That's why Congress exists; the GAO is in the legislative branch, it's Congress' job to exercise oversight. (And it's all US citizens' job to elect people who they trust to exercise that oversight. If the GAO isn't closed down when it should be, that's a failure of Congress, no more, no less, and nothing else. But they seem to be doing their job just fine, unless you have some indications otherwise?)
When you run tens of thousands of simulations for complex economic models, you actually do want to see the extreme outliers too. I can't recall who said it, but in finance the interconnected incentives make so-called Black Swan events much more likely and frequent than models or theories can comfortably account for.
In a way... when it's finance, they should be maybe called Gray'ish Swans?
I am very much looking forward to see the results of trying it out, regardless of whether it works in practice! (negative results are also educational after all)
And thank you for looking into the accessibility issue regarding links!
We also have ReRAM (Analog Computing), which also holds a promising future given its efficiency and low power. Though ReRAM of larger size is still a research area.
It's LLM-like in the details, but there are certain patterns of repetition and idiosyncrasies, also certain analogies I don't think an LLM would make (like the aliens thing), that make me believe that it's written by a human.
Iirc a talk about the Gameboy hardware @ Chaos Communication Congress correctly, the system _requires_ the Nintendo logo shown at game startup to be present, otherwise it won't boot. And showing the Nintendo logo without authorization/licensing from Nintendo is copyright infringement.
This is likely not the case on the N64, but it's an interesting bit of detail of how Nintendo goes about things.
I once worked as a contractor at a startup whose CEO had little trophies on display in a wall case showing off funding rounds for previous startups. There were like 3 employees and 15 contractors, and he had one of the contractors give a speech about believing in the mission or whatever. It was laughable. I was only there a couple months and found out later they got bought out by the largest company in the space. He probably bought a few more tacky red Ferraris after that.
afps is pretty dead. there are a handful of people on qw, q2,q3 but if you don’t wanna dig around start with the microtransaction feature quake champions or the quake re release while people are playing it again.
also shout out to banana shooter or straftat if you want a quick fix in a f2p game. it’s not really afpsy but pretty fast movement and wacky guns in both
First came Project Treble, where Android was refactored to actually have a stable ABI for drivers, by pretending Linux is a microkernel, all drivers run in userspace, use Android IPC to talk with the kernel, and are implemented in a mix of C++, Java and more recently Rust.
Since Android 8, traditional Linux kernel drivers are considered legacy.
Naturally all of this only works via PlayStore services, and is related to the "Google Play System Update", or similar, that you can find in the settings section.
A lot of people on this story are making the usual snarky remarks that, oh, this is just a slap on the wrist—some trivial proportion of Meta’s global revenue. And that is true, but unlike the EU, for example, New Mexico is a tiny jurisdiction. It only has a little bit more than 2 million people.
So actually, a fine—or a judgment—of $942 million that applies just to New Mexico is enormous. If you look at Meta’s revenue from the U.S. and Canada and assign it proportionally by population, you find that Meta only earned about $1.5 billion to $2 billion total from New Mexico over the past five years. The exact figure depends on whether you allocate purely by population or account for purchasing power, which makes the estimate a little lower because New Mexico is a poorer state than the U.S. average.
Given that, the judgment is a half to two-thirds of what Meta could have obtained from New Mexico. So it is actually a serious deterrent, assuming Meta thinks New Mexico would continue to impose fines of that size.
I think the comments here are taking this comment as being about how salaries are too high, or how it's daft to suggest people shouldn't chase the best paying role available to them. I suspect that isn't really what Dario means though.
Perhaps I'm being too generous but I think his comments are about two problems that all rich companies face:
1. How do you maintain momentum in an industry where other companies with deep pockets can tempt your staff away quite easily just by offering more money? If everyone is willing to hop from company to company then it drives wages up (not a bad thing) but also slows progress as a whole industry (a bad thing).
2. How do you keep people when they can just retire and live a life of leisure at any point? It's not about the high wages; it's about employing people who want to see the challenge through to the end.
Ultimately Anthropic has a vast pile of money and can pay people loads to work there. That isn't enough to keep them there though. Paying a lot doesn't get the company to the next milestone if people are happy to just drop it for a better offer or walk away entirely when they feel they have enough.
It's the most first world problem imaginable, but I can see that it would be something that keeps a billionaire CEO up at night.
so awesome; as a side note I still host quake net pl (plz do not visit it, it's hosted on my home NAS and currently supports up to 10rpm xD) which was dedicated to Quake 3 and have origins starting 1998; I need to figure out how to keep it alive once I'm dead, lol
As a society, we have organized ourselves in a form where the marketers get the most cut than the producers of goods and services. It’s unfortunate and amendable with capable leaders
It makes me dizzy. I have no idea what is going to happen within even a year from now, can barely even imagine it.
I'm trying to get the most out of it by redlining my AI subscriptions. Hopefully I'll manage to start a business in my niche. I don't even know if my niche will exist in the future.
> Same install. Your imagination is the limit. Here is a set of things that people have added to bb all by just asking it to build it for them:
[...]
- A task management system.
[...]
- A markdown editor.
It looks really cool, but I can also see one potential downside of the "era of personalized software" emerging here.
Will we get a situation where everyone will rebuild the same functionality from scratch, but in a slightly different way? And if someone "just" wants to install the IDE with tooling for some standard usecase will the answer be "well, you have to prompt it first"?
This feels weirdly like web development, where you have 100 different JavaScript libraries to accomplish something that should really be in the standard.
Not sure if this is already the case here, but maybe an extension store would alleviate it. People could upload their extensions and you could refer to a particular configuration by its extension list.
And thanks to LLMs, it should be much easier to identify malicious extensions or group extensions by functionality.
> The temperature when it makes contacts with the ground beans. You could certainly boil it and then let it cool first, but that'd take a lot of extra work.
It's not so much work with the right tool: I have a button on my kettle that does exactly that, and another button that will use a little thermostat to keep it warm. Works great.
I do a ton of side projects that personally interest me. I’m mainlining hard technical problems with zero need for permissions or waiting on bureaucracy or jira tickets. If a decision needs to be made, I don’t have to wait until next week when all of the “stakeholders” are available to talk about it. I figure it out myself.
If my day job was a side project I wouldn’t work on it at all.
Maybe I’m looking through rose-colored glasses, but while people need money, there was a time where there was more idealism from the founders and the employees. Steve Jobs could’ve quit business in 1985 after his failed coup; he was rich enough to never have to work again. Yet he started NeXT, and he was able to get people to join his company.
I feel we’re in a timeline in Silicon Valley where there’s little idealism. Employees seek money, and who can blame them when a two-bedroom apartment can easily rent for $4000/mo or more, and when a house is easily $2 million? Leaders seek not only money, but power, and their desires for power have been more blatant in the past year.
Where are the Steve Wozniak and Gary Kildall figures of Silicon Valley these days?
>But a genuinely good steak, medium-rare from edge to edge, browned properly, seasoned right, consistently delicious, is a different matter entirely.
Actually it's pretty easy to get a consistently good steak with reverse searing, pretty much the only thing you should make sure is the surface is bone dry before you sear it to get the nice brown crust. Seasoned right? It's honestly pretty difficult to oversalt steak. If even reverse searing is too much work, I found that an air fryer works pretty well in a pitch for steaks.
