skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary conjecture:

As with many "productivity enhancements", these AIs[0] will streamline some work to the point of practical elimination, but will in the end make more work, by enabling higher-level tasks to be doable instead of just imagined.

It seems a lot of the missing "productivity enhancements" from the PC and internet revolutions don't appear because people didn't net get fired, they just started doing different tasks (TBD whether those are actually useful, but evidently most managers think they are). Oblig car analogy - more highways induce demand for travel by making it easier, so the net is that traffic is worse; similarly, this may induce demand for work.

[0] these are artificial, but not intelligent; it is predictive models with insane amounts of ingested data. Whether text, code, or images, it speeds production in middle-of-the-road cases, but cannot figure out what to produce. There's no more evidence of reasoning than that an image in a mirror is evidence of skilled kinesiology. With an actual reasoning AGI, the conjecture would be quite different.
> Is it the supercharger network?

That is one important aspect, too.

But if we're being honest, there are other things too. If you want an EV, Tesla is a pretty obvious choice, they sell by far the most. If you care about image, they're also king of that hill (we can argue how aspirational a Model 3 really ought to be, objectively, but the market sees it that way). And if you hate the traditional dealership experience, Tesla will again be appealing.

Tesla giving up the supercharger exclusivity is an interesting choice. I'll be interested to see how that works out for them.
> compare a GUI: a GUI settings dialog will have options labelled in English

In my experience, a GUI settings dialog normally will have options labelled in Brazilian Portuguese, which is even more friendly. The command line, on the other hand, is always in English (though its output is often in a mix of English and Brazilian Portuguese).

(Your experience may vary; people from smaller countries might have only a partial translation of the GUI, or even none at all.)
You are right.

With the sitting example, the ideal case is perfect health. The trade-offs have different distances from the ideal case. You are correct that those distances are not strictly distances of wrongness, but they are nevertheless something you can be "Wronger Than Wrong" about if you treat them the same.
I'd love to know when geopandas snaps into alignment
There's also the question of ethics. Some of these LLM's regularly profess that they are sentient (Bing for example regularly does). We don't "think" these are valid but at this point there's no way to be absolutely certain.

And again, folks who profess to know for certain an LLM can't in any way be sentient are leaning pretty far over their skis. It's unlikely given how they work, but not impossible.
They're talking about outsourcing and offshoring, which is a process that takes place over decades, so you should be looking at statistics to match that. Over decades, it is indeed higher than ever.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/manu...
> What should you do instead?

It's your choice: (1) don't use it; (2) validate it before using it; (3) roll the dice on behalf of your users -- that is, use it without validating it.

Don't let religious beliefs around UA-sniffing cause you to screw over your users.
FM was more popular for music since it is higher quality, while both work fine for voice, and AM licenses can often transmit further. So it made economic sense for talk radio stations to buy AM licenses instead of FM.

That said with fewer people listening to music on the radio these days, it is becoming more common to find talk radio on FM.
I've been a _lot_ more reclusive since the pandemic simply because the social activities I used to partake in ceased to exist.

Even as someone who's quite extroverted, it's far more difficult to convince Zoom crew to go to the pub or hang out in person. There is an activation energy vs. just walking outside and oh, you're in the city centre and there it all is.

And everyone is Zoom crew now.
> A few days before Google Chrome launched, Google released a blog post titled “A fresh take on the browser.” The post explained that they were releasing this new browser because they believed they could “add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.”

What Google says, and what Google does are two very different non-intersecting things.

Edit: Google's maps and docs etc. ran just fine in WebKit. What Google wanted was control. What they did with that control we all know. For example, sabotaged Firefox: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871237240852480

> I develop for Firefox. Chrome basically always works fine with my pages. Safari chokes on all of them.

Doubt.

> So here's a browser that fails to just work, even when you primarily use Firefox to build the page.

Funnily how I've used Safari as my primary browser since 2007, and I've been a web developer for far longer than that... and I haven't run into these issues everyone on HN pretends to have.

