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I think that if you are writing that sort of thing and thinking of it as "content" you are already doing it wrong and deserve to have ChatGPT eat your lunch.
I got my degree in Computer Science and Anthropology which in my opinion quite fits in line with "Computational Social Science". That being said, it feels that the more applied aspect of computer social science often ends up being human computer interaction or UI/UX design
I find this amusingly coincidental the same week that I have been fighting with Microsoft Windows Defender suddenly flagging all installers made by Caphyon's Advanced Installer as trojans.
i'd like to refer to this discussion why learning on the job can be a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718230

especially for IT which can easily be learned in a school setting unlike some other professions where learning on the job is necessary.

learning on the job in IT would work if it is a formalized apprenticeship so that trainees are motivated to stay for the full three years that this usually takes and don't have an opportunity to run away for a higher paying job after the first year.

for your last point i pretty much agree with you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37743011
I feel the exact opposite. People should make an effort to make as much communication async as possible. Usually, I don't need a ton of 1:1 interaction, and if you really do feel there's something to discuss synchronously, you can schedule a meeting in advance. The situation where you're so completely blocked that you can't make progress on your own or switch to a different task (or where the house is on fire and something needs to be done now) are rare in my experience.

Of course, sometimes it makes sense to do check-ins (e.g. for onboarding) or a pairing session, but that can also be scheduled.

I also tend to forget things that were just said in personal interactions or meetings. If it's written down, I can look it up.
I’ve answered this already. If there are benefits associated with a particular label (affirmative quota, social welfare benefits) then it incentivizes an individual to know their label.
> In this context, personal vehicles are not just a convenience; they serve as a critical enabler for civic engagement and resistance to potential tyranny.

These "self organizing concerned citizens agains tyranny" are one hundred percent not aligned with the general European sentiment, not even in the UK, first and foremost because urban density in European cities is ~4x vs those in the US. Cuts in public transportation drive as much public outrage as rising gas prices.

I think that you are reading too much into this, effectively giving this conspiracy theory some semblance of rationality. You would be hard pressed to find any of the high ranked European proponents able to articulate any of the ideas you just presented. In fact, the article mentions how the conservative government in the UK are the ones pushing against 15-minute cities. Will the loons side with the government to stand against the tyranny of the government?
What is the rationale for types being part of the syntax but without shipping a built in type checker? Are we being conservative and waiting to see where the four type checkers — mypy, pyrite, pyre, pytype, and others? — lead us before rolling one into the standard distribution?
Are you saying this is a fact of life, or that it is true by definition? Like, "any idea, to be truly groundbreaking, can not be easily distinguished from noise / crackpot theories".
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Why do you keep saying this? At the bottom of the article there’s a clear link to a peer reviewed paper in the journal Nature. Heck there’s a link in the first paragraph too. What is so suspicious here, like what’s the potential malintent being observed here?
You seem to misunderstand what’s being presented here in its entirety, and are making a misguided point as a result. Granted, I’m no physicist, but it seems obvious to me that the rando group that reported lk-99 was making insane revolutionary claims regarding a supposed room-temperature superconductor, in a non peer reviewed paper.
This is
A) MIT. (Ie, extremely relevant in the name of physics)
B) Only claiming the super conductivity of a previously unknown-to-be-superconductive material (or more aptly, a previously unknown process which makes a material superconductive), which is not anywhere even remotely close to being as potentially earth-shattering as the lk-99 claims. Plenty of things are superconductive- this one is just interesting because it’s new / novel (+ a couple of other important points I don’t particularly understand as I’m not a physicist. Go figure)
C) Peer reviewed in a major journal
Why do you keep pressing this angle as if the “claims” are so murky and unfounded and malevolent? There’s nothing about this paper to support that ideal that I can discern.
What does “deliver” even mean in this context? They already have, in their peer reviewed paper. Arguably the Korea University students “delivered” with their paper on lk-99, it’s just that everyone checked after because of how crazy their claims being true would be, and found that they just fucked up.
The two things you’re conflating here have no reason to be- they’re not remotely the same situation.
I remember a story that the guys that developed PCR presented their results at a conference and no one was interested. The last day some guy walked up, looked at the title to their talk and asked, 'does it really work' and when they said yeah it works and he went 'holy shit'
If the world needs it, it’ll be there. Subsidizing it does not suddenly make the world need it.
Yeah, if somehow Basic Income works out, this will be less concerning. But I think that's the harder problem to tackle.
What you're saying here is that you can be OK if a lot of things go perfectly. Which is probably true. I am going to assume your math works out, but what if (1) you are unable to work a chunk of that period due to illness, unemployment, etc. Saving beyond your 401k contrib when you're able can mitigate some of this risk (2) the 10% rate is a very nice assumption. What if it doesn't hold up, or doesn't hold up for the period that matters to you. What is the impact on your life if this number ends up being 5% instead? (3) Are you under-concerned about inflation in these projections. I am not totally convinced 401k limits have risen in tandem with the real inflation rate.

