I'm interested in a direction like this but along the lines of allowing adept programmers to write real programs on a mobile device. Using touchscreen keyboards to write real code is pretty unwieldy.

First two problems are easily solved with money

Money doesn't magically create hardware, it takes time to produce it

50% of SPY constituents are going to beat SPY. That in itself doesn't imply the CEO is a meaningful factor in company performance.

This isn’t true because of the weighting. If apple doubles in value SPY will be up 8% from that alone. It’s easy to see a scenario where one massive company has an incredible year and every other company returns below the average.

Or, alternatively, one massive company has a bad year, and everyone else comes out smelling like roses.

On average, 50/50 is a pretty decent benchmark here.

That's a bit offputting at a glance but I was quickly confident I could find the street name of any street I was in within a second.

It's funny how Mastodon keeps crawling in the direction of more balkanization.

In general I find it strange how the people most drawn to the Fediverse at the moment are those who seem to have the most desire for central authority and an active dislike for, well, federation. People who left Twitter because it was no longer exercising as tight a grip over people's speech as they'd like, for some reason fled to a platform where people are more able to choose their own masters, and are now surprised that it's functioning as designed and they aren't able to control everyone else's speech. And that if you put something on the public internet... then it can be read by anyone on the internet

Loans against a retirement account are treated as distributions under the tax code.

You are correct. I did not know that.

Explained here: https://finance.zacks.com/can-retirement-accounts-used-colla...

I thought we already had a word for it: "perjury"

See but that refers to something illegal and nothing that cops do is illegal

I don't think the average Factorio gamer is going to know that they should do this or how. They will just know that their new CPU which was supposed to have better gaming performance is doing very, very poorly.

You are talking about Factorio players who specifically bought an 3D-L3 CPU, I would guess awareness would pretty high, personally...

> You are talking about Factorio players who specifically bought an 3D-L3 CPU

Factorio players don't necessarily know anything about computers. And you don't know if they bought this CPU or if it came with their fancy prebuilt.

The golden age of open-source AI is ahead of us. Open-source AI companies are being launched and funded. High quality, large, labeled data sets have never been more accessible, and scaling law plateaus means there is going to be a lot more momentum on data- and compute-optimization, meaning current SOTA models will start fitting on smaller and smaller hardware, down to commodity hardware.

This. We already had discussions of 'attacks' on models based on public data sets so 'good sets' may soon become the thing to go after ( and suddenly data brokers may really want to up the prices of their sets ). We might actually see more privacy as a result as the data brokers will start charging a premium for clear sets.

Naturally, as predictions go, don't quote me on that. I was wrong before.

Until legislation clamps it down.

At least in the United States, it's well established that code is protected by freedom of speech. https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/04/21-40

Yeah I don't expect that to last very long. Once it is discovered you can have an AI army that will tear apart any human force like tissue paper, AI will be classified and regulated as a WMD. They'll amend the Constitution if they have to, or get SCOTUS to do it for them.

Until recently, reproductive rights were well established too. Shit changes, yo.

This is why activist judiciaries inventing rights that plainly are not there (and in fact, supporters at the time understood that this was on shaky ground legally) are dangerous to rely on.

The situation here is not comparable.

You could argue it, but I doubt the argument would withstand an encounter with a judge.