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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040
>I must be missing something here because it seems like we have pretty straightforward roadmaps to meeting the water, electricity, and food needs of a population 2x the current global population

The problem is collective action. It's ALWAYS collective action. As long as people keep lapping up petrochemical lobby propaganda, it doesn't matter that we could pretty easily solve our climate crisis, nobody is going to DO it.
It is impossible to take seriously an article that starts with "We have the worst job environment for tech in over two decades" and supplies no evidence.
Residents aren't the ones driving into the city every day.
well my formatting sure as heck doesn't look great....
Chinese domain squatters strike again lol.
Oh that's interesting. Great to see other people working on this.
That may be strictly speaking true, but it conflicts with another equally important priority: I want to minimize interaction with dealers as much as possible, precisely because I find them reprehensible.
There's nothing wrong with having 6 kids but I think more people used to because effective birth control didn't exist. People had lots of sex back then too and wife's were getting knocked up frequently and at a younger age when vastly more fertile. My mother had ~40 cousins. I have 12. My kids have 4. It's no shock that the birth control pill was invented between the time my parent were born and started a family. Throw in the 64,000,000 abortions in the USA (and the ~70 millions per year globally!) since it was legalized and this is why we don't have big families anymore.
> but otherwise LLMs aren’t close to replacing 80% of your content department. Maybe 5% at best.

LLM alone, no.

Well-engineered LLM-based distributed system with good prompting and input data? Absolutely.
So that would be runnable on a MBP with a M2 Max, but the context window must be quite small, I don’t really find anything under about 4096 that useful
Thinking Fast and Slow Author Passes Away
Ain’t gonna fix sagemaker either
Definitely, works just as well for paralegals and support staff
Driving in Manhattan is pretty straightforward. There are parking garages everywhere you'd want to go (though most non-NYC people would probably consider them shockingly expensive) and at night and on weekends street parking is not too hard to find in most areas.

But outside of rush hours and especially a few places like the tunnel approaches it's not a big deal. People do it constantly, it's totally normal for people from NJ or Westchester or LI to drive in for dinner and park, that kind of thing.
Nature itself can be neither good nor bad. Is a black hole good or bad? Is DNA good or bad? Impossible to judge. It is what it is.
If you want to give a Silicon Valley company kudos for Bin Laden, give it to Cisco, VMWare, and Equinix.

Palantir's whole "CIA" marketing schitck appeared to be a ploy to build a strong reputation to help hiring.

At the end of the day, they're just another Datalake company that makes money off professional services, except Databricks and Snowflake can actually execute.
Binning and averaging is a well-known technique I'd say, whether applied to PCA components or even raw distributional data sorted over some dimension.

A relatex technique that I've seen speed up retrieval tasks immensely is merging frequently co-occurring binned embeddings into new bins (similar to Byte Pair Encoding) and downweighing the resulting bins when the variance between its constituent dimensions is high.

This effectively yields 'bins of interest' where documents agree on some dimension(s) while filtering out documents that contain information that is general to most.
In the line I've been able (most just showed up in the New World from somewhere or other...) to trace back to 7 generations, it was a little less, but they were in the colonies before the US was a thing, so more than 35, less than 40 years per generation?

My wife can go back 7 as well, and her family has also tended towards high parental investment in offspring; next time I'm in the cellar I'll have to check but I'd easily believe they'd also be on the longer side.

(NB. age matching is a post-WWI thing. I believe the pre-WWI ideal was mid-30's men* marrying early-20's women, which seems to have been inherited from Aristotle's recommendation for 30 year olds to marry 15 year olds)

* Stefan Zweig has a chapter on how this gap influenced porn in the Austro-Hungarian Empire — not that anyone in this august assemblage might wonder how the Viennese equivalent of OnlyFans worked.
Most of the over the counter ones I see online are 65 mg iron, which is nearly twice the iron in a whole half kilo of chicken liver.

The medical sites say a safe value is no more than 45 mg per day.

There are also low iron pills (or "gentle iron") that are 28 mg.

So not only are many over the counter pills potentially over the safe levels, but it still doesn't even really answer the question, which is whether the low-dose pills that are under the RDA effective in countering an iron deficiency.

Anyway. I think I'll ask my doctor at a once-every-several-years checkup.
A decade ago, one of my university professors told us that developers will always be needed because we have NP-complete problems.
I spent 15 years managing a VMware-centric data center. I ran the free version at home for at least 5 years. When I ran out of vCPUs on my free license I switched to Proxmox and the migration was almost painless. This new tool should help even more.