> And you blame the developer?

Yes, yes I do. Always. Even in the days of IE6 the problem was always with the developer.
Ebert's take focuses on the human aspect of Solaris, but the other aspect of both the movie and the book that is just as appealing to me is our inability to understand the alien ocean itself. All the attempts to anthropomorphize its behavior fail, and in the end Solaris research is abandoned because the ocean is essentially inscrutable to humans. This theme is also covered in another Lem book, "Fiasco."

I love the idea of an alien, presented before us, completely available to us to interact with, and we cannot bridge the gap because we and it are so different.

It just leaves you with "What is it doing?!" which is such a wonderful contrast to the deep emotional impact that its behavior (creating the doppelgangers) has on humans. Does it know? Is it coincidence? Is it malicious? So many good mysteries.
You might be interested in work being done by the Earth Species Project https://www.earthspecies.org/what-we-do/projects
It’s worse: they look at what they anthropomorphically think it’s doing. Like looking at an animal picture classifier work and thinking it can see animals, or a watching a self-driving car and thinking it has some kind of simulation of a human driver in it.

I think the “AI purists” need to make a lot more noise about the fact that nobody knows what LLMs are doing.
I agree with this, and especially when you look at cost of storage over time which is to say the filesizes that we think are large today will be small by tomorrow’s standards and the drives that are expensive today will be almost trivially cheap by tomorrow’s standards.
Can you define “reasoning”?

It’s not clear what the basis for your argument is.
When I was doing my master's thesis, my industrial supervisor opined that a neural network "is really just a glorified lookup table". I think, given the succinctness of the characterisation, it's not too far off the mark.
> "why war when we can have commerce"?

Can't help but sad chuckle over this whole clash of rams battle of perspectives and the fact that Russia, Ukraine and other western countries had somewhat great relationships at the beginning of the century.

One could ask the same question from the Russian perspective when analyzing how Russia-West relations have deteriorated from Russia being in love with it, towards Russia having a lovecraftian fear of it (from Russian perspective, this is more of a proxy war with the West). This is actually the TLDR of Putin's Munich speech in late 2000-something.

I wonder what could be games theory solution here. Russia and the West don't trust each other and can't meet each-other expectations of peaceful coexistence - Ukraine got caught in the crossfire. What could hypothetically serve as a common ground for aligning the perspectives before it inertly escalates too far?
The amount of guests that are genuinely impressed by the questions being asked make this show so great to watch. I may not care for every guest, but the authenticity of the interview alone is worth the watch!
The particular current case of inflation really took off with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Talking about salary growth as a cause is way off the mark.
I would have assumed browsers had one internal implementation and exposed it through both APIs. They wouldn't want to have two separate implementations of a large amount of complex code.
we have it in mississippi and it works well.
In Argentina, one of the countries (along with Chile) where the term "desaparecido" (disappeared) was coined in the 70s, it means specifically:

Government forces (not revolutionaries) which use either their official militaries/police (often) or their secret police (less often) to detain individuals without recourse to the law, then take them to illegal detention centers where they are tortured and eventually killed (in Argentina, some detainees were simply drugged and dropped alive to the Río de la Plata river, where they drowned -- our so called "flights of death" -- and others sometimes simply shot). The key thing that sets "disappeared" people aside from other ways of execution is that there is no official acknowledgement of their fate, and their friends and family are never truly sure of how they died unless their mortal remains are ever found by chance.

