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I'm not sure all of this is profit seeking caused given their small margins. It feels like it could be a down stream effect of business sustainability and competition. The bag is necessarily covered by those who have less long running health complications, and so you need to provide a competitive price to them so they pay in with you. The price offered when you don't need care becomes lower than the amount needed to cover everyone when you do. Which would incentive denials out of necessity as well.

Given that a lot of the reoccurring is not just for emergency coverage but standard healthcare services and purchases. It might also be interesting if there was an investing account that you could withdraw from tax free to use for those types of things. This might minimize some of the incentive to lean on your employment and insurance as a middle man for this.

I think I want to see this juxtaposed against all-type drug usage rates for youth before examining this as a cultural trend towards less drug usage. I have a feeling during this period of drop for marijuana and alcohol with the youth, we will see an increase in prescribed drug usage like SSRI and stimulants by youth, with prescription and lack of it.

My opinion, art meant to capture and communicate the emotions and truth of an exact moment will always have a place. But also, as the time cost to represent a single frame of an idea becomes achievable in fractions of a second, what it unlocks is the ability to represent ideas that are best expressed through longer time sequences. What we wait on is tools that better allows us to constrain, guide and sculpt the generated sequence as it evolves.

As someone who has always loved fractal and Mandelbrot zooms, infinite AI zooms are already cool new art experience made possible in terms of feasible time cost to make. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1vrPpM4eyM

The word is interfacing generally (or programming for some) but it's just not commonly used for general users. I’d say this is probably because the activity of focus for general users is in use of the applications, not the computer itself despite being instanced with a computer. Thus a computer is commonly less the user’s object of activity, and more commonly the setting for activity.

Similarly using our homes are an extremely common ‘activity’, yet the object-activities that get special words commonly used are the ones with specific user application.

> Honestly having 20 tele-operated robots…

I think it’s interesting because it reveals their development strategy: • Build a hardware kit that can well avatar human motion from motion capture suits. This gives hardware a validation model to guide development. • Then use the motion capture datasets to train the neural net which will auto operate the kit.

> if the cost is the same then yeah you might as well own it

The cost per mile will be the same for whomever owns the vehicles, thus i think many will likely be in the position where they would pay at minimum equal, and likely more by adding in a middleman. For a parallel look into the critical point of usage when renting a vehicle is cheaper per year than owning one today.

> What's the actual advantage to owning the car?

Minimal latency to go. No dependancy on availability of vehicles so you can be fully in control to meet your commitments.

The primary place this is an issue is competition at rush hours or holidays, where a large percentage of the population are all in commute simultaneously all delocalized from each other. An operator would need nearly 1 specific car for each of all of them in order to guarantee each could make their commitment… so, if cost is similar, and one vehicle needs to be guaranteed for you anyways, the questions becomes why wouldn’t people ensure that themselves by owning it?

Because of the word taxi in the name it gives off the initial impression that this is a product for fleet use and not something you own personally. But I don’t think that impression is going to explain the larger reality. if it’s inexpensive and possible to exist in this form, this is what you’d expect people to buy as a personally owned vehicle specifically for commuting.

I think with Fandom similar with Reddit, or Twitch, most people focus on the interface experience as sole advantage of the platform, and miss how they provide an accessible space to incubate new communities. You get low barrier to entry hosting, operation tools, and network exposure.

I don’t think you should expect exponential growth towards greater correctness past good enough for any given domain of knowledge it is able to mirror. It is reliant on human generated material, and so rate limited by the number of humans able to generate the quality increase you need - which decreases in availability as you expect higher quality. I also don’t believe greater correctness for any given thing is an open ended question that allows for experientially exponential improvements.

Though maybe you are just using exponential figuratively in place of meaning rapid and significant development and investment.

Maybe you want to look into running wordpress locally and exporting it as a static website? Or alternatively using something like https://getpublii.com/

> Nvidia appears to be the only financial beneficiary

It depends how you look at it. A lot of the spend by big tech can be seen as protecting what they already have from disruption. Its not all about new product revenues it’s about keeping the revenue share in the markets they already have.

