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Very true, I did exactly this.
First iMac was released in 1998.
The standard answer to this is teens are spending a significant amount of their time on social media which ends up replacing these other vices.
Best doesn’t need to mean best investment. Best could simply mean what he enjoyed most. He likely thinks fondly of a simpler time.
Well, yes perhaps. But I’m not taking a coach seat on an 18 hour trip from NY to Chicago.
Seems like sex has been trending down since the 80's or 90's. I dont think it was because teens had premonitions of the 2022 overturn of Roe.

Edit: It seems the correction actually goes the opposite direction. Teen sex is lowest in blue states that are most protective of abortion, and highest in red states. California take the cake with lowest teen sex rate [1]. Correlation obviously isnt causation, but it is interesting to see the clear cultural differences in teen sex.

https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/yo...
Imagine if every country had a 40% parts rule. You'd need to design a phone that's 4000% parts.
> The First Amendment protects you from the consequences of your own speech

It does no such thing. It protects your right to speak, but does not protect you from the consequences of what you say.
Using this for semantic chunking feels like a great idea. Did you continue investigating that (after the second newsletter)?
Amazon's product search is largely useless, at least in the UK, now. It typically returns many items that don't include your search term, are outside the price range you specified and are not sorted in the order you asked for. The top half the list being "sponsored" items is just the enshittified cherry on the turd cake.
Why logits are not log-odds in neural nets
When I want to run tests, I tell it to run the tests. When I want to install, I tell it to install. I don’t want it to run tests when I tell it to install. I don’t want tools who know better what I want to do than me.
Imagine viewing reading what is at most ~2 pages of text as an "investment."
Maybe marijuana getting a lot stronger plays a role here? I for one could smoke a joint while I was a teen, but nowadays the stuff makes me super sick every time, like the last two times I had to lie down and ended up barfing before getting better.
> That critic would be manifesting his ignorance, because there is absolutely nothing to gain by lowering the memory budget.

Well, that depends on information you haven't provided. Maybe your system does have an extra 900 MB of memory hanging around; I've certainly seem systems where the minimum provisionable memory[1] is more than what the system will use for program memory + a full cache of the disk. If that's the case, then yeah, there's nothing to gain. In most systems though, 900 MB of free memory could go towards caching more things from disk, or larger network buffers, or something more than absolutely nothing.

Even with all that, lowering your memory budget might mean more of your working memory fits in L1/L2/L3 cache, which could be a gain, although probably pretty small, since garbage isn't usually accessed. Absolutely nothing is a pretty low barrier though, so I'm sure we could measure something. Probably not worth the engineering cost though.

There are also environments where you can get rather cheap freeing by setting up your garbage to be easily collected. PHP does a per-request garbage collection by (more or less) resetting to the pre-request state after the request is finished; this avoids accumulating garbage across requests, without spending a lot of effort on analysis. An Erlang system that spawns short lived BEAM processes to handle requests can drop the process heap in one fell swoop when the process dies; if you configure the initial heap size so no GCs are triggered during the lifetime of the process, there's very little processing overhead. If something like that fits your environment and model, it can keep your memory usage lower without a lot of cost.

[1] Clouds usually have a minimum memory per vCPU; if you need a lot of CPUs and not a lot of memory, too bad. I don't think you can buy DDR4 SIMMs of less than 4GB, or DDR5 of less than 8GB. Etc
People say this as if Apple hadn't already been adding USB-C to their iOS devices for several years. There were pretty good reasons for holding off USB-C for the iPhone. It was likely to alienate a good number of customers.

I doubt Europe had anything to do with the timing.
I'm not sure where you learned that the US legal system is against religious discrimination in private organizations, but it's not strictly true.

Many religious organizations in the US openly discriminate against people who are not their religion, from christian charities and businesses requiring staff to sign contracts that state they agree with/are members of the religion, to catholic hospitals openly discriminating against non-catholics based on their own "religious freedom to deny care". One way they can do this is an exemption to discrimination called bona fide occupational qualification suggesting that only certain people can do the job.

In a more broad sense, any private organization with limited membership (signing up vs allowing everyone) can discriminate. For example some country clubs discriminate based on race to this day. One reason for this is that the constitution guarantees "Freedom of Association" which includes the ability to have selective membership.
Weed isn’t exactly expensive though.
>Freakonomics team has never backed down on many ridiculous causes they have promoted, including the innumerate claim that beautiful parents are 36% more likely to have girls and some climate change denial.

