If I could host something on an actually secure OS, self hosting might make sense. Given the deliberately crippled choices we're all given, walled gardens with active management are the only somewhat sane options.
Self hosting remains untenable for most things because of the legacy of Unix and MS-DOS and the ambient authority model of computing.
When my mom and dad bought their home 50 years ago, they took out a mortgage to buy a home. My dad was a "light equipment operator" with the county road department. My dad's paycheck was their only income. They paid off the mortgage in 12 years on his salary alone, while raising three kids.
Today, the county road department still has a "light equipment operator" job and it pays about $52,000 per year. The house they bought 50 years ago is now worth $940k.
There's no way a couple with a single income of a "light equipment operator" could afford that house today.
In fact, even a light equipment operator's boss, the foreman/supervisor couldn't afford that home on today's wages. Maybe a light equipment operator's boss's boss, the a "superintendent of public works" would have enough income to afford the house that 50 years ago a light equipment operator was able to afford.
It really shows how an increasing percentage of the value of a worker's labor has been systematically extracted and transferred from workers to owners.
I agree with you that these have all risen in cost. All of those (excluding property tax) are included in CPI.
What inflation metric, in your opinion, accurately captures those costs?
To clarify, the CPI story is this: we had a period of high-inflation during COVID/the war in Ukraine and our recovery from COVID / reorganization of energy supply chain away from Russia. Now, we're back to normal-pace inflation. Since prices are a one-way ratchet, we're stuck on a new+higher plateau, but we're not still going up at the rate we were in 2021-2022.
Is there an inflation metric that contradicts this narrative?
On Facebook, if you use a web browser you can us this URL to see your friends posts in reverse chronological order, but there will still be ads. So that gets you 1/2 way there
So what you're telling me is that because I didn't retroactively remove my comments on Reddit before nuking my account, every LLM going forward is going to have a bit of my attitude about things? That makes me 0.001% immortal. 8)
The 'attitude' is mainly controlled by finetuning and RLHF, not pre-training. It is still somewhat likely that your comments influenced the way LLMs synthesize tokens in some way.
Because the numerator in all those fractions is the dollar, which is rapidly losing the worlds trust, as a store of value. Eventually we'll see what happens when you try to divide by zero.
Dalio explains the currency cycle, which starts with hard currency, goes through some various stages until there's pure fiat, and then goes back to hard currency.
I mean, you can't use it in any meaningful way as currency without involving the "fake" dollars, whys it the real one? It's hard to even talk about it without mentioning those other dollars!
Have to imagine someone carrying around a real book of laws (maybe they have Leviticus, or the Code Napoleon, or they've got a nice re-chisel Hammurabi's tablets) - unlike the paper law of today
It's more "real" because it has value that doesn't decrease arbitrarily when the people in power decide to print a couple trillion to deal with the latest hot topic.
The value of silver has also been decreasing arbitrarily as traders trade it! Just like real live dollar bills! That's literally what the article is about, Silver is finally making it back to prices (in real dollar bill terms) not seen for 14 years.
Yes, the prices of all things vary according to the market supply and demand. That's very different from the government creating 25% inflation in 5 years.
A distribution of the Genode OS that was usable as a daily driver.
A working realization of Memex, 80 years late in coming
I'd love to rent time on one of the machines AtomicSemi is building, I've got a chip I'd like to make, the BitGrid
Documentation for Free Pascal/Lazarus that was useable, alternatively a framework that replaces their existing documentation so that you could DIY parts of it without their weird build system.
Just yesterday I was listening to a story about a language that was meant to convey multiple viewpoint with the same writing by simply looking at it from different angles. I referenced ambigrams as a possible starting point for actually doing it.
Quite the coincidence.
If someone actually pulled it off, you could test the Sapir Whorf hypothesis rather easily.
I'm sure there are some lawyers already doing research for the class action lawsuit that's going to result from increased cases of deep vein thrombosis this will cause.
Self hosting remains untenable for most things because of the legacy of Unix and MS-DOS and the ambient authority model of computing.
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