skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Healthcare will probably be safe for the foreseeable future (not a long period these days). This is because (1) current AI models need an enormous training set relative to humans, and (2) medical information is treated with relatively high levels of confidentiality, making it difficult to get a training set big enough for current AI to become really good with.

There will be specific exceptions with specific medical tasks, though I can’t really forecast which or how many tasks. Being able to triage arrivals at A&E based on their symptoms is different from having a database of known pharmaceutical interactions, and both are very different from being able to tell which mole is cancerous and which is benign.

But overall, I expect the domains with limited or absent training sets to be those that go longest before being automated, and I think medicine has a lot of specific tasks in that category.
All science and research is difficult. In order to do it correctly with our imperfect tools, you're going to need a large field of expert peers who are able to relentlessly challenge your findings. This process doesn't always lead to better understanding quickly, but it works better than any other system in the long run. The problem with people like Hancock is they may superficially use the same tools as real scholars, but they don't have (or respond to) the same scientific correction processes. Hence: Atlantis is real.
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Ironically, the 90s solution (human-curated link collections) to Internet-wide searches seems the easiest way out.

It's relatively easy for a human to tell the difference between AI copy (as pollutes the web) and actual content.

It's also strange that Google et al. haven't built human-in-the-loop flagging of spam content into their search UX ("Is this site low quality?"). They could get around flag spam via reputation, given that Google knows identity for most of its users (because they're logged in or via IP across their properties).

Side note: In cursory research on current state, I came across the Chinese phrase "human flesh search engine" [0], which I wonder if it sounds as cyberpunk in the original Chinese.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
I've usually heard Stoßlüften (shock ventilation), and it's often part of the lease in Germany. It helps avoid condensation and mold.
The notice is filed on penalty of perjury. All that should happen is whoever filed the notice actually be tried for perjury.
You say "always", others say "never", I guess my anecdote will split the difference. From my perspective, the first two Pis were easy to get; I remember some noise about Pi 3 selling out very fast (I scored a couple then, IIRC, on the release day), and starting with Pi 4, I've heard they're effectively unobtainable.
French being French. I suppose taxing French citizens even more than they already do is what they will end up doing.
I think by "declining profits" they are referencing a specific line of business, not "Amazon" proper.

Look at Alexa as an example.. It has racked up substantial losses yet "Amazon" is profitable.

I've often heard that Amazon's retail devision isn't a big money maker?

I think people are seeing actions Amazon is taking to shore-up its retail side (less generous return policy, their "Free for all " market place, commingling inventory..).
> Germany has a small-scale test of overhead lines for trucks

And the accompanying ridicule for recreating a railroad, just with less efficiency because tires consume a good chunk of the truck's energy in deformation and because you need way more drivers than if you would just put the damn bunch of trucks onto flatbed rail carriages.

The entire project was nothing more than a smokescreen by the automotive industry.
no it cannot. It'll create something that looks like that but I'll be just word salad that will never compile to anything. Try anything out-of-sample and you'll see. It will not be able to implement quadratic voting as outlined in the Radical Markets book as it is primarily trained on things that already exist.
Another concept to look at for margin comparison is the fact all the other manufacturers are still playing the dealer network game. Lots of the profits on the cars aren't going to the old manufacturers, it's going to the local dealers.

Tesla doesn't have dealers, so all the dealer profits go to Tesla.
Did he get money back at least? If not, you'd be surprised "small claims" can be up to $25k in some states.
Referred study in the article:

Not all price endings are created equal: Price points and asymmetric price rigidity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...

• 9-ending prices exhibit an asymmetric rigidity compared to non 9-ending prices.

• Asymmetry is counter-Keynesian: 9-ending prices are more rigid upward than downward.

• Consumers use 9-endings as a signal for low prices, influencing their perceptions.

• Retailers set 9-ending prices more often after price increases than price decreases.

• The findings hold for regular/sale prices and for inflation/no-inflation periods.
I use a raspberry pi with both a SCD30 and MZ-14A, logging to influxdb and visualised with Grafana.

The SCD30 generally seems to report higher CO2 levels than the MZ-14A. I believe it is probably more accurate because of it's calibration technique.

Both are NDIR based sensors.

* https://sensirion.com/products/catalog/SCD30/

* https://www.winsen-sensor.com/d/files/MH-Z14A.pdf
I wonder what kind of chargers Pepsico has installed.

Sure, the ability to charge at 1MW+ is useful, but you won't want to use that often unless you want to spend all of your fuel cost savings replacing batteries. Just like a car, the battery will last a lot longer if you slow charge. But a slow charge on a 900kW battery is still a lot faster than you can get out of standard 240VAC. Pepsico probably wants to do 50-100kW overnight charging on their vehicles.

