it's a good, "cheap" Blu-ray player.

> Xbox 360, but HD-DVD or Halo wouldn't have been any of those things.

HD-DVD sure, but it's unrelated to what I'm saying.

Halo - not so sure because it only really took off after the second installment IIRC. There were a few titles that were supposed to compete with Halo at launch of PS3, but Halo won.
It’s encouraging that we can get domains like aviation to 5 or 6 9s of reliability with human scale systemization. To me, that implies we can get there with AI systems at least in certain domains.
California's tech industry works because there is a long-established tradition of lawbreaking in California. We pass all these regulations, and then ignore them. Sometimes the more enlightened legislators put in explicit carve-outs for businesses of less than 50 employees or a $B in revenue, so that startups don't have to actually break the law, they can just ignore it. But they're going to ignore it anyway, so the carve outs really serve the law's benefit rather than the startup.

In practice, the way California tech startups work is

1) Break *all* the laws.
2) Get customers
3) Raise capital
4) Profit!
5) Hire lawyers to bring the company into compliance with the laws.
6) Hire lobbyists to bring the laws into compliance with the company.
7) Try to prevent your employees from doing the same thing you did.

Steps #5-6 aren't limited to a particular state. At that point, you have buckets of money anyway, so you contort your company structure and product into a configuration that is legal in as many jurisdictions as possible, including internationally.
Bullshitting
I don’t get it.

Why is scraping Shopify domains a goal / interesting?
Yeah so that is one of the possibilities, people start making their own shovels.

There are a bunch of others:

People start getting shovels from somewhere else even if they aren't quite as good (AMD).

They realise there is actually only a small group of them buying literally all the shovels and they use that position to force more favourable pricing.

Another company works out how to make a better shovel, or worse something that isn't even a shovel anymore and is much more efficient at mining. (These don't exist for training yet but there are inference chips that make NVidia look terrible in comparison)

etc.

The fact of the matter is that it's not a stable situation, something has to give. Hype can allow these sorts of massive imbalances to exist for short periods but there is always balance in the end.
Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)
Oh wow, it's even worse than I remember then. Surprised 360 had any sales at all then.
I feel like the paper slips solve those problems already, in the same way they are solved today with single-use plastic badges.

The plastic ones can already be forged, switching to paper wouldnt make it any easier as long as you don't publicize what it will look like in advance.
No one is claiming LLMs "believe" things. Well, maybe someone is.
In one instance they gave up the IP address of an email user to law enforcement (with a warrant I believe).
I'd equate Nvidia to being the seller of materials needed to make a specific shovel shown to be very good at digging gold. Microsoft and their kiln are buying all the materials to make their own shovel shop. They're also buying their own shovels. But that's probably being too pedantic here.
Hallucinating has the implication of being wrong. The word further adds the context of being elaborately wrong. That feels pretty accurate to describe an AI going into detail when it is wrong.
> Now the only Adobe product most of us at work have is except Acrobat Reader.

[I think you didn't mean 'except']

I haven't had an installed copy of Adobe Reader on any computer I've used in the last 15 years.
Apple improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia
No, unless you count 2009 as "recently", which was the time when the last coal power plant construction in Germany started (GKM 9). And yes, that was a mistake. But it was certainly not "recently".

In 2020, the last coal power plant was connected to the grid (Datteln 4). It was delayed, as it wasn't clear for quite a while whether it was even legal. But the decisions that have been made to build these plants were made 15-20 years ago.
To pretend that he had some option to just say no thanks on giving up information is so incredibly naive.

He did have a choice in the sense of go to jail or give up everything he knew for protection.

We can all very publicly see the decision he made but whatever his motives may have been for his initial leak (though I would argue it too was in no way a net positive) that clearly doesn’t extend to what happened beyond that when he applied for asylum.

I think the truth of the matter is that he didn’t have a clear step 2 in his plan, realised he was in way over his head, panicked and did something very stupid afterwards.
You don’t change what is already defined (even if only by inference). Change is only by amendment. Will you successfully amend the changes without also changing what was previously defined if all you have is inference to go on? Probably not.

That’s assuming change is even necessary. Oftentimes you only need to modify the implementation, which doesn’t change what is defined. A change in implementation has no impact on the outside, at least as long as you have properly covered your bases, which should you should be able to do as long as you have proper documentation. Without documentation, good luck to you.
Could you add more scientific information about optogenetics and/or LLLT (low level laser therapy). Skimming over [0] now.

