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If you make more than 1x your wage in tips, then you are mostly paid in tips - regardless of whether your state has a tipped minimum wage law.

Would you hear it from inside the plane? Even if it’s not as loud as the main engine, if it’s audible at all a lot of people would notice a change in pitch/tone. At least, I notice when the sounds the plane is making change even though I don’t know anything about the reason.

I think two different accounting methods are being conflated here which leads to the huge $3B vs $18B difference. Congress periodically authorizes spending for military aid to Israel and other countries. Later, the executive branch actually disburses that aid. In recent years, the US has on average given Israel $3B. This year, congress authorized an additional $18B to be disbursed through 2026 - which is what recent news stories about US giving Israel $18B are referring to, as far as I know. You would end up double-counting every dollar, if you did the math that way on an ongoing basis.

But if you know of a clean source of data on the actual amount of aid provided each year, that would be useful. I’d guess the number this year would be a lot more than $3B given the physical reality of tons of expensive offensive and defense missiles fired.

I wonder if people downvoted this because they took it as some kind of political point about COVID-19. Maybe it was, but I agree with it as a serious proposal. Even if the government is not confident in its ability to get people to accept vaccinations, it should commit to pay for the doses either way, to incentivize the development of the vaccine. In general, a contest or prize is a smart way to fund a public good. Among left and right economists, this is one thing most would agree on.

It might be sacrilege but I find Apple Maps is better now.

Just to give an experience report as someone maintaining a 50k line rust codebase at work. I didn’t write this code and have only read parts of it. I am not a rust expert. I faced a really puzzling bug - basically errors coming out of an API that had nothing to do with the call site. After struggling to debug, I search for “unsafe” and looked at the 6 unsafe blocks in the project (totaling a few dozen lines of code), and found one of those had a bug. It turns out the unsafe operation was corrupting the system the code was interacting with and causing errors that pop up during later calls. This bug would have been much more difficult to track down if I couldn’t narrow down the tricky code with “unsafe”.

Well, the phone’s software works great. They just haven’t released those new AI features - which are supposed to come out on some older devices as well. And it’s hardly the first time Apple delayed a release.

IMO, the only thing weird here is the way the iPhone 16 demo day kept talking about these unreleased features front and center instead of the actual capabilities of the new phone. Probably that’s because the phone is so incremental and there was not much to talk about.

Apple doesn’t have a reputation for letting engineers slack. I have to guess they are working like dogs to meet some standard before they are willing to release.

When my AC broke on the weekend, I got a capacitor from Amazon that arrived next day.

I’ve ridden Waymo in SF and it has gone great. The cost was cheaper than the cheapest Lyft/Uber, but in a much nicer vehicle. I felt 100% safe the whole time, which is better than I can say about humans who get paid more if they drive faster. My only complaint is cases like where it “wasted” a few minutes because it didn’t want to do an illegal U-turn during the pickup (any human driver would have done it).

The word “reliable” without any units attached isn’t well-defined, so I can’t say whether Waymo meets that bar, but it’s a good customer experience.

I see a lot of the recommendations expressing anxiety about what will happen when they discontinue - which calls into question the validity of the official treatment plan they are under and isn’t normally something you’d bring up in an ad.

How does the critical reading help you tell ad copy apart from an honest and enthusiastic recommendation? Not a rhetorical question.

The idea that Tesla would win the robotaxi race by not needing LiDAR died sometime between when LiDAR cost $100k and when it cost $1k. Now it’s just Elon being intransigent.

You can cut it more finely but I think you still run into the same issue. The best candidates to run an agency that regulates a particular industry are going to highly overlap with the best candidates to be leaders in that industry, because they have knowledge and experience over how that industry works.

Sort of like how many top law students choose between clerking at federal court and joining big law, or do one after the other. And people who become judges often did both. If you ban people who worked in private practice from being a clerk or judge, you would have a lower quality judiciary.

Ultimately, I think you end up with the B team trying to regulate the A team.

If the government wasn’t allowed to hire from private, it would be starved of talent. That would be a great scheme to hobble any agency you don’t like.

I think I’m bad at categorizing different strains of dualism because I tend to dismiss the whole enterprise without giving a fair amount of consideration.

I figure brains are amazing and we may never understand how they work very well. But nobody needed to understand intelligence for it to occur in humans. Evolution is a crude optimization mechanism that brute-forced the problem over millions of years with biology as a substrate. Computers are a worse substrate in some important ways. However, we have some incredibly fast optimization mechanisms available to us when we train models (and of course we aren’t limited to a single chip).

I’m hand-waving at the inner workings of intelligence and don’t claim to understand it at all. Given my belief that meat computers can do it without any grand design, I don’t see any reason to think that silicon computers won’t be able to do the same.

Now, if you believe that consciousness and/or intelligence requires some kind of intangible soul, and such souls are hard to come by, of course you won’t find one on the rack in an H100.

As a materialist, I have to give this one to the dualists. The argument that AI isn’t intelligent because it’s just a bunch of numbers makes more sense coming from that perspective.

I almost feel like his videos are anti-clickbait. On my YouTube recommendations page, often his title and cover image are the least eye-grabbing, but the actual video is always satisfying.

They ask on the admission form if you are a legacy, and legacy applicants answer yes because it helps them get in. So that’s very easy to track. Parents who get their kids admitted by donating millions of dollars presumably get a more “white glove” service, and I don’t know if that’s tracked in the same way.

My understanding is that tech was politically weaker back then. Although there were some big tech companies, they didn’t have as much of a lobbying operation.

Hopefully there are multiple organizations with different funding sources who aren’t beholden to each other, so they can fill whatever gaps in coverage they see. That would be a better outcome than everyone refusing journalism as a career because you will always have a conflict of interest with whoever is paying you.

Does UBI pay enough to support a ski bum lifestyle? That’s probably what I would do if I had guaranteed income with no job.

Individual school administrators would have to face off against helicopter parents if they tried to implement this policy. The state government is protecting them through air superiority.

I was gonna say, iPhones are way more reliable than German cars, it’s not a fair comparison! Then I thought about their respective depreciation curves…

I wonder if people are unaware that Hezbollah and Israel have been shooting rockets at each other for months. There are roughly 1000 deaths in the conflict and hundreds of thousands of civilians evacuated. If we’re talking about harms to civilians, this incident is probably small compared to the war overall.

From what I could tell, the equivalent level (in terms of scope/responsibilities) at the other FANG companies pays more. So even if you are just after the money, it doesn’t seem worth it if the others are also willing to hire you at the comparable level. Of course, there are exceptions - like there’s some managers I would follow anywhere, or some projects are just that exciting.

Is the limit really 8500 to get into that unregulated category? Small SUVs are very popular and are basically sedans on stilts and weigh a lot less than 8500. So I don’t think you could blame the death of sedans on that rule, if that’s indeed what the rule is.

In context, a lot of times it’s clear that the link worked at first (other people who could see it responded) but when I click later, it’s broken.

“Agents” aren’t just question-answerers. They could do things like:

1. Make pull requests to your GitHub repo

2. Trade on your interactive brokers account

3. Schedule appointments

There’s a lot of text out there that depicts people doing bad things, from their own point of view. It’s possible that the model can get really good at generating that kind of text (or inhabiting that world model, if you are generous to the capabilities of LLM). If the right prompt pushed it to that corner of probability-space, all of the ethics the model has also learned may just not factor into the output. AI safety people are interested in making sure that the model’s understanding of ethics can be reliably incorporated. Ideally we want AI agents to have some morals (especially when empowered to act in the real world), not just know what morals are if you ask them.