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Okay, haven't been flying that much in tje last few years, I thought they were still not universal - at least in europe.

If it was found, that is. If the metal detector does not see it, how do you think it was supposed to be found?

I don't think a typical metal detector can distinguish between metal in my arm and metal taped to my arm.

> seems perfectly possible that a model like GPT-4 is just a hair's breadth away from vastly superhuman performance

Sorry, can't help commenting the weirdness of high dimensional spaces. If you take an cube of a size of a hair breadth (100um) in a space of hindreds of billions of dimensions like gpt4, distances between random points in that cube are in the order of tens of meters...

As someone who carries a 20 cm metal rod through airport security every time and has not seen a single warning light ever popping up because of that, it is quite difficult for me to understand how the airport security is supposed to add safety against anyone who is willing to spend any time working around it - and who is motivated.

(For the curious, there is a titanium plate in my body due to an accident)

Sometimes I wonder why there are so many people advocating three strike and out laws, but never against corporations. Would be interesting if the third fine would be so large that shareholders are wiped out and debt holders are left with scraps.

I have been years frustrated with this question. In the old days I used to do web2py for my simple crud projects. That included lots of boilerplate code, creating a crud form was very simple (if I recall correctly, one row of code if you were happy with the data model defaults). Then came mobile and responsive designs and a couple of frustrating things with web2py that I don't recall anymore. And I started looking for alternatives. Everything I have looked seems to be a sh*tload of manual writing for simple crud forms or dependent on trusting some random boilerplate repo in github to stay future proof. To date I have not found a reasonable framework that would let me build simple responsive crud apps easily. (As a very much not professional web dev, that is)

Luckily, though, then ChatGPT came. You can just ask GPT to generate the flask backend and forms using bootstrap.

You seem to imply EU regulators do not require european banks to "comply with basic financial corruption protections". Any source to that?

What comes to european banks not wanting to do anything with US related entities, my understanding is that the primary reason is the non-trivial amount of red tape and legal risks associated with US entities weighted against relatively small amoumt of pontential customers.

Nope. Metal & wood etc should be owned because it very much looks like that is very useful in creating lots of welfare for people.

The trouble with IP is that there are lots of influential people that very much would like IP to be useful in creating welfare. Unfortunately the evidence for that is surprisingly scarce. For discussion, see e.g. Boldrin & Levine

> performance will be 1/3 of the M1 air

I run an old (I think maybe 4 or 5 years) thinkpad with 64GB RAM. I see often these claims of superior performance of new macs, and it leaves me scratching my head. I do not have (almost) any workflows where the performance is not sufficient. For the ones where performance is not sufficient, I am happy to turn on my desktop. So my question is, what are the workflows people have benefit from the superior performance of new macs and at the same time do not justify working on a beefy desktop?

I think the principle is pretty pervasive also outside medicals. I do not recall anyone ever refer to my left hand as right hand (other than maybe by mistake), regardless how they are oriented around me.

And the signal to noise ratio was way better then.

It's a bit weird with these folks so worried about content creators, almost like I'm browsing a different internet with them. In my internet whenever I need to find some actually useful information, I almost always go to a content creator who is not ( primarily) paid via ads. HN, reddit, SO, wikipedia etc. The vast, vast majority of ad funded content is such utter crap that I am pretty confident whatever makes ad driven business worse makes internet better as a whole.

I have thought a power bank would be a good enough condom - for my threat vectors, that is.

> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk."

Well, on the other hand, in the successful case, why bother hiring if the digital copy already answers all questions like you (except likely faster)?

I can see how that might destroy many business models. But from the top of my head I can't come up with any whose loss would have a dramatic negative effect on my wellbeing. Could someone elaborate why I should be worried?

Coyld you elaborate what development happened in the last 5 years that would not have happened if it was required that your battery/motor fits into one of handful standard brackets and talks (at least) standard messages?

Shimano warranty is 2 years. I'm close to a small rental operation, and they had 3 out of eight motors blown within the first 2 years. 1500-6000 km on the odo.

Many standards would be fine (and to be clear, very much needed). They just would need to be open so that a third party manufacturer can build a motor or a battery that they can just plug in to the system.

