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> A street without one is simply defective, like if it didn't have lampposts or adequate drainage.

My street has lights, drains, everything but sidewalks...

>I don't know what that's supposed to mean.

I suspected (and still do) you either live outside the US, or on one of the coasts.

>>Why on earth would it be your responsibility to maintain the sidewalk? It's not yours, it's publicly owned and it's maintained at public expense.

No, not it is not. Not anywhere I have ever lived. They are "easements" that are privately owned, and have to maintained by the home owner, at the home owners expense, and you will be fined if they are not maintained, shoveled, etc.

In some cases the city my pay for the initial creation of the sidewalks, but after that it is on the homeowner to maintain them.

>Does your council expect you to mix your own concrete to patch up cracks, or something?

Yes?... Or hire a contractor to replace them if they are disrepair.. Often times it is HOA that is responsible as well which comes out of the HOA dues you would pay. Rarely is it the city in area of single family home neighborhoods.

Example This is not my city, but my city is simliar... Peoria, IL ARTICLE VII. > DIVISION 1. > Sec. 26-231. - Declaration of disrepair; notice. [1]

>> " . The notice shall advise the owner that he must repair or contract for repairs of the sidewalk in need of repair within 30 days of the date of the mailing of the notice. The notice shall describe with particularity the location of the sidewalk in need of repair."

Now in Peoria, IL they do cover upto 80% of the bill but the owner still has to find, contract, and schedule the contractor, and the city can reject any bill they soley claim is "excessive" in costs and only reimburse what they fill is not excessive, Some / Many cities do not offer any reimbursement at all or offer a lower rate...

In either case it is still property that is owned by the home owner, the public has the right of access via an easement. Liability in those states and cities is on the homeowner.

[1] https://library.municode.com/il/peoria/codes/code_of_ordinan...

>So every single little errand you have to do requires getting in a car and driving to a new destination?

Most people in my city already do... I am the norm.

>Do you really never use the two legs God gave you, and never let your lungs breathe natural air,

Sure that is what Parks, Camping, Trails, etc are for. Not sidewalks on my street
> AI doesn't take responsibility.

You've provided the answer yourself. The person who signs off on using the AI output bears the responsibility, unless the AI company provides some kind of guarantee, in which case the AI company bears responsibility.

These aren't new issues. That's why we have things like malpractice insurance, liability insurance, and so on.
Give this a shot for a week or two. Just jam these up there. It will be uncomfortable at first but you get used to it. Really opens you up and takes away a ton of resistance in nasal breathing.

https://a.co/d/18eLtdw
Yes, quantum computing will replace a subset of classical computing at a cost that is 1/1000th of traditional computing. I have added quantum computing to the list.
Really, only Thai? Is there a reference for that? A quick search suggests it’s not the case, but I’m no expert.

As a lowly beginner I find the lack of word boundaries in Thai frustrating but I think it’s just that I have not yet learned to think in syllables, I’m still always sounding them out in my head until I have a word I recognize, there’s no flow.

This seems like something the LLMs should be very good at. Google Translate does OK-ish while Apple just throws up its hands in frustration and refuses to translate Thai texts.
Not being overweight has zero impact in your ability to have sleep apnea. Get tested anyway.
> All the AIs will be trained on the available media - most of which is English.

Are you sure about that? Most of the media we see, sure, but there has been, and still is a lot of media being produced in other languages.
Either? I’m surprised people don’t find it obvious that women have higher EQ on average. The kindness one may not be as visibly different.
https://archive.is/ezISr
Gimmicky features on macbooks have driven the costs sky high while not producing features consumers want or use.

If they just had:

* m1/m2/m3

* a replaceable ssd

* replaceable ram

They could cut their costs signficantly. Instead, we get cables with chips in them, a monitor tilt position sensor, a useless t2 chip, soldered ram/ssd, etc. They finally got the memo and cut the touch bar, but so much more needs to be done.
I wonder if installing a switch to disconnect the car's battery entirely would be an acceptable (but obviously hacky) solution.
I find it interesting because I did REALLY badly on oral tests. On the WISC-III I was doing extremely badly on the test until the examiner allowed me to write down my answers instead of giving them verbally and my measured IQ shot up like two standard deviations. I've been as far as 3 standard deviations apart in psychiatrist administered IQ tests, and my best and worst results in any given IQ test have also been about 3 standard deviations apart. My biggest theory is that I'm bottlenecked by how I both take in and communicate the information, I'm not very good at listening orally nor am I very good at communicating with my voice nor can I write very fast with a pencil. Not shockingly I was diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities and it's my opinion and the opinion of one psychologist I had that IQ testing is neither a reliable nor valid means of testing my intelligence.

