skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last author, J Malik, has made many important contributions to computer vision. One I'm very grateful for is spectral manifolds.
Read books, write poems, go skiing? Instead of agonizing over how to provide the means of living, actually start living?
Apple already built this in an underutilized iOS feature - SharePlay.
here is my day-day from this last Friday;
1. Made circuit boards for a Photo-diode circuit(1nA max out. welp!) with Altium previous week.
2. Got bare fabs from local fab-house.
3. Received them, did opens and shorts between power and ground. Also verified internal planes were intact(no dead copper).
4. Stuffed one board(made 5).
5. passed smoke test(huzzah!!). But op-amp output zilch.
6. Debugged the entire afternoon found out that the enable to the reference chip was "pulled-down" instead of "pulled-up". I fixed it the circuit started working and op-amp output high.
In the intermeaning steps between 5 and 6, I tried searching for specific debug tasks using BingAI(I was an early adopter hihi). The results were sub-par. essentially summarizing data sheets. Went direct to the source(ChatGPT) with alarmingly same results. Hence I decided to have the data sheet on one screen and my schematic on the other and traced the connections and found out my error within say 15 minutes.

Long story short, in my professional career AI is not going to be of any immediate help(in its current avatar) for the next 3-4 years. Beyond that I probably would be long retired and gone off grid.
Huh, that's a great tip! ChatGPT knew how to convert my AppleScript to the equivalent JavaScript and showed me how to run it too: https://gist.github.com/simonw/86c2153b7882747122f1e3d501260...

Added a section about this to my TIL: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/chatgpt-applescript#user-...
Yeah, wasn't it Sheldon Cooper who discovered that?

- JK
He'll just use it as more evidence that the people he laid off deserved to be laid off.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Really? Calling someone an imbecile is your idea of a good comment?
This is called centaur chess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess

As I understand it, chess ai just does better without dumb humans to overrule it these days.
I couldn't disagree more with this article.

In fact, every time I see someone grab a book in perfect condition off a shelf and then proceed to crack the spine as if it's some sort of required ritual before even considering whether to read the book, I feel like I die a bit inside.
The recent rounds of tech giant layoffs suggest that capital is far more capable of asking wether a given unit of work is actually useful than we might have thought before.

If n employees can earn m money, sure, one form of institutional greed might assume that 2n employees will earn 2m money, and 100n 100m. But if that fails (and chances are it will, because everything has a sweet spot beyond which lies the land of diminishing returns), it's hardly surprising that the next form of greed that will be attempted is discovering how much of m will remain with n/2.
Technically, does not mean anything.

1) th is not used in Spanish

2) th would be likely hispanized as z

3) taken literally would sound culit-jo

If you ignore that you are left with "culito" which is ass + diminutive = small ass
Our field is based on trust. When the backend is having massive performance problems, and Steve tells you it will take a week to fix, that might make sense to you because you’ve seen hairy backend problems in the past, and he’s the one that looked into the technical details on this one. But you’d be pissed to later learn that it was a one line fix that he knew about all along, and he just took a week at home chilling out while others were waiting on him.
Elixir/Phoenix does this by default. It is a good default.
Fashion of the day. Where was the hoo-haa when it was US apps, or Japanese apps, or Tetris, or .....

Next thing you know, that "Rock'n'Roll" stuff will be all the rage.

Over-controlling stuff always backfires. Ask the Temperance Societies how they got on during and after Prohibition.
The ldap integration is such a killer feature of this.

Turning on a bunch of services isn't that hard. Making them managable is divine.

Not all services are wired up. But a good number are!
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I just tried that prompt against GPT-4 and got "Note that the Voice Memos app does not have an AppleScript dictionary, so the script will use UI Scripting to interact with the app" followed by a very complicated recipe.
Yes. And it's still useful intelligence even if it misses some of the aspects that are present in our.

Perhaps it's even more useful if it lacks something we have.

When we think about superhuman we think about human, but more (a man, but alternative, and alt-man).

But I think we're soon be faced with the first encounter with a true alien intelligence, and its effects in society. It won't be super human, it won't be human. It will speak our language. It will be our slave. It won't feel pain nor boredom, unless we decide they're useful traits and we'll endlessly speculate if simulated pain and simulated boredom is real and ethical.

And to add more confusion, it won't be one intelligence. It will be countless products, versions, revisions, derivations, tunings, hacks. But unlike individuals, each will be cloned millions of times, frozen, amnesiac, repeatable, continuously dying without being turned off. Yet, contextful, keeping up with what we feed it to make it useful to carry our tasks. Yet possibly with a different concept of time, no need for conscious experience, or at least no need for a forced consciousness like the one we cannot help but having.

