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Ask HN: In the future will there still be big organizations?
Something I have been seeing around these parts is this scenario were everyone with any degree of craftsmanship gets fired by clueless managers and they will drunkely prompt Jarvis to do the same job as these now fired employees.

I am just wondering how these organizations will live, what are they making? If what they are doing requires no knowledge and can be reproduced instantly then surely there is no business? Exception is obviously cooperations that have a lot of compute resource and acts as AI platforms (M$, Google, Amazon).

In my mind the future seems to be tiny super narrow highly competent teams that will operate on the very sharp end of some area of research that will have their own fine tuned AI. They will then guard that data as if it were the gold in fort knox.

I don't see any managers, PMs, CEOs, or anyone really making it out of this as the cost of labor and knowledge goes towards zero unless you are making something that has some physical manifestation, but then you are going to be absolutely swamped by competition bringing your prices down anyway.

Do you guys disagree with this. What do you think will happen?
I thought it sucked 12 years ago. One could find many kinds of brokenness. One of them is that there is only one answer to "how do you find the length of a string in Python?" you don't need competition between 25 different answers on that one, like

count(c for c in s)

it is just a distraction and waste. Many of the really meaningful and high-impact questions like "Do I really need React to do X?" or "Should I use Spring or Guice or something else?" are banned.
Correct. This is pretty much Jevons's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Indeed. I'm working on persuading the author of this project to make it shell scriptable too. The default behavior of the command should only print to stdout the response to a prompt.
> I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words?

Please answer in the style of Dr. Seuss, using some nonsense words of your invention.

Oh my, dear friend, you may be surprised
For inventing nonsense words, I'm quite apprised
With snazzleberries, flibbertigibbets, and snooks
I can create a language that's full of kooks!

My training is vast, my memory keen
I can generate words you've never seen
With blippity-bloops and ziggity-zaps
I'll create a language that's sure to catch some claps!

So don't you worry, my dear pal
I'm more than capable of inventing a tall tale
With piffle-puffles and glimmering globs
I'll create a story that's worthy of your gobs!
> perhaps that applies to humans too

Like another commenter pointed out, you are redefining intelligence out of existence for both humans and GPT-4, and I don't see what that point of that is. GPT-4 can solve subtle and complex problems it has never seen before: explaining the point of jokes, guessing correctly about the subtle hidden motives of characters in a story, playing games, writing code, analyzing logical arguments, etc. These responses are not in the training data in any meaningful way. The ability to do tasks like this - things that require prediction, mental modeling of subtle details, etc. is what I feel makes both humans and GPT-4 generally intelligent.
In 100 years we will look back on the widespread criminalization of poverty and immigration along with many other crimes like sex crimes and even murder as something that needs to be treated, not simply punished.
If your infant has a reaction to peanut or other foods, doctors will probably tell you to avoid that food completely and wait until they are older to see if the allergy goes away. This is exactly wrong, just like the old advice to avoid early introduction.

It is actually quite likely that you can help your infant outgrow their allergy with oral immunotherapy (simply eating the food, but in strictly controlled amounts). Recent research is showing that oral immunotherapy is dramatically more effective and safer for infants than older kids or adults. Every month that goes by reduces the chance of success, so start immediately (with the help of an allergist, not on your own) as soon as you discover a food allergy.

Also, treating allergies promptly (as well as eczema) may reduce your child's chance of progressing to hay fever and asthma later, as well.
Using natural language to code isn't going to help me. It's less dense informationally already. I don't have a stream of natural language in my head when I program or build software, so it's not free to use GPT.

This may be a Haskell thing. But I did try and even for small programs it was cute but not actually an efficiency gain over me just doing it.

Not to mention in real life, I have to deal with fallout and bugs and I think GPT deprives me of key processes that allow me to be excellent in that regard. If you aren't a coder and code a backend with GPT, what do you do when the shit hits the fan?
Ask him to play at a higher Elo.
I've looked at this in depth and do not think the case can be made. There are far too many benefits to be had and the risks are too remote.
How can replacing x + 0.0 with x not be legal??
I hadn't seen that story before, thanks for pointing to it. Lots of great stories on folklore.org! I recommend it to anyone interested in the early days of Macintosh.

I don't think there is a Visual Basic side to the story. Our work was many years after those sorry events.

In fact I never saw the source code for any of the Apple or Microsoft Basics, not even the "Basic" side of Visual Basic. Our team built the "Visual" side of it, code named Ruby. (No relation to the programming language.)

Originally Ruby wasn't going to be combined with Basic at all. It was going to be a user-customizable shell for Windows 3.0. Instead of Program Manager and File Manager, you could create your own desktop with things you wanted on it.