What we really need is ebike standards for the components. You should be able to use motors, batteries and contollers from any brand interchangeably on your bike.

It is atrocious that you buy a bike worth an decent used car and you cant't expect the electric motor last more than a few thousand kilometers [1], after which you have a broken black box of an motor in you hands that you need to replace, not fix. Which, if you are out of warranty costs close to a thousand bucks. And it is a damn 250w electric motor.

[1] google shimano e7000 longevity

I'd be curious to hear examples, especially if there are some tasks that are surpricing to either direction?

> Japanese Yen to buy food at a US grocery store is unlikely to be practical.

Hmmm. There is this thing within the current awful mess of a finacial system called credit card which allows me to pay very practically all over the world. Funny enough, though, that cryptofolk were at some point very vocally telling that you can "use" crypto by using a crypto credit card.

> Just FYI, payments in the traditional banking systems are very much not immediate, they just appear that way from your perspective

And that is why I was careful to formulate "In most cases, for practical purposes"

No. Especially compared to known alternatives, very much including crypto.

Or then we have a very different definition of "complete mess". For the record, I have no reason to doubt the value of my savings account fluctuates wildly and the savings account is guaranteed by government for my practical purposes. I can make all the payments I need to make free/with very modest fee. In most cases, for practical purposes, the payments are immediate. If I happen to need, I can borrow money against my non-money non liquid assets. I can't describe this situation as "a complete mess". To my understanding crypto offers practically none of these benefits in any kind of robust way. This from european perspective.

And a lazy one, with a lousy memory. I don't konw if it is just my lousy prompts, but I seem to very often get first a skeleton code where core functionality is just a comment "# implement foo here". And every further request is fulfilled by the simplest possible intetpretation. And when I move to the next issue, sooner or later it forgets the accepted solution for another part of the code.

Or maybe I just expect too much...

Insurance companies work typically by sharing risk between insurers. Against risks that are relatively common in aggregate, so that you can calculate a reasonable price for the risk.

The occurrence of nuclear accidents is so rare and the potential cost so high that a typical insurance company business model can't accommodate that risk.

You could try develop some kind of insurance bond scheme where nuclear power plant needs to raise a capital buffer to protect against accidents, and in case of an accident, bond investors lose their money. But even this kind of a scheme would be pretty difficult to pull off in a scale that would cover all potential losses, and someone (government) would need to take the tail risk.

And just to be clear, even now, nuclear plants do not go completely uninsured.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...

> The idea that these people are more intelligent than everyone else has to be a joke at this point

There is a reason why someone way funnier than me came up with "Dunning-Krugerrand"

I'm sorry, can't help myself.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222682950_Conservat...

Oh, enablers and provocateurs on the west against the underdog Russia. Cry me a river. I absolutely do not like many aspects of the way how US behaves in this planet. What I do not understand is that how anyone thinks that you get any sympathy by trying to fight US/west by being a failed PoS totalitarian developing country. Make yourself a better country than US, wait a decade or a couple and see how old enemies are joining you.

I'm more than a bit irritated that the inflation news push out just the annual number and do not show how the acrual CPI index has developed. As an example, euro area headline inflation has been practically zero since october [1], and yet only thing you see in the news and ECB commentaries is the YoY number scaremongering.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/consumer-price-index-...

Your comment made me think a future world where AI is powerful but capped to the limits of human knowledge. In that world AI makes almost all people (economically) worthless. The exception are the people who take the challenge and study, work and research to expand the human knowledge. Whether this is an utopia or dystopia, I guess depends on how the relationship of these two groups work out.

So because one set of chinese are able to make bunch of counterfeit casio watches way cheaper than another set of chinese can make apple watches, the first one are more productive because both make watches that show time? Maybe there is a reason why another watch or another nursing service or another tv (at another time) is more expensive? Maybe the reason is that in the more expensive case they produce more value i.e are more productive?

By the way, just started wondering why nobody is worried about the atrocious productivity development of CEOs over the last decades? Should shareholders maybe hire some consultants to advice the CEOs how they could make their work more efficiently that they could become cheaper?