If this sounds horrifying, always remember our militaries in Latin America were trained in these tactics by the US government, in things like the School of the Americas [1], under the guise of "learning how to fight insurgency".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...
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Suddenly all these layoffs from the tech industry now make sense. Companies view the WFH movement and the rights which the workers have gained over the past three years as a threat to their very existence. The layoffs combined with a mandatory return to office will discourage any sort of dissent.
I tried getting into Hot Ones ~5 years ago because many friends enjoyed it. I simply couldn't stay engaged - even with celebrities I was excited to see, I found it weirdly boring. Maybe I'm just not the type to enjoy interviews! But it sounds like it would be even less fun to me now.
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Attaching Safari Dev Tools from a Mac to the iOS device should surface those errors, in my experience.
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i’d rather ditch AM radio in the car than pay more for better shielding, design, etc. i mean, i’d prefer both, but i think it’s likely either-or.

i neeeevvvveeer listen to AM. maybe there’s some value in emergencies, but i had a different radio for that so having it in my car isn’t important.
Agreed that reallocating money and resources for the greater good is a good thing. That said, these are all topics that still receive lots of debate politically. That's what I mean when I say it's a human problem.

You can't solve healthcare by throwing tech, money, etc at it anymore than you could solve a broken heart with those things. Sure, money could help you get therapy or pay for lobbying for whatever your solution to healthcare is. OTOH, perhaps the person cutting the checks thinks the solution to heartbreak is a raise ("it shows we care"), and the solution to healthcare issues is to lobby for criminalizing generics ("they're probably cutting corners and making people worse off"). People don't even agree on what are the problems in healthcare (and other things in that list), let alone how to solve them
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This.

Although this is orthogonal to the open source question. You can (and, I argue, should) release all of that data while still operating under a proprietary license.
Smart is knowing that Frankenstein isn't the monster.
Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
Humans adapt to technology as much as we adapt technology to us. Modern humans are much better at tasks like manipulating symbolic information, digesting starch, and avoiding alcohol addiction than a random person 100,000 years ago. In 100 years we might add "not being talked into suicide by robots" to that list.
Once more, I'm not making an argument about causality. I'm saying that the "compensation" of salaries for inflation already happened.

Arguments about "why" just aren't helpful here. Everyone thinks they're smarter than everyone else and knows policies that will be perfect, and everyone is wrong for the same reasons. It's a cyclic feedback market and it just does this stuff, for the most part.

But you absolutely can't look at things with a microscope and say "salaries don't keep up with inflation", because that's (almost by definition) never true.
I will add even more to this point. If anything, people who are more fortunate have an actual incentive to ensure some level of care for those less fortunate even if it is just for purely selfish reasons. Hungry people are angry people and the moment there is a lot of hungry, angry people, being top 10% is unlikely to keep you or your wealth safe. There are obviously non-pragmatic considerations, but I am trying to appeal to self-preservation instinct.

Sure. Some don't care, but I sometimes wonder if those people understand that living in society means some level of acceptable balance to all.
Vopono does look awesome but it seems it is Linux only, no mac.
> I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever.

It's the same phenomenon as people thinking that new music, movies, etc. is mostly terrible and the old days were full of nothing but amazing hits. Because we remember the good and forget the bad, both individually and as a society.
It will not "end" any government involvement. That's just the spin.
I kept going:

>>> Why did you say that Dan Shipper is the co-founder of Pilot?

> I apologize for the error in my previous response. Dan Shipper is actually one of the co-founders of a startup called Firefly, which provides a tool for students and educators to collaborate on course materials. I'm sorry for any confusion that my mistake may have caused. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, and please let me know if you have any other questions.

(This answer was true--until 2014 when Firefly was sold, making the use of present tense misleading at best.)
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#3 and #4 are not mutually exclusive, There IS new money coming in (thankfully), but I can also "give up" after the money is in and the company is on more stable financial footing to execute Plan #1. But truthfully, I'm likely not the right CEO for Plan #1.
I think parent is saying we manufacture more today in the U.S. than we did 30 years or so ago with fewer people.
You don't know much about aviation, do you?

Aviation is about redundancy. Redundancy is a good use of a pilot's focus. That's why I did both. I didn't blindly trust my calculator to not have bugs (even though I wrote it!), and I didn't blindly trust my hand calculations to be correct.

If they agree, though, it's a good sign that everything is in good order. That's what redundancy is for, to ensure that a problem in one thing does not lead to another problem, like in the Swiss cheese model of accidents.
FinGPT better be open-source and open-finance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35403167
An extension that has no user prompting or even status indicator, and that will permit the user to browse the web without a VPN connection or warning by default.

