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I don't think I've ever seen an advert for a cafe and then gone to that cafe. I guess the listings on Google maps might be counted as an ad, but I've ended up adding plenty of cafe's to maps after visiting so I don't know if those entries are added by the businesses or by customers.

Language changes. People at work have started saying things are an easy lift instead of a quick win. And it's not new hires, it's the people I've worked with for years. I never got on board with quick win either.

Some people adopt stuff faster than others. I've lived in NZ for nearly 20 years and called someone bro for the first time just last week while playing a sport "should have left it for me bro". Slipped out natural as. Still having bad thoughts about it.

AI didn't solve large parts of mathematics. Which is not to say the the results aren't interesting or remarkable. Proving that Navier-Stokes blows up with certain external forces is important. But it's just a step, like seeing a pattern in data with no insight into what the data represents. Understanding why and where the fluid dynamics model is wrong is more interesting, if this enabled that then it's great.

All the proofs they've produced are interesting but they seem to be based on the work of mathematicians who nearly got there. As yet, no big leaps of insight. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's also not a demonstration of intelligence beyond reckoning. I also read it cost something on the order of $15m of inference per problem, maybe a whole army of mathematicians could have got there too if that was available.

> I am, however, a veteran and served my country for many years so that (assuming you're American) you can freely call me names on the internet (unlike our friends across the pond).

No recent military action undertaken by the US has had any effect on free speech at home, except possibly negatively if you bundle it with the various laws that came about after 9/11. Likewise, no military action is linked to the state of free speech in the UK, it's just how things have worked out culturally and socially. Nothing wrong with serving, but you didn't get to go and defend American ideals particularly.

put a cardboard box over them

Their argument also leads to a situation where they're saying that only certain activities (i.e. the ones they want) are acceptable in the public commons. But as the commons it could host activities you disagree with, that are mutually exclusive to the ones you do agree with. Like one person doesn't like buskers and feels they're impinging on their enjoyment of a common area whereas others enjoy the entertainment.

> obstruction of free movement, interference with a business open to the public, false imprisonment, and assault

thing is, those all apply to a person. if a person is in the robot then it makes sense. If a person is driving the robot remotely then it gets blurry. If it's autonomous then none of those seem to apply, the robot has no right of free movement.

About half the article is the author perving over young lady dentists.

You were making a good point until you compared tax in NZ to the USA. If you're making software eng type of salary you pay less effective tax in NZ compared to California ($200k in both). If you factor in health insurance it grows further. I know because I moved from NZ to CA then back again. I got paid more in CA, but my life wasn't materially better - I was able to save more in NZ.

If NZ really wanted to help startups they'd sort out the tax problems with options so that companies can actually interest people in taking risk by working for new businesses.

Personally, I think I'd be in favour of a wealth tax if I had the kind of wealth that could be taxed. I don't resent the tax I pay now.

> Humanity has the serious problem of being underdeveloped in the "spiritual" department.

Not arguing that we shouldn't strive to do far far better here, better is by our own imagining. There is no development scale. There are no aliens or prior non human civilizations to compare against. So we're not underdeveloped. We are as we are. For all we know we're at peak capacity and humanity will never be better.

> working with an LLM is much more like working with another person than working with traditional software

Have to disagree with this line of thinking, and I think it's even more dangerous with intimation further down that using an LLM for coding is akin to being a manager of people.

You do not have to consider the feelings of an LLM. You can micromanage it as much as you like, and you can modify it's thought processes. Don't like this one? Switch to another model. Most importantly, you cannot /new on a person and get a fresh state.

Working with people means building trust, respecting their autonomy, and considering how your actions affect them. I worry a lot that the transactional nature we treat LLMs is leaking into how we treat other people. And yeah, there's an argument there about how that was already the case, company / society culture and so on, but I mean additive or multiplicative to that.

LLMs feel to me like an entirely new kind of interaction, and I'd rather it was discussed in ways that set it away from how we interact with people, making the differences clear.

> - they are amoral > - they have no innate sense of proportion > - they cannot assess their own confidence in-band

Are you talking about the LLMs or the people at OpenAI running the experiment? Or are they the same?

Which leaders? I don't believe any of the players thought they would gain empire in Europe. Everyone was trying to be defensive, combined with slow communication and poor politics. Now that historians have access to much of the internal documentation it doesn't seem like an inevitable war. If only the Habsburgs had been more decisive, or Wilhelm more politically astute, instead of making grand gestures then going on a boating holiday with his British naval mates.