For most vanilla hosting, you could get away with Proxmox and be just fine. I've been running it for at least 5 years in my basement and haven't had a single hiccup. I bet a lot of VMware customers will be jumping ship when their licenses expire.
> many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

The word "airside" in the title already gives a pretty enormous clue !
Sure isn't a problem on long-haul where the windows stay shut the whole time.
The regression came from poorly parsing the results. I came the conclusion independently, but here's another more detailed takedown: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/153xee8/has_chatgp...

Given the conflict of interest and background of Zaharia, it's hard to imagine such an immediately obvious source of error wasn't caught.
Yes, that'd certainly have to be part of the equation, but if there is a leveling off of performance across generations that'd still need to be taken into account.

There will be many use cases (e.g. human job replacement, depending on the job) where human-level AGI is a requirement, and incremental gains below that level make little difference. Anthropic have already mentioned something similar - corporate uses cases where "right 90% of the time", or "able to do 90% of the job" just doesn't make sense - needs to be at human level.

Of course we also don't know how this is going to pan out in terms of locally run open-source or self-trained (corporate) models vs paid API usage. AMD and Intel are salivating at the prospect of "AI-PCs" equipped with accelerators for running models locally.
> I've never actually-played a CDI system (I do recall poking at them in retail displays), and I don't know what "the VGA box" is in this context. Can you elaborate?

Oh, sorry for the confusion. CDI and GDI are disc images for Dreamcast games, like ISO files. Not the Philips CDi game console.

The VGA box is the video output for Dreamcast, which supported 640x480 progressive scan video, most games supported it but a few didn't.
Yeah, I bought Gitlab when it IPO'd because I agreed with what they were doing. I felt they were making a product that's competitive with Github, and also were allowing me to run it myself if I wanted. I thought that was cool, I was glad to see they got big enough to IPO, so I bought a few shares.

I've lost about half my investment there, which if I'm being honest does makes me a little sad, of course I would rather have more money than I put in, but at least I think I doing the intent of the stock market. I think that the initial goal of the market was to enable people to invest into companies that they actually believed in, not to buy and sell shares a million times a second, or to buy and sell speculations at the same rate.
Lego asks police department to stop using toy heads on suspect photos
The thing we should all really be terrified about is how Trump and Stephen Miller will use of all of this technology we have built against us when elected.
Hum... I don't automatically read any of those names as airports. The title is a bit clear because of the "airside", but people that don't have lots of experiency in airports won't recognize that word either.
All the CEOs he quoted saying programming is over are heavily or fully invested in AI succeeding. Was he not able to find other sources? Those don’t seem very reliable.
Turn on Advanced Data Protection before you rip up the key. Then it's all as good as deleted.
Not to mention how flakey it is at scale. There is always some vmware guy who replies to me saying how good it is, but if you have thousands of VMs it is a random crapshoot. Something you just don't see with say AWS and Azure at similar scale. It reaks of old age and hack on hack over many years, and that is saying something when compared to AWS.
> Tech companies are still performing mass lay-offs, even with a tech bubble in full force.
> Many organisations are also resorting to employee-hostile strategies to increase employee churn, such as forced Return-To-Office policies.

Would generally agree and it’s been discussed a lot but apart from “because they can” I haven’t heard a really compelling reason why. I’m not convinced by the claims about AI taking jobs (yet). So what’s going on?
But is it the kind of inbreeding that gets you Downs, or the kwisatz haderach?
58 comments. Actual hacker news.
VSCode LLM Integration
I've been using ChatGPT-4 a ton lately for coding. It's super useful for small side projects - I can basically act like a PM, telling it what to build. It's less useful for real work where I'm modifying an existing large codebase.

But I still do a lot of copy pasting code from ChatGPT into VSCode and vice versa. Every time I accept new code from it, I need to state my current changes so I can easily see the diff for the new code.

What are the best tools right now for improving this workflow? I've used Copilot, but I want to be able to describe a new feature, have it propose changes to existing files, see the diff, then update the code.
I'm getting this in my browser console when trying to load the audio:

> Access to fetch at 'https://infinitedigits.co/img/thx3.json' from origin 'https://schollz.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

I see it also loaded some .mp3 files so I can listen to the samples that way, but something is broken.
Most of the people in my network are gainfully employed and not having problems getting interviews. It's really strange. Feels like tech market is becoming like the dating app market.
> The fact that pretty much everybody quoted to say that programmers will be replaced with LLMs is either a CEO or CTO is important.

Out of those four quotes, we have one from nvidia, one from fixie.ai, and one from openai. That may be important too. Either because these people are in positions to see trends and potential that aren't yet generally visible; or because they have a vested interested in the success of this model.

(The fourth quote isn't attributed to a company)
It still seems wrong to me that we, as a society, have basically accepting this level of crime as just a constant sort of background noise in daily life.
They might have a case to keep the car!

There are laws around sending people packages and then demanding payment.

