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Blackboard could be awful, but not for the reason she states.

That’s the issue here. Her giving UX advice would be like software developers making education software without input from educators.
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In addition, listen to Atomizer.
>How is it in the US?

We sadly gave up proper benefits/balance of life for higher income. Which of course hoodwinked us when economy tightened up. Some states have it slight better, but I haven't had a proper vacation since college. Unless you count being laid off with no notice.

Then you have loopholes as usual. Layoffs in some states SHOULD be noticed in advance, but only if it's something like > X people laid off. So why not instead make rounds of layoffs over the months? Great for morale!
Discussion [0] (27 points, yesterday, 12 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291284
I'm absolutely not an Apple person. Privately own zero Apple hardware.

However there are two awesome things about my work MBP I would really want from my ThinkPad:

Magsafe charger - too many close calls!

And the track pad.

I can't work properly without an external mouse on my ThinkPad. But on the MBP everything just has the right size, location, proportions and handling on the track pad. I had a mouse for the MBP too but I stopped using it!
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

More seriously: Any analysis which ignores globalization and skirting of environmental and labor laws by importing from China is an incomplete/dishonest analysis.

Wage stagnation also correlates to importing from China.

https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-impact-of-u...

You probably won't see this analysis from Yale.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/congress-targets-ha...
That's only now and in the near term future. If AI is actually successful, every year the amount of human written code will decrease. That's the whole point of this.
It also has plenty of plain old basic chemistry examples showing it false - lithium ion vs lead acid, gasoline vs fuel oil, etc.
Java's Virtual Machine and CLR (2009)
I think they're missing a dimension, how annoying is something to replace. In particular for car tires this called out to me. Going to an auto shop is an all day adventure for me, whereas almost anything else can easily be ordered or picked up without too much hassle. Furniture is another category though where there's a non trivial investment required to replace it.

Therefore, these should be more durable, even if they're not something we're otherwise attached to.

You could also think about the consequences of something breaking, and the cost of the loss of use.

E.g., for a car, if it breaks down you might run the risk of an accident, and while it's broken down you might not be able to commute to work, etc., whereas some things are relatively inconsequential when they break.
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Because "machine" is a poor analog for government activities.
I've seen some discussions around this ad circulating alone, and I understand the concerns, but at the same time I feel it's a bit much ado about nothing. I think the thought here is clearly "this device is the capabilities of all these items together", which frankly isn't untrue. I find it as charming or insulting as any other ad, which is to say it feels as corporate as anything else, it just comes at a time where creatives feel more on the back foot.
ChatGPT provides far more value than StackOverflow currently. It's not just trained on SO answers but all of the manuals/help pages, Github issues and forum posts. In addition you can continue a conversation. No rigid format or gatekeeping like stackoverflow. I don't see a real use case for Stackoverflow now. If I want to ask humans, Discord/IRC channels are far better option.
Corporations are people, my friend. Homeowners insurance already covers household items, making it an umbrella policy.
So why do violent murder rates vary so much then?

> Removing the top of the list today does not change the murders.

The UK has .99 homicides recorded per hundred thousand population.

The US has 6.4 homicides recorded per hundred thousand population.

Your assertion doesn't match reality.
WTF. Trying to lure new customers by saying that all their memories. sentimental belongings or cute little toys will be destroyed?

I want to know which is the marketing agency (or person) that thought that it would be a good idea.
They have plenty of demo videos on their channel dating as far back as 6 years

https://m.youtube.com/@seabikeofficial9914
... which was itself in the context of a device for civilians. To avoid litigating the primacy of nested contexts in a casual conversation, maybe let's agree to not be so picky about which caveats are on topic?
Man, where is the hacking spirit? OP posts a very cool, impressive hack and all everyone can talk about in the comments is how it actually isn't interesting to them.
It is amazing visuals, I think everyone kind of wants to see what throwing paint around, smashing a guitar, etc feels like and this kind of does that.

I do hope it all computer generated or props — it was a great collection of culture, even though I know old pianos are essentially worthless.

