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Jeff Reback gave a presentation on the roadmap for Pandas at PyData NYC 2022 [0]. In it, he basically says that pandas is used so widely in industry that big breaking changes are a non-starter, there won't be any radical changes to the API, but more performant implementations can/will be built into the library (although not set as defaults, at least not for a long while). Not a revolutionary leap, but a move towards making Wes McKinney's Arrow work more accessible through pandas.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85XdsWz_Q_o
On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
Anecdata is always greater than proper statistical studies.

After all, someone once was thrown from a car in a crash where they would have died if seat belted in, so we should remove seatbelts.

(Sarcasm, for when GPT scans this)
Try this puzzle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155467

> Suppose I have a cabbage, a goat and a lion, and I need to get them across a river. I have a boat that can only carry myself and a single other item. I am not allowed to leave the cabbage and lion alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the lion and goat alone together. How can I safely get all three across?

I just asked ChatGPT v4 this question, assuming it would have been fixed by RHLF training but it spat out step 1 as “First, take the goat across the river and leave it on the other side,” leaving the lion and cabbage alone against explicit directions in the riddle.

It clearly can’t reason, just produce a convincing imitation most of the time
I only use the radio to listen to AM traffic reports. News 1130 traffic on the one. Most of the time I am listening to something from my phone.
> breaks itself

The CCP has nothing to do with it, I'm sure.
I agree, I don't think the way they distill this to a single number and present it as an apples-to-apples comparison is very helpful. There's too much variability in what the "central city" is, and I think it's quite challenging to determine a useful number to compare between metros as they are laid out so very differently.

The maps themselves are interesting and potentially even useful, on the other hand.
I'd just like to get diagnosed + prescribed without spending money on US Physicians.

Checkups are fine if they were a few dollars. For me, they cost my family a minimum of $600 per year.
Hyundai is firing on all cylinders (anachronism?) with their design language. The question will be whether the market pushes them back to 'standard' design or whether they are in fact the innovators of a new design and everybody emulates it.
Maybe from the perspective of the moneyed elite, but in what universe is China breaking up a monopoly an indicator of "authoritarianism"
I switched to an Internet Explorer-first approach for web development, and it has reduced my problems considerably. In fact, I make my websites assume they will be viewed in a 640x480 viewport.

I'm basically guaranteeing full compatibility with everything, because everyone has to comply with IE's behaviour. After all, I put a "Best viewed in Internet Explorer", this way if it fails, people blame their browser and not me.
Why not expand to data centers with the extra M2 capacity?
How much support staff for that hardware + how large an investment + how large are ongoing costs like electricity + how much risk if that hardware fails vs offsetting 30$/hour/worker. So yes “only” as it’s a win but not nearly as large as a win than it seems like.

PS: “300% increased worker productivity” a 300% increased productivity for pickers would be 4x as many packages picked not 3x. But, again actual productivity didn’t increase that much because some people need to maintain these systems and most of them expect more than 15$/hour.
The white of lunar and EVA suits is white because of temperature regulation reasons, and is very unlikely to change.
> Imagine I lock you in a room

If you lock a reasoning being in a room, then regardless of your further actions with the French language, you'll be dealing with a reasoning being. Your sequence "you will have had to have gained a significant understanding of French" is deprecated on the fact that "understanding" is attributed to the reasoning being capable of it, not to the fact that they were locked in the room and forced to repeat the words.
I observed that happening around me for a long time, this research only confirms it, however, I think that the problem is stated in a wrong way. IMO the issue here is not that checkups are bad on their own, but rather that used medical checks and resulting therapies are done in some sort of "standard" way, rarely taking into account patient's history or having more detailed look on what causes the particular problem.
This is, of course, done in order to scale checkups on economic scale, otherwise, almost no person could afford it.
This can be observed in some cases when some young, fit solider dies on basic exercise from heart failure caused by heart anomaly that is not being screened during standard medical examination prior to being enlisted.
It's not impossible to see that LLMs can make finite step "reasoning" between input and output, as each block of the transformer can model probabilistic causality. Transformers are sometimes considered a fully connected graph neural network, which can be used for modeling causal graphs. One additional supporting evidence on the finite step reasoning hypothesis is that "train of thought" improves the performance of LLMs[1], meaning that letting the model explain itself explicitly reduces the amount of implicit "reasoning" steps that need to happen within the model.

Additionally, while we don't know how us humans functionally reason, it's believed that the predictive nature of our brain is central to our reasoning abilities. Maybe in some way, the autoregressive nature of LLMs is similar to our predictive brain.

