paulproteus

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges...

Seven restraining orders. Seems like lots is not legal.

8 trillion is the amount the debt rose while Trump was in office last time: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president...

How much do you think he will raise it by during this term?

I don't see how that relates to my comment. Can you elaborate?

I found this helpful to keep me up to date on the legal situation of various executive orders: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges... . Overall for me, 8 executive orders subject to restraining orders sounds like the executive branch vastly exceeding its authority, which for three weeks of government, sounds like a constitutional crisis.

Sounds good! Maybe you can start a business and have a low-stakes regional airport work with you. I think the main way to do it is as an add-on/assistant for the existing toolset.

Gotcha. The reason I was mystified is that the budget is written by Congress, so I would guess a phone call to a leader in Congress with a desired budget number would do the job. Given that this doesn't seem to be the plan, I couldn't tell if maybe they had some other goal. I hope that explains how someone could be mystified.

Since you know the people in question, do you have any ideas? I am honestly mystified myself and hopeful someone who knows the people in question can shed some light.

Trillions of debt is a congress issue. Maybe this congress can pass some bills to resolve it. Not sure how that's relevant to 25 year olds since there are no current 25 year old congress members.

One good option is FTC action. They have worked on this in the past, e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...

I wonder if Musk will buy the loans.

Makes sense. Their software product isn't very good. They should take the profits they have and diversify into other businesses.

Confusing statement when Republicans are the reason Obamacare shipped without a public option

OP lives in Austin. If you have $1M net worth, you can probably buy a house there and live there. If you don't go do that, I think you're just punishing yourself.

I think the most likely option is that their support for Trump is not economically motivated.

I am honestly not so sure. What's the evidence for this claim?

For this reason, my browser's Downloads folder is /tmp.

In a recent analysis of venture capital returns for companies based on programming language, for the top 50 Y Combinator companies at least as of 2019, Ruby is #1, and C# is just not in the list.

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...

I have no affiliation with Y Combinator itself or the author of the post.

The particular analysis is pretty skewed in its own way, so you can take it with a pinch of salt.

As a general rule, programming languages have ecosystems and communities, and if you pick a language where quickly delivering high-value features to users/customers is part of the community, it helps your startup; you'll probably meet founders and get business advice if you go to a Ruby meetup, but less so at a C# one.

It's not the whole picture, since it doesn't speak to the technical part of your question.

I hope the CA Governor can use GenAI to auto-respond to NIMBYs who block housing development in CA. It would be a time-saving measure for state housing departments who are already very busy.

What if the design flaw makes AIs unsafe? This would be a fun sci-fi piece.

When people operate a safe AI company, the company will make money. That money will be likely be used by employees or their respective national revenue agencies to fund unsafe things. I'd like to see this safe AI company binding its employees and owners from doing unsafe things with their hard-earned cash.

This is the most fun I've had listening to AI generated music. Thank you!

There's a lot of writing about a trend of less drinking. Do you have information to the contrary of them?

Here are some references:

https://www.theiwsr.com/moderation-trend-drives-demand-for-n...

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-drag-down-...

On my iPhone, I use Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

It integrates with the system browser and, I think, all embedded browsers. I only use the 'privacy-safe' subset of Wipr, that is, the passive filter list that Safari supports most efficiently. It works great. I'm sure there are other options that other iPhone users can recommend to you if you ever want to try it.

People are worried about `curl|bash` but not worried enough about C++ programs calling Python to call bash to call curl.

Does the green software conference have talks about this topic and how to fix it? That would be very interesting!

(edited after posting: I read the article, and I see it's a movement, but not a conference. So same question, would love to see operating systems improvements be part of the green software movement, do you know if it is?)

I use this app for that: https://www.paprikaapp.com (no affiliation, just a happy customer)

Since LLMs model language, does anyone know of any LLM products/libraries that are spam detectors?

With that kind of budget, you can get an iPhone SE 2020: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2020-64-gb-blac... . If you can spare an extra $50, I'd go for the current model: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2022-64-gb-star... ($202)

That's basically what I did: https://announce.asheesh.org/2022/09/i-switched-to-iphone-fo...

Fair enough. I think the UX challenges are tougher than FPS, and secondarily the hardware challenges are also tougher than FPS, so I probably should have omitted the FPS mention in my comment to keep things focused. :D

Personally I think VR is outside the domain of expertise of 3D games and game engines. To think that VR is within that domain is exactly the error -- VR as an overall product requires different consumer behavior than buying a game for a PC you already have. It requires buying a new kind of device or buying into a whole new form of interaction. It requires remembering to use that device and think about what games you have for it. It requires engineers to ship high FPS and low lag to prevent nausea to a degree unheard of for PC gaming.

Facebook's VR plan seems to hinge on being "even more ubiquitous than mobile" <https://officechai.com/learn/mark-zuckerbergs-email-explaini...>, which is a level of constant use that 3D games don't really have.

I am not a VR or 3D game expert, but even I can list other key differences. I bet you can too if you try. I think those are reasons to think VR is not really the same domain. I am curious what you think.