I think if they had generated a black hole and had it all sucked in and smashed together would work -/ I think you could have had similar visuals but more fantastical distribution that rises as the phoenix into the iPad Pro.
Your comment about heavy customization reminds me about the days of talking to CRM salespeople. Those sales people that were like, “We can make our CRM do anything you want it to”, whenever we asked questions. What that sales person really meant was our product doesn’t actually work, but if you throw a huge truck load of money at us, we can make our product work.
Even if it were indistinguishable from the human eye, I'd still find it annoying. Not every blog post needs a generic, caricature-esque stock photo.
Honestly if you added just a tad bit of noise. You probably wouldn't notice.
Wonder if Wikimedia Foundation couldn't just take the opportunity, now that Stack Overflow is alienating their userbase, to launch a rival Q&A site. I was always puzzled why did they never attempt to enter this space, even before Stack Overflow, given their prior experience in crowdsourced information commons.
I wonder how many people said similar comments about Photoshop and other computer generated graphics when they were new.
> You can imagine the pitch: “All of human creation compressed into one impossibly sleek tablet.” But the end result feels more like: “All of human creation sacrificed for a lifeless gadget.”

Holy shit! No, I didn't feel that. It felt like it was trying to say the first thing.

I am a huge proponent of humans over technology. I fall on that side of essentially every topic. But this is just a cute/stupid ad for a tablet. The reaction to this appears to be negativity for the sake of negativity.
I think it was pleasant that it didn’t showcase AI as now making all the art.
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste."

Now, it is Apple's turn.
UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig
OpenAI (or some other AI company) could run a similar ad regarding web sites, specially the knowledge based ones. Why to visit a gigantic amount of websites filled with ads, fake news, clickbaits, rants and more if I can ask ChatGPT about specifically the topic that I want to know about?

Maybe is not right there now, but eventually we might finally build some version of "The Internet" box from IT Crowd.
India got stuck in its own unusual time zone
Elon Musk fired all the Starlink engineers in 2018
It's not so much about competition between the students as it is about competition between the schools.

If your curriculum puts economically disadvantaged students at an academic disadvantage, and your school has many of such students, then your school ends up with less funding because your students do poorly on tests compared with the well off schools. So if you want to help the students you've got, you come up with curriculum that doesn't penalize them for having jobs, kids, or other outside-of-class reasons that they can't sit down and read at length.
i preferred the dancing silhouettes on colorful backgrounds tbh
Well, that tears it! I had my iPad Pro preorder all set, but if somebody on X doesn't like the commercial, I'm cancelling this instant.

I've heard more people talking about this ad than any other in recent memory. What a failure.
Thanks for posting this. Learning that Charm exists just made me so happy. I can't wait to build something.
Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says
Seems like organized chatGPT in the form of mind mapping. It’s quite intuitive to me because I’ve had some chats where I kept scrolling back to the first gpt response. Therefore, you can map out a question and answer, then create nodes for follow up about specific details. Each branch of the tree structure can organize a rabbit hole of follow ups on a specific topic.
It is worth remembering that law professors have a vested interest in making sure the system work as you described. If contract law was straightforward, they'd be out of job.
I enjoyed this ‘fixed’ version of the ad: https://x.com/rezawrecktion/status/1788211832936861950
This version has Isomorphic Labs far more in the focus of the press release, which seems to be now the commercial arm more or less licensing access out.

The new AlphaFold server does not do everything the paper says AlphaFold 3 says it does. You cannot predict docking with the server! That is the main interest of pharma companies, 'does our medication bind to the target protein?'. From the FAQ: 'AlphaFold Server is a web-service that offers customized biomolecular structure prediction. It makes several newer AlphaFold3 capabilities available, including support for a wider range of molecule type' - that's not ALL AlphaFold3 capabilities. Isomorphic prints the money with those additional capabilities.

It's hilarious that Google says they don't allow this for safety reasons, pure OpenAI fluff. It's just money.
She's staring at the back of her monitor on the main page.
5 weeks vacation after acrusing them for 4 years and you can't accrue more than 28 days past that.

That's probably not what you meant, but that's been my experience at every role so far. 5 weeks would be a dream for me.
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Kinda off-topic, but:

> During the Q&A an attendee asked about Kubernetes CI. The audience member said that CI for the project cost "between $100,000 and $200,000 a month"

wtf?! That's a crazy amount of money. At 10,000 PRs a month, that's $10 to $20 per PR(!!)
> A software launch is like performing live theater for introverts.

This should be the title!
There’s a company around here that offers a membership plan, allowing you to grab one umbrella on the automatic dispensers around the city.

