I always thought england was pacific north west levels of dreary, didn’t know it was that bad. How are the English not more depressed?

It’s the same with the red spot in north-western Michigan. A lot of cottages for rich people from the southern cities in michigan.

Sweet, was mad that there was no serious candidate challenging Pelosi from the left this last election. SF deserves better.

Actual figure is 19%, idk if that’s good or bad, but I doubt they’re leaving cause the spectrum of socialism. I’d guess NYC generally has a pretty high turnover rate over 5 years with young adults planning on leaving for the suburbs when they get married / have kids and older people planning on leaving for Florida / the country when they retire.

Is him punting his decision really that bad though? If he’s “thinking” about attacking Iran he’s not actually attacking Iran. If this is just a tactic to try and ride out the media cycle and hope people forget, in this case that’s good, no action on this is currently the best possible scenario.

Trump changing the subject right now to hopefully some dumb performative attack on Harvard and getting the hawks in his administration off his back is probably the best we can hope for right now.

Could someone explain why binding arbitration clauses are horrible? My understanding is that it keeps costs low on both sides as taking things to actual court can get expensive.

So when Ukraine bombs oil infrastructure, it’s “risking WWIII, and the global economy,” but when Israel does it, they’re “exercising their right to defend themselves”

It’s not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they’re still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.

The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can’t get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I’ll buy some more risky tech stocks because it’s possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money. Most of techs financing is done through selling stock, not loans.

i guess every deficit reduction implicitly comes out of taxpayers wallets

Yeah, but it doesn’t have to be yours and my wallet, ideally it would come out of the wallets of all these billionaires but instead we give them tax cuts in the big beautiful bill.

That’s the problem with tarriffs and sales taxes in general, there regressive. They hit people who spend a majority of there income buying stuff instead of those putting it in a bank and making more money that isn’t taxed as much as money earned working.

The only one I’d give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he’s been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.

The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture

another of these clearly illegal things

They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.

There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.

They turned off there nuclear after Fukushima, fossil fuels have always been expensive for them so solar makes a lot of sense.

Robots don’t get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed…

Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they’re trying to reboot any game that wasn’t a complete flop.

I guess that’s one advantage of stack overflow, sometimes you need a guy to tell you the entire basis of your question is dumb and wrong.

The actual survey result:

Asked whether “scaling up” current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to succeed.

So they’re not saying the entire industry is a dead end, or even that the newest phase is. They’re just saying they don’t think this current technology will make AGI when scaled. I think most people agree, including the investors pouring billions into this. They arent betting this will turn to agi, they’re betting that they have some application for the current ai. Are some of those applications dead ends, most definitely, are some of them revolutionary, maybe

Thus would be like asking a researcher in the 90s that if they scaled up the bandwidth and computing power of the average internet user would we see a vastly connected media sharing network, they’d probably say no. It took more than a decade of software, cultural and societal development to discover the applications for the internet.

it will be relatively easy to strip off

How so? If it’s anything like llm text based “water marks” the watermark is an integral part of the output. For an llm it’s about downrating certain words in the output, I’m guessing for photos you could do the same with certain colors, so if this variation of teal shows up more than this variation then it’s made by ai.

I guess the difference with images is that since you’re not doing the “guess the next word” aspect and feeding the output from the previous step into the next one, you can’t generate the red green list from the previous output.

I don’t think France would want to open up the indemnity/ reparations conversation…

Most embarrassing, wtf, have you read american history past the first grade. Hell in the first chapter you’ll find ethnic cleansing of natives and the three fifths compromise. This isn’t even the first time we’ve done a shakedown like this. Half of Latin America got this treatment in the 19th century, albeit less crude and poorly executed.

Even on the regurgitating authoritarian propaganda front, in the 70s we were running diplomatic cover for fucking Polpot and playing down the genocide because we wanted to get back at Vietnam and cozy up to China.

Seems to be more complaining about the lack of it. The better the skill based matchmaking is the larger those yellow slices would be. But a lot of gaming companies know about the gambling mindset of players who want to roll the dice and hope they get in the lobby where they stomp the other team so they’ll make the matchmaking not as good and make it a coin flip on whether your on the stomping team, so the yellow slice becomes smaller.