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I used to play drinking game: type generic symptoms into WebMD, and every time it says “cancer” take a shot.

Got pretty drunk pretty fast.
would like to see benchmarks against comparable solutions
It's kind of wierd that obesity is such a problem now in developing countries that something like this is a worthy research output. Some of my ancestors had to eat tree bark to avoid starvation. They'd be so confused by this
Probably the fastest 5V IO Arduino.
I often think of this as the corollary to the bitter lesson: it is enough just to break some particular relationship between two things, and then throw compute at it. In the process of trying to recover that relationship, the model learns about the underlying real relationship - sometimes it even learns about each thing itself.
When I want ChatGPT to give me information, I'm always very careful about how I ask the question. ChatGPT is (usually) very eager to confirm your views, so you can't let it know what your views are.

It still makes mistakes, of course, but I'd say it's right more often than it's wrong, and more importantly the answers provides a starting point for learning more.
We got raises across the board this year that are about 2/3 of the current annual inflation rate, which is not a lot of money month-to-month but is more than I expected tbh.

It's also important to note that wage inflation and the inflation of goods and services are separate and not always correlated. Just because milk and bread and cars cost more doesn't mean that the value provided to a company by an hour of an employee's time has risen by the same amount (or at all). I'd love raises that beat inflation every year, and for most of my career I've gotten them, but now that I'm not it doesn't necessarily mean the company is just trying to screw its employees.
Important to note, the presentation showed a reduction of 10-12%, not half. The half is just a prediction if a more ideal rice candidate were found.

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2015/04/...
Once the Solidworks/Altium plugins are working, we're going to see some some crazy things.

Also FreeCAD/KiCad, I guess, if the resources are there, but Dassault and similar have the ability to bring to bear a lot of FTEs very quickly if they wish.
Ask HN: Is MiniApp W3C standard required?
I came across this new web standard in progress called MiniApp. The use cases it presents , can all be covered with the existing PWA + Service worker ecosystem. One can create a PWA which saves web pages (basically other mini apps): either in cache or indexeddb.
I wish I’d met you while trying to, and not really succeeding at, learning French 101 at the local alliance francaise.

Your comment actually articulates something I’ve always sensed but never explicitly acknowledged.
this is cool, but hm, how should I put it...

Ultimately there's a relationship between the preciseness in which you want to control something and the underlying information, as conveyed in language, to describe such precision.

Whether you use plain english, or code - ultimately to do things of sufficient precision you will have to be equally precise in your description. I'm sure someone with more time and more knowledge on such things have already formalized this in some information theory paper, but...

The point I'm making here is that this is great because a lot of people are doing "simple" things, and now they will be able to do those things without understanding the idiosyncrasies of Blender APIs, but I'm convinced that this will ultimately turn into something equally difficult as blender APIs to do novel things. and WHEN (not if) that happens, I hope users are prepared to learn the Blender APIs, because it will be inevitable.

edit:

one other thought. I think "language models" are not the right solution ultimately. I think kind of like AI didn't boom until the proper compute was available even though theoretical models and algorithms existed, language models are the crud solution.

once we have a loseless way to simply "think" what we want, then a "large thought model" will have less trouble, as there will be less ambiguity in what you want to what is said.

right now it's thought -> language -> model.

later it will be thought -> model.
The question isn't really whether someone that has built it is aware of the limitation, but whether the users of that thing that someone built is aware of them.

In one study (see reference) users were able to identify the AI about 2/3rd of the times (and identical for the human experts). So 1/3rd of the time the AI is not detected and may well be spouting nonsense.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.23.23284735v...
This is a really good question because it's always been fair to google something so what's the difference if I type my query into google or ChatGPT? I think if you are on a live coding interview and you share you whole screen, go ahead and let them see you use ChatGPT/google just like you would if you had the job.
I care about being a professional, and delivering quality work. That's not the same as caring about a product/company.
Yeah, I was, but when talking about these points she is clueless just like most people so not helping to be honest.
I think that's the parent comment's point -- there are rabbit holes and yak shaving in old houses, but trades still estimate work on them all the time (and sometimes take the risk of binding quotes).
This line of reasoning sort of goes both ways. Advocates and claimants of the technology arguing that humans reason no differently and that LLMs just given the right data will be better than everyone at everything related is just as hokey.
Because they've been gripped by a collective monkey-see, monkey-do type insanity of valuing the short-term savings of not having to pay those laid off over the much larger long-term opportunity cost of the work those people would have done. The entirety of this "current economic reality" is a self-fulfilling prophecy from those using those words to self-justify their actions.
So, if GPT-4 starts dispensing authoritative sounding medical advice without being licensed to do so is that medical malpractice on the part of OpenAI?

