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Re:US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years on Thursday August 14, 2025 @10:48AM (#44901059)
Fred has the data:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP0000EZ19M086NEST#

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SUUR0000SA0

I’m driving, it’s difficult to put them on the same chart and normalize. But they are very similar. There are differences in methodology (housing, healthcare) but those generally add a small amount to US inflation chained index vs HICP.

Talk to your masters in Brussels, they think that they are so smart with their heavy handed regulation, maybe they have a cutting edge LLM for you to use.
Re:OpenAI's Lies and Half-Truths on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:04AM (#39712219)
Poor Gary. So useless but yet so loud.
Re:OpenAI – transformer debugger release on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:48AM (#39680938)
Let's be real. They think Elon's arguments are BS since he bought Twitter and he destroyed their Leftie safe space.

They are also very upset with Elon's very public shift away from the current Left.

It's Elon derangement syndrome.

Re:Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:37PM (#39422978)
About time people starting taking the "safety" teams to task.

These people are power mad and want to impose their psychological issues upon all of society.

They are a cancer.

Re:The AI bullshit singularity on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:34PM (#39422925)
Jesus Christ. If all I did was read hackernews comments I would think that these magical algorithms which have the potential for massive positive change don't exist and that the world is coming to and end.

I get it, engineering trains us to look for failure modes, but my god try to have a little amazement at the progress.

FFS.

Re:How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation (2016) on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:00AM (#39272005)
Levels.fyi exists.
Re:Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:55AM (#38969560)
Banking in the modern age is a compliance business.

It is strange and horrible that it is become like that, but that's where we are.

More sectors than one would think are primarily compliance businesses.

Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:45PM (#38935864)
IIUC their advertising machine isn't quite as general as the networks of Google and Meta, and gains a large portion of its revenue from ads on Amazon Retail, which may not be competitive.

It's a guess as to the root cause.

Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:09PM (#38935661)
What does Amazon use for their ads network?

My guess is that it just isn't competitive and so Twitch can't monetize.

Or maybe it is the demographic. But the ads network is my first guess.

Re:IRS to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:56PM (#38894131)
The IRS should play try to create an actual MVP. Create an API which allow for efile (which I assume already exists given turbotax) and create an API which allows the download whatever information the IRS has on the tax payer.

Then allow companies or open source software to create whatever value add they want on top of these APIs.

That sounds like a minimalist launch.

Re:IRS to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:33PM (#38893880)
From the article and from a poster below:

"For the pilot participants will have to enter their own financial information, the I.R.S. said."

It is indeed a complete waste of taxpayer money unless they actually prefill with the IRS' data.

Re:IRS to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:32PM (#38893860)
So in its initial form it is indeed a complete waste of tax payers money.

Shocking.

Good. Addition by subtraction.
Leave.
Re:Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:00AM (#38842949)
Good for Japan.

The copyright claims are spurious, the laws were never written with such powerful algorithms in mind. If copyright applies to training, and if law is based upon principles instead of raw power then such a ruling would lead to strange places.

Bravo.

I see that many have noted that this is not inflation adjusted, which would be a good start.

But more importantly, this needs to be as a percentage of the total infrastructure (or real estate to make it easier to compute) in the area.

IIUC as a percentage of total real estate value the amount of damage has been going down over time, as one would expect.

Re:Why Are Things Expensive? on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:56AM (#38684175)
Way better than inventing ad-hoc stores that support people's biases.
Re:Why Are Things Expensive? on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:42AM (#38683967)
Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.

Cool website though!

Re:Advancements in machine learning for machine learning on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:28PM (#38661718)
How’s Gemini looking?
Re:Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:40AM (#38545271)
"Google, for better or worse, has more of a brand reputation to maintain"

You think this is why Google is so far behind?

Weighted by wealth?
Yet on the billionaire leaderboard the top-10 are: Musk, Arnault, Bezos, Ellison, Buffet, Gates, Zuckerberg, Balmer, Page, Bin.

Not one of them through inheritance. Sure, you have the waltons a little lower on the list.

As a person who started in the bottom decile of wealth I want to hate inheritance at least as much as the next person. But at first glance it sure doesn't look good for these "researchers".

At a minimum it will automate which will increase productivity and almost certainly increase aggregate supply.

In a more AI maximal case it will solve new problems, the increase in GDP from this case is very large.

Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:43PM (#38469295)
They clearly had nothing.

They had a couple of people on the board who had no right being there. Sam wanted them gone and they struck first by somehow getting Ilya on their side. They smeared Sam in hopes that he would slink away, but he had build so much goodwill with his employees that they wouldn't let it stand.

They probably had smeared people before and it had worked. I'm thrilled it didn't work for them this time and they got ousted.

I think he lived his own advice.

"At 31 years old, Charlie Munger was divorced, broke, and burying his 9 year old son, who had died from cancer"

But he persevered to become one of the most successful people on the planet.

No doubt he was a brilliant human and that helped tremendously, but he didn't think of himself as a victim.

Why would anyone care?
Yes, quite clearly.
It was a clown board running an awesome company.

They fixed the glitch.

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