It appears that the process is to 1) open Mullvad Browser 2) (externally) open Mullvad VPN and connect to it 3) click on the Mullvad Browser Extension icon and connect it to the Mullvad proxy. Only after this will the proxy be used and the connection secured.

Contrast this with Tor Browser's process of 1) open Tor Browser. It will only work after it automatically connects to Tor and secures the connection. Do you see the significant difference?
We lack choice in aggregate. As an individual you have the choice of doing a drug. If I talk about a population of people and I introduce highly addictive drugs to a population of people, then it's almost a guarantee that part of that population will get addicted. In this sense it is not a choice.

For AI, if I introduce AI to a population of people then for sure part of the population will exploit and use AI. Logically speaking in order to compete, others will have to start using it as well.
Wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the states over the last 20 years, to the point where that statement doesn't hold anymore.
And those stupid flush door handles. Why? I hear horror stories of people getting frozen out of their cars. Who was asking for these that they're on every car now?
I was trying to show that people on both the "left" (MLK) and the "right" (Friedman) advocate for UBI. But thank you for revealing your thoughts on MLK through your question.
So, as a negative example, you provide ... a laptop you paid $1500 + $200 + $250 for, and got 7+ years of use?
Well, a year ago they were also hiring. It's entirely possible that plans changed.
Not the OP but I use React for all my small projects. I do it because it’s the right tool for the job. Why is it the right tool? Because I seems 40 hours a week working with mammoth React projects and therefore its the tool I can “just be productive” in. When working in side projects it’s critical for me to maximize time spent working on the business logic rather than reading documentation on some new tool and googling new error messages to figure out what I didn’t glue together correctly.
Yeah, a GIO plugin would be nice...
> How good can LLMs without intelligence be?

after this LLM breakthrough a lot of smart people started questioning what intelligence really is.
Kia should be the cheapest one. Genesis the most luxurious brand. Hyundai in the middle.
> Mark Zuckerberg pushes the benefits of coming to the office

has he stopped believing in the transformative power of the metaverse then?
I honestly don’t know if ‘concierge medicine’ is a different thing, but from what it sounds like and my own experience with direct primary care they sound equivalent. Possibly different by cost or target demographic.

A rose by any other name, and all that.
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We did have basic error detection and reporting. For example if it failed to get WebGL in a normal HTML canvas, it would show a "WebGL not supported" error message with some diagnostic details and some advice about what the user could do about it. The problem in this case is a gotcha where there are two ways to access the canvas API, one supporting WebGL, and the other not - a case we never anticipated, nor had happened with any previous browser.
> I'm not exactly sure what makes you doubt this

well for starters the fact that there is no record of him saying that
animals like ants and dogs intuitively "solve" the equation too
He is not cherry picking, he picked the largest immigrant group, twice as large as the next one
a <$10 battery or crank-powered radio for emergencies would work just fine.

integration in the car’s system seem unecessary.
I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow's outlook & his critique of Shoshanna Zuboff's Age of Survelliance Capitalism, which is largely that these are not near magical superpowered systems which can with incredible precision reprogram human behavior & reshape the world.

These companies want to convince us of their superhuman insight & abilities, and rather than sustain a skeptical counter-outlook, the prevailing counter-narrative is to drastically over-subscribe their hype & to radically over-project their capabilities, is freaking the frell out & panicking about it.

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/doctorow-versus-zuboff/
Those have existed for a while, though? Or are you just thinking of the flagship EVs?
Your specs are wrong all around.

Model 3 Long Range is AWD not RWD, range is 358 not 353, priced at $47,990 not $57,990. Most US buyers will get $7500 cash back from the Feds, bringing the price to $40,490.

There is no Ioniq 6 available for $40,000. Closest match is the SE RWD Long Range for $46,615 with 361 mile range. Not eligible for $7500 cash back.