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Fellow SF cyclist:

Even setting aside the malicious SF stuff, Waymo's have enormous advantages over humans relying on mirrors and accounting for blindspots. I never have to be concerned a Waymo hasn't seen me.

I can't wait until the technology is just standard on cars, and they won't let drivers side-swipe or door cyclists.

Answer for your serious question: hiring contractors isn’t “privatized” - that’s outsourcing. The thing you’re saving on is the ongoing cost of having permanent staff.

The difference is the government and public entities like mayoral offices or parliaments get to decide how the entity (doing the contracting) is run and approve costs, and the entity is under no obligation to return a profit.

I’ve never seen one that worked long term. The basic premise is “what was done for $X dollars with no profit motive can be done for <$X dollars with profit motive doesn’t hold up - you make something private, it wants to make more profit.

Just for the most ready to hand example for me, PG&E in SF vs public electricity utilities on the peninsula - the privatized electricity costs twice as much per kWh - and of course it does because the PG&E CEO needs to make $17M from somewhere, the share price needs to go up etc. the rich need to skim from the top, that makes the cost higher.

If you have an essential industry the cynical play is to privatize to save cost, then do a bad job and then effectively make your losses public through bail-outs while still making profit.

He was effectively appointed by Steven Mnuchin in 2017: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/23/trump-is-reportedly-diss...

This go round Trump is liable to appoint someone from Fox Business.

Kinda like some HN posters write the way they think academics talk?

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."

Aside: I still object to the use of “engineering” for a practice that doesn’t understand why what it does works. This is more similar to the “skilled masons” era of construction than “structural engineering” - “we know from experience this has worked in the past”.

Steady, we’re taking things like having outlets every three feet of countertop in kitchens.

A beloved Terry Pratchett character defines evil as when you treat people like things.

Generally it’s the time it takes for you to get back to physiological baseline.

If you do a lot of activity, the amount of exertion can be measured in EPOC - how much extra oxygen your body needs for the extra metabolism to support repair (this is when any gains happen, growth, endurance, efficiency). When that’s back to baseline your body has done repairing, you’ve “recovered”.

If you aren’t recovered, your body still hasn’t repaired the damage you’ve done to it in the previous round, and you probably won’t be able to repeat the effort, whichever discipline. You’re digging yourself deeper in a hole. If you keep doing this, that’s overtraining, and you can get worse.

If you never experienced this, congratulations, you were operating inside your body’s natural limits! You may have good genes, and having good sleep and nutrition is probably more important than supplements.

Oh neat, thanks!

Yeah Virtual DJ integration was great, I got frustrated with their beat gridding (I come from Ableton where it’s always been magic and the Traktor where auto grid was really good) but they’ve been pushing everything else forward for a while.

Djay’s killer feature is algorithmic stem extraction. The streaming audio services that have integration (Tidal, now Apple Music) don’t allow this processing. It’s an arbitrary technical limitation that I suspect is rooted in a licensing agreement from the rights holders.

tl;dr this is great for playing with sequencing, but a lot of modern djays will want to be able to do stem separation even when exploring, and live use was always a tough sell with a no-internet kill switch.

One thing I've tried using Gemini for, and been really impressed with, is practicing languages. I find Duolingo doesn't really translate to fluency, because it doesn't really get you to struggle to express yourself - the topics are constrained.

Whereas, you can ask an LLM to speak to you in e.g. Spanish, about whatever topic you're interested in, and be able to stop and ask it to explain any idioms or vocabulary or grammar in English at any time.

I found this to be more like a "cognitive gym". Maybe we're just not using the tools beneficially.

Well, purely going on who it is of value to, probably life insurance providers or pharmaceutical companies.

This is about process privilege. Apps and services are a layer above.

Global narcotics are about 1% of world trade. So in the worst case scenario the USD is doing about 99% more legitimate transactions than crypto.

You still have to meet the hiring bar, it doesn't change the hiring criteria. I've been on hiring committee at FAANG, I'm never made aware of a candidates DEI status, I assume that discussion happens amongst management.

Sour grapes rather than valuing fairness?

Elementary school kids are huge on fairness and injustice. It seems like it's built in to facilitate group social dynamics in great apes. It takes a lot of sophistication to be able to frame valuing fairness as a character flaw.

I noticed this and the ghost artists in my recommendations after playing some ambient.

I'm done with Spotify. I've had the service since it was beta in the Nordics, maybe 2008? It was amazing to be able to stream almost every piece of music there is.

I love music, I'm an amateur musician and I respect artists. This treats music as a fungible commodity. That's not what music is to me, so I choose not to support that.

I also understand the predicament they are in. I had friends who worked at Rdio, and I briefly worked at a startup doing music recommendation until the big 3 quoted us how much royalties they wanted in advance to stream their catalogue one time to learn from.

The record labels are the root cancer on the industry, but the alternative for Spotify might be to become a better label, not become another bad actor.

I was expecting the article to explore how you are basically interrupting sleep to achieve this.

The purpose of sleep isn't to dream, it's to garbage collect. Activating parts of the brain to control dreams means they aren't sleeping anymore, which surely is getting in the way of the primary function?

LLMs suffer from the "Igon Value Problem" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Igon_Value_Problem

Similar to reading a pop sci book, you're getting an entertainment from a thing with no actual understanding of the source material rather than an education.

Not really, it's just time before spreading and time for the soil bacteria to do their thing.

"Why LLMs do the one and only thing they do (and how to fix it)"

In TY in 1998 I:

worked at an architect's, an archeologist's, a hospital, an epidemiological research institute where I got to use _my own computer_ all day - decided I needed to work with computers, got a summer job there.

earned the President's Award medal

had one class where we stripped an engine over the term

got my first aid certificate

learned how to develop film

took night classes touch typing (on an electric typewriter)

took part in the Irish language school music competition

took German

was in a play

got an award at the Young Scientist

I really developed as a person. I hadn't ever really stopped to think what my life would be like without that development but I suspect it was very beneficial. It certainly wasn't a "doss" - and it started to grow a self determination muscle - find your own work experience, find projects you want to try etc.

Right, and do you verify the result?

You have to know what the answer is supposed to be before you can write a test case.

Given many people don’t have an inner monologue and function just fine, it’s more likely inner monologue is a product of the reasoning process and not it’s mechanism.

I would guess because natural gas has hundreds of years of us handling it, and we already have a lot of things from power generators to domestic driers that consume it.

But most homes in the UK are single family homes (66%) and women changed from having 2.4 kids on average in 1970 to 1.66 in 2021, so you would expect household size to fall.

Is the long text purely for SEO or because a longer page gives more opportunities for ad impressions and higher engagement metrics?