Social policies and a clean environment is what I want

What social and environmental policies are you currently lacking? Be specific please.

And we all want many thing in life, like for example I would want my bus to work every 5 minutes instead of every 30 minutes, but everything nice in life has a hefty price, and if you make a large part of the economy bankrupt or leave and workers unemployed or broke from rising costs, in exchange for financially unrealistic environmental targets that only a small part of the population can tolerate("let them eat cake"), then that might not sit well with a large part of the democratic voting population who has to bare the brunt of your wishes.

A balance has to be found between what's nice and desirable and what's economically feasible without causing economic hardship on others, otherwise something breaks and you get rising extremism and .

That' true, but now everything depends on "what is economically feasable" and unless we are experts ourselves we can't really know. We need to rely on experts to tell us what is economically feasable, but those experts are the ones under pressure from lobbyists to say one thing or the other. Some parties says that it's economically feasable and that will actually save money, other parties say that it's not feasable and it would cost too much.

Oil companies and countries that sell oil will say it's not feasable and companies that produce panels says that it is.

We cannot rely on "what is economically feasable" because unless you are and expert you will have to get that info from one side or the other, and even independent bodies will be under lobbying pressures.

Then vote for it. Seems a growing majority disagree with you now. Maybe those policies haven’t worked well for them.

When the majority agree with me, it's just democracy working as intended.

When the majority disagrees with me then there must be some anti-democratic meddling or foreign interference going on.

Meanwhile Mr POTUS himself wants to introduce prop betting in his social media platform.

Don’t expect anything to change anytime soon

The president wants to let people gamble on election results on a platform he owns.

Which is a fun novel conflict of interest because he’s also ultimately the executive in charge of making sure national elections are properly conducted.

Since this is the direction America is going, why not have judges take bets on the outcome of trials? Would be a nice income stream for them, and it would save taxpayer money when judges don’t need to be paid anymore.

Because it sets a precedent

iirc the Times ranking has always been garbage as it weighs some "student experience" metric way too high. Do I really care about the result of some online survey equally or more than the academic achievement of the staff?

Back when I chose a UK university to attend, I valued the QS ranking much higher.

I’ve never agreed with a title and then disagreed with the content more than this article.

Jokes on you, I care a lot about my work and can still get it done in 5 hours a day.

Calling TNG a lab is a bit funny to me. It’s a consulting company that lets people hack on stuff between placements.

Yes and no.

Calling us a lab is not quite right, we are a consulting company.

But hacking is not just limited to in between placements, everybody has (at least) 2 days per month to do that, regardless of any work for customers.

Also, since AI is such a strategically important topic, we have a team that just works on AI stuff internally. That’s where R1T and R1T2 come from.

OT: I love that German has a word for “yes and no”: jein.

So does English. Well, sorta.

Petition to make "nes" a word in english (yo doesn't really work...)

Sounds like a good use of "spare" time to me and not that different from many a lab I've been part of: someone gets a hunch, sets up an experiment to follow it, proves poor disproves whatever they were after, pulls down the experiment, rinse, repeat.

My memory might be off here but wasn’t the initial AWS "cheaper" promise only made vs buying & maintaining your own hardware?

It has to be a cost thing. HLS is so insanely optimised down to the hardware level that adding any kind of compute for targeting would increase costs exponentially.

I’m not too deep into it anymore but there’s some great articles from Netflix out there talking about the crazy optimisations done to their edge servers for streaming.

It would break all the time stamps as well, unless you had fixed length ads. Sponsorblock already skips ads embedded in videos, so I don't think this would make ads much harder to block.

True, it would be sorta impossible to make timestamps work without sending the length of the ad section, so you could easily skip it programmatically.

> HLS is so insanely optimised down to the hardware level that adding any kind of compute for targeting would increase costs exponentially.

Not really. They'll just need to recode for you that one minute with the ad. The rest of the video can stay the same.

If they're doing it smartly, they can even avoid full recompression and just splice in the ad.

Agree, it has to do with cost, considering the sheer number of videos they have. Plus, oftentimes the ad won't be relevant after a week or two, in which case they can't re-encode again.

Food and (international) travel almost exclusively.

Currently on the third $10k+ trip with my wife in 18 months but don’t have a car and am still using my laptop from 2014. Main reason is that I feel like I have my whole life to buy X or Y but only have the time and energy to travel long distances while young.

Using a 11 year old laptop isn't the reason you're able to spend $30k+ on travel over an 18 month period. Including that is like when people say "stop buying Starbucks if you want to buy a house." There are typically other circumstances are involved, even a $8 coffee every day is only $3,000 a year. That isn't make or break for getting a mortgage.

I agree with your point, but Tlto be fair, they also mentioned they don't own a car, which can prevent them from traveling depending on the condition and type of car they choose.

I mean true, fair point but OP asked what I spent my money on and it’s travel, as described.

Could I also buy a new laptop? Yeah sure, but I don’t because I don’t value it as much.

Out of everything wrong in this comment the funniest one is "Even Amazon orders […] suck"

Care to elaborate? Last time I was in the US my prime order took over a week to be delivered because it had to get shipped from a warehouse in rural Ohio to San Diego. Here in Germany you get absolutely everything next day because the country is about the size of an average US state.

If you live in a major metropolitan area in the US it’s basically same day more