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> Because Apple doesn’t have amateur tools. They ship you the same thing the stores and third-party use

Then just buy the parts you need at https://selfservicerepair.com and use amateur tools you get elsewhere.

Their free repair manual won’t tell you how to use those, but still will be helpful.
> With ChatAI replacing customer service, self-checkout aisles, online dating, etc...

Definitely these interactions have become less personal, but aside from online dating, which is its own can of worms, the interactions are all transactional. I actually much prefer to interface with a predictable machine when purchasing things or making an RMA request or whatever. I don't want to stop to chit chat or worry about maintaining a relationship with the village cobbler's son to ensure he'll do his best fixing up my field boots.

The ongoing disentanglement of socialization and daily necessities is liberating. It allows one to associate with others by choice. I'm not a huge fan of the tools we have for this sort of voluntary community building at present, but I see no reason why they couldn't be improved, especially if people were able to spend their time and skill doing so free of profit motives.
The WebUI was definitely nerfed but the API still seems ok.
It started with surviving a cruise over ocean... So I don't think that is much different in that sense.
While I need to brush up on my Shakespeare, I do recognize that name from Skyrim
Barbara Harris-White on the 2023 IPCC Report
Thought this was an interesting read. Barbara Harris-White is a rather renowned social scientist, famous for her work on the informal economy.

It's interesting to see how social scientists respond to such documents, since in some form they are an important part of its audience and are well equipped to understand the broader implications for society.

> The urgent action called for by IPCC 2023 is not feasible, or it would have happened. It is feasible given infeasible conditions. IPCC's demands are nothing short of revolutionary on a world scale. But revolution and the need for industrial-political revolutions are unmentionable, if not entirely unthinkable.
This looks very similar to LiveBook¹. It is purely Elixir/BEAM based, but is quite polished and seems like a perfect workflow tool that is also able to expose these workflows (simply called livebooks) as web apps that some functional, non-technical person can execute on his/her own.

1: https://livebook.dev/
How would you get it there? Besides, if you were confident enough to not accidentally make a dirty bomb, you might as well just send it into the sun instead!
I'll give this a shot after work I think.

The question I have is what's a prompt which reliably hallucinates but still produces the correct answer some of the time?

I know it gets some python functions "wrong", but i think they were actually "right" in the version it was trained on, so software seems out.
> NFS works in some cases but is ancient and really only suited to cluster backplanes.

I was given to understand that NFSv4 was made to be much better for these purposes?
Usually you pull your spendy drill string out of the ground then lower a charge down the hole to fracture whatever layer is giving you trouble. Turning your drill bit into a fragmentation grenade tends not to be overly productive.
Why do they not release the unnatural Variant of the model? According to the paper it beats all of the other variants and seems to be close to GPT-4.
Yeah. Having kids and growing old in the US is terrifying.
Seriously.

That justify the insane salary difference alone. The amount you absolutely have to stash away to guarantee your own future safety is impressive.
> we'll just absorb the complaints about customer service and product quality

AKA our economy consists entirely of monopolies.
I disagree.

Take absurdism, or the deconstruction of gender for example. Or people using mastodon just to show the 12-ish friends that they repaired a their dirt cheap bike. I think also you could also argue that Meta-Irony is some form of counterculture.

Just think things that are not commodified yet.
I don't mind, but I'm currently on weekend with friends ( still travelling ) and I'll only be on my laptop when it's required.

I'll check next week and reply here.
> Would be nice to be able to centrally manage subscriptions through your bank.

In Australia we’re getting a new system called “PayTo” which will be replacing all current direct debits. One of the advantages of this new system is that you can do precisely this-manage direct debits from within your bank account. Other benefits include making it easier to setup than the current direct-debit-tire-fire.

Obviously doesn’t help in all scenarios, as many subscriptions are just withdrawals, but it’s nice that it’s at least possible.
Ask HN: What are the benchmarks in your domain that is worthy of beating?
For example in image processing people optimize for FID score on ImageNet, CelebFaces and so on. Likewise what are some good benchmarks for different fields?

Also what does beating these benchmarks imply? Will it guarantee an immediate hire or will it make someone "glorified"?

I would love to know what your thoughts are on this one!
Instructions on how to make a womb and an "egg" are contained within the human DNA.
Lander might have a light on for capturing a good video
Nvidia don't run any fabs. If you want it produced in the USA, your going to have to pay for that security.
Botnets usually consist of networks of captured low spec IoT devices (mostly routers, sometimes exposed IP cams etc.). They might not have the hardware required to outbid real users in PoW.
To solve the need for super specialized workers you actually need to jack up salaries. Nobody is going through the training and intensity of a semiconductor fab job for the same they could make walking dogs if that's how it worked.
also consider this is a note app to run your life with. 8/mo forever is a lot. is rather but 12 months and if I do use it buy it for life
AI has open a real big can of worms.