For a collection of emergent properties in LLMs, I recommend this paper [2]

[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903.pdf
[2]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf
I don’t think policing analogies is serving the conversation well.

Someone whose job disappears in a puff of smoke doesn’t have a reason to care about whether the job was automated or whether it was moved overseas—in both cases, the economic activity is still there (or more likely, it’s increased), but the workers who trained for it are no longer getting compensated, and our concerns are for the welfare of these workers. Social consequences and all that.

Manufacturing jobs face both outsourcing and automation. The resulting productivity gains have certainly not been “swallowed”—consumer goods are just so damn cheap and plentiful these days—but the overall impact on local economies is sometimes disastrous. If you take a look at the US manufacturing sector, the output is higher than ever (maybe minus a dent from COVID), and the resulting benefits are spread across the US population (better access to manufactured goods), but the relative power of labor and capital is diverging—and both automation and outsourcing are making that possible. They both allow capital owners to create goods with lower labor costs. That’s the whole point, and the analogy makes a lot of sense.

IMO, a big part of the problem is that capital owners are so effectively able to externalize risk.
I've been successful on upwork in the past. When they started asking for money to buy credits to bid on projects I moved on.

As painful as this is.. you need to move on. 10 years doesn't get lost it gets put on your resume
My take is that the article argues for keeping it on the grounds of technical merit, not of purpose.

Senator Ed Markey makes (https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_automa...) some better points about it:

> Broadcast AM radio remains a crucial, cost-free source of news, sports, and weather, and, more importantly, is an essential medium for public safety officials — including the president — to communicate with the public during emergencies,

There are several "clear channel" AM radio stations in the United States - that is, they are guaranteed no interference from FCC assignments to other stations elsewhere in the country, unlike the majority of stations which share the spectrum based on their geographic location. Because of that, they're allowed to broadcast at power levels considerably higher than other stations. This makes clear channel stations incredibly useful in the event of a public emergency (war, natural disaster, etc.).

WBZ is based out of Sen. Markey's home state of Massachusetts - specifically a suburb of Boston - and I've personally been able to pick it up as far away as Erie, Pennsylvania.
A lot of developers and video editors use Macbook Air and 24GB is what is considered sufficient for them. They buy into Macbook Air for portability reasons.

Windows laptops on the other hands hold incredibly well at 16GB of RAM. There are also windows laptops with the same weight as Macbook Air at half the cost and double the specs.
> Common sense would dictate that negative outcomes are reduced with continuous monitoring

This is also how people see constant glucose monitoring (CGM) and Type 2 diabetes. The idea is that knowing your glucose all the time would lead to better management, but that doesn't tend to be the case for populations of people.

The issue is that CGM gives information that the wearer can use to make a different choice in the future, but many Type 2 patients lack the mental framework/ability/experience to actually make those decisions.

CGMs are very useful tools (I wear one for Type 1) but they don't actually address the underlying issues for many.
I'm not a doctor, but... Well the logical thing to do is 1. Ignore mildly elevated values in the absence of symptoms. 2. Take action on very elevated values. 3. Look for trends and anomalies in the data. "This guy has had a value in the low end on every previous check up, but now it's a bit elevated, what's up with that?"
That's just saying the same thing as the article. But instead of reconsidering the premise, this is just doubling down on it.

> We should ALWAYS strive to have more and better data.

If you value data in and of itself, in other words if data is an a priori good, then this is a fetish.
> It doesn't matter if it's been available for 10 years on Chrome—if it's not reliable on other platforms, don't use it.

As an author you have two main options:

1. Feature detection: check to see if the API exists in the browser, and gracefully fall back if not.

2. UA-sniffing: use the API only on browsers where you've verified that your program works correctly with its implementation.

There's pretty strong consensus on the web that authors should be doing (1), and that (2) is harmful to minority browsers. Every time someone says "the new feature works fine in Firefox if I set my UA to Chrome" they're complaining that the site didn't go with (1).

Yes, using (1) means trusting browsers to get their implementations correct, but they are usually very good about this and getting better. The http://wpt.fyi tests have been a big help here.
This is incredibly revealing in a way I don't think you intend or are maybe even aware of.
VAT is 15-20%, customs 5-10%, shipping ~50€, fees for custom handling 10-20€.

