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Given that screens are always adding their own light, it’s impossible for a screen to ever be equally bright as a piece of paper next to it. The screen will always be brighter.

Grindr was forcibly divested, so yes, it has happened

What you said seems contradictory. You open with the premise that intelligent youth go the finance / CS / MBA path instead of engineering and then say that those who do go into traditional engineering can’t find jobs. Couldn’t it be that people don’t go into engineering because there aren’t any jobs? Wouldn’t the lack of jobs explain the low salaries and thus the preference for more high paying alternatives?

It's not typically considered, but it matters when comparing against an economy that primarily manufactures goods.

I assert this without evidence, but I would highly suspect club attendance numbers and rave attendance numbers to be strongly correlated.

Milk actually has a ridiculous amount of sugar. 11g per cup! That makes it hard to drink if you're trying to cut back on sugar.

Why is it that only "doing nice things" or "volunteering your time" makes you a good person? Does a traffic engineer not better the lives of others? What about a farmer? Where does the food served in a soup kitchen come from if not from the sweat of the farmer's brow? The shelter over everyone's head only exists because truckers transported the materials. Simply existing in a way that isn't purely self-serving is often enough to be hugely helpful to others.

Not that you'd buy organic pasta on a tight budget, but organic wheat products are not fortified, at least in the U.S. Just FYI to anyone wanting to exclusively eat pasta.

The one use case I’ve found LLMs excel at is using a new library. Even if it gets a lot of the API wrong, figuring out most of the setup / boilerplate is useful.

You’d rather ride a train for 20 hours instead of a 2 hour flight?

I think I misunderstood your point. It sounded like you were arguing against telling the scout group prior to the conviction, because they were innocent until proven guilty. But from your follow up, it sounds like you agree with telling the scout group prior to his conviction. In that case, I agree with you.

Were they convicted? It seems irresponsible to let someone strongly suspected of harming children to continue to have close contact with children. “Innocent until proven guilty” is a criminal justice concept. It actually doesn’t apply to civil matters.

They don’t always have the audio stream, e.g. when someone is using an audio receiver.

I know someone who worked on smart TV software. They explicitly added audio fingerprinting via integrated microphone so they could determine which programs you were watching for ad profiling.

When in the history of online ads have advertisers not used available data?

I feel like we're talking about semantics here. You must posses drugs before / while actively using, and heavy addicts use multiple times a day.

I'm in NY. Possession of a controlled substance is a class A misdemeanor here[0], which can carry a maximum prison sentence of 1 year.

0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/220.03

> We can't arrest them before they do anything violent

Why not? Using drugs is illegal.

Since this hasn't gotten much attention, I just wanted to say that I think this is a cool project. Nice work!

I agree with the sentiment that great APIs are a prerequisite to great SDKs, but great SDKs are really about time saving. Consider AWS's API, which requires a specific signing mechanism. That is annoying to implement manually. In general, the common method of shared-secret passed via bearer token is pretty insecure. I hope to see that change over time, and SDKs can help facilitate that.

Not OP, but

> What is that based on?

This is based on the fact that we have finite resources. Any resources that go to housing drug addicts could have been used for something else. There is a real opportunity cost there.

> Also, why are people with a drug problem less deserving than people with housing problems.

There are a few issues with housing drug addicts:

1. Understand, these people aren't just run-of-the-mill addicts. They are so addicted to drugs that they'll live in unimaginably horrid conditions to support their addiction. Any housing they receive will be destroyed and made uninhabitable.

2. Housing them makes the system more miserable and undesirable for everyone else. If you're a parent with children and you're facing homelessness, are you really going to use a resource where close contact with heavy drug addicts is possible?

> Finally, what I understand from experts is that the first step to helping people with drug problems is to get them stable housing.

That's actually the second step. The first step is getting the addict to want to quit drugs. Many addicts don't want to stop using, and giving those people housing is not going to be an effective way to combat their addiction if they aren't first interested stopping their addictive behavior.

I'm not asking you to do research, I'm asking you to look up definitions you don't understand. There's a difference.

I'd recommend a quick Google search for "types of homelessness" or "chronic homelessness" before proffering any personal attacks.

There are really two distinct homelessness problems:

1. The “temporarily unhoused”. These are people who have fallen on hard times and need temporary assistance to get back on their feet. These people live out of their cars and are largely invisible.

2. The chronically homeless. These are drug users who infest public spaces and are highly visible and disruptive.

When laypeople talk about “homelessness”, they typically mean 2 as it’s more visible and disruptive to them.

Would you rather be scammed or stabbed? According to you, you should be indifferent. Personally, I’d prefer to be scammed.

No, your argument is basically “all bad things are equivalent to knife attacks.” Look, I’m not saying deception and scamming are “ok”, I’m just saying comparing them to knife attacks is stupid.

There’s obviously a huge difference between a scam and a violent attack. The person being scammed doesn’t ever lose their agency and willingly participates. That’s very different from a knife attack, where the victim would leave at every moment if possible.

Binary addition is O(n)

The issue isn’t performing the specific addition. Rather, you’re asking o1 to take n-bits of data and combine them according to some set of rules. Isn’t that what these models are supposed to excel at, following instructions? Binary addition is interesting because the memorization space grows at 2^n, which is impossible to memorize for moderate values of n.

Can this “expert in math” do binary addition? o1 falls apart after 10 bits, which is easily memorizable.

Nothing is free means that the daycare provided by a company isn’t free. It costs the company money and can be considered part of your compensation. It’s almost certainly more efficient and more desirable for the company to give you money to procure your own.

Daycare and coffee just aren’t equivalent.