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Shareholders of large corporations, are, in my opinion, a "parasitic class".

I believe buying shares in early stage companies improves the world, since it helps new technology and new efficiencies form.

But at some point, after the IPO, it just becomes endless "extraction of rents", and it is what leads to "enshittification" (to invoke Cory Doctorow's term) of everything. At best, it is a zero-sum game, where hedge funds take everyone's money (see the movie Dumb Money about GameStop short squeeze). And of course, there is even regulatory capture, with 2020 bailouts by the Fed exceeding its mandate to bail out the stock markets.

It would be great if future IPOs would be replaced with ICOs, where the shareholders would actually be bought out by utility token holders. If you need a metaphor or example, imagine "Disney Dollars" being used to buy out shareholders of Disney, Inc. The Disney Dollars are actually bought by customers of Disney World, Disneyland or Disney online platforms, who pay for actual things, and they get paid out to people working in Disney World, Disneyland, or on Disney IP. The people who visit Disney World or work there actually care about things like paid health insurance, or the quality of the local water, etc. It's more democratic. But the shareholders don't. They'd be glad to fire everyone and replace them with Westworld-like robots if it increased profits and dividends.

If cities had their own currency, then they wouldn't go bankrupt like Detroit did. Once upon a time it was Motor City, but then all the factories got automated and the money for cars went to shareholders around the country. It gutted the economy of the city. That's what happens with shareholders of large concerns that have "made it" and went IPO.
While the risks you mentioned are indeed valid risks, it doesn't automatically mean that these risks (however small or huge they be) outweigh the benefits the Flet project offers.

It's somewhat of a niche project, and certainly not for everyone, or for every project, but it's an active project with some real users.
It's definitely Maccas in AU. Maccies must be a UK thing.
Annotated data sets help, and ChatGPT-4o says 2+2=4 just fine. It also gives the right answer for 920,384 + 293,848. It can also read X - 12 = 14 out of an image and get 2.

1984 having 2 + 2 = 5 makes sense in context as a human reading the book, and ChatGPT dot-producting the book can also compute the context and not say that 2+2=5.

ChatGPT's not Mathematica, and we already have calculators. My hammer is terrible for driving in nails, so I don't use it for that.
Emulation of Battle.net is a DMCA violation, therefore a felony violation of copyright to use or distribute in the USA.

There is PVPGN, which has recent activity: https://github.com/pvpgn

Microsoft owns both GitHub and all Blizzard IP, so it's only a matter of time before they send a DMCA takedown order to themselves to remove this copyright-infringing material :)
Humans often do reasoning poorly, or choose not to use reason, or have a mistaken idea of what answer reasoning would give. They still have the ability to do so, which LLMs do not
Throttle because of your arrogance and poor assumptions based on thinking your reality is everyone else's? Boo fucking hoo. Stay in your sad world and we'll stay in ours.
Sure, and even ideas that have been written about can be more precise and complete, perhaps by writing more about them, for example, so no one has fully formed ideas by this logic.
I think it's possible to use tkinter to develop even modern apps which don't look primitive, there are many open source projects which have done that including the IDLE editor itself, a part of core python project. The only issue is that it sometimes becomes excruciatingly difficult or painful to even perform some very little non-trivial things (like customizing a data-grid with a different style or having multiple tabbed pages) which are quite a simple task in other toolkits as they're already available in the form of a widget or component.

If ever I decide to leave tkinter, I think a viable alternative I will try is free-pascal[1]. It's a more comprehensive and well-thought toolkit for creating GUIs, more importantly it is also open source and cross-platform. It's the FOSS version of Delphi IDE.

[1]: https://www.freepascal.org/
I hadn't looked at the article yet, but when you mentioned those ads, I started to wonder if I had been on his site before. Clicked and sure enough, I've read his amateur telescope making stuff.
And yet the data is ephemeral, so in many cases could be done faster without the "real" block storage guarantees.

Github Actions is pay-per-minute-used, unfortunately, so they may have a negative incentive to speed things up. Unless people become frustrated enough to switch to a non-bundled provider.
Unnecessary hierarchy is a cancer. CEO's aren't geniuses or rockstars, and if executives can't convince their employees- the actual technical people who will implement whatever plan is- that a given plan is the right one, 99% of the time that means it's not.

Good management is about leading people (i.e. who follow voluntarily), not dragging people along.
It was a Sunday, as tends to be the case with these things, urgent care not open. I could have gone to the ER and spent the rest of the day there in a queue for service, or wait and go to urgent care on Monday, but if you wait that long they won't stitch up a cut anyway. I didn't have any loss of feeling or movement so I decided to just clean it out, bandage it up and let it heal.
In as frank a kleptocracy as ours, slotting people into boxes convenient for machines is both simpler and cheaper than getting machines to perform well in boxes convenient for people.