I think the point being made more generally about IQ tests testing the wrong things is very valid and I do agree with it, but it extends beyond just IQ testing, it also raises questions about standardised academic testing. What I will point out though that any rebalancing of IQ tests or standardised tests at this point is likely to become an intensely political affair because these tests are used to justify gatekeeping access to status and societal resources, and any new tests would necessarily be far worse researched than existing tests, so I wouldn't expect current IQ testing methodology to be upended any time soon.
Ah nice! I use Keycloak in conjunction with NetMaker. It seems to work well! I’d like to figure out a way to somehow get ssh authentication with keycloak. I’ve read of oauth + ssh certs, but all of it seems so cumbersome. It would be cool to have an open source alternative to StrongDM.
Even individual companies will drive it to the bottom. Humans out of picture they will drive price to few percentage of margins. Or if we get VC money involved beyond that.
That's really not a tenable mindset to be taking these days. With how much Windows has become a constantly-moving target rather than a stable platform, you need to regard it first and foremost as your adversary, whether you are developing against it or are simply an end user. And the days of being able to thoroughly test against every relevant version of the OS are long gone; Microsoft has ensured your QA will be Sisyphean.
GPT-4 allows you to use 8k of context in their current beta, if you're using the chat api directly. It will be interesting ( and probably expensive, lol ) when they open it to a full 32k.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...

It's on the list sure, but no sedan is the massive mainstream seller that they used to be.
Fundraising Initiative Aims to Send British Scorpion Recon Vehicles to Ukraine
Wrong. Open Source does not have to bend the knee to whatever proprietary license you can dream up and shove into your code base.

>Source code: The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

Does this apply to Linux? Check.

>Derived works: The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

Does this apply to Linux? Check.

Please visit https://opensource.org/licenses/ to see all of the licenses that are generally agreed upon to be Open Source licenses.
Although I enjoyed reading the Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins clearly isn't a scholar seeking the truth; rather, he is an activist that is trying to spread/evangelize his personal atheist agenda. The one thing I don't understand his what caused him to behave that way - was he perhaps abused by a cleric?

Just read "The Dawkins Delusion" (2010) by his Oxford colleague Alister McGrath, which takes Dawkins apart and demonstrates the book's ignorance.
Duolingo gets a lot of hate.

You can pick a lot worse to learn to be able to stumble through a language for vacation.

Learning the first few words in a language to start becoming competent in it is not a bad thing. Managing one's expectations is really important.

Not all learners will learn best with a textbook or course first. Variety helps.

Humans have learned language by speaking before as much as, if not more than reading/writing.

Now, are there better apps coming out for this kind of thing? Absolutely. The potential for LLM to be able to generate and listen to pronunciation will be amazing.

Prioritizing speaking before learning to read or write a language really seems to irk some folks.
My understanding is that it is related to the fraud prevention capabilities (incidence?) of the other party and the amount.
archive link unpaywall : https://archive.is/20230406132059/https://www.washingtonpost...
Source? I can easily make the other argument.

Car lanes bring more customers from far away locations etc. etc.
I think people take it to mean "A good craftsman should be able to make excellent work even with poor tools"

But maybe it means "a good craftsman should have the experience to know not to work with poor tools, and if they do work with poor tools and the outcome is bad, it's their own fault for not finding better tools, not the tools fault for being poor"

As in, don't blame your tools, you're the one who chose them. And you're always free to choose better tools.
> If you're talking about OpenAI specifically saving ChatGPT data for later training purposes, they absolutely are doing that

They claim they're not retaining data through the API.
This actually the biggest negative I bring up in these AI conversations.

AI will have nothing but negative impacts for society as a whole. It's benefits will be experienced almost exclusively by the corporations and their C suites. If the creators of GPT and it's successors are doing it for profit, I guess I can understand. However, if they are doing it to improve civilization and revolutionize things for the better, they are either extremely idealistic or completely ignorant.
Khan Academy founder explains why GPT-4 is ready to be a tutor
I confused LLaMa vocabulary size, which is indeed 32k, with GPT-4 vocab size. Still, my point stands. You can add those characters there with miniscule cost.
> The still living members of the Silent Generation would disagree.

Never heard of them. They are incredibly effective at living up to their name.

> They still don't trust banks

Neither do I. I also don't trust my cell phone provider or the grocery store or the company that makes the web browser I use.