Frankly, I see AI training on publicly available images to learn a style which it will then reproduce similar to the problem of game clones.

Imagine spending months/years making a game, coming up with the concept and gameplay, tuning the gameplay, … then after release cloners makes a nigh exact copy with slight changes in artwork/text and sell it for 10% of what you are selling - which they can since they put in only a fraction of the effort - and there is nothing you can do about it since gameplay isn’t copyrightable.

Same thing here IMHO. Not an AI specific problem but AI takes “no effort” when replicating an artist’s style vs a human who at least has to practice and learn the style.
What is the best way of learning modern css?
Prose is not a programming language, isn't it obvious?

One is designed for machines to parse unambiguously, the other has grown organically and chaotically over hundreds of years. Machine parsing has never been a design concern.
PHP Fibers: A Practical Example
And now they also want people to be laid off.
> Yeah and that can happen by paying everybody more.

How can that be done without either stoking massive inflation or somehow paying someone else less?
Interesting, thanks for the clarification.

I've been searching for a low-friction way to get original photo files from iOS to Linux. USB has been really unstable and P2P sharing through Safari does not provide uncompressed originals (in general, apparently).
Not that France has a vested interest in Africa but an alliance built on "we just don't like US/EU" is doomed to fail - there is no way in the foreseeable to outcompete that power block for now.

Also three alliance members China/KSA/UAE will be expected to carry the rest and I don't think they have the tolerance or the stomach for it.
I use straws to drink diluted apple cider vinegar.
The world runs on chips, a huge proportion of which comes from a single country which also happens to be under threat of invasion from a country hostile to the West.

Sorting out the supply chain here is a pretty critical issue that makes sense to tackle in isolation.
There are SO MANY of these out there and none of them are interoperable. Can't a few of the devs get together and define an open standard for nearby sharing so the Apple users finally stop (rightly) laughing at us?
Incidentally, that feature of ADHD (hung attention) is the one that stimulant medication doesn't help with (and is in fact likely to actively exacerbate). That's something you have to address in other (harder) ways.

And yeah, everything you describe is characteristic of ADHD. :)
There's a bootstrapping problem. You need something to run the code. An egg cell and sperm cell contain loads of other stuff in addition to the genome and the only way to get that stuff is from the genome...

It's like if you had a program to 3D print a 3D printer but you don't have a 3D printer that can read that program.

It's all ridiculously complicated. To get an idea about it you could learn about how simple RNA viruses like influenza or HIV replicate. It's easy enough for anyone to understand. But no single person can fully understand humans (or other mammals, plants etc, we're not special in that respect).
Which in turn depends on how many innocent bystanders get killed, maimed or injured as a result of those actions and if the means justify the end...
And LLMs are the opposite of dictionary, actually. They suck at storing facts. They excel at extracting patterns from noise and learning them. It's not obvious to me that this isn't intelligence; on the contrary, I feel it's very much a core component of it.
Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal [audio]
That’s an established technique with papers written on the topic and everything.

Anecdotally I tested this by having GPT4 translate Acadian cuneiform — which it can just barely do. I had it do this four times and it returned four gibberish answers. I then prompted it with the source plus the four attempts and asked for a merged result.

It did it better than the human archeologists did! More readable and consistent. I compared it with the human version and it matched the meaning.

Expensive now… soon to be standard?
Is 30 minutes of walking a day enough exercise on its own? We ask experts
^ this guy gets it
Mendix does allow this. It runs on JVM containers so from their own "action blocks" you can just say "Call Java action" and execute your code there. There is a java api that you can access from there. Pretty neat and that's how most plugins are built.

On the client side you can do something similar with javascript.
Hmm, so what was the problem that Facebook solved? Or instagram? What was exactly the problem Pepsi solved, or most junk food industry? Walt Disney? A weird orb scanning your retina for $50?

Additionally, What if your business is/was a little but “proactive” and created a problem to propose a solution for it later?
Frankly, to me it sounds a bit excessive to worry about such things. We live in a very sterile society to start with, so I see no reason to take any extra precautions. I wash my own hands and don't think what others are doing with theirs.
The reason for forking the source code, or the reason for claiming they are the creators?
I'm using this right now, but it's noted that "ctags only work with GPT4" so I'm yet to get them working with llama locally.
> I'm surprised something like this wasn't done sooner,

It should have been, but was delayed by people shrieking about oceans boiling.
That GHC might reject an older version of base isn't a reason to switch for every GHC release, is it?