But the latter is coming, it’s just more work than raising capital to buy Hopper and pushing the scale.
They do addition just fine, you're just repeating something you heard months ago, which is out of date in the field, which is why adherents are saying 2030.
> European colonisation began due to rise of technology

Technology enabled colonization, but that's not what drove colonization.

> just because a country is at the top now does not guarantee that it will be at the top forever. A quick look at history will tell you that

No one is making this claim. Every empire rises and sets.
Knowledge is not always cumulative, but you have to be aware of its prevent contradictions to refute them. This is a point in Kuhn’s “Structure of scientific revolutions” that I think is neglected
> Convincing the enemy you’re producing too much (or too little) of something to get them to waste their time and energy is a classic counter intelligence move.

So much so that it calls into question the entire idea of clandestine wartime intelligence having any exceptional value.

> WW2 was won largely with logistics and economic might + reasonable tactics.

I think people who say this simply haven't counted the dead.

> Applying the economic might effectively was part of that.

Which had essentially no bearing on our problems with Japan.
Most of the body is cells. Most of cancer would be rogue cells. Cancer can be cured if you can:

1. Identify rogue cells
2. Destroy the rogue cells.

You can use technology to do both and pretty much ignore biology.
Looks good. How do you "done" past days? Sometimes I don't actually miss the habit but not have the time to open screen.

I also created similar habit tracker app for mobile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yedev.habi... The unique thing is that I use google drive to sync habits
This is really interesting for another reason (which is kind of buried at the end of this article).

A variant of the gene EPAS1, which occurs at low frequencies in east asia, and relatively high frequencies on the Tibetan plateau seems to be identical to the variant found in Denisovans, implying that Homo Sapiens got it by interbreeding with Denisovans, and natural selection on the Tibetan Plateau maintained high frequencies of this gene in Tibetans specifically since it confers some resistance to high altitude hypoxia.

This is a somewhat rare example of both gene introgression across species (or subspecies?) and positive natural selection, and on top of that its happening in humans!
You can specify different exports based on environment in the package.json so you could ship TS files… alongside JS files, so it feels a little redundant.
Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
Covid lockdowns and supply chain disruptions raised prices which should have been temporarily but there wasn't enough incentive/pressure to lower them so we're experiencing 'elevated' inflation higher than normal under current conditions. Combined with capital being funneled only few areas (AI) leads to disruption of companies and employment too. I suspect we're in a correction but needent be extreme or prolonged, only find an equilibrium.
They may not be frequent, but they do happen https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...

And given enough public modules, we will find some conflicts in the dependency graph. YOLO just use the latest version is rarely a full solution.
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> how founders think

The fact you literally believe your method of thinking is any different than other employees is exactly why 90% of startups fail.
Can I get some links please? Interested in what's out there too.
A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library. Verify, Sign, Encode, Decode all day
It's easier to meet the people where they are. If they eat rice, feed them better rice.
In case it helps anyone else, my wife gets migraines immediately from eating anything with milk, onions, corn, green beans, bananas and a few others. However, she can eat all of the above if it is organic. We’re from the US and visited Europe (Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands) and she could eat anything there, organic or not. Hope it helps someone.
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> You don't want to automate your job, I don't want to automate my job

? I have been automating my job since day 1, with shell scripts and Python and ansible and terraform and anything else that suits that work at hand. Granted, I'm a sysadmin so maybe it's different for others?
I suffered from migraines for over a decade. They were infrequent at first but, at the peak, I was getting 1-2 a week and felt like I was just "surviving" in life. I saw countless doctors and specialty clinics, none of which offered long term relief other than drugs.

For me, Rizatriptan helped take the edge off pain but I always had more migraines than pills could safely relieve in any given month. In the end, most months I had to choose whether I would get relief in the moment or save the 1-2 remaining pills for the following week(s) before a refill.

I had every blood / allergy test available and none ever showed any issues. I thought there may be a correlation to gluten but there were times where gluten (bread) helped with the nausea side effects.

Ultimately, I gave up gluten, coffee and sugar all at once. Within weeks I felt better and suffered no migraines for over a year until I decided to test the waters with a flour tortilla. Within a few hours I was bed ridden with a migraine for 2-3 days.

I have worked sugar back in to my diet in moderation but gluten and coffee are still out. I have only had that one migraine in 3+ years.

Anyone suffering, the absolute best advice I ever got was to keep a food / pain log. Do it every day no matter what. It may take a week, months or a year but it will uncover something that will help reduce frequency. Also, listen to your body. I had numerous doctors tell me I didn't have any food allergies and to focus on other areas for relief. Every single one was wrong and I could have had a cure years previous.
> when images can no longer be trusted

That trust was indeed why photo hoaxes were such a staple of pop culture [0].