This sounds like insurance business model with extra convenience. The cost of just one month is already the price of an utilitarian umbrella, but you get a sturdy umbrella with UV protection.
That’s all well and good, but I never said anything about discord being like IRC, just that it’s popularity demonstrates the return of internet chat rooms
> I wasn't aware of Roccat! sounds like what I'm after, especially without the gamer aesthetics. The Roccat Nyth looks close to what I'm after, but I'm pretty married to my muscle memory with using 4x3 buttons (of which are all in use, in both layers).

Oh the mouse will be a bit gamer-y. You'll only get to escape from the gamer-y software. :)

In seriousness, I love mine for 'productivity' (a more pleasant desktop experience).

> Because it is possible with G-Hub, I was just curious if anyone knew what the gap is between SteerMouse's support and G-Hub's support for the seamless G-Shift/shift key experience. I don't know enough about hardware to make a guess.

I also have a similar Logitech mouse, the wireless G602. I can't remember all of the details, but one of the things I wanted to do with it (I think bind a layer 2 button press to a key chord) is something I was told I couldn't do 'without G-Hub', and in particular its Lua scripting interface.

I'm mildly curious about the division of duties there, too, which presumably also explains the behavior you observed (SteerMouse has to reimplement something G-Hub normally takes care of, and they did it differently).
Strange, you seem to have left this paragraph out: “However, its reputation was dented as unusual blood clots emerged as a rare side effect of the vaccine, and the UK turned to alternatives.”
I couldn't help laughing at it (https://grumpyolddev.com/images/IMG_2609.JPG).

Is that code... on the back of the monitor?

...and the back of the chair behind her? Or is that a giant ipad she's sitting on?

hahaha...

If you're gonna use an AI image, come onnn... make an effort at least that it's not completely weird and crazy.

It takes literally seconds to generate these images and this was the best you could pick?
you're right, but https://github.com/modularml/mojo/blob/main/examples/hello.%...

looks a lot like python to me
Common usage never will.

There will always be a bias towards some default settings in whatever popular tool, because people who aren't very discerning or dedicated will just punch in a few common ideas into the tool and take the first thing that looks good enough to them.

But people on the outside will continue to have an instinctive sense for these default style biases and be able to tell pretty well that an image was produced that way.

The escape hatch will be what amounts to AI stock photo industry, where practiced "AI Art" designers prepare images that are more subtle and unique and sell them pretty cheaply.

The technology surely can be pushed to the point where a well-crafted image is virtually indistinguishable, but most people are going to just drop "anxious woman at keyboard" or "happy dog with a ball" and there's only so much unique information contained in those prompts so defaults will always reign.
That’s pretty normal for animal crossing games.

Nintendo generally doesn’t keep adding content for games long after release.
Many PhD in physics (even those working with number crunching) can't write javascript.

Its not like you can solve a 2nd order differential equation in bowser.
Not updated in a way that affects Quora over many years would not surprise me.
Seemed like a funny light hearted take on the hydraulic press channels on YouTube to me
apologies for the lack of whoaaa yaaa yay ya a trigger warning
Yeah I got excited for a second there.
It's a fraud detection thing.

Get in touch with their support directly. They did this to me but I contacted them and complained and said they approved it without the need for this.
A Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT–and Helped Set the Course for AI
Those (hip-hop) producers are musician-songwriters. They’re more in the Brill Building/Phil Spector mode.

Steve Albini recorded the songs you brought in with you. Just a different thing.
The e-book library model doesn't work without high-ish prices because the barrier to use is incredibly low and access is universal. There'd be no reason to buy books. Before e-books, books wore out, so the library had to buy replacements. Books were also more expensive, and libraries might have increased demand.
> The vendor product stored every customer transaction as a json record in a giant json document.... Adding a new transaction involved reading the entire json document out of the database, then appending the new record to the end.

Does this sound insane to you? Obviously it should, but in the vein of "insane things" I was helping do tech diligence of a potential investment for a fund. The startup's users table also contained the "tickets/booking" data. Each ticket was a column. So if your most active user had 5 tickets in total history, you needed 5 columns. These guys had 500+ columns by the time I reviewed it, and were looking for an investment to "scale".

Of course, it's a solvable problem, but as you can imagine everything was designed in some backwards, janky way. That was just the most obvious "wtf" moment.

