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I assume parent commenter is talking about this: https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude . But it can hardly be consider as access to a GPT-4 prompt, can it?

Maybe at highway speed. At city speeds I am constantly taken by surprise by electric cars that come from behind while I'm cycling (in the Netherlands, for context, where I'd estimate that at least 25% of the cars are already electric, in the city in question).

In most places, including the UK, there's a legal principle called adverse possession (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession), where anyone can take possession of a property for free, if it's unoccupied/unmaintained by the owner, and the possession is not challenge for certain a period of time, i.e. actual owner doesn't evict the prospective occupier (12 years in the case of the UK).

So people or the government don't really need to actually buy much of the land.

I'm currently residing in Central Europe and 42C are scheduled on Saturday. I think it's a new record for the town. But other than about 2 weeks of heat wave per summer, the rest of the time the weather is quite livable. I'm renovating the basement a bit, where it's a lot cooler, so it's not all that bad.

The worst will be in a couple of decades when climate migration will become a thing, I suspect.

.ml, .tk, .ga. All free. (With a catch, I remember some reporting their TLD getting taken over once they crossed a certain traffic treshold).

Is there any other country that has a non-English ISO name?

LE. There are a few, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao etc. But those names have been used in practice much more frequently than their English names.

What EEG device were you using? Is it the OpenBCI Cyton, by any chance?

I'm currently working with a similar ADS1299-based device, but I've still got a lot of work to do on it.

I just realized we're less than 1 year away from reaching 8 billion people on Earth. A bit scary.

Since there are people who end their own lives early, i.e. suicides, that position is clearly not unique.

But I think it boils down to where you are in life. No-one would like endless suffering.

As for my own stance on this, i wouldn't want this to happen simply because it will greatly exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots, the poor and the well-off. It will completely throw the current social equilibrium out of the window.

And I'm mainly talking about life extension, since i find immortality a foolish/impossible goal.

Not necessarily, maybe there's a strategy that returns 1 extra percent per year compared to just holding the ETF long term. Not quite enough to make a day and night difference, but enough to make it worth it.

Still, I personally wouldn't share it had I had one, since generally the more traders use it the less effective it gets.

No, you should not. Chances of it working out are probably slim. You probably don't need funding, as many solo founders can attest. Hiring should be done once the business is already generating an income, and should be scaled based on that income.

What happens is that if you do sell your house, (assuming you'll pay rent) things will get a lot more stressful for yourself financially, and this will severely hinder your mental performance and chances of success.

An even better idea would be to get a regular job and bootstrap your business in your spare time, on weekends. Once it takes off, you can quit the job and focus full time in it. Successful startups coming from this kind of environments are way more common than those coming from YOLO, all-in approaches you are thinking of. And this is precisely because of the way the mammal nervous system works. The ability to do creative mental work is severely impacted when under a perceived threat (financial doom in this case).

People have built solar bikes, as in regular ebikes with 2-300w panels attached that power the motor. That's more impressive if you ask me. Other than that, lots of people (myself included) have run old, indirect injection diesels on used veg oil. That was years ago when it was financially very advantageous.

If you ask me, these are more impressive/interesting technical feats, but with real world applicability and usefulness.

> 1000^n is definitely more human friendly.

It may be more human friendly, but 1024^n is more programmer friendly, especially at the low level.

Advice? Try to find the reason behind this feeling, this "exhaustion", or why working is "consuming" you, because this doesn't lead to a sustainable way of living. Chances are when you get back (if you don't happen to fall into a downward spiral. It's easy to fall into one if you cut your social contact, your income, safety net etc. All these could make getting back into the workfield quite hard), things won't be massively better, unless you address the root cause.

I know quite a few low profile streamers on twitch that are barely scraping a living (i.e. ~$1k a month), with average viewership at ~1-200 in niche topics (Geoguessr for instance).

There are a lot more youtubers making a living, but very few (probably less than 5%) make it to a reasonable income. So as others mentioned, it's best to do it as a hobby and switch to it full time when/if it takes off. If you're under pressure to deliver your content will be negatively impacted.

> tax progression will be removed, so that people will have a chance of levelling up

Progressive taxation has the exact opposite function to what you're suggesting. It's a mechanism designed to reduce economic inequality and the poverty among the low income workers.

Your comment sounds like a rationalization from a middle/upper income person.

> it is not uncommon to pay over 40% of tax

That figure is misleading, because it includes a set of expenses like social security, health insurance, government pension plans etc. Corporations don't pay that and that's why the difference may seems so big.

But I too am quite unhappy with the way the whole taxation system is constructed. But I would go in the opposite direction to the one you described. More in the way to progressive taxation, even negative taxation for the very low income people, basic income.

I would also work a bit towards making corporation pay more for all their externalities.

I was looking for more practical tips and challenges related to alternative housing but most of the article is about the author's love life. So the title is a bit misleading IMO. For me, it wasn't really worth the read.

> While Uber and Lyft make their money for Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors, we will be a co-operative. So any profits will go back to the drivers.

