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I don't understand the appeal of these things. For games that are not skill and/or reflexion oriented like Diablo once you've finished the campaign you have experienced what the game had to offer, a good hero journey. Replaying for other classes, missed side quests or simple monster bashing can be fun too. But what you describe seems not to be the satisfaction of discovering, only on collecting and checking boxes for the sake of it. This is akin to trying every parameter on a slot machine and trying to get every combination. That's very close to gambling addiction or OCD for me.

This is not something revolutionary, multiple countries already have instant payment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment. This is just a technical improvement on existing systems. Regarding your questions the FED is simply providing a facility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_house_(finance)) that willing participants (the list of early adopters is in the article) can use.

So this is the infamous communication that followed the move to add Java in the name just for marketing? Crazy how I still occasionally hear the confusion. Also interesting to see how strong was the object-oriented fad.

I'm not familiar with that term and the subject, what's the issue with checking someone fit in the corresponding physical category? Sport is all about the physical body and performance, not about personality. Physical categories could be abandoned, but if they are maintained there then it's seems logical to check, maybe with a more scientific test like testosterone level being into a range. Regardless of gender people would then compete in their (testosterone?) class, like weight classes exists in some sports.

Prices alone are not useful without volume. How is Hotel occupancy or how are dining out habits compared to pre pandemic? Maybe there are fewer customers with deeper pockets?

> The literal only goal of a public company is to make money for its shareholders; shareholder wealth maximization.

No it’s only a theory that emerged in the 70’s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine).

I have a small agency and a product in a niche market and even there big consulting and IT services companies are starting spin offs to address these niches, and even bidding at a loss (especially when you take into account pre sales investments) to displace remaining niche actors like us.

Autocracies have more variability. There were good kings and bad ones. When the tyrant is smart and genuinely lifelong committed to the good of their people you get the most efficient system. This is the classic argument monarchists have. Problem is in reality the planets alignment rarely happened.

Calling into question optimism and entrepreneurship can be a very existential question, I admit that believing the phenomenon is overblown and of the data dubious is very tempting given the mental weight it clears. But the irony for this population (me included) is that it’s the same as believing in afterlife to alleviate the existential dread of death, it’s religious thinking. People do great things without being death denialists, it should be the same without climate denialism.

Yes I can’t imagine going back to doing big CRUD apps without AR, readability and maintenance would take a hit. The catch is you need a prior good knowledge of SQL to use it correctly. Problems happen when people don’t learn SQL and then don’t understand the queries AR is generating and the limits.

It relies on a cliche of the idea of what an adult should be. But the premise that adults were more mature and not showing these traits before is flawed. Many 60+ years old strongly exhibits all the traits of the described "infantile personality" when their lifestyle and world vision is challenged, be it in their private or professional life. Sure if you judge by the capacity to masquerade and give the appearance of showing the traditional adult image of the older generation by definition the younger one will score worse. But it's a facade, on the inside the majority of older adults are still children.

> characterized by immature feelings (‘childish’ reactions, lack of willpower, lack of confidence), external locus of control (other people are blamed), inflated self-concept, low demands on self (accompanied by high demands on society), and egocentrism.

So you tell me none of your older neighbours will display this and instead be models of "emotional maturity (rationality, self-control, lack of impulsivity, etc.)" when you talk to them about lawn mowing, car usage/size, energy, meat eating, land use regulation, ...?

There is no more infantilism than before, what has changed is the definition of achievement.

How is it possible to be efficient in these points without a strong engineering background, especially if you are innovating? Discussions in points 1, 2 and 3 will only be note taking if you cannot concretely envision what the implementation could be and need to ask engineering everything that is not a generic or superficial feature. The non-technical PM I have worked with always turned up to be project managers drowning the engineering and design teams in meetings and processes.

This is a public speech playbook to influence a crowd. You need to reach a large audience on your own terms without being challenged. It was not applicable through traditional media, and public speeches occasion with a large audience were very rare. Social media made it possible 24/7. Also the previous US president proving it works was a turning point.

I was a kid in their prime but thanks to making-of, documentaries and magazines it’s so ingrained I still get the aura these machines and OS are above my poor consumer-grade 2023 laptop, and my work is toying compared to what real adults pros are doing on these, even though I’m near 40.