It's not that they needed an excuse to say no, it's that they each thought backing down would be worse. And tbh I don't think any the current leaders are better. Nicholas II "I will not become responsible for a monstrous slaughter" vs Putin's war of choice.

It's the kind of thing that looks cool in demos, but is annoying when you have to put up with it everyday. I usually have all animations on my phones turned off. I turned them on yesterday to test something and I'm already getting tired of all the fade ins, blurs, window movements etc - it's quite tiring when you know you can have that screen immediately.

Didn't he start that campaign at a conference for WordPress developers funded by WP engine? I don't have any insight into what they did or didn't contribute, but it seems their obligation was zero and their level was quite a bit higher than that.

I don't disagree but it's not like I can turn back time. That said, it does seem that brain plasticity is better for older people than commonly thought, so never write off learning. It takes longer, but you might balance that by having more patience for it. It might be that I'd never have gotten this even if I started as young as my kids.

It's funny though how different people respond to learning music theory differently. I started on guitar when I was 19. I played for a long time at campfire level. When my kids started learning music I also learnt a lot, and now I know scale shapes and modes on guitar, so I can reasonably play to a song I'm hearing for the first time, then figure it out by ear. But I just cannot make the leap to knowing the notes at each position. I can read music, very slowly, to play on piano, but fluency has never clicked for me even though I've put the time in.

My 8 year old hardly ever practices but just looks at the music and knows the notes on piano and violin.

In any case, I agree that this isn't that helpful to being able to play, it's just an interesting way to understand why things are as they are.

> The household he was born into lived on roughly $3.04 a day per person in today's money

Go back not even that far and money comparisons like this make no sense. A family subsistence farming doesn't have the same kind of relationship we do with money. Also they couldn't really go down the shops. Existence was in the edge for everyone, even the wealthy.

The other problem I see is that it's seems to pick a random time before a random location. So this will favour the times when there were far fewer people. No way around this, you either end up picking mostly near modern times because that's when the bulk of the people lived, or people further back in time who are pretty disconnected from our modern society.

I was interested in this because it happened the last time I returned to NZ, but I hadn't seen it before. There are several approved methods and it depends on the airline. The method that doesn't involve spraying with you onboard is more expensive so tends to be used by budget airlines, and also airlines who might rotate their planes and crew around routes more often because it is a treatment that lasts for weeks.

Her actions don't come across as those of a conspiracy theorist. The article actually doesn't go much into her personal situation or life story.

Her job was getting kids involved in a sport. Is that an area we really need to force AI onto workers? Are we really going to see big efficiency gains doing that? In software it makes sense to spend on AI if it gets you to market faster, your competitors will be doing the same. A football league participation manager doesn't really have the same pressures.

This definitely smells like the uppers at AFL jumping on the bandwagon without really thinking things through. And they aren't the ones who pay the price of their games.

wt is a useful little tool for helping with git worktrees: https://github.com/timvw/wt

I use it's config to copy in some non-repo config and then hooks to start an agent doing analysis.

A small typescript util rewritten into rust is going to look so similar that I don't think this will be a problem. As the parent commenter said, maybe not for a larger project. But rust semantics are really close to typescript for the most part, at least the bits you'd use for a simple tool.

Well my house isn't cold and draughty so at least 0.0001%

More likely a second hand book store in Newtown is an old and draughty building. Running a heater in there would be the same as running one outdoors.

Or she just gets cold. My daughter wears those kind of gloves all winter regardless of how warm we heat the house.

Reading her Wikipedia page, she's given huge amounts to all kinds of charities. Easy to get swept up in the whole pro/anti conversation, but even the one charity that specifically serves women only rape victims is doing good things. I just can't equate her with Musk.

Yes I expect they started digging those missile bunkers 2000 years ago knowing that one day someone, somewhere, would invent something they could launch at passing ships.

I read it as 1873 to 1877 for North America and most of Europe, but contining until 1879 in France and the UK.

Living space per person has tripled since the 1950s for Americans. House sizes have gone up and family sizes down.

I do notice that new houses seem to be built to maximize house size and leave little for the garden. I assume most people want that. Personally I've got a large garden, although it's a lot of work.

They haven't made any more moves in that direction since the store appeared. If anything, it's use seems to have declined since then. For awhile I would download a few apps from there, but when I did a fresh install this year I didn't even think about it and got nothing from there.

I didn't really understand your comment. More than 50% of Americans poll as supporting Ukraine, with something like an even split between too much, too little, and enough, meaning sentiment is generally weighted that the US should be involved or do more. Polling in Europe is more supportive.

But you used the word 'want'. I don't imagine anyone wants to be involved. Everyone who is wants the other side to stop fighting.