> the banks have once again proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

That's because they are. That's why we have a system of laws and regulations in place which kinda work at keeping them from screwing over most people, most of the time. But not always and not everyone. It is a work in progress.
I hope this doesn't come off as snarky, but after researching Vercel and its competitors I decided that the iffiness around billing for these services wasn't worth it. I would mostly use it as Infrastructure as a Service anyway. It took me about a night to learn the ins and outs of AWS CloudFormation. Now I know exactly what my stack looks like and I can more easily estimate my end-of-month costs -- plus I can stay in the free tier wherever possible.
Maybe there’s a competitive advantage in training a new one on just German, say, and unleashing it on automotive engineering problems?
I think AA "accidentally" provides people with strong community support - a basic need, the lack of which often leads people to... well, drink. AA fulfills that need, and maybe the 12 steps themselves don't work, but the community does. That's why so many people swear by it and have success with it.

So yes, it'll be a little culty, because those are the principles of this particular community, but I think it's far more valuable than say, a therapist, or trying to stop on your own.

My main problem with it is that people I know in AA can't seem to live without it. They depend on it so much that they're terrified of not following the 12 steps, for fear of getting "excommunicated", or worse: going back to drinking.
It's more like some big languages receive special treatment, while everything else is interpreted as a byte stream. In Finnish language, the tokens seem to be arbitrary substrings of average length 3-4, and they rarely correspond to any semantically or grammatically meaningful units.
>Safari is significantly more efficient.

Based on the increased laptop battery life I notice, so is using Edge on Windows.

It makes sense that both Apple and Microsoft can extract the best out of their OS + browser. There's no way Firefox can compete on such OS specific optimizations.
I see self driving cars as a backwards compatible way for us to reimagine infrastructure.

Right now, SDC is operating in the real world, in non-trivial environments (San Francisco), without special road infrastructure to make them work. It’s beautifully backwards compatible, at the cost of not being generalized (the service areas are extensively mapped).

Once SDC take off we’ll likely start getting infrastructure and rules to support them. Think standards for communicating position locally - ie car A broadcasts its position and route to cars B, C, D within 200m, special road infrastructure to make lanes and corners more manageable for SDC, rules against aimless circling. There’s already a carrying cost in the form of gas or electricity plus wear incentivizing aimless driving, also the opportunity cost of not actively moving someone or something, but we can probably introduce some kind of toll or tax on a SDC operating with no humans inside it to further disincentivize this.

A very useful thing about SDC, and something I think people forget about rideshare and taxis, is that they let people move around independently without needing parking for those trips. In dense cities like SF and NYC that’s hugely useful. A single rideshare or SDC can move 10 people on custom routes without any of those people needing to find and pay for parking, and without using any parking infrastructure. That’s great because it disincentivizes wasting more space on parking in aggregate. Over time this should let us build denser.

Of course, public transit could obviate all these concerns, and I’m a big believer in funding way more public transit than we do already, but it will take a lot of time and political will to make that happen in the US. And it still does not offer the flexibility of SDC and rideshare. SDC is fully compatible with existing infrastructure and may give us a way to morph into public transit more smoothly with things like dynamically routed SDBusses and a reduction of parking infrastructure leading to denser urban environments that more easily support public transit. I think we can solve the “spending too much time on the road doing nothing” problem with congestion pricing, which we should really be doing already.
I’m finding it amazing that the model comes localized and supports obscure languages and is available. Compare this to traditional software. Or even to web software. Does Google come localized to all of these languages, for example?

Yes, there is overhead from localization. So what, this overhead was always there for software.
First time I was fired (downsized, but it's the same from my perspective) I took it really personal.

Since then I stopped caring about any of the usual bs employers use to try to make me feel special. A job is just that - a job. I work for pay and forget about it when I go home. I don't want to be friends with anyone at work. I don't want to do teambuilding or anything outside of work. I have a life (family and kids). I work as much remote as possible.

I look for new jobs all the time, as employers are just like banks. They don't care about you and will discard you if you stop being useful.

I live in a socialist country where I get benefits as unemployed and also pay for a private endurance against unemployment.
The arguments being made in this article are remarkably poor, and the entire premise is poorly defined.

What do you mean by "take over", "everyone", and especially "soon"?

If AI changes the world as much as the internet, personal computer, and/or automobile, does it really matter if it takes 6 months or 5 years? That's an extraordinary amount of change over such a period. That's worth the hype.

> how, exactly, would AI be used to automate all jobs? Setting aside whether that’s even desirable—is it even possible?

Obviously we can't automate literally every job at this time. You're still going to need a human around to feed questions or instructions into the machine and review or test the results, but automation was never going to eliminate all human labor simultaneously. Machinery reduces the number of humans you need. So far, this has always been the case. The printing press doesn't eliminate the need for people working on duplicating books. It means one person can do the work of a whole monastery. Stores still need cashiers to watch the automated checkouts, but now the machines can take care of 4 or 8 people at a time instead of 1.