It's way too soon to draw conclusions.

There is a big difference between a general 27,000 layoffs and a significant portion of key senior engineers walking out. Dysfunctional management could fail to grasp that and the company could continue to coast in the short term with happy investors. It will take some time until we see the cracks due to bad tech choices and inability to execute.

Another day, another premise of economic liberalism theory proven wrong.

I dunno, on paper maybe but in practice N64 look no better or worse than PS1, textures were very low quality (I think it was a texture cache size problem). Games like MGS or Vagrant Story looked better than anything on the N64 for me.

Yeah I don't believe trying to contain cheating and dishonesty to specific contexts can last, from my limited experience for people who do this it inevitably starts to leak to other aspects of their life. Shielding behind organized structures is an illusions (also the root of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_evil), in the end you are deceiving other human beings.

From https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke... the answer is between 1936 and 1981 (as a high as 90% for the highest bracket from 1941 to 1963).

I found doing a custom (without a library) OAuth integration for only one service relatively straightforward, i.e. when it’s not treated as a standard. For example for a plug-in exclusively for Shopify (random example, didn’t try it) you would just treat it as the rest of their API and write custom code.

In short it works when you can see it as a guideline instead of a standard.

It was not some anecdotal fact that Bard got wrong, it was during their official public demo. It was a "scandal" because it showed Google was indeed unprepared and had no better product, not even preparing and fact checking their demo before was the cherry on the top.

Ethics is a false excuse because rushing that out show they never cared either. It was just PR and their bluff was called.

Also I skimmed over that Stochastic Paper and I’m unimpressed. I’m unfamiliar with the subject but many points seems unproven/political rather than scientific, with a fixation on training data instead of studying the emerging properties and many opinions notably regarding social activism, but maybe it was already discussed here on HN. Edit: found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382901

Good for everyone except maybe advertisers, because these talents will maybe serve something useful instead.

The situation is trickle down from laissez-faire is definitely proven wrong just by the situation we are in and is the starting point of the discussion. Tax is just a tool to correct the failure of the system of failing to correctly redistribute productivity gains from workers starting a few decades ago (and the point above is with the promises of LLM it’s crucial we address that situation). Robbery or not is not the debate here, income tax higher than capital tax is just a good candidate cause and solution (given historical data), but of course we can discuss alternatives.

Better distribution is through capital tax, not income tax. Taxing workers even more is the opposite of sharing productivity gains captured by shareholders. Are capital gains and dividends taxed at least at 70% in Sweden?

> The fancy cars, big houses, exotic vacations aren't that great. The lack of slavery is.

I think that's the point, the former is all about status, but the real goal is not to show off but be relatively free, you still need money for that but that's not the same thing.

This is not about not having basic needs poor, it's about being middle class and chasing riches, expensive cars, homes, clothes, thinking life is about this and it will bring you happiness. Rich people surely aren't qualified to know what it's like to be poor, but they sure are for what it's like being rich by definition. The message is don't expect happiness and meaning be solved by money. That's the point of reading e.g. Marcus Aurelius (arguably one if not the most powerful person of its time) and see what happiness and the meaning of life is when you have everything, so that we middle-class can profit from that wisdom and don't waste our life chasing false dreams.

That makes me think, why not concentrate the effort on regulating the usages instead of regulating the technology itself? Seems not too far fetched to have rules and compliance on how LLM are permitted to be used in critical processes. There is no danger until it's plugged on the wrong system without oversight.

I heard Zuck is behaving more like a majority shareholder than a CEO in day to day operations and management, Meta restructuring is handled by a consulting a firm. Could be wrong though.

I don’t see the problem with LLM having a world model and superhuman intelligence without sentience. It seems very unlikely sentience comes from computation and that it’s not a physical property: why would only certain Boolean or mathematical operations in a certain order make your pen, piece of paper or CPU see colors or hear sounds? That the operations you do follow a complex plan is irrelevant. Conversely if you do enough mindfulness you can attain a state of complete empty mind / "no computation" while still being physically there, and it would not be surprising some animals with a very limited intelligence and world model have sentience. The burden of proof is on sentience not being some kind of fundamental property of matter or EM fields for me.