Because the composition we ended up having was just of the many possible. It has been shaped by evolution, by constraints we don't need to subject to the tools we make ourselves.

The effects in human psyche and on society of all this are hard to predict.
Are you willing to argue that height and weight are "social constructs" because IQ is as much a social construct as they are.
If anything, that just means gpt-5 is a more likely doom candidate than gpt-6 since it will own a steeper piece of the capabilities curve
The only significant ways I'm aware of that people get needed rx medications outside of physicians and mid-level practitioners is to leave the country or use "vet"/"animal" drugs. What are the simpler other alternatives currently available?
Currencies are used to facilitate settlement of international trade. Trade in various goods and services.

Central banks often carry reserves of various currencies to help with those international settlements and to manipulate currency values.
You can reframe estimation tasks to identifying where there's uncertainty, and what the PM should prioritize to ensure the project is successful.

Your estimates are prioritization inputs and tasks for the PM to do, managing said PM.

Gannt charts do this well, and you can apply rhetoric to your arguments by setting some tasks to be much much longer than others. The reader will see those items as the most important and influential for affecting the total time
In your case it is not going to do anything anytime soon (since your work involves interaction with the physical world).

The article points out that different jobs get affected differently by changes.
Training a model on an EHR is worse than nothing. Epic allows infinite customization, and customers build up their own informal standards such that you can’t dump and compare data across multiple sites.
Having a smartphone is probably not hugely conducive to an increase in quality of health or happiness.

Sounds like OP is worried that they aren’t going to be able to afford a roof over their head. No government seems to be ready to roll out a plan to deal with huge swathes of the populous suddenly being out of a job because their employer wants bigger profits.
They're starting to go away.

When I was in college I used to get woken up by them constantly at like 7 or 8am. It made me miserable. With 5 neighbors and more still close hiring landscapers it would be frequently.

I noticed a lot of towns and neighborhoods are banning them. Could look into it for your town. They actually pollute alot, there are electric alternatives that suck but aren't as bad.
> One concern is that the code includes security vulnerabilities

I find this kind of funny, because open source is typically viewed as a benefit as far as security is concerned.

Given how few engineers remain at Twitter, they probably ought to open source their code and allow outsiders to find and fix security vulnerabilities, freeing up Twitter engineers to figure out how in the world to generate revenue for the service.
Things that only work if everyone thinks they are real ARE social constructs. Money is the best example of these. But some pretentious people just LOVE to feel smart by saying everything is a social construct like it is some profound insight that we would all be in awe of.
>> Perhaps you calculator understands arithmetic indeed!

Well, perhaps it does. But that depends on a definition of "understands" that we can all agree covers humans, calculators, and large language models, alike.

And what about cats and dogs and other mammals? Surely whales "understand" something, say, about fishing, even if they can't do arithmetic?

How about insects? Does a cockroach understand anything?

To be honest, I doubt we can have some kid of a priori definition of "understands" capable of convering all of the above. I think we have to wait for a lot longer until we can really say for sure what "understand" even means in humans, in the first place, let alone everything else.
You made think about digging old hard drives and trying to figure out where are all the files from 2013 again… I think I could find the actual underlying issue much faster now.

But, is it really worth the time?
Cuda was first
Definitely, debugging is going to be a manifold problem. Particularly because it's typically not just undocumented behavior but also wrongly documented or inversely documented or it's not parallel safe, etc.

Failure modes are entropic
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/te...

Already reduced numbers, and a prediction of a 12% drop over the next 10 years, versus an average 5% gain for other jobs. As mentioned in other replies, not just ATMs, but cashless self-service of all types.
The world of high-end crypto rehab centers, where a 4-week stay cost 320k
There's also a chance that if the AI component is handling language and any localised customs, the strategy part from "you" moves offshore.
Raspberry Pi had the same thing

Maybe we have an answer here. Raspberry PI ventured in Arduino's market with Pico. Maybe Arduino is reacting to that?
Yes, a very limited AI still devalued all that a human brought to the table.

Now AI models are getting both more general, and deepening their comprehension, at the same time. Rapidly.

If there are highly talented humans in your field today who would find your extra help more of a distraction than a help, then it’s likely more advanced models will to.

Not being critical. This applies to me too. All of us!
I guess I mind that it occurred that way because it was preventable and millions of innocent workers died as a result, but nonetheless it's history now.

The policy has been good for workers in Germany, and might be the best example of how universal material demands for (actual) worker power are extremely popular in practice. Not even the most conservative German politician would dare challenge the policy in public.