So let's say your number is 2x optimistic and someone retires with 4M instead - whatever that means in a bunch of decades from now. Then you pay tax. Depending on where you live, between federal, state, and city that can be close to 50% especially if rates go up. So that leaves you with 2M. Then say you end up living to 90, that's like 71K per year take-home. I guess you can live on that today. But for example my taxes for the house are like 20KL. So almost a 1/3 of your take-home goes to that. it's not SOOOO cozy.
That may or may not be true but this defensive comment has no bearing on the current discussion about outcomes.
When was the plan for what we have now ever presented to voters?
Clearly it's not something that can be "undone" all in one go - but every day governments make decisions about what infrastructure to build/repair/extend, how much parking should be available and how much to charge for it, and how much to continue ensuring the current car-based economy is well supported/subsidized. If those decisions gradually moved towards "let's not assume cars are the be all and end all", we could still slowly unboil the frog as it were.
It’s not literal guilt like in a criminal trial, it’s a collective responsibility.

“White guilt is a belief that white people bear a collective responsibility for the harm which has resulted from historical or current racist treatment of people belonging to other racial groups” (Wikipedia)

Here’s an analogy: if I see litter on the ground in my neighborhood, I’m not guilty of littering. But if I willfully ignore it and downplay it, rather than putting in extra effort to pick it up, my neighborhood will still have litter.
D-D requires a higher triple product than D-T fusion and produces less energy, so most companies go with D-T, and don't attempt to use D-D to produce the tritium.

But D-D takes a lower triple product than D-He3, so if you can get net power from D-He3, then D-D is a fine way to produce the He3.

Helion is the only company that thinks they can get net power from D-He3 so they're also the only company pursuing D-D for breeding.
> You can build several renewable sources during that time with double the output.

So why hasn't anyone done it?

It takes years to build a solar plant, too, and there aren't very many (if any) solar plants with "double the output".
Well, understandable. This is true for any open-source product that is under control by a single company and the majority of contributions comes from this company.

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Yeah GPT-4, the current Sota isn't generally professional/expert level in most domains so this isn't exactly surprising revelation even if true.

This paper also suffers from the "single pass problem". LLMs aren't that new anymore. Most researchers should know that whatever you get on a single pass can be/is often much lower quality than if taking the effort to be more specific, provide examples or breaking the task down and going through multiple passes.

From my experience getting several LLMs to write, this doesn't hold any less true in the domain of creative writing so there's a very good chance this paper severely underestimates the potential of even current LLMs.
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Isn't the Lenovo-ification of Thinkpads mostly seen as a fall from grace, though? I haven't had one, but my impression is that they're viewed as being not too different from the rest of the market these days.

I will say I have generally been happy with the Asus products I have bought, I have one of their laptops, and a motherboard in a tower, along with a wifi mesh setup, all of which have worked fine for me.
Showing teeth, universally means aggression. In humans, it's for showing you are happy, or excited.
Life doesn’t revolve around the search for life- there are interesting things to learn from such planets even if those planets cannot host alien life.
I'm seeing a lot of AI-generated images on my facebook feed (they're of, um, predictable subjects) - if a human generated one, it would definitely be considered "art". Is Shrek not art because computers generated it based on input from humans?
Lots of people lost a lot of money on never finished apartments in my (EU) country. Suing doesn't help you when there's no money left to distribute.
the latest version isn't even backward-compatible with TrueCrypt volumes

Are you sure? I thought it could open them in read-only mode. Here's a 2023 post suggesting it's supposed to still be able to open TC 6.0+ files, though the user in question is having trouble: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thr...
As I write above it doesn't work reliably.

And as I think everyone on HN knows "my Google" isn't "your Google".

Even if it works reliably for you doesn't mean it does for me and many others.
Base 32, not base 62. Ironic.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If they're any good you'll have to cram them down people's throats."
Though it does seem to he very coherent, I am still very suspicous of test data contamination in Mistral.

XWin was the SOTA llama finetune last I checked, so we will see how it fares with Mistral...
Here's[0] an article Bill Joy wrote at the turn of the millennium wherein he quoted the unabomber and spent a lot of time thinking about the power of then emerging technologies. Kaczynski was obviously intelligent (with academic creds too) and had thought through many of the implications of tech long before most others had. His actions were insane, but his malcontentment with technology perhaps was not.

[0]https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
> Vaccines, however, are usually not that profitable.

That’s exactly why the idea was to get the government to pay for it and then force everyone to take it.
One could also argue that dedicating 100% of your scheduled work time to the service of an employer down to regulated pee breaks is exploitation and should not be how employment contracts are legally written or generally understood.