> OpenAI has touted GPT-4’s ability to pass numerous standardized tests—but did the model genuinely understand the tests, or simply train to reproduce the correct answers?

It doesn't matter if the machine can think or feel. What matters is the result.

> Still, it’s clear that a future in which “we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones,” is more than six months away, as the Future of Life Institute’s letter frets.

Is this supposed to be comforting? I don't think anyone reasonable is under the misapprehension that they're going to be fired and replaced by GPT literally tomorrow.

> Open AI’s ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo, for example, prices API access at roughly US $0.002 per 750 English words

If you make $80k/yr, you're being paid something on the order of $0.64/min. You'd have to type pretty fast to overcome the two orders of magnitude between those numbers.

And this is with current hardware. I know Moore's law isn't holding anymore, but computer hardware is still rapidly accelerating.

It's also with the current trajectory of AI development. Nobody can say that won't accelerate. Similarly, nobody can say it won't slow down.

We also don't yet know how or if humans will be able to react fast enough to the change on the horizon. Is the herald of a much better world or is it the antecedent to catastrophe. I don't know, and neither does the author of this article.
"need" starts being a very subjective word when talking about some of these components at high milage.
Thanks! The online recorded demo is neat.
You are repeating the same false dichotomy by stating again that final settlement and self custody are bad defaults for the entire world. That isn't want I'm saying, I am saying a choice is better than no choice at all. I'm also not saying anything about crypto. Gold and cash are also useful instruments that should be financial instruments for everyone also.
I think a cheap thermal camera would be very helpful in these situations with a relatively fast drain. A car battery is ~1 kWh so anything that drains it in a few days is dissipating on the order of 10 watts. In my experience that's very easy to see in a thermal camera. Just leave the car in a nice thermally-stable place for a day and then go hunting.
> You looked for the answer that made sense and satisfied your notions of reality

I've no doubt you have as much experience as I have people who will reject things that are clearly true, or even arguably true, rejecting evidence, to maintain a position that doesn't stand up. So what I'm saying is, some people don't "accept our best accordance is… to observable reality…". I mean, it amazes me the number of people on HN who will take and hold a position regardless.

> There is no emperical basis for ethics

Do you think I'm unaware of this. But suppose you see a small child in a street crying because they're lost. Assuming we have an inner life, you can deduce the child is unhappy. What is the right thing to do in this circumstance, to help them or walk on by?(I'm assuming the circumstances are as they appear, this is not intended as a trick question).

Morality isn't physics but it's not something too complex to tackle, and the religious don't have a monopoly on ethics (I mention this because you said you are an atheist, like me, and we don't need a book to tell us how to do the right thing Edit: I have been asked online by a Christian what the basis of my ethics is if I'm not religious. Cheeky sod)
I think we will see more. If just keeping them running circles around blocks with most expected demand is nearly same cost it will happen. Specially if they are EVs with automatic charging.
Same behaviour for me using Safari.
Kotlin and the likes proved them wrong

Glad to see them evolving faster as a result
Ugh, I've also got an Outback (2019) with a regularly dying battery. Let me know if you ever find any leads on the root cause.
One of the things that always gives me a little hit of hype is when I tell it to do something ridiculous and it just dutifully starts spitting out the result without complaining or questioning lol
The cause and effect exists whether or not some commenter on HN writes about it.

The reason it is not “invoked” is because energy prices are sufficiently low (due to not pricing in externalities) that there exists little incentive for end users to optimize for power usage.
I'm assuming this is not in Europe, where automated cash registries in grocery stores is more common every day. In Estonia lots of grocery stores have ~10 automatic registries and just 1 real human one. The automated one needs no human at all, and I'm sure soon even that 1 real human will no longer be needed.

As for stealing stuff, well, that's cultural. Seems northern Europe has managed to be just fine automating all this stuff away, I'm sure the rest of the world will catch up eventually.

We already have food delivery by robots (https://www.starship.xyz) here in Estonia, currently testing package delivery by robots as well, combine that with automated grocery store experiences, kiosks where buying things is also entirely automated, well, I really don't think low-touch, mind-numbing jobs are safe at all. Unless in places where the culture is holding the advancement back, but it surely isn't technology that does.
You can watch the full interview here [1].

Jon Stewart knew he was just grilling a person of power with no real significance. The real underlying problem was laid out in an example in Jon Stewart's closing comments from 01:05:00 to 01:09:00.

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?527213-1/comedianjon-stewart-d...
> It's like saying wikipedia is shit because it currently has only 50 articles at some point in the past.

On the other hand, the people drawing inferences from the exponential curve of Wikipedia's editor base growth about its potential to be a resource of unmatched accuracy were even more wrong, and it hit its quality ceiling pretty early...