Even as photo manipulation was mildly easy to do, the basic assumption was people wouldn't spend their time building a convincing lie.

Now we've been already in the "What's a photo" area since the first Google Pixel with extensive computational photography at the snap of a button, and advanced editing tools even for those who won't bother opening Photoshop.

TBH I'm pretty relieved we've hit that stage where the first reaction will be to wonder if it's "real".

[0] https://amateurphotographer.com/iconic-images/best-photo-hoa...
they have also faster vram with 24 Gbps chip
> anywhere there is a rainbow flag really, I don't know that anyone could argue against intersectionality and post-colonialism as being examples of the marxist movements that the CIA fought the cold war against

Yes, when Raytheon or some BigTech front for mass surveillance splashes the rainbow colors across their logo, that's 'Marxism' at work!

Plenty of Marxists are actually quite skeptical of intersectionality. There's vigorous debate on the left as to whether its ultimate role (if not to say its intended purpose) is to undermine class analysis and solidarity with an endless kaleidoscope of trumped-up divisions.

The idea that Marxism has captured Hollywood is likewise bollocks. The films it churns out relentlessly champion narcissism, power fantasies, fast cars, and the MIC.
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> lists of radioactive isotopes in order of half lives

ChatGPT-4o does just fine with that. Basing your opinion of a whole technology based on a poor implementation of that instead of the best one doesn't seem like the best analysis.
They are call Ærsbelgir
Small AI boats sail a rough sea in search of the new world. They can sink, never find land, or get sherlocked by massive frigates if they do.

Everyone knows it would be better to fly, i.e. go up one layer and build generic public infra instead. But then they just float off into the obligatory-xkcd-verse: https://xkcd.com/927/
A good summary of what I was trying to say is that most companies could do with more leadership and less management.

It sounds like we agree.
Vitamin-A enriched foods are indeed a solution that can be implemented by swapping a single component of an ecosystem rather than the complete overhaul that you're proposing.
Eclipse Orion was abandoned. Theia is based on VSCode not Orion.
> In a research published in Nature, Martin found that mice who ate a diet supplemented with purple tomatoes lived 30% longer than those who didn't.

Do humans who eat more blueberries than tomatoes live longer?

Second thought: given all the ways we have to extend mice lifespans by 30% I'm surprised we don't have effectively immortal mice yet.
> that all the reasons we have not done that in the past do not continue to apply.

Your plea would be better if you mentioned what the actual reasons are.
Yes, I recommend shipping TS source alongside compiled JS+d.ts even if you don't support a TS native environment, because you then have the potential of a source mapped debugging experience within that library (though currently doing that is a bit painful in some debuggers).
Why Duluth is proving to be a Superior travel spot
Random audits can put enough fear into people to keep them honest for much lower cost.
DHH has talked about this the last few months. He now recommends running locally on your own computer instead of server. CPUs are so fast now.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-re-moving-continuous-integratio...
The comparison the author makes with astronomy doesn't support their point at all.

First, it agrees with the notion of a burden of knowledge, by agreeing that improving the Ptolemaic model took huge amounts of time to learn its intricacies.

Secondly, the Copernican alternative worked not because it was simpler, but because the Ptolemaic model was wrong. There is never a guarantee that a model we currently is is wrong and can be replaced by a substantially simpler model. Maybe someone brilliant will come along and find a simpler model than quantum electrodynamics, but maybe they won't: it's absolutely possible that, say, QED is the right model, and we can at best make it even more complex to explain more details of phenomena.

Finally, tools only get you so far. Tools don't necessarily encode some of the scientific knowledge you need to advance fields. They are a separate track from it.
Great idea!

Doesn’t work well on mobile safari
There are dedicated apps (for insurance companies etc.) that will certify the photo by taking it straight from the camera feed and sign it.

That still allows to shoot fake subjects. Let's say you build the image on a high resolution screen and shoot it from the app with low resolution, you get a certified fake photo. Making the room too dark for good ISO, or purposefully shake the phone for instance should be enough to significantly lower the details if the app accepts the shot.

But at least, part of the pipeline is secured, in the sheer "this photo was not edited afterwards" sense.
www.airwindows.com may help.
Spooky parallels to the Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merger. Thanks so much for sharing the history, great ideas and suggestions, and a lasting question to answer around how to defend the model from the barbarians.
Arguably yes. In this day and age of prosperity and technological development of our species, isn't it unethical and morally depraved to let children to die of malnutrition when a simple change could help?