I think it was to stop trolls from mailing you garbage and demanding payment afterwards…

I’m not a lawyer, them having a purchase agreement in place probably changes things, but a clever lawyer might be able to make a case
It never takes as little as you (or others, myself included) think it should. Big companies have a lot of inertia and changing anything which is working today, even if it saves a lot, attached your name to the risk it will fail horribly, so you'd be reluctant to suggest it, esp. since it's usually not your own money (your budget maybe, but not your own money).

Broadcom knows this very well and likely turned the price screw exactly right - just before the breaking point for the critical mass of their customers.

What I think will lead to the eventual implosion of VMware's market share, on a longer timescale, is the removal of free ESXi. Many people acquire familiarity with small scale/home/demo labs or PoC prototypes, then they recommend going with what they're familiar with. This led Microsoft where they are now, by always giving big discounts to students and never going too hard on those running cracked copies. They saw it as an investment and they were bloody right.
If the product had been better it would completely dominate now, but even as shoddy as it is, it's a huge cash cow.
I'd love to talk to you about the software. ckluis [@ googles email].com
Maybe it has something to do with phase. If they are ever so slightly out of tune, the phase is kind of "smeared" out, whereas with "exactly in tune" the locked phase can affect the timbre.
Not in my experience.

Quite often taking a car took longer for me, including finding my Uber or Lyft in a sea of others (great system, really, requiring everybody to find "theirs" when they're all pretty much doing the same thing!), navigating cancellations etc.

Of course, if you live far from public transit it's a different matter, but many people in NY do live close to a subway station.
> I had the exact opposite problem when I was both a TA and later a professor. I would beg and plead for my students to come to office hours. ... And then I'd get feedback at the end of the semester that I "was never available to help."

My first year of grad school I had this problem and it made me immediately become disillusioned because the reality was so starkly different from what students wrote.

I worked in my office and would be there from 9am/10am till 10pm most days. I had an open door policy along with my scheduled office hours and 2 lab sections. I also frequently responded to emails at or after midnight. I wrote custom mini lectures for the lab sessions based on asking students (in those lab sessions) what were the things they were struggling on (and using what I ended up helping the most on + feedback from the good students that were always the "help sinks" where others would go to them for help). My own office mates complained at the end of the term (but not before. To be fair, I was usually the only one in the office (of 3) and the other two only started showing up more at the end of the term). YET I was student ranked as 2 standard deviations below the median for availability and one below my department.

I literally could not be more available! What's worse, is the department sent an email to me about how I should be more available. -__- What I learned is that these things don't mean anything about my performance. They were low ranked because the course was very hard. This is also a course I caught 2 junior CS students cheating and told the professor and I that they didn't know "GitHub" was on the internet (syllabus had a weird policy about not using the internet, but intended to basically mean don't copy GitHub or SO solutions). I had a hard time trying to not fall over laughing and I saw the prof's brain just break.

(Side note on that last part. We reported it to the department. They didn't care. It is because it makes the department look bad because the uni measures department rates of cheating by how many people are formally disciplined for cheating and so if you don't report it, you don't look like your department has a problem. We gave them a 0 on the assignment and said they'd fail if they did it again. They did anyways)

(I also had two students write that I was the best TA they've ever had and two students write that I was the worst. I learned a lot, that's for sure)
I had a snippet in my HTML for this. But the snippet was rejected by a content security policy.
The Ultimate Guide to ARR
This is really cool. Though, as someone who has worked in GTM at SaaS company, your website is confusing - most of the copy is written about features and the Q&A is geared towards associates ("will this let my boss spy on me?") but the "book a demo" button seems designed to lead partners into a demo. If the end goal is to convert potential executive sponsors and decisionmakers into a demo, the messaging should be revamped to almost entirely emphasize business outcomes rather than features. If you're curious, check out the free resources on the Product Marketing Alliance website!
Which non-coding benchmark?
Awesome. That's definitely something we can explore. Could you shoot an email to jeremybenmeir@gmail.com? Interested to hear exactly what you're thinking wrt an integration.
The current shortages seem to be driven by lower production in West Africa [1] (which accounts for two-thirds of the global crop), not by speculation.

The reasons for the lower production include drier weather due in part to climate change, a resurgence of the swollen-shoot disease that affects cocoa plants, and illegal mining affecting land on which cocoa is grown.

[1]. https://www.fastcompany.com/91065690/cocoa-beans-production-...
Hard to say. If there are indeed as many bench warmers as some have said then businesses will truly not need as many people.

What the article doesn’t seem to mention that after dot com the industry expanded dramatically.

Anecdotally, everyone I know who’s been cut has found a job, with a reduction in pay in some cases.
I always find atleast one person making this or similar comment in threads on non native GUI libraries.

I also respect the fact that this is just a statement of a personal preference.