>And, as I’ve said many times before, Freakonomics has so much good stuff. That’s why I’m disappointed, first when they lower their standards and second when they don’t acknowledge or wrestle with their past mistakes. It’s not too late! They could still do a few shows—or even write a book!—on various erroneous claims they’ve promoted over the years. It would be interesting, it would fit their brand, it could be educational and also lots of fun.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/14/freakonomi...
I built and release https://rememit.com
We'll know soon https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-strix-h...
I like this one.

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1311997/
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Apple Intelligence is here, but it still has a lot to learn
Though it's worth noting that "significant water ingestion" is a design requirement of airplane turbine engines. You can see testing videos on youtube.

They are designed to fly through an amount of water (clouds) without damage or significant performance reduction.
I spent so much time playing HHGTTG [0] as a kid it is kinda embarrassing to admit to it these days. I loved all of the Infocom interactive fiction games. They were great. But very much from a different age of computing. I guess they are like the gaming equivalent of the difference between a book and a movie.

[0]: https://douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
NNs have complex non-convex loss functions that don't admit a closed-form solution. Even for small models, it can be shown that it's an NP-complete problem. In fact, even for linear regression (least squares), which has a closed-form solution, it can be computationally cheaper to run gradient descent since finding the closed form solution requires you to calculate and invert a large matrix (X^T X).
For just a tiny example of the "big-finance reality is much more inside-tradingish", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_network

Expert networks are an example of a side-gig which would compete with traditional "passive income" stuff for talanted tech folks.
Maybe, But still incredibly cheap for a teen looking to drunk. 1.75 Liters of vodka is $8.99 at the corner store. That will get 20 kids puking drunk for the price of a hamburger.
Non-alcoholic beers have gotten really good in the last few years. In the US, Athletic Brewing Company is doing great stuff. I haven't tried their IPA, but their lagers and lighter beers are surprisingly good and an adequate substitute for the "ritual" of beer drinking.
The java metric is also from a single core. But you are probably right that it should only be taken as a rough ballpark, but java is definitely in the same ballpark as go in compile speed.
"passive income", in it's original iteration, wasn't the idea that you could make money by doing nothing. The idea was that you made something or did something that you were uniquely able to make or do, and then the result of your labour would make money for you while you put in minimal continued effort.

the version of passive income where you don't do anything productive at all, ever, and just put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back, is always a scam. some people might come out ahead sometimes, but more people will lose than win.
"good reasons"? What would be those?
I'm a big Forth fan and I'd say lisp interpreters consistently come out smaller and better than their equivalent tiny Forths.

I don't think it's a reason not to be interested in Forth, unless that was the draw.
I once rearranged the coloured stickers on the faces. On top of cheating it looked very ugly afterwards. : )

(ps.: after a quick search I see that one can buy replacement stickers for a few bucks on Amazon :D)
Working on finding a job. Maybe in 2025 I can use these threads as a small devlog on the game I want to work on. But until then my progress has been "did questions on trees and backtracking". woohoo.

Though games for sale seem to be treading the line of the "no self-promotion" guideline. It's not coming out anytime soon and I have a very unconventional pipeline for developing it, so I think it'll be worth sharing the tech and process of that along the way.
Honestly, your steadfast insistence that you couldn’t possibly be wrong on this is fascinating to me. I’m happy to admit I made a mistake if I’m misreading the data, so walk me through what you think I’m getting wrong.

Please be specific: name the event subtypes you’re looking at, give specific references to the table numbers etc. If I’m wrong about this, I want to know.
It's pretty cool that you have such detailed knowledge into everyone's personal circumstances that you know they all have employment contracts and what the details of those contracts are.

Most people reading this right now are in the US, and the vast majority of US employees at at-will, which means no contract at all. Even for those with contracts, it's a pretty big leap to get to "IP theft" with anything anyone could reasonably work on in retirement.
Have at it.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en&co=G...
What investments do you think were better?

He's had far more income from other investments. But he turned $25 into $2000 in 3 years. That's around 331% profit per year, compounding annually. Given that he likes to invest in relatively mature companies, I can easily believe that no other investment ever showed a greater annualized return.

(Of course this calculation discounts his personal investment of time to run the business.)
If you like it, be sure to also check out Andrew Plotkin’s ‘Lighan ses Lion’ [0], an entry in WalkthroughComp run by Emily Short [1]. It’s not a game, just a transcript of a fictitious game, but well worth checking out for a chuckle... or as a brain teaser.

Also, the Beast puzzle in ’The Edifice’ [2] by Lucian Paul Smith comes to mind.