I have some LLLT devices [1] and interested in the topic. Regarding LLLT I saw good temporal changes in people with dementia (sample = 2). I am not a doctor so I cannot give precise information more than a close observation. Novak Djokovic uses LLLT [2] though.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9063588/

[1] https://weberlasersystems.com/

[2] https://doctorjkrausend.com/ep-423-the-taopatch-tennis-star-...
Not for students.
CS6 single product was up to $250, CS6 DS $350, CS6 MC $800 compared to CC 1st year $240 increasing to $360.
If you only needed a single product you were off worse after one year. Even doing a bachelors which required all products would have been less expensive with the one time fee if you had the money.
>Adyen

>Revolut

Those have 1% of the revenue compared to the top American tech companies (individual, not combined). The rest are private and I suspect have even less revenue. If those are the best examples of "tech successes" you can think of, you're proving the parent commenter's point.
Maybe you don't. A lot of people seem to find it useful though.
I'm gonna find some reason to use this for my Battleship game too!
I was an architecture undergrad (bricks , not bits) in the early 00’s and everyone had pirated software. And then we all got hired and brought our quiver of technical skills with is into industry and convinced our managers to purchase the tools we knew so well.

Now as the manager making decisions, I actively search out alternatives to Adobe due to the overwhelmingly poor experience (cost, bugs, support, tactics).

I know folks who keep VMs for the explicit purpose of running releases from 10 years ago.
Mine was pretty easy to fix - I was surprised how simple it was. IIRC, there's an inlet valve, a circulating/heater pump, and an exhaust pump.
I was a student of one of these so called smartphone free schools and I used my smartphone during class time. Just because it was banned. So I highly doubt this'll work.
Oh no, I guarantee you the current way is making Adobe more money. They wouldn't be doing it otherwise. It's not a mistake.
Cool idea. But, if I personally wanted that functionality I would code my own solution with a shell script I think (because it is super easy to do).
I disagree - there are two independent systems at play here - human success, and evolutionary success.

It's unlikely that there are many ancestors of Eleanor of Aquitaine that achieved more human success than George Washington. However, George left this world with zero descendants and his line effectively ended with him. Whereas I'm sure there are a bunch of duds out there who are the same relation to Eleanor of Aquitaine and produced 9 children who each produced a handful of children.
It’s not really the main point of the article so it gets glossed over, but it sounds like Bilt was deterministically generating card numbers and expiry dates? That’s wild.
Isn’t that sort of what a UML diagram is?

I suspect they aren’t used often because most programming is carpentry rather than engineering. Which isn’t intended as a slight… my life would be much less pleasant without furniture.
> They did this to expose protestors and people who upset the powers that be, rarely real criminals.

Source? How exactly do you know what cases of people the legal orders were about?
Maybe to use known vulnerabilities and take over sites?
Draytek.
What do you mean? Can I just buy a dish, don't activate any subscription and just when necessary enable roam?
I have user rtings.com for product reviews. Limited items of course but quality reviews.
Doesn't stop them from making marijuana illegal and putting people in prison, does it?

That said, I think enforcement would be more effective for drones. Marijuana can be effectively enjoyed in the privacy of your own home, but that's only true for a limited extent of drones. They're noisy and usually flown out in the open where annoyed neighbors can narc on you. Furthermore, just my subjective guess, I think people will be more willing to break the rules to enjoy marijuana than to enjoy drones. Marijuana is very effective at making a shit life tolerable, so people are more willing to break the law for it (and alcohol, etc).
And then he went to Stanford so hardly a failure...
Similarly to how a good engineer can be a force multiplier for a team and a bad one can tank the entire team, a good manager can also be a force multiplier for the company, team, and for you individually. And a bad manager, at best, will let you tread water.

If you have ambition and want to grow and learn, you should seek out another manager. (Note what I did not say: you do not have to seek out another _job_.)

A good manager will identify your career goals and give you a framework and guardrails in which you can launch yourself to the next level. A good manager will care about you personally ("nice") while being tough about the realities of the business ("serious"). When I hear about a manager that's nice but incompetent, I think of the term "ruinous empathy," which basically means they're so nice that they can't be effective.

Sometimes tough love is what people need, and even if it's not "nice," it's kind and it's the right thing to do.

You have, in my mind, a few options:

1. Be compassionately candid with your boss. "Look, I know your job is tough and that you're a really nice guy and care about us a lot, but if you let the little things slide, nobody will take you seriously, and I want to be taken seriously." If that doesn't work, escalate to the boss. Read up on ruinous empathy and be prepared to give examples. "They are too nice" isn't a good critique, but "Their reluctance to enforce discipline is causing problems A, B, and C" is hard to ignore.