I wonder if it's something like 1MW of power split between 8 stalls. So if one truck comes in during the day time, it can get a top up at 1MW, but overnight when there are 8 trucks parked, they all charge at 125kW or less.
They're basically banning it's direct competitor. Makes business sense.
I learned never to use autoinc IDs in anything especially not URLs where they leak DB info, etc. However, I've seen it many times where younger devs do exactly that because they're learning from bad online books or tutorials. Every generation dev needs to relearn the same lessons.

I also suspect that many devs today are learning platforms first and software skills last. This was the reverse for many devs that came from building it the hard way and then using platform tooling to simplify. Newers devs are looking for the tooling to provide the core skills guardrails.
Sun's motto was the network is the computer for a reason.

Cloud computing is basically timesharing rebranded.

Even containers were already a thing in big iron UNIX, e.g HP-UX vaults introduced in 1998 thereabouts.
People wondered the same right after the fire was discovered.
How slow do you read??
There would indeed need to be a law.
I completely moved away from DO, because most IPs I got were in some blacklists. And some smaller providers completely blocked the IPs of those networks.

So I had customers who weren’t able to visit my website hosted on DO. Their provider refused to unblock the IP range, because there were a lot of attacks coming from there. DO doesn’t seem to care a lot about reputation.
Oh, I completely get it. I think those of us who are new parents are of a particular generation.

I was brought up with "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about", my parents would get angry that I didn't know how to do something (well you're the teacher, how is it my fault you didn't teach me!), and shouting. A lot of shouting.

It has definitely affected me, even now if my wife shouts me from downstairs get that feeling of being a child again, waiting to be smacked for something I've supposedly done wrong. I think it will always be there.

However, my parents had it much worse than me. They were born into poverty and their parents were dysfunctional, raging alcoholics who didn't provide for them. As a child my dad had to break into abandoned warehouses to pull up floorboards to use as firewood, because HIS dad was too busy pissing away his money in the pub and on gambling.

That they managed to come out and raise kids in a more loving environment than the one they grew up in is a testament to them.

I think most of us want our children to have a better life than the one we had. People are human, people make mistakes.

I forgive my parents for the mistakes they made, because I know that even for the things they made me do that I still detest and think they are wrong for making me do, they did it for the right reasons, they still loved me. And I love them
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Are we linear thinkers? I'd say we are more of logarithmic thinkers.
Good, they both abuse their access.
You might be right. You better be right :-). Energy should be a solvable problem on a planet drenched (quite democratically) with sunlight. Lots of other challenges piggybag on energy tech... and so forth.

The pessimism is just a reflection of how successfully we have managed to actually not use technology anywhere close to its potential for so long and how tech "naturally" gravitates to its worst possible use. E.g., we don't have drones for delivering anything useful but we do have drones for delivering munitions and visiting death.

The channels that would help unleash the positive potential are missing or severely limited and there is little indication that this is going to change in the short term.

Fundamentally the reason for this irrational and emotionally broken behavior is that the absolute state of the human condition and any deficit versus a theoretical optimum is not a relevant concern. Politics and the overwhelming energy and effort associated with it is about managing relative status. Persistently poor or even deteriorating conditions for the entire collective are not a problem unless they threaten an existing social organization. So "progress" proceeds at the "minimum required" pace.
Interestingly, I've never used Digital Ocean because when I went to sign up (in my memory it would be circa 2015, but my memory is not what it once was) you had to give them something like your Twitter or Github name, which I didn't feel like sharing.
Oxford word of the year 2022 revealed as 'goblin mode'
Since when does iPod have anything to do with Linux?!?
Most examinations of CBDC paint a grim picture of things to come, mostly in terms of yielding absolute power to the central bank. As with any situation involving power, with good intentions you can do wonderful things, with bad intentions you can do equally horrifying things. In the Indian context, the latter is of particular concern, especially when one man can demonetise the whole country overnight on a whim.

There was a good discussion here on CBDC sometime back -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805709
> It's relatively easy for a human to tell the difference between AI copy (as pollutes the web) and actual content.

No:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
A one-off hoop that maybe helps to keep spammers off their systems ? Fine by me.
That made me smile, I think a few teams may drop the juniors and keep the seniors but there's going to be a bunch of places that drop the seniors and proceed with an army of juniors equipped with GPT helpers.
No, it will probably yield much better tooling, so with the same manpower you can build much larger systems.
That's a very expensive HDD. Amazon got the 4 TB WD Blue for $65
Yeah, the pi 1 is really slow for a lot of things these days. While the post mentioned they started this on a pi 1B+, everything else is about running things on model 3 units.
Counter notifications that include all legally required elements but do not follow their form letter are still valid. Yet this probably doesn't mash with Google's "Automate all the things!" strategy, so they are instead shafting everyone and hoping they get away with it due to their wealth even though YouTube is blatantly breaking the law.
There are several videos on tiktok/etc about "hustling" and flipping stuff on Amazon, find some product on sale locally, buy, then "sell it on Amazon"

As much as I doubt it is very efficient, but it does seem efficient at bringing the brand value down (Amazon's, that is), if you turn it into a glorified eBay
Companies have departments and groups meant to fight, shape, and push legislation in their favor, as well as shape public opinion, even against the public's own interest.