[0]: https://www.eblong.com/zarf/zplet/lighan.html

[1]: https://www.ifwiki.org/WalkthroughComp

[2]: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4tb9soabrb4apqzd
I can't recall ever seeing this option with the old System Preferences, so it might be new to System Settings; but either way, it's not universal. I have a 5-button Razer mouse attached to test with right now, and the "Mouse buttons" option doesn't appear in System Settings. It does, however, show up in the System Settings search results, which is nice and confusing ("here's a setting we found, that doesn't actually exist for you").
Well - in the case of porn, that’d be putting the cart before the horse.
This isn't an issue in the Go ecosystem, because the package name is the GitHub repo.

I don't think a high barrier to entry is overall good, in fact I think it encourages larger more complex packages to justify the maintenance burden
I'll throw my hat in the ring. I don't think that this is truly the primary mechanism. Maybe a contributing one, but definitely not the predominant cause.

Let's say that the average woman wants to have children every 3 years. This is probably a gross oversimplification, but it feels about right; most people I know who have multiple kids or siblings have a 2-4 year age gap. In the days of yore (for some definition of "yore") women would typically have children from the age of 19-20 until 40-ish. That gives you about 20 years to have kids, resulting in families with ~7 children. Again, this feels about right; go back a few generations in my family tree and you see families of 6-8 kids.

If spending time at school is the dominant mechanism then women would typically have 5-6 fewer years in which to conceive, and you'd expect families to have ~2 fewer children, making the average ~5. But it's, what, 2.3 children and dropping?

A quick google search for fertility rate showed that the last significant peak in the US was in 1957 (after a slump around the world wars and great depression). A second quick google search for "what happened with women in the 60s" immediately starts discussing the women's liberation movement, with increased rates of women employment and education. A third google search for "when did birth control come out" gave the year 1960 for the use of Enovid as a birth control mechanism, but an actual release date of 1957 for cramps.

If I was going to point fingers at an "obvious" reason for a decline in fertility, it would be that women finally had the choice as to whether or not they would have kids, and they had the means to effect that choice.
There are ways to make lots of money with no work and little investment. An example is buying lottery tickets.

The problem, though, is the risk goes up with the potential reward. Your chances of winning the lottery are indistinguishable from zero. But it's still there.
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It's been a long time since I've been into this, so my tastes might have changed.

But my favorites were:

Photopia, 9:05, and I-0 by Adam Cadre

The Enchanter trilogy. My first introduction to Enchanter was actually this unofficial sequel: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=x6ne0bbd2oqm6h3a, which I loved.

Slouching Toward Bedlam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bedlam

If you like Zork, "Janitor" will make you laugh: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=utic1iedvvnnsf3a

Also have very fund memories of Humbug and Jacaranda Jim (wow it took me a very long internet search to find the names.. I forgot almost everything about what those games were about, and all I had to go on is that they were DOS executables and that the author was some anti-virus author).

https://grahamcluley.com/misc/jacaranda-jim/

https://grahamcluley.com/misc/humbug/
I've seen countless people upset that Apple is now "forcing" them to throw away their perfectly good cables again (to replace with USB-C).
I agree with the idea that there's something dramatic about evil things happening in an old house where one might find a mysterious aristocrat behaving badly, but I think the theme goes back to Regency era Britain an, when the industrial revolution was upending society and old aristocrats were going broke while new industrialists were getting rich -- causing the old manor house in disrepair trope to be something you might find in England. One person who inherited such a manor house, but not the wealth to maintain it, was Lord Byron. His manor, Newstead Abbey, is out of haunted-house central casting and, as a romantic, he plays to all those tropes. He had also visited the Balkans and was aware of Vampire myths, so when it's time to participate in the famous scary-story-contest in 1816 (where Mary Shelley submitted _Frankenstein_), Byron tells a story of a vampire who seems a lot like himself. This story is ripped off by Byron's physician who published his own story (The Vampyre) where the main character is absolutely Byronic. Bram Stoker's Dracula ends up with a similarly Byronic idea of Dracula, and now we have a deeply embedded cultural heritage of creepy stuff happening in run-down manor houses -- maybe just because Lord Byron himself haunted such a setting.
I had a prof in college describe solving a rubik's cube as group conjugation (e.g. f * g * f^-1).

For example, you find a way to swap two pieces on the top layer and mangle the bottom (f), turn the top (g), and then do the opposite (f^-1), swapping a different pair and un-mangling the bottom. Between complementary swaps, edge flips, and corner rotations, you can build an entire solution with this technique. (My current version of this does the edges first, ignoring any damage to corners and then does corners.)

Somewhat related - many years ago there was a tutorial of the Gap computer algebra system that analyzed the rubik's cube group. I can't find the original, but there is a translation to Julia here: https://oscar-system.github.io/GAP.jl/stable/examples/
Even then Vo- and Bo- sound a lot alike in a lot of English phonetics when speaking casually. The -lt carries a lot of weight.