I mean, if it breaks then sure, require a newer base. But in my experience GHC (thankfully!) doesn't change the semantics of Haskell often enough to warrant a new version of base for every new GHC version.
Point to a period in time when things were perfect?

Go in semantic circles if you want, these things are displacing old cultural norms; they run counter to established culture

Maybe log off the fucking internet where you spin in circles in vain seeking a perfect solution and tackle those problems you called out? Nah, much easier to be an energy vampire from your armchair

Here’s let’s lean in:

So sad for Hollywood artists who covered for pervs and leches; if it’s about the art they can “slum it” in local theatre; capitalism never owed them glamorous lives as humanity never owed them deflating themselves for a handful of pretty people

Taxes are an option for dealing with corporations but you're keen to propagate mopey whiner on the internet rather than “tax the rich”

steam/proton undermines Windows market share, you know that thing produced by big corporate you so hate

wfh has people talking about QOL more than money and the shitshow that is hustle culture

…you’re crying about your chains, too unimaginative to see the bits and pieces around you that could serve as a lock pick

I never meant to imply Heaven on Earth was around the corner. Was responding to the idea there’s no counter movement to contemporary cultural norms

Social norms are not immutable physics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37258231
Stolen phones, even iPhones, already are disassembled for profit. Right to repair wouldn’t change anything in that regard.
> It should be my choice as the consumer to ask an independent repair person to install a cheaper or refurbished part in my device.

it’s already your choice right now. it’s just that the device won’t work without the correct part. as it should be.
The standard argument against that is that the risk of contamination (of the athmosphere or basically anything) in case of a rocket accident is too high.
How much of a performance benefit does the average application get from "futex"? Are there some workloads that are more futexable than others?
The Necessity of Middle Management
Original title is "Nurses should spend less time helping patients and more time ordering bandages" but that's misleading and/or clickbaity so I changed it as per the guidelines.

The summary in the original is good:

> Just because you don't understand how the world works, doesn't mean the world doesn't work properly. And just because the world is broken, doesn't mean it is broken in the way you think it is.
I know this will be unpopular here, but no, SW wages need to fall. They are incredibly inflated compared to the rest of professions, and not only it is impossible to raise all wages like that, but other, harder and more important professions need to be incentivised more.

A doctor working at a public hospital should be paid much more than us, that are sitting at their computer all day. Yes, doctor wages need to rise, but also SW wages need to fall.

And this is comping from an aerospace engineer with an inflated wage, which, being in Europe, is not nearly as unfairly inflated as in the US.
As a Finn I think this is the correct way. To add to some other comments here I presume uranium is so abundant even if we multiply our usage that the opportunity cost of reusing the spent fuel is not a major issue. We have a lot of spent fuel in places like the bottom of the ocean we can tap into first. There are a lot of different materials we're burning or burying even if it might be useful in the future, I'd look into repurposing those first as they carry a much bigger risk in e.g. polluting the ground water before worrying about a marginal amount of global spent fuel being buried (you need to account for the fact that we are a small country with non-optimal geography, it is less probable that it would be viable for us build processing facilities to recycle spent fuel as it is much more viable in e.g. France where there is much more raw materials available relatively close + shipping the spent fuel from Finland is probably quite expensive as especially in the current geopolitical setting we are somewhat of an island logistically).

Take what I said with a grain of salt as I am not an expert in the matters of nuclear technology, just sharing my layman's viewpoint. It's probably a complex system so I'm not sure if anyone has definitive answers as it all depends on the amount of nuclear power the world is going to build, how the reprocessing technology and know-how develops, how the alternative means for electricity production develop etc. etc. -- so we can only make educated guesses for now, but I see that we're making a good compromise here with the marginal amount of the global spent nuclear fuel we possess considering our options. For other parts of the world the equation probably plays out differently, e.g. not having suitable solid bedrock to utilize might be an obvious showstopper.
> Surely the DDossers will just use some of their botnets for generating the POWs?

It takes much, much, much more (proven) work to DoS a service than it does to use it normally.
The problem is not integrating millions of sensors of the same type (like individual pixels in a camera), but rather to integrate 2-10 different types of sensors, like microphones, cameras, lidars and tactile/temperature sensors.

Progress has been slow mosly because it's been hand-written, such as the sensor fusion in the F-35.

While there are some attempts at using neural networks to do much of the integration (Like Tesla's self driving) they're mostly quite primitive, and lacks the kind of general understanding of the world that we're starting to se in LLM's.

We have started building multimodal neural networks, though, such as GPT-4's ability to handle images, though. he next step is to add video, which is the mode that requires the greatest amount of compute, we will be able to integrate it with lower bandwidth sensors using the same techniques.