It's pricy, but it's not going to double the price.
I have had two MacBook Air m1 failures in my family that has started to change how I recommend purchasing a mac. They have 1 year warranties and one had logic board failure around the 18 month mark. It’s possible they last 7 years (I have a 2015 mbp that is going strong) but also it’s possible any high end brand lasts that long (I have an Hp envy that is running strong as well). The repairability of a MacBook m1 is basically zero. I’m too afraid to buy a new logic board because of the T2 chip). Anyway, a 1 year warranty is absurd on a product that expensive that you shouldn’t be having problems with. The tiny warranty is a scam to get you into AppleCare plus for hundreds more, so factor that into the price you pay as well. I feel like I’m responsible for recommending the m1 to my cousin that got fried this last week
I’m still not sure this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. The cross pollination between these two organizations that will be jammed down fans’ throats will be insufferable.
My Monday morning inspiration: maybe I can get it uploaded to YouTube! They have lots of movies there that probably get fewer views than this would.

I need to find the copyright owners.
This is becoming more and more true world-wide; it's getting so bad that we've passed 21% of the entire healthcare budget on it.
> They wouldn't even be alive if your lie was true

I'm not lying. I admit I could be wrong (although I can bring up counterexamples to yours), but I was not intentionally attempting to deceive anyone.
This is nothing new. IBM was required to sell software separate from their hardware...
Price increases tend to be sticky.
Is everything else really equal here? I'd think "higher-risk" situations would be more likely to have a higher level of monitoring. In other words, was this randomised?
There's been lots of "crackdowns" before Alibaba. Maybe "slain" as well but no not the only victim.
> This might be seen as heresy by many but: if you're not a fan of the glacial pace of very old films, you may enjoy Clooney's remake more.

I agree. I have both versions, and while it would be easy to knock the latter given the reputation of the former, I think they're both good in different ways.
I think the optimal move might be regular (possibly more than annual) blood work and only talking to a doctor when there's symptoms.
It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
sorry, that wasn't my point. I just meant, there are tools for that job. LLMs don't seem to be the most appropriate tool. Thanks for helping me to clarify
Sketchier providers often use dubious methods to acquire their exit nodes.

Often they pay someone to include their code in a "free" software or browser extension (or malware) that allows them to route traffic through the host.

Oxylabs is one of the larger examples whose record is somewhat dubious.
Agreed, and local power tends to be much more responsive and accountable than the Feds. It's one of the best parts of the system (the Senate is the worst imo)
A little while ago I asked on HN if an M1 with 8GB of ram is enough for major 4k editing in FCPX and multiple people chimed in to say they're using that exact setup and it's smooth as butter...
I’m using a Macbook Air from like 2011 and it has basically the same specs as their current lineup in terms of memory etc. So why would I pay £2000 for the current one?
Who's making the choice though? There's no one person or even one group of people in charge, short of political regulation.

If AI is less expensive than humans, then anyone who doesn't use AI will get outcompeted by those who do. That's the unfortunate reality of markets. Wealth always becomes more and more concentrated until a democratic initiative opposes it.
OK, here's one: this substack [1] was flying around a week or two ago, asserting that the marginal value of programmers will fall to zero by 2030. What a dream! No more annoying nerds!

The code in the post is wrong. For this "trivial" example, if you just blindly copied it into your code, it would not do what you want it to do. I love this example not just because it's ironic, but because it's a perfect illustration of how you need to know the answer before you ask for the solution. If you don't know what you're doing, you're gonna have a bad time.

I'm not at all concerned about the value of programmers falling to zero. I'm concerned that a lot of bad programmers are going to get their pants pulled down.

[1] https://skventures.substack.com/p/societys-technical-debt-an...

(Edit: and as a totally hot take, while I'm not worried about good programmers, I think the marginal value of multi-thousand word, think-piece blogposts is rapidly falling to zero. Who needs to pay Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlon to write silly, incorrect articles, when ChatGPT will do it for free?)
Cop out.

You can replace AI with X where X is significant climate changer and it will be always true.

What AIGC is capable today will displace a large amount of workforce and many of them won’t be able to keep up the change(be it age, skills that were valuable but now nullified by AIGC).

Chaos is a ladder but that doesn’t justify the pretenses of Darwinism.
great question. It was absolutely worth it for me, but let me give some extra context and explain what kind of role i work in now.

background:

- what i liked about management was leverage, and being able to influence strategy, etc more than i could as a regular IC. Also coaching and growing people.

- what i was "meh" on was the very time consuming mechanics of mgmt, 1/1s, perf reviews, sprint mechanics, status reports, interfacing with HR machinery etc.

So i wanted to create an IC role where ideally I could have large scale influence, and still participate in the strategy and high level decision making at a company. I did NOT want to go back to IC to be left alone to code hard things in a corner. Thats a totally valid path too that ive heard from some, but not for me, so just calling that out.