Also: with people likely confused about the degree of authority these programs have and their ability to masquerade bullshit as something that is true I wonder if most people would be able to detect whether or not what ChatGPT says is wrong before it harms them.
I really doubt if AI will have any impact on developer jobs. If I want to build an alternative to TurboTax, how much can AI help? I like to think of software as automating a large number of bizarre corner cases which are a result of us being human. And corner cases are what AI usually fails at.
Well, Elon Musk just sent Twitter employees an email saying it's worth about $20B. He paid $44B for it.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1640049750966665218
I think it's because if you're not in that particular industry you have a super simplified model of what the person does - something like "writing code" as the only activity a developer does.

You don't understand the difficulties and problems that people in the profession face, which I think is also why so many developers are convinced they can replace/"disrupt" other people's jobs with software.
Yes, you’re right. Good read
Some colleges are eliminating freshman grades by 'ungrading'
Rails has Bullet[0] to help identify and warn you against N+1

Does Django have anything active? Quick search revealed nplusone[1] but its been dead since 2018.

[0] https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

[1] https://github.com/jmcarp/nplusone
I would argue that a reliable store of value is one that preserves its purchasing power over time.
Silicon Valley is a globalization phenomenon. US defense R&D is not. Both of those things seem fine to me, it just limits the potential crossover.
That's fair--to the extent truly sophisticated depositors believed "there's no need for a bank run, since the FDIC would take extraordinary measures to back the uninsured deposits even if the SVB collapses while economically insolvent", they were exactly right. The cost of moving money out is so small that you'd have to believe that very strongly not to though, or to get a big auxiliary benefit (access to future credit, etc.) from the continued existence of the SVB.
You are paid by a combination of how you sell yourself * the kind of work you do. It's not black and white. Work on grabbing the lowest hanging fruit and bottlenecks as in if you do a lot of good work, but no one cares, then work on presenting or finding a place that cares. Remove the block where good work is not valued.
I mean who knows with a computer / brain interface what we’ll be doing?
I didn't say it's not necessary. I didn't say it's not good business to do it. I even explicitly said it's worth doing which you have ignored for some reason.

I just disagree that this is a breakthrough.
Look man, even plumbing estimates are usually way off - but they know how long it takes to hook up two pipes that are 30' long for your new bathroom. They don't need to have meetings about it during the process. They don't need to talk to Home Depot about integrating with their broken API.
But could a hobbyist who is following one of the bazillion tutorials which calls for a 2N7000 or other non-logic-level mosfet? Does that hobbyist even know what a threshold voltage is? These are barriers to entry which are removed by 5V IO.

While I love digikey’s parametric search, I’ve gotten feedback from more than one budding hack after that it is “too complicated and confusing”
You're not talking to the therapist for their expertise on the technological implications, you're there to talk about the emotional implications.
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood your idea. I meant Simplified Chinese is more compact than Pinyin.
No, you're not the only one:[1]

> It’s important to take the time to celebrate that the VC’s attempt to gin up a banking crisis to pause rate increases failed and now they’re well and truly boned

[1]: https://twitter.com/SMTuffy/status/1638609733702524936?s=20
The same hubris behind "let's clone humans" brought climate change. And the development of AGI is a similar self-destruct bet. The extinction will be premised on those things being allowed, not on them being banned.
Most doctors are not good doctors. ChatGPT may very well already be better than the rapid 60-second barely-listen-then-dismissal, maybe here's some medicine vaguely associated with one word you said, sessions that most people get from most doctors.
I think there will come a point, where almost everything will be automated by machines. Since we cannot just get rid of billions of people, we have to find a way to both feed the people and have something for them to do. That is unless AI takes over control of humanity. This is similar to how prisons function. They have to keep large masses of people, feed them, keep them peaceful, without expecting anything in return.
Essentially, spend quite a bit less than you earn. Figure out how and where cuts can be made so that your financial situation is decoupled from your job. It’s not easy and a lot of people will find themselves in a place where they’re convinced they need to spend every dollar they’re currently spending (and find new ways when their income increases).

One method is to look for a better paying job, jump to it, and keep your budget the same as it is now.

Use your resources wisely and take time to think about the best way to use them.
Ive never experienced anything in my care with doctors that I couldn’t understand with a days worth of research into things like UpToDate. It isn’t complicated. It is largely memorization and application of an algorithm which is just borderline useless for complex conditions that are emerging more modernly.
The US has always made up for it's poor planning and educational system by accepting immigrants. SV is full of immigrants. By limiting immigrants, the US is limiting it's best advantage.