I'm waiting for the Colt, the Jolt, the Molt, the Dolt...
I am trying to understand this too.

Supervised learning you train on pairs of (x, y) where x is your input (title/post text/metadata) and y is the output score.

Naively, it's a linear regression model, Y = b0 + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x3. Where b0 is your bias ("a floor for score points"), and b1, b2, and b3 are bias terms for the actual data of the post. You can solve this, closed form, and find the b1/b2/b3 that minimize the error of fitting to Y.

How do these equations change with RL? I always assumed RL was a multi-step process where actions are taken to get to a reward. If there is only 1 step/decision, to produce a "random" score, it feels much like supervised learning.
still no 27" display :(
1. Thanks for the nuanced view. I agree that zero charity care doesn't necessarily mean greedy execs.

2. In my mind keeping costs lower is a form of charity. Especially with something as frequently difficult to understand as health care costs.

3. Executives do deserve to make a fair amount for their skills and effort. I'm not sure myself what salary I consider it fair pay vs taking greedy advantage of not-for-profit status.
> such that eventually space exploration will be among the most efficient means available.

I don't think I understand this paragraph. My point is that in terms of learning about the universe, doing it by sending humans in space seems like the least efficient approach. Compare sending a human to a comet an back with the Rosetta mission, for instance.

> building capacity to reliably launch rockets definitely seem fairly directly useful for this to me.

We have been able to reliably launch rockets for half a century. What modern companies like SpaceX are doing is commoditizing space. We don't need to be able to launch 1000 Starships/year to protect the Earth from asteroids. And we definitely don't need to reuse them, it's not like we have to handle an asteroid threat every day.

> Self-sustaining bases on other moons/planets seems like a reasonable insurance in our long-long term.

A couple things here:

* We most definitely won't send all known life (or even a substantial fraction of it) to space. That's just impossible. I guess what you mean is humans and the few animal/plant species they believe are enough for their convenience.

* At the moment humans are destroying themselves in the short term. Thinking about long-long term on the moon/mars seems like putting your best effort into fixing your fridge while the rest of the house is on fire and saying "how will we do without a fridge?".

* People like to talk about "sending the human species to space" and then give the moon and mars as examples. Those are really not nice places to live. If the goal is to survive in a box, you don't have to put it on mars: you could build bunkers for a few people around the world. It would probably be easier to survive an asteroid in bunkers on Earth than surviving on mars, so we may as well do that.

* I keep repeating that because it seems unclear: there are no reachable planets outside our solar system. The next star is already so far that we just can't reach it, period.

Those who talk about long-long term for the human species should realize that we are on the verge of making our civilization collapse in the short term, here on Earth. Working on sending humans in space is an interesting engineering exercise, but let's stop pretending it has anything to do with helping our species (or any other, really).
He makes all his money from leverage. But instead of borrowing from banks or the capital markets whose willingness to roll over debts can be fickle, he borrows via the premia his insurance companies collect.

Away from this passive income has a terrible tax profile--unless you employ leverage (see above).
Because in the USA, they're seen as target practise. Good luck leaving an (expensive) pinball machine in a Manhattan subway for 72-hours.
Ah I see what you mean; I agree, for longer travel, you'd be budgeting the train more as part of your vacation as opposed to travel towards a destination.

Personally, I want to take the Chicago to SF train, and do a few day stops in various cities instead of getting the sleeper car. So it would probably be about ~1w of travel.
And I'm going to ignore it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974645

In the same way people miss meeting reminders ahead of the meeting and Google meet/calendar combo still fails to do a reminder at 0 minutes by default. It's a bad design that doesn't account for real behaviour.
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With respect, I think you have it entirely backwards.

(First, "passive income" means "almost hands off, but not entirely")

Progress in technology is making things - better quality, less effort. Amazon Warehouses for example. Just a few years ago they took at least a few dozen people in rotation, now takes a man and a dog - the man to feed the dog and the dog to bite the man if he falls asleep.

Since so much can be done with so little effort it seems natural that if wealth doesn't concentrate at the top then most people would have essentially passive income streams.
If you have the inclination and skills, it can be converted to an absolutely-zero-smartness display using an LCD driver board (this example conversion log used the A1419's housing with a separately purchased display panel): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/diy-5k-monitor-success....
I played the game prior to having read the novel. It was so terribly confusing.

I think the game came with some serious crutch / walkthrough otherwise I'd probably have never gotten my robe on, much less worked out the babel fish.

I suppose it was the inspiration for me to finally read it, though. So that paid off. :)
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