2. Find a mentor either externally or within your company. This means finding someone that you respect that can give you candid advice on how to improve in whatever areas you are interested in. This does not have to be your boss. It cold be another manager at your company, another engineering leader, or even an HR person. Alternately, you can find a new job -- although that's not always guaranteed to be better, as other posters have pointed out!

3. You can abdicate responsibility, say "It's not my problem," and put your energy into non-work things. This is a totally valid approach. It's not what _I_ would do, but it's something that is totally fair. Maybe you want to level up your guitar or piano skills, or you want to get really fit. Take that extra energy you have and throw it into your chosen hobby. Spend more time with your family. Sleep better at night. Work isn't everything. It's just a job and a paycheck.

But my big piece of advice: don't settle. Don't settle for mediocrity. Keep pushing to be a better person, a better colleague, a better team player. Practice giving compassionate and candid feedback. Keep an eye out to avoid becoming obnoxiously aggressive or ruinously empathetic (two sides of the compassionately candid spectrum). Identify your goals, whether that's leveling up at work or leveling up in your private life, and go after them with gusto and abandon.

I've been where you are. It's tough. But you sound like the kind of person that can and will do better.

Best of luck to you.
Or you do what everyone else does, which is force everyone to adopt the SaaS model by revoking their licenses or otherwise bricking the software.

That's why it's important to own your own data in a way that can be reused and adapted when they try and screw you later. You see this all the time with video games nowadays. Everyone wants their own launcher and subscription services.
How else something contradicting western propaganda is supposed to sound like?

> all the fault of the horrible people pushing peace and democracy

Please don't push this "nothing was happening in Donbas before 22". It's ignorant at best and just cruel at worst.

Using the peaceful reunification agreement as a way to stall and to prepare for war against dissidents has nothing to do with "pushing peace and democracy".
Hi Jeremy here - I wrote this article. The deeper I got into studying this, the more I realised the people writing the laws that will regulate AI actually don't really understand what they're regulating at all.

So I created this to try to at least help them create regulations that actually do what they think they're going to do.

California's SB 1047, which I analyse closely, currently totally fails to meet the goals that the bill authors have stated. Hopefully this will help them fix these problems. If you have views on SB 1047, you can make a public comment here: https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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IMO, fines for deceptive or unfair business practices should never be less than the total revenue resulting from them.
Let's hope it safely returns home, it is becoming quite risky to give legacy makers contracts anymore even ULA which has a good track record of safety is has many tasks being delayed.
I tried going solo out in Berlin after a few years working for a couple of the biggest douchebags you could imagine. Same idea - I didn't like having to answer to a douchebag every day, and didn't worry myself about getting FAANG money, so I tried a B2B start-up that tried to automate some compliance issues that most companies out in Germany face. Didn't get the product market fit right, but learned enough to get me in front of a FAANG-adjacent company who had an opening and that was that.
I disagree with the EU on a lot of things, but when it comes to tech and privacy in particular, they're the gold standard in putting individual people first. As someone deeply involved in my company's compliance with GDPR, it can't be overstated how important it is.
Cognitive load for installing "yet another app" is pretty real. It doesn't matter how easy or seamless the experience is, part of the value for an app is to make it easier for repeat customers to use their service, and make them sticky. That starts with wanting to buy from them in the first place though.

If I'm on a road trip, and I need a quick meal, and my choices are "buy from place that makes me use their app" or "buy from place that doesn't make me use their app", I'm gonna choose the option that is more convenient to me, which is, the one that doesn't make me download anything, sign up for an account, and pester the hell out of me 2 hours after I have already forgotten about that particular fast food joint to let me know if that if I only buy 39 more Big Macs that I can get a free small fry.

I don't really want fast food to begin with. The food quality at any vendor has continuously gone downhill (or my standards have raised, could be some combination therein). If they want any hope of capturing my business still, they'll only get it if they keep that process as frictionless as possible.
Props for sharing the true date!
Source of your data over 20 years?

If you look at nonfamily child abductions, most of them involve kids between 0 and 5. Also in a significant proportion of abduction, the kid is not even targeted as it involve parents leaving the kid in a car and the car is stolen.
And why aren't they buying MI250Xs instead?
Came here to ask the same thing. Also, if they are all on the same IP, what about reverse dns lookups?
Exactly! The Chinese leadership is smarter than America’s leadership: just look at what they do. They embrace protectionism when it makes sense.
Thanks for chasing down the details! I knew about the split and vaguely remembered that one of them had bought Trader Joe's a while ago.
Because it can't. There are always cumulative errors in INS. There is no way around this without external references, but then it's no longer inertial navigation and it's inertial-assisted navigation.