It is not like Washington is going to stop fighting culture wars and stabbing each other in the back.
eh. If someone says, and says it seriously so you know that they mean it, "I really love being a serial killer, it gives me a great feeling of freedom and relief."

I don't know about you, but I kinda am getting their entire worldview from that short statement. What else am I supposed to ask? If they like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain? If they're not into yoga, or if they have half a brain? If they like making love at midnight In the dunes on the cape?

I'll leave it to you to go to their house some some dark and stormy night and strip nude, lie down on their table, and put a cleaver across your chest, waiting to hear his story about his other thoughts.

I'm not trying to caricature. I'm just saying that you can go hang out with a serial murderers. I admit that you are a better person than I am because you are ready to hang out with serial murderers and I'm not. I'll judge the serial killer on just the one statement, thank you very much.

Not a strawman, I don't think. More like reducto ad absurdum. But in whatever case, I think what I wrote was kinda humorous, too, so I'll go with humor as an additional failsafe.
But that Arduino tooling and all the libraries, tutorials, etc. wouldn't exist if nobody had bought Arduinos. If I'm just buying a few boards for personal projects I like to support companies that provide more than just hardware to the maker community.
why are we all acting as if its impossible to have a bank that DOESNT spend all the depositors money on god knows what positions?

imagine if you will, some kind of place you could deposit your money, and they WOULDNT get to gamble with it, outside of with consent.

imagine the depositor being able to say "i wish to allow the depositors to be used for whatever the bank pleases", or "i wish to not participate in this"
if I wasn’t already convinced that crypto is a bad investment, I am now
> but LLMs reason just fine.

There is a lot of research that shows they have trouble reasoning. Folks working with LLMs and building them agree that they can't reason, yet pop-sci folks religiously insist they can reason.

This is not even a controversial topic.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11502

Reminds me of this comic:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-01-31
> How much can AI help?

In 2019, this is sci-fi
In 2023, it can help engineers understand the complexity of taxes, translate some tax rules into code, help refine edge cases and fix mistakes.
In 2030, ???

Things move insanely fast lately. I would not bet on anything.
Ok, if people have already done this, please link to their findings. This is a big deal if true.
Appears their user account was created on Jan 3, 2023, so unless it was somewhere else too, it's not exactly "several" months
I am curious at what point this violent recurring "dawn" to software engineers (in Silicon Valley specifically) is going to lead to the creation of a Guild.

Consider that remote work is more prevalent, the healthcare situation is not getting any better in the U.S. and in this space it has become more common for employees to have to move between companies regardless.

Then the certainty of having a comfortable job at Google or Meta evaporates violently. To the point, where mothers while giving birth learn they are fired. And then we have things like ...Twitter.

Say you were laid off by FAANG or a notable startup and the same or adjacent company reaches out to you a year from now to rehire you, as the "bull market is here." What will you do? The instability is here to stay for a while. This can happen in 2025 again pretty easily.

What is that critical mass of engineers that would demand a startup gets guild approved to join? I can see that happening if one of FAANG becomes a guild company but they will fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

As an investor that is a nightmare, if a minority of startups are in this situation. On the other hand if that is the status quo to getting great people, I can accept that overhead.
Can this same idea be extended to, say, interact with an open-source SVG editor like Inkscape? What are the requirements of the editor — I presume it must support some form of scripting?

I would love to be able to have GPT sketch math figures, which I then modify/perfect.

Note: this comment is partially inspired by the workflow of Gilles Castel — I’d love to be able to use GPT in the loop of note taking, similar to the system that Gilles setup to improve sketching speed.
I like how every tech startup and their wide-eyed users are coming around full-circle:

1. modern finance --> crypto --> modern finance

2. hotels --> airbnb --> hotels

3. taxis --> uber --> (it's only a matter of time)

Reality hits like a ton of bricks and pounds to dust whatever fragile trends are in its way. The Old Way of doing things is that way for a lot of good reasons, and it seems that people are discovering those reasons, essentially reliving the evolution of those systems and all their warts that had to be ironed out over time.

Really makes you think.
This does sound nice, but the article barely mentions a pretty major limitation from the release announcement[0]:

> it doesn’t support writes in this first release, and in the future will only support sequential writes to new objects.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/the-inside-story-on-mou...
I'm getting a callus from my jaw being on the floor so much this month
Guards for human cattle
Erlang has taken 'let it crash' to entirely new heights, but that's from a top level viewpoint, components are allowed to crash but the service isn't. And you're still supposed to figure out why your service crashed but I'm pretty sure not everybody does that.