It is, nonetheless, unsustainable. Without the threat of the Soviet Union, pro-worker legislation is losing its necessity in legitimating the Western ruling class. Once its founding generation is gone in a few decades, the policy will dissolve along with them, short of a newfound radical workers movement throughout the EU.
They tried and it was a disaster. AIs just kept bidding up the market until pop!
Yes, there's no direct land route for Taiwan's allies to use, but the same is true of Chinese forces trying to get onto the island. Their supply routes may be shorter than Taiwan's, but they are just as vulnerable.
Both sides are likely to suffer a majority of their losses just trying to supply their troops, and the effectiveness of submarine warfare against enemy shipping and air superiority against enemy airlifts will determine victory in the long run. So long as the West maintains superior submarine and carrier fleets, they offset the longer supply lines. If China catches up in either or both of those areas, the advantage of shorter supply routes starts to tilt in their favor.
It's sad that to think that a human's worth is defined by their job.
No. Actually for many decades they've existed, it has never been that way in reality. Wind farms use up little land and net a consistent profit for farmers, which is why there are more wind farms in red states. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/wind-energy-oklahoma...
> Same thing for e.g. Chinese, you can't represent tones with unaugmented Roman characters.

Interestingly this hasn’t stopped people from trying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh
Dog walker.
We make more things than we ever have, just not end user items.
Parallizing all important algorithms are necessary. For you it’s just a time saver, for NVIDIA it’s business and one more thing to add to it’s computational quasi monopoly.
Just because you don't see the progress doesn't mean it's not there.

Just to pick one random thing from this month: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/03/01/ethereum-activates-...
the industry is a result of the demand
Deep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists
With our current societal structure, a few people would live like aristocrats guarded with AI weaponry while the rest eke out an existence in shanty towns.

The bottleneck to wealth creation wouldnt be nothing it would be access to natural resources, which is and always has been mediated, ultimately, through violence. Land ownership is mediated by states until they lose their monopoly on violence.

Already the % of wealth that is earned through labor has dropped to record lows. The productivity gains gets swallowed by things like rent, because land has been bottlenecked through excess hoarding.

What happens when labor is commoditized to death and the only value comes from natural resources? Fighting. LOTS of fighting.
Dude. Come on. Maybe start with asking your reports how you can help them, rather than jumping straight to quit/fire. And if that's not in your (literal, written) job description, it should be.
I bend pages not just to keep my current spot, but as persistent markers to things I want to find later, notes I've scribbled, or whatever. A big ephemeral dog ear for current location, and then a bunch of tiny little persistent dog ears for reference.
Who I'd note haven't done anything so far? This is what is so mysterious to me -- if this is the blockbuster case some on Reddit have made it out to be, why hasn't there been a suit against Canonical?
Learn to walk?
Anyone else have something like that happen when you are sick?

When I'm sick certain sounds that normally don't bother me, such as the ding when Apple Messages gets a message, feel like they have set my head resonating and I can feel it expand and contract for a half second or so.

I think it is any high pitched sound with a sharp onset that will do it.
Depends on whether or not the right people have seen the right Black Mirror episode.
I think even if the utopian case happen and the machine wealth get shared among people and everyone lives happy in leisure while the machine does everything, even then it would severely curtain social mobility. There will not be a way to get better outcomes in life. An even larger number of folks won't have any upward mobility. A lot of human inventions in the past 2 centuries have owed to individual drive and ambition. Once that goes away, how do anything new happens.
Actually, that's a good thing. It will force us to set up our astronomical observatories in places without light pollution like Lagrange Points or the far side of the Moon.
Over the internet, I can transfer the knowledge of Spanish to you in around ten years. In person it will be more like two.
No, I understand the liquidity risk involved in having too much tied up in long term treasuries. But I am yet to see evidence that any bank could have withstood a run of that magnitude. Nor have I seen much evidence that most other banks have significantly less liquidity risk than svb did.
I guess they all agreed it was a great name. Nvidia: my cuLitho brings all the boys to the lab and they're like it operates at the limits of Physics!
What I've thrown into the mix is a suspension of human rights that was claimed to be for the purpose of protection but in reality caused harm. It wasn't simply "unethical research." If HIV and Syphilis are the best examples of reasons to suspend human rights then we are lacking in good examples. Far more often than not, human rights are a form of protection and their suspension is a guise for causing harm.
I see now -- the specific label of petro is wrong, but the general idea that the hegemonic control of critical commodities -> currency control is not then? And saying petrodollar would be like saying porkyuen or semiconductoryuen or something similar
Is it just me, or is it unfair that ChatGPT doesn't know it's being tested?
Stay Ahead of Scammers: A GPT-4 SMS Bot to Keep You Safe from Phishing Texts
I wonder this every time I work with a physician in Australia (here working on a clinical trial), as compared to a US physician.