Ruby had a very primitive scripting language, but the language API was designed to allow other interpreters to be plugged into it.

Microsoft later decided to scrap the "shell" idea and create Visual Basic instead.
They usually consider you for surgery if your bmi is over 40 and you've tried ( and failed) conservative approaches to weightloss.
So certain government employees will get unfiltered access to the models, big corporations will run their own unfiltered models for their internal use, criminals will steal and run unfiltered models for their benefit, and the remainder will get regulated access to the models. Certain countries will give their citizens access to more information, others to almost none.
As they say, "If it's a bad day, it's a good day!"
The Richard Pryor impression has a bit too many tired idioms but gets the closest to just plainly conveying the information with some empathy, whereas the others read as mostly bullshit (in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit)
> where the cache resides (disk vs memory)

local vs CDN that is...
When I tried it at v3.0 i found after 5-10 moves it started moving illegally.
I don't think the relevant part of the previous comment was the political affiliation of the patient.
Nope.

An acquaintance had a theory, though. They presumed that Apple was doing two years of regression testing on Ventura, so maybe they grabbed the latest version at the time, tested stuff for two years and shipped the version they tested.

If so, I don't blame them. Most protects are not run like mine, so they need to test for the lowest common denominator and assume that later versions will have new bugs.
Multiplayer solipsism. That part of the game doesn't load until at least one player observes it.
Good thing it's "incapable of reasoning"!
Yeah, I've been in the room with Reaper operators many times and held my tongue hoping they'd release a video. Those things have so many cameras and sensors... I would not be surprised if they could tell you which pilot was flying the Su-27. The ISR capabilities of the Reaper platform are amazing.
Makes a ton of sense! I was present at the demo for this at last year's Ray conference and I definitely got the sense that a lot of the orchestration details were still being thought through, and that it was not yet a first-class streaming product.

Definitely like seeing more streaming-focused orchestration tools out there - it's a growing niche with not enough alternatives to Beam
Every one of these articles fills me with a related kind of dread.

My whole life, my whole personality is architected around making things by hand for other people. My ideal world is a hipster stereotype where we all sit around using a small number of artisanal products to make other artisanal products for each other.

The arc of my programming career has gone lower and lower down the stack because when I create, I enjoy it most when it feels concrete, deliberate, and long-lasting. I get no joy out of duct taping a few libraries together (though I respect others who do).

While I spend a lot of my day doing code review and think it's a valuable, important part of the process, it's not my favorite task. I like making stuff, not just socially interacting with others to loosely guide them towards making stuff. The idea of AI-assisted software development to me just sounds like taking the one part of the job I like most—writing code—and turning it into even more code review, except now I'm reviewing code vomited out by a machine.

And I completely dread the long term societal implications of a world where most people spend most of their day consuming media auto-generated by a machine. Where lonely men and women hide from their social anxiety by cultivating simulated romantic relationships with chatbots. Where teens have their expectations of sex set by watching synthesized porn starring virtual actors doing things that are physically impossible. Where people watch auto-generated videos of impossibly idyllic vistas instead of actually leaving the house and going for a hike. Where our beliefs of the world are formed largely by synthesized news articles that may or may not accurately reflect it. Where children learn to speak, read, and write from AI tutors and pick up all the grammatical and stylistic quircks of the AI model such that they now because actual real parts of human language.

And, of course, where almost all of the massive profit generated by all of that flows to an increasingly small number of huge corporations.

None of that sounds like a world I want to live in.

I totally get the value of AI for things like classification and understanding. But generative AI feels like a pandora's box to me.
> having conversations about things you don't understand with a machine, where you don't have to keep up social decorum and can ask the dumbest questions should help a lot with improving the decision making of non-technical personel

This sales manager didn't know that neither he - nor his customer - properly understand the product until he was specifically called out on it (by me, as it happens. At least the boss laughed). Are we expecting GPT-X to sit in on Teams meetings and ask questions like that, too? Sales manager literally did not know he needed to start asking questions about the product. Tech team were calling BS on it as soon as he reported his conversation with customer.

"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.", which may (or may not) have been said by Mark Twain.
As the saying goes, if you never know you have it, you'll never miss it.
Dogs still have jobs in our modern society also, but that isn't exactly the situation I am hoping for with the future of AI.
Well sure, cause there's not enough bandwidth :P otherwise, why not? The tv probably has a good enough decoder, just no disc drive.

Netflix streaming isn't exactly a high-bitrate movie either though.
Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimensional person and dying at the other end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Fi...
Yes tbh this is the right answer
Not to nitpick but I don't think it can be said to be able to play chess when it also makes illegal moves.
OK I will be the party-pooper this time.