That would be where general purpose models start to become good enough to be deployed in robots. Let's imagine your Tesla has the ability to reason about the world the way GPT-4 can (and with enough fine tuning that halicunations are gone), and that it can do that not only based on text, but also all the sensors of the car, then it might become able to handle situations outside its training set much better than today, possibly better than many humans.

Once we're able to build multimodal models able to handle realtime video and s
Also, globalization and instant communication has ensured in many field, salaries stagnate due to cheaper labour from elsewhere. Similar to hardware manufacturing jobs.
What happens if your rocket loaded with radioactive material explodes? Especially at high altitude?
Ah crap, there was a micro fracture in the solid fuel booster that caused it to fail just after launch, now we have 100 tons of spent nuclear fuel in the atmosphere. Sorry.
Fun fact , it's surprisingly harder to shoot things at the Sun compared to other planets in the Solar system. It takes 55 times more energy to go to the Sun than to Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/its-surprisingly-h...
This is a question about theoretical possibilities and what you're saying seems to be a rigid belief in an answer "no". But you provided no evidence or justification, except for "with current technology", which answers nothing about the theoretical question.
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It worked in South Africa - the regime held on and the supporters united behind them with the "under siege- we can do it alone" mentality until the power elites realized they were not willing to die on that hill.

Fortunately, the security-autocrat in charge had a stroke and was put in hospital - they got rid of him in an overnight transfer of power to his deputy a far more sensible leader who started negotiations for a settlement earning himself a Nobel peace prize.

Yes the general population did suffer but we had nothing more to took loose except our dignity, freedom and liberty.

The end result was worth it even if the new clowns who replaced them were not any better i.e. the economy
And how to block chatGPT from accessing your site? I hope it is not you paying OpenAI for that service!
A better alternative would've been to develop breeder reactors and reprocess this "waste" into more fuel and a much smaller amount of true waste, which would be somewhat safe after several thousands years (it still would be a chemical hazard, but not a strongly radioactive one). But I have very little hope that such technology will be developed in the West in the next decades...
As a single person living in 55 m^2 bedroon + decent kitchen + small bathroom(including waching machine) + large living room. I don't see much issue with that floor space. Probably could be even enough for two people.

It is reasonable trade to live affordably in a city.
Oh, this is interesting. I thought the title referred to symbolic differentiation (that's what you learnt in school, but in a computer). I didn't realise automatic differentiation was a different thing.
Energy density is never the deciding factor, except 1. On nuclear submarines, 2. On spacecraft.
I had a number of friends working in chip fabs and all of them left the industry due to terrible pay and benefits. Most went into software, some into other manufacturing industries.
Was it ever hard? Most of those utility classes have always been a line of CSS away
No expert but I'd say you'd rather be looking at bigquery, Redshift, Clickhouse, Snowflake, etc.
Something that is fabulously easy and cheap to implement and would cause massive backlash if found to be otherwise? It would almost be more effort to not do it the authentic way.
It seems to me that the real question here is what is true human intelligence. Ai has made it plain to see, by being able to replicate it so convincingly, that much of what we have considered intelligence has been pattern matching or acting as complex parrots.

There is much more to the abilities of human body-mind-emotional-experiential being, but it is only slowly becoming mainstream.

(Edit: Of course there are also many analytical skills that AI cannot match at this point. My point is that we shouldn’t overlook any area of human capacity.)

One salient question in this is: will we reach a level of intelligence where we become beings capable of actual collaboration that doesn’t waste so much effort in conflicts, or one that is capable of living in harmony within its environment?

What capabilities of awareness, trauma work, emotional maturity and self reflection does this require? What resources hidden inside humanity that we have forgotten do we need to wield?

Does AI have something to contribute to this process happening?
Quite possible. We might also be talking about different kinds of meditation. Mindfulness meditators seem to have a healthy attitude. TM meditators start talking psychic things pretty quickly. The people around me are all TM types.
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Check out Anna's Archiv, they mirror every big book page and have a very nice search engine and multiple redundant download backends
> Pretty applicable to data science.

Could you expand on that?

Maybe I'm missing something but I browsed the PDF and am having trouble finding anything that would be deployed to a production system or produced as part of an analysis in a data science workflow.

I think there some very niche applications in manifold learning (e.g. UMAP) that is somewhat useful, but in my decade in this space, people have tried to find topology applications but ultimately we end up going back to the basic tools of statistics and machine learning.
“… unless we have a strict definition of what intelligence means.”

There were some Greek guys working on that exact problem a few (thousand) years ago.
Or, we're in an echo chamber where the vast majority of Windows users are not on HN. :)
My question is what do they do with all the pieces of the containment weasels that are also highly radioactive. Pipping and other stuff?
Isn't that a dictionary of patterns?
Webapps subscriptions are usually cheaper since Apple/Google don’t take a cut.