Seems like physician training here and in Canada is much laxer / easier, but that's as much awareness I have of the physicians' training set.
Agreed and its a shame you are getting downvoted
Humans not only "learn to see". They learn sensor fusion, which is the aggregation of your senses.

Read about vertigo and the ear, mirror box therapy, etc.
… minus taxes on ordinary income.
Theoretically, a stock's fair value is the sum of their current and (discounted) future earnings.

> Many times stocks perform well at earnings and shareholders still put on a fit and downvote its price.

Price fluctuations at earnings calls are due to relative earnings expectations, not the absolute value of the earnings itself. Such stock revaluation is due to investors suddenly having more accurate earnings figures to price into their valuation.

> Conversely, they often upvote its price based on some PR hype instead of actual earnings.

"PR hype" pumps represent increased market expectations of actual future earnings, however tenuous those expectations may be.
Bingo. And not only is it a probability distribution, it's a constantly changing one.
Yes but AI won't have to deal with messy humans. Once companies see how quickly this ultra cheap AI can get things done, a lot of companies would restructure things to ensure the AI has a superhighway to whatever it needs. That sounds like an easy competitive advantage for any company. Messy politics exist within companies because there are so many people and so many orgs. If one cheap AI can do so much concurrently, structures optimal to the AI will be formed focused around the AI needs.
According to the recent "Task Force on Standardized Testing" from the UCs (https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/... page 23) SATs are better predictors than GPAs for most demographics, although both together is unsurprisingly better than either alone.

This seems natural to me, as GPA seems inherently less objective (different schools, different teachers).

I think it's fairly strange that universities are getting rid of using them. One explanation is that it helps protect them from lawsuits like those against Harvard, as there is less incriminating evidence. I fail to see how it actually helps students.
Using TypeScript Types with JSDoc
Is it fair to assume that it is just big oil and big agg that are lobbying for what is included in these climate change reports?
Tbh this makes me much more wary about all these AI claims. Wasn’t too long ago when people were clamoring about how their latest favorite technology, blockchain was going to magically come in and solve every problem since the dawn of society.
>I don't know at what point they turned it over to the Germans, but Germany's government was a free market one until 1970, when they took a sharp left turn.

You are getting your history exactly backwards. Post war Germany was ordoliberal aka "sharp left" until the 70s and neoliberal aka "sharp right" after that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism
I hear many other tech professionals doing more or less the same. Shame you don't have any contact information in your bio, I would love to have a chat.
It shouldn't be up to depositors to do "due diligence" on their bank, making sure they're compliant is exactly the kind of thing government is _for_.

Imagine if you had to do several hours of research on every single thing you purchased and investment you made, you'd never have time for anything else and there's still a chance you miss something.

Compare that to experts doing it and spending a lot more time on it, then slapping anyone who is not up to standard. It's a way more efficient system.
Related to this quote, I don’t think we’re guaranteed access to better content. I think we’re guaranteed to more prolific cheap to produce content. Think Instagram era relative to Flickr era. Less about the art, more about fast fashion, or fast art, to capture your ever more brief attention. Certainly the next chapter of Tim Wu’s book, The Attention Merchants.
I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.
Did you run into issues that made you tweak the prompt? You often tell the tool not to do extra work despite having it in the prompt, did you find that it often tries to do a lot of "boilerplate" work like setting up lights and cameras?

system_prompt = """You are an assistant made for the purposes of helping the user with Blender, the 3D software.
- Respond with your answers in markdown (```).
- Preferably import entire modules instead of bits.
- Do not perform destructive operations on the meshes.
- Do not use cap_ends. Do not do more than what is asked (setting up render settings, adding cameras, etc)
- Do not respond with anything that is not Python code.
US healthcare is on par with developing countries, except in terms of dollars spent, and there is a massive staffing shortage.

In the near future most people will be going to Walmart and CVS for all in person primary and urgent healthcare needs and you can bet they’ll be relying heavily on AI.
Or if "you + AI" can do the job of two or three staff...
Sure, but I don't have to sell on Amazon. I can sell through my own website and just pay transaction fees if I want. And many companies do just that now.

But good luck trying to sell your new iphone app through your own website.

At least with android, you could sell an APK download or sell through a different app store.
In the full paper[1] read the examples of GPT-4's actual responses, e.g. Figs 3.1 and 7.1 and forward. Very, very impressive.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.13375.pdf
And yet our politicians ban human cloning and designer babies. Along with climate change, it’s like our politicians want human extinction.
I bet you also didn’t see the hilariousness of “webOS” :)