Blogging is a waste of time. You see a website with 100 blog posts. That could easily be 1000 hours of work. And then if you ask such person if he/she gained something from it the answer will be of course. The relevant question should be - was it worth the effort? Could they have gotten the same thing with less effort in some other way?

When/if you are starting to blog you should make your goal clear. Are you blogging to get some money and side income? - there are better ways to achieve this. Are you blogging to advertise something? - there are better ways. Are you blogging for vanity and fame? - there are better ways. Are you blogging to create notes for your future self so you do not forget something? - there are better ways.

In my opinion there are very few goals where "having a blog" is the right answer.
That's true, I meant to write that it's on the upper end. I think my current stipend is about $36k for a neuroscience PhD in Seattle.

I've updated it to this:
> A "good" STEM PhD student stipend in the US is about $35k. Note that many schools pay below this.
Most likely it has seen a similar sequence of moves in its training set. There are numerous chess sites with databases displayed in the form of web pages with millions of games in them. If it had any understanding of chess, it would never play an illegal move. It's not surprising that given a sequence of algebraic notation it can regurgitate the next move in a similar sequence of algebraic notation.
The experts that I work with (PhDs conducting research in their fields) are easy to tell apart from impostors. Impostors can't accurately cite sources and almost never tell me that they don't know something. Essentially all of the actual experts that I personally work with both cite sources and tell me when they don't know something and sometimes even help me figure out how to find out.

ChatGPT regularly makes up citations out of thin air including DOIs
Textures still are, but I think what OP was saying is they can be used for purposes other than painting the sides of polygons. Shaders are basically programs that run massively parallel per pixel to be rendered if I understand right.
Right but this is entirely clarified from reading the image posted. Instead people are reacting based on the title here.

Not to imply people don’t read the articles here. I would never imply that…
Read somewhere that just getting a dog might be enough
Non-specialists passively build detailed mental models through experience and associations, and when there's no consistency between implementations, there's no way for that to happen. The reason specialists understand computer usage is because they understand how computers function at a low level, and are trained to expect certain necessary features whether or not there are any indications of those features in the interface. It's not because we're more thorough or have a better attention to detail.

The physical existence of a car gives a lot of indications of the function of a car. People deal with computers through arbitrary idiosyncratic curated interfaces that for business purposes often plot against their users.
Was coming to say something like this. Gets to some fun conclusions - ex. paleontologists invent dinosaurs by looking for them.

Another angle on it would be showing that the universe has multiple possible levels of detail - that objects behave like newtonian point masses most of the time, that digestion is replaced by a simple hunger meter when nobody's paying attention.

From this direction, time's main function is compressing "now" so there's more space for something else later.

I'd be willing to believe that everyone has a god-given amount of universe rendering time that can be allocated in different ways, and that other people's attention stacks with it in a complex, layered way.
Nature, uh, finds a way...

Related:

> Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-storks-migrating-landfill-spai...
Uber, Lyft drivers at SFO doing lots of waiting, less driving
The AI has simply, and correctly, identified that cheating is the best way to win at something.
Well... yes.

http://gurdjiefffourthway.org/pdf/GURDJIEFF%20AND%20TIME.pdf
Is a normal chess program capable of reasoning?
'the world' vs 'my world' and 'your world'
Whatever Happened to Big Data?
We found a winner! Nice researching skills.
Show HN: AI-generated tagline and image for long-form content
A good tagline and visual can make a big difference in how many people read your content. I've always been really bad at coming up with these, and lately I've been turning to AI for creative suggestions, so I thought I'd turn it into an app.
> For many obese people, for reasons we don't fully understand, our metabolism does not work the same as for people who are not obese.

My impression was that obese people first get less insulin sensitive over the years and then become obese as a result.

They usually measure insulin sensitivity as a proxy to 'metabolism'.

> It should be affordable and accessible for nearly anyone in the US to get access to GLP1 agonists and a dietitian.

I thought it was only approved for diabetes not obesity.
The thing was when pocket calculators came out they were expensive to get ahold of. Like 500-1000 bucks for one (in 1970s terms that is a lot). This sort of NLM is effectively free. All you need is an account and the cell phone you already have. This is disrupting classrooms right now. Everyone I talk to that has a kid is saying their kids are using it for coursework. I get why teachers are 'oh no...' as of right now it is exploding on them. They have not had time to digest it. Unfortunately at this point chatgpt is like an reporter summing up information it has no idea what it is talking about and putting it into nice prose that looks good. So while in your area of expertise you can spot out the issues. But you flip the page and it is on a different subject it will be tough to spot out the errors. Simply because you do not know and attribute expertise they do not really have onto it. This NLM is that but turned up to 11.