Besides, it is absolutely not clear that home workers "waste" more time than office workers. The number one reason people who prefer the office cite as a reason for preferring the office is that it surrounds them with other people. That is, working in an office surrounds you with distractions and occasions to "waste" one's time.
+1, I would also like to read it
The CMF was designed by people who don't like math and prioritize the "human experience" over physical reality. When you read through the CMF, you begin to see all sorts of hints that their ideology is inspired by Continental philosophies such as Marxism, Existentialism, and all of the other ways of thinking that find "facts" and "reality" offensive. For example, I lost count of how many times they mentioned the word "authenticity" in the CMF.

To sum up the whole CMF in my words, it's Critical Theory applied without critical thinking used. Proponents saw that minorities were struggling in math class, so they proposed a solution to handicap math classes. That's literally what CMF is. Proponents would rather see everyone fail than some people succeed. Especially if those some successful people are not minorities.

Why we should learn math from people who clearly have no respect for facts and reality in the first place is beyond me. Bertrand Russell, one of the founders of set theory, would have outright rejected most of the philosophy that inspired the CMF.
CD rippers have progressed a lot. Now most audio CDs' hashes are stored in public databases and you can rip a CD in a 100% bit-perfect way and if a single bit is off, your checksum won't match the hash other people got in the database.

And CD rippers do check the online DB automatically.

Many people do archive their CD collection in a bit perfect way nowadays and you know when your rip is perfect (and it usually is).
I bet the forgeries are worth something now that they made the news. I'd like to see a photo comparing them to the original.
Don't we already have many answers? -- We just do nothing to address the problems.
> Do I need permission to produce a disrespectful satire (a remix) of the Nike logo?

We have developed Fair Use laws over many years and many court cases to answer these kinds of questions. AI tools presently don't understand or care about that.
These days you want java then! Why are you not using java?
Sounds like Gilbert would make a great Founder in our era.
I appreciate the attempt to create objective evaluations by leveraging existing tools. It isn't a perfect experiment or article, but I like the goal.
no shade, i'd heard similar before, but this time I had the urge to look it up

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/22/chip-away/

Quote Investigator has located no substantive evidence that Michelangelo or any other great sculptor made this remark. A comment of this type was published in 1858 in “The Methodist Quarterly Review” without any overt humor. The essay discussed poetry, and the author compared the methods of adroit sculptors and poets.
Bing is the default on the most dominant computing platform with 1.5 billion devices. At zero cost to Microsoft.
> Whoever writes the OS is in a much better position to write drivers. This is the reason Linux drivers are (usually) very good.

You really think that Linux developers would know how to squeeze better performance out of Nvidia hardware than the Nvidia even with the design specs? Nvidia has the foremost experts in designing GPUs and software around it (Cuda).

The software and the hardware teams know the intricacies of their hardware better than anyone and they work in concert to design a better product.

How long would it take the hypothetical Apple Hardware company to release products that the hypothetical Apple Software company wrote drivers for if they were split up?

Could the new Apple hardware company say release the AirPods that paired seamlessly with multiple products just by pairing with one device signed into your account and release a new version of MacOS, iOS, TvOS, etc at the same time? Apple, Google and even AWS (in the server space) design hardware and processors in tandem with their software teams. They don’t just throw designs over the fence with documentation.

> This situation is not unique to Apple, which is why we have shitty NVidia drivers in Linux, and why Android hardware support ends.

That’s a poor excuse. The fact is that Google is just a shitty platform caretaker. Microsoft has the same business model where they make the OS and license it to OEMs yet they support hardware for years if not decades.

Google doesn’t support its own phones as long as Apple. There is no excuse.
If the value your community provides is low enough that it can be effectively replaced by a general purpose LLM, then it should be. The value of a community should be pushing the boundaries of knowledge, not gatekeeping it.

C'mon, this is hacker news, what happened to "information should be free"?
>We prompt three top-performing LLMs: GPT3.5, GPT4, and Claude V1.3 to generate a story of similar length to each New Yorker story, based on the one-sentence plot summary

This is kinda like resizing an image down to 100x100px and then asking AI to upscale it and comparing against the original. Of course the attempts to reverse lossy compression won't be as good, even if the system is capable of similar quality work when correctly prompted.
If a code refactoring can increase dev productivity and shipping speed, then that is certainly worth something - though obviously can be hard to measure. Infrastructure updates can directly reduce server costs, latency, or have other benefits.

For tasks that aren't straightforward to measure impact on bottom line, perhaps their impact can be approximated via product owners setting bounties on them.

In any case as important as things like code quality are, they are ancillary to the bottom line of a business. Employers hire employees to increase the profitability of their business, and code quality is not the top priority.
Apparently Hitachi did pre-install BeOS, but didn't include a bootloader option to boot it, you had to manually enable it...

https://www.osnews.com/story/136392/the-only-pc-ever-shipped...
Well, there goes yet another food source if they are proven inteligent. /s
Things like total epistemological freedom always end up being a euphemism for chasing fashions.