So as long as your supervision mechanism is bulletproof (supervision trees) then you can get away with this for very long.
But why were these companies holding so much money in an uninsured account? I heard something mentioned about SVB incentivizing them somehow? I can't understand why these companies didn't put the money in short term treasuries instead of keeping the money uninsured. If they needed short term liquidity it would not be a problem. Did SVB have an obligation to give them floating interest rate without properly adjusting for the risk? It's not possible that all these companies didn't expect a yield curve inversion as it was obvious it would happen.
How exactly would Apple have "disabled" Audio Hijack Pro in 2005?

Nothing like Gatekeeper existed back then, and if code signing was a thing it certainly wasn't in widespread use. Even kernel extensions were completely unsigned until the release of OS X Mavericks in late 2013.

Edit: To be clear, I'm sure it would have been technically possible for Apple to kill Audio Hijack. However, I think it would have required either enormous engineering effort (e.g. replacing third party kernel extensions a decade early) or a completely unprecedented policy change (blacklisting a specific hash or bundle identifier, of an app that wasn't malware). I don't think there's an alternate timeline where Apple would have done either of these things, whatever happened in that meeting with Steve Jobs.
I didn't say anything about reasoning no differently.

Suppose you have 2 equations. You don't know what these equations are. However, you know that for any input, the output is the same.

Any mathematician worth his salt will tell you that given said information, those 2 equations are equal or equivalent.
It doesn't actually matter what those equations are.

Equation 1 could be say a+b
and Equation 2 could be (a-5) + (b-5) + 10

Or more realistically, both equations could look vastly different.

The point I'm driving home here is that true distinction reveals itself in results.

The fallacy of the philosophical zombie is that there is this supposed important distinction between "true understanding" and "fake/mimicry/whatever understanding" and yet you can't actually test for it. You can't show this supposed huge difference. A distinction that can't be tested for is not a distinction.
Not a well paid job though is it?
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155944 - March 14, 2023 (97 comments)
That ghoti is pronounced fish seems rather widely known.

Fewer people seem to be aware that ghoti is silent:

gh as in right

o as in people

t as in mortgage

i as in business
Oh. I was not aware that Nvidia means envy... (Because people would envy your for the amazing 3D graphics?)
Do large language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding?
It's orthogonal to that. It's about the app being embedded in some other app that handles concerns such as authentication.

From my point of view, PWA is mostly a nothingburger. I mean who needs another way for web sites to spam me with spamifications about the spamifications they'd like to spam me with if only I am so foolish to consent to more spamification? Similarly the service worker approach is like a Rube Goldberg machine for building Rube Goldberg machines. It's like nobody learned from Netscape Netcaster.

Then some stooges for Google go around and say that Apple is ruining the web by not supporting that nonsense when really Apple is just stopping the insanity.
One has to wonder what it’ll take in this country to move away from cities meant for automobiles and not humans.
In the 90s the predominant fear of overpopulation used to be that we would run out of food. Now we know not that making food is easy, but we wreck the environment along the way.
This kind of meme is really just pro-medical establishment to a fault. If you have a discerning mind and spend more than a few hours with tools like UpToDate you can make similar diagnostic conclusions that even specialists can make. The field is overglamorized when in reality the majority of what theyre doing is simple application of diagnostic algorithms.
I would ask how it ruins it for the next reader. I suppose it depends on the definition of "scribble", but notes in the margins and underlined words are helpful for me when I'm scribbling as it helps me regain the context. Practically, when I borrow/lend a book, I find it interesting on their thoughts, as opposed to bothersome.
More specifically, it's his ability to provide, which for most potential
mates is his paycheck.
Yes, it's the employees fault. They were "asking for it", dressing their LinkedIn profile too provocatively /s

Employees in tech wanted, and were fine with, and even cherished "a sustainable and resilient business". That's the golden age IBM, Intel, AT&T, and so on employee for example.

Then companies started being about the stock market, and short term profit, throwing them under the bus whenever they had a chance, while still paying nice bonuses to the C-level and middle managers even when they run the companies to the ground.

So, yes, they felt little loyalty not to "jump ship" to a company didn't give a shit abotu them. Hell, the C-level execs that are paid 10-100x better than the employees would not think twice to jump ship at any chance they got, and somehow the employees are at fault for doing the same?
Look at Roblox. Kids will figure out how to acquire stuff. I think there will be a lot more gambling.