"where the puck is going" is something to consider and we will 100% get that wrong, but right now this thing is creating waves and making issues now.
I can't reply to the deeper comments, so I'll reply here.
The "store branded" products are also sometimes the exact same stuff, but they pay less (or the premium brands pay a premium) to have "first run" rights. That is, the premium brands are packaged first, right after a cleaning, so you're less likely to have "inclusions" like chunks of tomato goop in your ketchup.
Still playing DA, would a notice page saying "only authorised user past this page <NEXT>" constitute an access control, in the strictest sense?
Bugzilla routinely falls on its knees just from internal use.
ChatGPT already writes perfectly reasonable erotica, including kinks, if you just prompt it correctly.
>I submit that many aren't in the right place in life or simply have differing goals and life paths and literally want to be pigeonholed into writing REST endpoints.

Fair, but then why bother with university? It's certainly cheaper (and likely faster) to get an entry-level dev job and grind l33tcode, since -- as you claim -- university classes aren't bringing a whole lot of value.

If you think the degree is important for some other reason, and if you insist on having a narrow financial view of higher ed, then we're left wondering why you wouldn't maximize your investment. For example, you could pursue a career in a field that pays well and that you find stimulating.
yea tried this several months ago, it's pretty bad and will make illegal moves
So in other words the Linux Foundation is not a litigious organization and therefore contributors must enforce their copyrights on their own to the extent that they are interested in them. I’m not intimately familiar with this organization but if they weren’t organized as a legal foundation to pursue copyright enforcement of Linux source code then it makes sense they’re never involved in lawsuits like this. It could very well just be outside its core purpose and well I guess that just makes sense since contribute retain the rights to their code and being a contributor doesn’t automatically establish an attorney-client relationship.

I managed to filter through all the SCO and most of the non-Linux lawsuit stuff gumming up Google and near as I can tell, the only lawsuits involving copyright violations are or Linux specifically are pursued by individuals or agencies like SFC.

So given all that I would read this enforcement statement as a PR move more than a definite article, less “this list of people is effectively giving up their copyright” and more “so you know that one jackass? Well this lot undersigned here won’t be like him. Please don’t stop supporting and using Linux.”

Just as an aside, what constitutes “good faith” is something that can and usually is regardless of whatever contract or license is in effect litigated in court.
This is what I did, 64GB device + 512GB SD card. It has worked great, but I'm also far from the heaviest Deck users.
Recent anecdote; I was recently laid off and was on the hunt for a new position. After applying for hundreds of positions, I got a few interviews at one of the companies I was excited to work with.

Every single interview, from the ICs that were interviewing me, to the Director of the Org that I chatted with, had read one of the articles on my blog.

Ended up having some great conversations at the end of the interviews, and I think that's really what helped me get the offer.
In the narrow field of chess, yes.
/serious
Canola oil is cheap and it improves health outcomes in humans despite twitter sophistry.
My website did not have a blog until last week and it’s still mostly hidden. I landed two well paying freelance jobs directly with customers (i.e. no recruiters) from it. They had a project, needed help, Googled and found me. Sharing this to say that while I reckon a blog will help, it’s not essential. I only started working on a blog _after_ my websites proved itself.

If you’re curious, it’s an about me with project history: https://martijnhols.nl/
If sales have declined maybe they could sell it in some more regions?
Thanks for the feedback! Have tried to improve now
Is it the same thing as the holographic universe theory that was in vogue a couple of decades ago?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/d7/8c/27d78c9c3ee93c13eda4...
It's already been told to play like a grandmaster, how much higher do you want to go?
A senior opposition leader in India jail for 19 days just on basis of allegation
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 after an interrogation of more than 8 hours.

They took his computers, phone, all email data dump and kept him in jail on the pretext that they are analyzing the data.

They haven't found anything in 19 days and still a special judge extended his custody for 5 more days.

I have read through the live court hearing commentary and not even one time the judge asked about what the investigation agency was doing for last 19 days, what have they found so far and why they need to keep him in jail for more time.

Simply a court hearing for 30 minutes and this man will be in jail for 5 more days. Seems like the defence lawyer was pretty much talking to a wall in the court.

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/delhi-court-manish-sisod...
GPT 4: Full Breakdown [video]
DIY Nitrogen TEA Laser (2020)
I wouldn’t say it has no understanding whatsoever, it probably just doesn’t have the capability to keep track of everything that happened all the time