However I don't think most people care.

Good applications with thoughtful UX and useful functionality will succeed whether they choose native widgets or not.

Literally millions of people use applications like VSCode, Blender, OBS Studio. I bet the vast majority of them don't think what this here application needs is more native widgets.

Heck, no one cares that Figma is a web app. From what I can see it beat out all similar desktop native competitors.
> I doubt the users would be willing to go that far for authenticity.

That's what I mean by it not being feasible. Technically, there are many, many ways to make this happen, but they all come with very serious problems that I don't think most people would accept.

On the other hand, people accept things now that just a short time ago were considered outrageous and unacceptable by the majority of people (in the US, anyway). I maintain hope that this descent will stop at some point, and that hope is likely coloring my expectations.
It is indeed a common complaint of many of the chiptune genres that they can sound boring, especially for audiences too old or young to have as much nostalgia for the hardware whose constraints set the genre constraints. The basic NES "instruments" were simple wave generators that were about as pure as waveforms get, plus one simple white noise generator.

I've met critics that even think that "pure" chiptune sub-genres such as the ones that stay within the bounds of physical NES hardware "can't" survive long-term. I think they are wrong both because I've heard some extraordinary things done within those constraints in my lifetime and for some of the reasons that "minimalism" will always be a viable subgenre of "Classical" (no matter how boring some people find that, too). But I understand where that idea comes from of how such a unique set of hardware constraints gave us some of the "purest" waveforms possible and why such pure waveforms are generally an anomaly in music.
Teachers Are Quitting. Some States Want to Pay More to Keep Them
Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust: Part 1
the thing it is mainly missing is multi-tenancy self service.
(ipam integration seems very nice though).

NSX allows you to create seperate clusters which hosts VM's which run the routing and firewalling functionality.
Always surprised that most YC companies do not know the existing companies in a market.
I'm skeptical too, but part I wouldn't necessarily write it off because a company like Boeing hasn't gone forward with it. Boeing won't even go forward with a redesign of the 737, preferring to go the cheaper route of continually modifying an existing design from the 1960s.

I do think there are other concepts that are farther along and have more promise like the Aurora D8 "double bubble" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_D8). Its design isn't as much of a departure, but it would still reduce fuel burn and noise significantly. Likewise, Boeing's TTBW (transsonic truss braced wing) design is promising especially since they have a full-sized demonstrator at this point.

But companies have been hesitant to invest in new types of aircraft. It's an industry that's essentially a duopoly where the big two have a decade worth of orders for their current aircraft. There isn't even a lot of competition between the two because neither has the capacity to produce more planes if they create something that airlines want. The A380 was probably the biggest risk that's been taken recently and that turned out to be a pretty big failure. I don't think either Boeing or Airbus wants to take risks when they have pretty guaranteed profits by staying the course. Boeing has even shelved its plans for the Boeing NMA (new midsize airplane) to replace the 737.

I'd also add that these projects often end up learning important things about aeronautics even if they don't become things you fly on. For example, one of the big things with the Aurora D8 was figuring out how to deal with boundary layer ingestion inefficiencies. Even if the D8 never becomes something you'll fly on, the knowledge gained there might be used in other planes that you will fly on.

You're right to be skeptical and I am too. It's really difficult to bring a new plane to market. However, I'm not sure I'd take Boeing and Airbus' reticence as evidence that it isn't worth exploring more. We've been talking about the bean counters taking over Boeing for months now and complaining about Boeing continually modifying the 737 rather than creating a new plane. Is it likely we'll be flying on these things? No. Even if it's a good and viable design, there's so much beyond that to get done. Actually manufacturing something as complex as a plane is very hard - there's a reason Airbus and Boeing have a decade long backlog of orders. But there's also a reason why places like NASA want to fund experimental projects like this - because there aren't really incentives for companies like Boeing to take risks on new designs.

I mean, you're right: this probably won't happen. At the same time, I think it's important to keep trying because sometimes these things do work and even when they don't work we often learn important things that can be applied in the future.
The current shortages are driven by lower production in West Africa [1] (which accounts for two-thirds of the global crop), not by speculation.

The reasons for the lower production include drier weather due in part to climate change, a resurgence of the swollen-shoot disease that affects cocoa plants, and illegal mining affecting land on which cocoa is grown.

[1]. https://www.fastcompany.com/91065690/cocoa-beans-production-...
Lucid Rhythms: Generative music by sound designer Mirko Ruta
One way to think about it: how good does it need to be for the managerial class types who are visibly salivating at mass layoffs to convert current professional jobs into 1099 “temporary” LLM quality control gigs? I’m betting we’re close to the level where some large places are going to try.
You just replaced a cheap writer with an expensive AI prompt and input data manager.