Do you know how carmakers literally paid to have tram lined ripped out of cities, in order to discourage public transport usage and get people to buy their cars?

This is not some weird thing and it's a literal, documented, conspiracy with actual indictments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

> If personal transport can be made cheaper, less hassle and hands-free (all of which is possible by autonomous vehicles), then people will vote with their pennies and no lobbying will be required by Tesla.

Secondly, physics and economics: you can never make personal transport as cheap as public transport, because personal transport will always carry fewer passengers per ride.

And personal transport, if you look at it, is going in the wrong direction for efficiency.

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a1860276/car-...

A 4.4m long Chevrolet Sonic 2017 weighs 1.3 tons, almost as much as the 5m long Chevrolet Chevelle 1967.

The most lightweight Tesla Model 3 weighs 1.8 tons, that's 50% more, on top of the existing ICE weight gain over the last 50+ years.

Adding more safety and comfort features will only make things <<heavier>>.

And people really want to ride in nice, clean, custom cars, plus they really don't want to ride with other people most of the time.

I guess we'll just keep burning the planet down, pumping out particulate matter, destroying wildlife, etc.

Oh, and fully autonomous driving could be 50 years into the future, banking on it is a very risky move. We're still at the basic research phase, our tech isn't good enough.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> the infrastructure likely makes heavy use of batteries to avoid stressing out local substations and avoid abusing grid peaking

From Tesla's presentation, it looks like that.
About a week ago a wuhan researcher whistleblower confirmed lab leak theory. Blamed the USA for doing research there. Nothing actually new or surprising.

The thing is... sometimes you will never get all the data you need to make a rational decision. You have to weigh the evidences and make your best estimation.

In this case, the wild hypothesis went unconfirmed. If it had crossed, it would have been tremendously unstable and mutating quickly at first. Which is not what we saw.
Vendors provide "commercial" displays whose only differences are better warranties, more complete serial control and, you guessed it, no ads or SMART features. Some have a web accessible menu, and others you can buy a separate service remote for to program the panel exactly as you need it to function.

In general, there's no reason to network connect your TV, but if you do, and they won't they don't tell you this, you don't have to accept the TOS for the SMART features or data collection. The TV will still work.
Just to point out the obvious, Pepsi and Frito-Lay are owned by the same company, PepsiCo.
I feel like people are expecting a computer program to produce perfect, error-free output at all times. Then, when a program is developed which presents itself like a human, we apply the same ideas that all output should be perfect.

We do not apply those same rules to people, we acknowledge that people provide imperfect answers and are used to fact checking them.

Maybe we just need to adjust our mental models when working with technology that works a little like a human? Forget implicit trust, verify important details, etc etc. Presume the "AI" works like a human and the workflow makes more sense.
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Civilized mothers use covfefe.
Man this resonates. My parents (who were grandparents) were 1) industrial electronics hard worker type, 2) stay away don’t speak too much something might happen what can you do type. Guess whom they raised.
Also I would add until AI can debug what it wrote? I doubt it. The current set generate things that look good. But will have interesting bugs. Until it can debug it, it will be a handy tool for developers to use though to 'get it close'.
> a new HTML tag indicating AI content would be useful

This has about as much chance of working as the evil bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
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Unrelated, I fat fingered on a link without noticing. I was confused as to why the content I'm reading is completely unrelated to what I read 30s before.

This website is fast.
The Sokal affair says more about the dynamics of academic publishing than it does about humans' ability to key to nuances.

And "as pollutes the web" -> we're not talking about state of the art.
For all its flaws I find Youtube is one of the best sources for recipes these days. Especially when you search in the language of the country the dishes are from and use CC auto-translate.
Sure, but you should stop selling your product like it can do all of those things and more. Its outright lying.

Tesla semi was production ready in 2020 - as far as i remember. and was more efficient than train. And whatever other lies musk said back then.

Musk is prolific deceiver, I dont trust a single thing coming out of his mouth nor his websites.

Also car is often an expense - bigger or smaller - its not a tool that needs to make money. A tool that can make or break a business.