So creating the role:

- you need to be at a company that believes in (or has already established) an IC leadership track that parallels the management track. That means there should be IC levels that match (in pay and responsibility) to manager, director, VP levels. Facebook, google, big tech all do this now. Creating and paying for a non-management ladder is kind of the "put your money where you mouth is" - if the company wont do this, they wont take IC leaders seriously when push comes to shove.

- one way to do it is to pair an IC role with a senior mgmt. eg, there is an eng Director in charge of payments, so there should be a single technical IC in charge of payments tech. They work together on shaping the overall strategy for their unit - the EM & IC lead are responsible for the same domain. Notably, these folk dont have to be on a specific delivery team, rather they work with each delivery team in their unit as needed.

- the senior roles come with real responsibility and accountability... if you are the payments lead IC, you're making technical decisions with consequences in the millions or 10s of millions of $$, in terms of risk but also in terms of engineering opportunity cost. A rough proxy for "how senior is this person" is "what would it cost us if they were wrong". Make that clear to the business side, take responsibility, justify decisions in business/commercial terms. It will be received well and you will be taken much more seriously as a strategic stakeholder.

- you can still coach and grow people, just on your own terms without the formal reporting structure. Better to me.

anyway enough rambling - and YMMV this is all advice that applies to what I wanted to do with my role. Others may have different goals. Happy to talk more if you have questions, email in profile.
"Napster copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for peer-to-peer file sharing"

I think the only effective way of slowing down AI isn't copyright enforcement, but trade secrets. If Midjourney can control who has access to its service and what kinds of content its users can generate, democratized models/piracy can do nothing to change that.

The reason why there's so much more interest in AI art than AI voice cloning is that there's not yet a publicly available AI voice model with good enough performance. When that model is released or leaked there will be a similar panic around the effectiveness of modern AI voice tools, because anyone good or bad can get their hands on them without being forced to go through the company's content filter.
For a point of reference here have a look at how many independent companies share the “Sparkasse” or “Raiffeisen”
trademarks and Logos on Europe.
You can't be serious. The vast majority of the "means of production" are owned by the top 1-5% of the country.

Sure, I have a 401k, I have 0.000001% of Amazon, that doesn't make me an owner.
Microsoft OS is too powerful, split it into Kernel and user space
Wow, super informative and interesting comment, thank you!
Same logic: You write like a bot, you sound like a bot, you behave like a bot, hence, who cares if you are a bot or not? Let's ban you.

For this whole discussion, it actually really does matter if GPT-4 is able to reason or not. That is the essence of the discussion. It's not whether or not it looks like it can reason.
The future with the ozempic type drugs is interesting; now a doctor will tell you to lose weight and can give you a pill that makes it more difficult for your body to absorb extra sugar and carbs and you can lose weight, even if you are diabetic already
This is just clickbait and people comment the title without reading the article.
It doesn't say "don't do checkups"

> “The conclusions do not imply that physicians should stop clinically motivated testing and preventive activities,”

The article is saying that some tests give false positives, some tests even if positive don't point to illness without symptoms, but people get treated for illness.

I believe you should do checkups, but ask for second opinion before treatment in case that you feel ok and your family history doesn't point to risk factors. And that is also mentioned:

> However, Krogsbøll warned about the importance of distinguishing between people who do not feel sick and those with symptoms or a personal or family history of risk factors
Speaking for myself, I am equally dismissive of aliens, if that helps.

I think what annoys me about claims like this is two things, and it has to do with in-groups and out-groups.

1. I am concerned about how non-developers perceive us developers when they hear claims like this, since I expect that particular hype balloon to pop in the future.

2. I am distressed to see developers (who should know better) make these types of claims, especially without regard to 1.

If I were more into physics, I'd probably get more worked up about em-drives. As it is, I am enjoying LLMs and consider them an incredibly useful tool, possibly up there with things like GUIs and IDEs in terms of productivity enhancement. But it's still just extra-spicy autocomplete, and I think forgetting that could be dangerous.
It's not discussed in the article but there is also coalesced hashing [1] which is a hybrid of separate chaining and open addressing. Coalesced hashing makes the best use of space as you can fill a table to capacity before resizing. Speed wise, it provides consistent performance for all operations (insert, search, delete) rather than being optimized for only one or some of them.

Another topic the article doesn't touch on is the difference between dense and sparse hashmaps. The former stores values and keys together but the latter stores values in separate array(s) which is more cache friendly when probing keys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalesced_hashing
That is, reportedly, beginning to change. I've been seeing reports of TLOU PC port choking on cards with 10gb of vram, only getting decent once you crest 12gb.

It may take until the _next_ console generation for 24gb cards to get well and truly utilized, but the 12gb seen on Nvidia's current midrange cards may quickly feel anemic.