Can't they set it up as a non-profit? What almost always happens in these cases is that most of shares are owned by the first few workers, and ultimately a small group will control the whole business (at which point they will obviously won't drive for the app anymore). So it will inevitably turn into another Uber/Lyft this way.

> Anyway, people think I'm 'privileged' now because I earn a lot of money

Any they are right thinking that,aren't they? That kind of money and wealth gives you a huge safety blanket and insulates you from most of the stresses described in the article. That's the whole point of the article, that this is a huge privilege that's overlooked by the well off.

Could you be more specific? Ted who?

In other words, it's a gamble. And it has terrible effects on the public image of the company if you ask me. If I was a stockholder, that would make me question the long-term stability of the company, if the executive has tendencies towards such behavior.

My understanding is that the ETH and other algorithms designed to be run on GPUs have big memory and memory bandwidth requirements, which is what makes it more difficult (or less cost effective?) to implement on an ASIC.

LE. I see you meant NVidia should be making the ASICs. In that case, that's exactly what they're doing, isn't it? This CMP line is exactly that.

Hmm, interesting. I kept most of my old laptops and only 1 out of about 10 has failed; A Toshiba Tecra S1 from early 2000s. The GPU chip on that one failed and it would have been too much hassle to repair. (soldered on the mainboard)

Other than that, I still have a Core 2 Duo HP laptop from ~2007-8 that's fine, but I haven't been using for a few years, a 2011 Sandy Bridge Thinkpad that's still seeing semi-frequent use, and a ~2017 Kaby Lake daily driver. Actually, I have another Core 2 Duo from the same 2008 time frame which used CCFL backlighting, and that did fail. I did replace the backlighting with LED strips and it is usable, but it's a bad hack. So you can count that as a failure as well.

Other than that, I don't know what failures you're referring too. One of the old HDD did have some failures at some point (after SMART testing), but I used the manufacturer's software to map around the bad sectors. So in my experience, hardware is very reliable.

Truth be told, I bought the Kaby Lake (a Dell Inspiron) with water damage, and I did the mainboard repair myself (which was not worth it from a time perspective, it took me at least a week of debugging, going through the schematics, checking the signals from the superIO chip, only to find that I only needed to replace a couple of 0805 resistors). Maybe I don't count minor things as failures, if I can work around them? The Sandy Bridge Thinkpad does have a tendency to overheat, to the point where it shuts down. Cleaning it and replacing the thermal paste only partially solves the issue, so I've been running it underclocked mostly. But that only comes up when all cores are under 100% utilization.

If I were in your position I wouldn't be targeting a FAANG job in the circumstances. Those are very sought after, highly competitive, the whole interview process takes months etc. Plus you won't be in a strong negotiating position, being out of work and all. I would just apply to many soft. eng positions that are around you and of interest to you.

> but these social communities are having an impact

What that means is that people controlling those communities (including mods) have an immense advantage.

Virtually all off-grid solar installations use some kind of an MPPT controller with a battery setup. The controller is always charging the battery (when there is power output from the panels), and the consumer power output is supplied by the batteries. This way you get much higher peak current output than the panels could provide, you also ensure stability.

In fact, many cabin installations don't even use inverters to convert into AC. They instead use DC appliances. So no, going through AC makes no sense in this scenario.

As for DC voltage levels, that of course is dependent on solar panel configuration and battery cells configurations/packing. Virtually all electric cars have a built in charger with a switching power supply that's already doing the DC voltage conversion. What I was remarking was that there is a lot of duplicate electronics that perform the same function and that a lot of intermediary steps can be eliminated.

Could you be a bit more specific? People end up homeless because they are cut from society, have no social support to fall back to, no way of supporting themselves. Most commonly they get to that situation due to mental illness and addiction/substance abuse is an ever-present comorbidity with that.

But the fact is, not having a shelter, running water, a way to cover their basic needs is what amplifies their suffering and dispairs to level where they simply can't get back on their feet. They can't get a job if you smell, your clothes are dirty and you're desperate and hungry. A shelter is a necessary condition I think for getting out of that cycle, and thus a very important first step.

I understand why grid-tied systems are built this way, but from an engineering standpoint this is really inefficient. Converting from DC to AC and back to DC, for no reason. In fact, most solar controllers are already designed to use and charge batteries.

It doesn't help that most car manufacturers use locked battery charging protocols that don't allow you to easily change this process.

Not in the US, but in Europe, delivery by car was fairly stressful (did that for a few months). Constantly risking getting a parking ticket wiping out days' worth of income.

Doing it on a bike though is indeed quite nice.

> I hope parents can be considerate, prepared, loving and financially stable before having children.

That's neither ethical, nor is it possible since reproduction is such a strong biological drive. However, what is possible, is having the government rethink social support, making sure that each member of society has a safety net, and doesnt need to worry about getting his basic needs met (food, water, shelter etc). Basic income seems to be the best fit here.

This won't completely solve the problem, because food, shelter will not heal the attachment problems of some people (people also need companionship), but it will provide a stable base, that is a radical improvement on today's status quo.