Tesla cars are notorious for its expensive repairs. Its a huge cost and risk switching to it.
Ahh I've accidentally been referring to all of these 1 litre PCs as "NUC"s - didn't realise there was a non-intel, generic name for it
I cancelled my membership a few weeks ago. It’s even more annoying now. So many ads. So many new steps where it asks you to upgrade.

I tried to use it and everything idles for a week before shipping so I’ll probably stop buying even the basics from Amazon.

And something I’ve discovered: many many other stores have caught right up. Buying from Walmart or Canadian Tire or Home Depot is just as easy.

I’m so glad that blacklisting Amazon isn’t actually a sacrifice I thought it might be. Tells me that competition is still somewhat healthy.
I thought the same thing and tried every option.

I dont use amazon much these days and rarely return things but there was clearly a policy change at some point:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G...

"Unless your item is eligible for Free Returns, if you return an item using the return label from Your Orders, and the reason for return is not a result of an Amazon.ca error, we'll deduct the cost of return shipping from your refund. "
> If you imagine the only or main use for a powerful type system is error-checking, it only demonstrates how much you have still to learn. It is not language design that is on a cycle, but people circling back to what excited them in their youth. But that was not the Lisp, it was youth itself, which you will not find in Lisp.

Ironically, this comment reminds me of nothing more than the Smug Lisp Weenies of yore.

https://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie

I realize that we're all about technical purity over marketing, but I don't think you'll convince people to join your cause by 1) insulting their knowledge and 2) dismissing their interest in an alternative point of view as a way to 'reclaim their youth'. You may be right on both counts - I don't know - but even for someone interested in the technology alone, it's hardly a convincing argument to want to look into more strongly typed languages. (or whatever other technical feature you might want to advocate)

Lisp received decades worth of attention and investment from folks at the frontier of the field, and it's stayed relegated to the margin for almost the entirety of that time. For people that took the time to learn Lisp, it could be a compelling and powerful environment. But the problem has been that to understand the advantages, you have to spend real time and effort to get there. You have to do the reading, do the work, write and evolve software, and accept a different way of working.

The strongly typed functional programming community of today has some of the same sorts of issues and Lisp did back in the day. It's a compelling technology with lots of benefits, but it takes real work to understand and take advantage of. For people that have done the work and already get it, it's an obviously compelling thing - the way things 'should be'. For people that don't, it's an academic ivory tower or worse.

Whatever you believe about your favored technology, it's the way this gap is addressed that will make the difference in whether or not it's successful or not. Lisp never did get it right. (Although Clojure arguably got pretty close.)

I don't mean to specifically offend your sensibilities with respect to your comment, but I can't help but think you're just repeating the same mistake the Lisp folks did. (And no, there isn't a technical distinction between Lisp and whatever that will fix what is fundamentally a marketing and persuasion issue.)
FTFY: s/Amazon/e-commerce marketplaces/g

(the marketplace model fundamentally fails for high end good that are easily faked and hard to verify... insurance (and self-insurance) can help somewhat but ultimately the math leads to "buyer beware"... e.g. eBay, etsy, etc. For this reason, we're seeing the rise of "hand verified" e-commerce for high end categories like collectible sneakers)
It depends more on manufacturer/series/batch. In my experience good HDDs easily last 10+ years.
An Avid nonlinear video editing station used to cost $100K. Nowadays you can do the same with software costing $300 on the computer you already have. You can get a mirrorless video camera that blows away the Sony CineAlta ones George Lucas used to shoot the Star Wars prequels for under a grand. This has removed a huge chunk of production costs and make indie film-making much more viable. The only limits are your imagination and the salaries of the actors and camera crew.

AI-generated animation is already being used by industry giants like Toei, and will likely be the first application to hit the screens.
Not disagreeing with your experience, but I personally can’t think of anyone who could have been replaced by a shell script. Although, my work history is mostly startups. I’d imagine there is some cruft at larger companies.
Splitting hairs of "an instance of natural selection leads to a more survivable feature" vs. "the theory of evolution". Both are likely and the most likely explanations.
We also though that with phonographs people wouldn't go anymore to concerts
1- The talking point expressing an anti-consumerist sentiment for the Christmas holidays is cliched and boring.

2- This is actually offensive not because of the nature of the lyrics, but for its association with Eminem.

I'm not an Eminem stan myself, but it can do him like this. The guy is way way out of its league

This is an amateur-level lyricism for rap songs and even me not remotely an amateur lyricist, I can do better than this garbage:

"We overspend and consume, just to show [that] we care. But is all that material stuff [I assume], really worth the wear and tear?"

3- Children-book writing level.

I mean it's very impressive given it's produced by a bot, but not a cause of immediate concern for well-established figures in the fiction writing world especially with this bland and sterile voice/tone in its storytelling.