I suppose the idea is that while the SimCity Maxis studio met its true end later after SimCity(2013) [1], Maxis the company was destroyed earlier. They had originally tried and failed to make SimCity 3000 be a full 3D game. It was only designed into its successful form after the acquisition by EA.

LGR did a retrospective on the game and it provides some context for the state pre-EA Maxis was in when they started SimCity 3000.[2]

1. The Sims is again branded as developed by Maxis.

2. https://youtu.be/MngTH_mh_Is?si=ERGNYzGHeDkPXOO2

Also cool is that the company the community formed (as a distinct entity from Jagex) to manage the Runescape wikis has now also become the host of the Minecraft wiki helping that community to migrate themselves.[1]

1. https://weirdgloop.org

I believe the author isn’t dishonest about how they felt. But that supportive reasoning is pretty discardable. They emphasized one change as additive but glossed by the subtractive change implying there was none in concurrent executive decisioning. Experience around cognitive load can be a result in part from a users anxiety with the momentarily unfamiliar, and i think this probably is more at play than author is self aware of in the comparison.

> The fee systems effectively mirrors the fees already imposed on local broadcasters.

I suppose the question becomes should it have been there on the others?

I kind of feel that due to the reduced population scale and density of Canada, if you want marginal communities to have closer to home produced content you need to do something like this. The base for the niche groups isn’t big enough (and realistically often isn’t wealthy enough) to minimally support niche content sustainably.

Then again, it feels the recent focus in Canada has been to strip down the taxable to fund and placate the untaxable, with total disregard as to making the taxable or the untaxable more productive and improving their outlook on life. The tax feels fine to me if in decent circumstances, but it’s another example of the governments broader attitude which makes it off-putting.

A tech debt ceiling so to speak then. There might be some use to it. It's still inevitably increased, but only after debate, discussion, and a lot of time in-between really considering the form and impact of the code being entered to fit within the constraint

I feel like the focus on language appearance is taking too much precedence over covering other aspects like parser composition. For example mentioning the 'indention trick' feels like a deviation and distraction from the actual point you're trying to convey. The idea here isn't actually dependent on the exact presentation style of the format...

To comment on the appearance though since it seems a focus none the less... I appreciate the ideal of syntax sparseness, but in this case I feel like it loses visual salience in plaintext after looking at some of the .scroll files. It's difficult to recognize the shape and proportion of what the content will be when rendered. The applied meta content lacks visual differentiation in plaintext from the content itself. I don't think total spareness should be the sole goal here; Markdown for example isn't strong in plaintext just because it is syntactically sparse, but because it is sparse in tandem with not supporting applying extensible meta content to content - but this does.

I think people expect more from Apple moment to moment because of their storied history then their identity really aspires to release at a rate of.

At the same time, there is probably some place for a change of strategy if they did want to be awe inspiring to the masses still and not just dependable. If Apple wants to keep bringing awe inspiring consumer products out, they can’t just be late to make technology products non technical, they need to be investing and releasing new technology earlier. Their historic influence on the industry means new technology today takes being consumer ready seriously from the start.

You could say it’s the living results of that fate already.

Here’s an HN discussion about firing the leads of Starlink[1] early in development (2018). And another in the following year laying off 10% of the workforce[2] (2019).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349991

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888641

If you don’t want to use a finder replacement app which would add the extra right click functionality like creating a text file, there are finder extensions/plugins.

There’s one called FinderUtilities[1] which does specifically what you want.

There’s also more featureful extensions like Power Menu[2] as well.

1. https://github.com/suolapeikko/FinderUtilities

2. https://fiplab.com/apps/power-menu-for-mac

It would have been nice to see if the correct answer showed up in the distribution field once in under 1000 runs. For specific information recall like this it isn’t useful if you want immediate answers… but to be given a distribution of outputs can be useful for ideation, broadening perspective, and discovery.

Imagine if when we are given a compressed list of 100 options after 1000 runs, we could suppose there is a high probability 1 of them is the answer we are looking for despite rarely output.

Does anyone know if there has been experiments testing these LLMs for a stable and high probability to surface the right answer after N number of tries across prompts?