An underground navigation system based on triangulation of UWB cells would be a better solution than some nonstarter project the size of a refrigerator that requires liquid nitrogen.
100x their current solid state batteries, not Lithium Ion. Maybe only 2x.

Still, doubling an Apple Watch’s battery life or 1.5x but making it smaller would still be great.
What'd you switch to?
I bought the Affinity suite and have gotten good value out of it. If at some point in the future new versions go to a subscription model, I just won't buy them.
>I’m a grown adult and I wouldn’t feel comfortable walking around London in the dark without a smartphone.

Can we talk about this for a minute? Suppose a big guy or a group of guys see you walking in London in the dark and decide to do you violence. What is the main way a smartphone can help you in your opinion? By giving you a chance to get photos of them? By helping you get emergency medical help after they beat you up?

I'm genuinely curious, not just trying to score points.

Is there some danger other than violence from strangers that you think the smartphone will help you with?
> This particular hype train has about 1-2 years more of gas until people stop being interested in GenAI.

Fixed that for you.
>> Judd seems to think he can wage an AI-on-AI battle and come out the winner, rather than just the subject of multiple civil rights lawsuits.

Oh, there will be a winner. Whatever "AI" consulting company/person has his ear will laugh all the way to the bank. The fact that, when asked, almost every AI consultant out there cannot explain thing one about how the software actually arrives at a decision is beside the point.
But if it required less investment, wouldn’t that free up cash for other investments and jobs? I don’t understand why projects which require more labor would be desirable.
The danger in demanding to just be taught how to be a good code monkey is that that increases your risk of getting stuck just being used as a code monkey.

My intro CS class was taught in Scheme. I haven't found what I learned in that class to be quixotic at all. Instead, I view it as setting me up with a strong foundation that colleagues of mine who learned in a more "popular" language lack. It's put me at a permanent advantage for designing and building software - even decades later, I find that there are ways of decomposing problems that I can understand easily, and colleagues of mine who learned on Java still have trouble with, because they simply lack the "design vocabulary" that would enable them to think about the problem in the right way.

We never again used the language past that first introductory course, but I still don't think it was a waste of time, because it allowed us to cover so much ground so quickly. In 3 months we went from basic fundamentals to building our own object-oriented programming system from scratch. That's amazingly powerful. A deep knowledge of what object-oriented programming actually is, and how it works under the hood, is usually considered an advanced and esoteric concept that few people really understand. Fast forward about 15 years, and having that kind of knowledge in my head allowed me to take a job at a Java shop, having never touched the language previously, and then within just a few short months have a deeper understanding of how Java works than colleagues of mine who had been using it on a daily basis for 20 years. So that they were coming to me for help with Java problems, despite having an order of magnitude more experience with the language.

Rewind back to school, and it's the same story. The second class in the freshman curriculum used C++. It was not a course in C++, mind - it was a class on algorithms and data structures. Learning C++ was just the first couple of weeks. And learning it mostly consisted of being taught the syntax and the build and debugging tools. The semantics for everything - pointers, classes, templates, etc. - took a negligible amount of time because it could be explained to us in terms of concepts we had already learned by building ourselves - in a 3 month intro class.
It doesn't matter, because it's a contract. Even if you cancel your card, Adobe can send it to collections, and it will show up as unpaid debt and negatively impact your credit score, which means you might pay more for your next mortgage or car loan.

This is not uncommon for businesses that use annual subscriptions. Certain gyms are particularly known for this. And with Adobe being so sneaky and aggressive about subscriptions, it wouldn't even surprise me.
Not to mention that washing machine PCBs have to function in an environment which is notoriously hazardous for electronics: very high humidity/moisture, and very high vibration. The last time I took a look at my washing machine's PCB while I was replacing the door seal, I noticed that it was potted in epoxy, which neatly resolves the durability issue which simultaneously making it impossible to repair. I don't blame them, diagnosing which component has failed on a circuit board which is constantly failing due to abuse and replacing it requires a much higher level of skill (and thus more expensive repairs) than just replacing the board wholesale.
Intel went into Rest & Vest mode after Haswell (4000 series) in 2013 - they hardly improved until 2020 - 6 lost generations of relabeled CPUs like 13000 - 14000 series (lots of money paid for innovative new igpu marketing names like 520 and 620!). They found out that community college talent does not make good employees in the C-Suite ... The iris pro 5200 (2013) wasn't improved upon until 2020 !