Iodine enrichment of salt achieved much the same in so many countries.
That's a problem with all human endeavour. To paraphrase captain picard, sometimes you do everything right but still fail.

The only way to never fail is to never try.
I dunno what you wanted to wager, but I would still be interested in the holes in this answer.

https://chatgpt.com/share/e84800dd-c714-42d4-977b-b446c5c5ed...
But also, if more writing can always make the idea “more complete,” then no one at all (even the people who write) has any “completely complete” ideas.
> Cloud resources on servers with more CPUs then I have

The server the resources run on may have more CPUs than your dev machine, but are you allocating more CPU to the specific test job than you desktop has?
Unusable on iPhone 13 mini. Couldn’t log in as the OTO entry screen was not visible.
These graphics have a lot that reminds me of Rock and Roll Racing for some reason
Did anyone else's brain refuse to parse this sentence?

"Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become?"

What is that supposed to mean?
Here in the United States it’s awfully hard to get decent medical care if you don’t have either a full time job or have access to the entitlements system.

And lacking a full-time job doesn’t make you eligible for entitlements.

In the modern US we convert improved productivity into looser labor markets and invest enough into ubiquitous surveillance and militarized police that nothing comes of it.

I hope it’s better wherever you are, but here you don’t want your job automated unless you stay on the payroll, which by definition can’t be everyone.
Sure, I mean - let's just simplify the whole system. 1 Cup of genetically infused full daily-meal Rice®™℠ for every single person on the planet. One cup sized serving portion of nutrient material. Yum.
That ended rather abruptly for such a colorful buildup.
The LLM is an LLM. It runs on computer hardware which has an ALU, but that doesn't make the LLM a calculator. The LLM can, however, call out to a calculator to do addition when it deems necessary.
Any technology purpose built to interface with cells would be a biological technology.
This video reminds me of when I first went to Japan decades ago. I switched on the TV in my hotel room early in the morning about 6ish or so to be greeted with a very enthusiastic and entertaining teacher with Einstein-like hair teaching calculus in front of a blackboard.

I then thought about what kids would be watching back home at that hour of the morning and I was ashamed to think of the opportunity that we in the West had lost.

Incidentally, whilst there I never missed watching the program. I couldn't understand what he was saying but I sure understood what he was writing on the blackboard.
Yeah, hard to see why anyone would pay for it
Enough diagnostic tools? Hah. Most cancer detection assays are pretty much garbage if you were to compare them to the latest advances in say deep learning image recognition models.

You can actually compare the sensitivity/specificity for PSA prostate screens versus something like ResNet for image recognition. The latter is in the high 90s for both metrics. The former can be as low as 0.06 for specificity if you want to actually achieve high sensitivity (detect prostate cancer with extremely extremely high false positives)
Indeed i kind of felt similar. I'm just not sure what the thesis of this piece is supposed to be. Is it that to write deeply you should question your assumptions and follow your argument to their logical conclusions? Is there something more that i missed? Surely that goes without saying?
That combination is also when I stopped playing blizzard games, except for a short stint with Hearthstone. I also wonder how many were lost because they didn't continue to cater to the core player base.

Or maybe they did, and people like you and me were just left behind. Maybe a cultural difference between those who experienced LAN parties and those who didn't.
reverse filter. selects for the most motivated hire-ers
The shortest distance _is_ still a straight line, it's just not a cartesian line.

Hamming distance (which is what the entire article is about and somehow doesn't mention it, or edit distance, or anything along those lines) is still a metric space, and still follows all the standard triangle inequality properties.

If you convert your standard tree into a BK tree, suddenly all the assumptions about tree structures come back.
That's the thing with Michael's research, he injected an oncogene into a tadpole, and then made the tumor cells reconnect with the surrounding tissue and become healthy again, all while the gene was still strongly expressed.
> Writing helps refine your thoughts.

Very true. Indeed I would go further and say that unless you are capable of expressing your thoughts as words, then those thoughts will have no more substance than steam.

I thought I was a clear thinker until I entered academia. The many reports, instructional materials and academic papers soon enough showed me how wrong I was.

Edit: the illustration to this article is one of the most appropriate I have seen.
Free e-bike charger is a plug. I don't think there is a standard for e-bike charging bricks (but USB-C 240W might help), and the charger is in photos. I'm guessing that the paid ones have tap to pay or use app to unlock. They also seem to be rugged. It is impressive that they are all over.
> I hope it’s better wherever you are, but here you don’t want your job automated unless you stay on the payroll, which by definition can’t be everyone.

If the "fixed amount of work reduced by automation" assumption that is necessary to support "by definition can't be everyone" was true, >99% of humanity would per permanently unemployment by the past progress of technology.