Perhaps a bit hyperbolic on my part, it is fine, but it’s poor for the velocity of content it produces. Up until 2 years ago it lacked comment search… [1] which afaik can only search only so far back as well. It also doesn’t search it’s full corpus. There are third party tools which which allow for search a specific time period for this reason [2]. Although google works better here too. With better listing.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...

2. https://www.redditsearchtool.com

The relationship between Google and Reddit goes beyond just improving normal web search for Google - it's actually symbiotic. Because Reddit has horrible search, the best way to search Reddit content is actually using Google's indexing instead. Every time the Google algorithm feeds Reddit, it's feeding itself with more '...reddit' queries.

Further, I feel the role subreddits are playing is not too different to the role curated directories used to play in sorting and filtering the web ecosystem for Google when it’s algorithm was considered good. So while there is a lot of user generated content, i feel the real benefit of Reddit to the Google algorithms quality of output, is the human sorting of content.

So my theory follows: the Google algorithm has never been independently good, it has always been dependant on a large source of human curation. The Google algorithm only works well when Reddit is applied to it, because Google supplanted, or ignores the other places it happens on the web. Or worse, they've promoted and paid attention to unauthentic content curation through their SEO and 'trusted' sources initiatives.

This distinction feels mostly a metaphoric and superficial difference in practice if the iOS home screen is considered a zooming UI because of how it visually presents things. Interfacing-wise it doesn't feel like a significant difference if I consider the app switcher as an infinitely pannable canvas of apps I zoom into, or a stack of apps I scroll through and then open.

It feels to me, instead of exploring different interfacing experiences in terms of zooming/non-zooming it might be more useful to think along the lines of structured/unstructured, contained/uncontained, or gestures/buttons for example.

If you want a standalone cross platform text expander I currently enjoy using Espanso[1]

1. https://espanso.org/

Expecting growth along a single metric like dollars while staying product-offering static is a problem once most of the energy/production/scale optimizations have been implemented. It seems fine that we should expect innovation companies to grow, as in progress, to produce new product classes and improve old ones. I personally don't hope every company is destined to become primarily a stagnant service company.

Although I'm pretty sure the pressure to grow doesn't solely come from the outside-in perspective. It feels like internal politics, incentives, and the individuals desires to make their mark results in a shift in priorities in otherwise settled product lines as well.

At this point it feels right to switch from calling it growth, to neutrally 'drive'. Assuming some sense of drive not only is useful, but is an necessary feature of humans producing... then if priorities are not oriented directly towards maximizing usability or the quality of product for the end user, it will result in a product being reasonably propelled away from maintaining those. And so it seems to me, it is the priorities not the existence of drive or growth that is the issue to be focused on. I feel trying to establish a culture without drive would be net counter productive.

My issue with Apple has been less about green vs blue text and more about how they lockout to lockin. In effect you can’t make equally competing products around and on the iPhone unless Apple supports and has decided the API, or user default options for the OS is safe for their business to make public. Innovation around the phone is steered and gatekept by Apple for when Apple is ready, not if the hardware is. This article makes a good point about the iPod and iTunes on Windows.

There are lesser known examples of policy based lockouts like mobiussync for syncthing being held back by background scheduling limitations or that bit torrent software isn’t allowed.

Then also there’s the issue of control center only allowing Apple builtin (unchangeable) default app controls… when interestingly a number of these have become more than just preinstalled conveniences but are now also fronting funnels to an iCloud subscription.

Popular words are easy sacrificial signals so that people can provide an example of social intent by avoidance if questioned.

It’s annoying right now that we have a doubled dictionary to signal intention, but it is also concerning looking forward… Because at some point the social standard could expect technology to target the concept instead of the word to prove a good faith attempt to avoid interaction with non neutral ideas.

I suppose to make the title legitimate Elon should’ve formally started another company, and then acquired the other?

It seems like getting in and operating in a pivotal way within the first 12 months is a valid time frame to still be given a founder title if the other founders agree to it. Since when you decide to incorporate is not consistently/necessarily at the same time for finalizing the foundational team members for a getting a company on its feet.