They did not get the investment.
Me like thee career path. Interesting.
A New type of web hacking technique: Cross Window Forgery (CWF)
OK, that made me laugh more than I thought I would.
I'm not sure I understand two things here. Could someone clarify: 1. This is a foundation model, so you're expected to fine tune for your use case, right? (But readme doesn't mention tuning) 2. When submitting two series, do they impact each other in predictions?
It is a great ad because it does what everything marketing team wants you to do: discuss the product. I'd consider it a success for invoking lots of different emotions. To me, it's humorous to have all of the physical things portrayed there virtually smushed into an iPad lol
It bugged me seeing all those nice things being destroyed.

There's been times in my life when any of those objects would have been nice to use.
Requiring indentification to publish so that copyright is protected would be massive overreach and this sort of thinking is why I think copyright is a dangerous concept that needs to be sharply curtailed, not expanded to cover AI training.

In practice, the safest course is to not use content from untrustworthy sources in ways that require a license (aka in ways that are not fair use in your applicable jurisdictions).
Sony Wearable Thermal Device
Spot on. As I said on another thread, it's easy to do virtue signaling by bashing or acting shocked.
>Why only 16 of the possible 18 tiles would ever have the Whammy, I have no speculation.

I'll speculate. I imagine they simply never audited the 5 patterns for full "whammy coverage". They just created 5 random patterns and didn't think any more about it. If they'd only had 3 or 4 patterns, maybe there would be a couple more whammy-less spaces. If they'd had 6 or 7, perhaps there wouldn't be any, just through random chance.
Maybe with CNC firmware the controller doesn't have a way of knowing, but Klipper (one of the more popular 3d printer firmwares on printers comparable to Bambus) always looks ahead. Eg if you had two commands to move in a straight line at the same velocity, Klipper will not do the first move, slow down to a stop, then start to do the second move, it'll look ahead and see that it can keep accelerating in the same direction until it reaches the point where it'll have to start slowing down to arrive at the final point while staying within the configured jerk and deceleration limits.

It always has the ability to lookahead and adjust the commands to the steppers. As a result it does not matter if you specify whole arcs or specify them as small lines, because either way it computes the same X and Y stepper positions and velocities.

The 3d printing community is full of tons of enthusiasts who put in a large amount of time, money and effort into devising methods for maximizing the speed and quality of their printers. Despite all the scrutiny, arcs are seen as optional with inconclusive benefits in terms of print quality/printer noise (since, again, most of those enthusiasts are running Klipper).
On that vein, we could also say that if Elon Musk was capable of firing 80% of Twitter and keep the company performing the same functions, maybe the same could be done to governments.
Never? Really?
I think you're projecting something. Oblivion awaits you as it awaits these Gatekeepers of yours.
Let me make sure I'm getting this right, your position is that the government somehow forced or guided private institutions to throw every sane guideline for underwriting mortgages out the window and then lever their positions up to lets-tank-the-global-economy levels of exposure? If anything the government is guilty of grotesque inaction in this instance but I don't get the feeling that's what you meant.
> if we had an ML that could generate molecules that cure diseases that would pass FDA approval, I wouldn't really care if scientists couldn't explain the underlying principles

It’s actually required as part of the submission for FDA approval that you posit a specific Mechanism of Action for why your drug works the way it does. You can’t get approval without it
OK, boomers.

The target is creators, or those that think they are.
Ask HN: Idea of a little simple lottery system with hash
I just came up with the idea of a little simple lottery system with hash.

{Time of purchase of lottery } + {lottery number} + {buyer id} +...

The above form is listed each time the buyer continues to be added, and the winner's lottery number is derived from the hashing value of the data.

I think it is difficult to manipulate because it does not require the reliability of any random number generator and because the participants provide random numbers.

I don't think the hardware resources will be big, and I think it's a pretty easy way to implement and for participants to verify, so can you give me some advice?
meh, if you did everything right, you'd be laid off 1 day after launch.

So there's really absolutely no risk to do this.

Either way you will be fired/laid off, so why not just do it.
I think you can make a case for “Things We Lost In The Fire” by Low extremely easily; or for “After Murder Park” by the Auteurs. As a recording engineer he had a lot more range than people gave him credit for, largely because his own music was so abrasive.
To put it a different way, a totality guarantee ensures that a function will always return a value in theory, but not in practice. To get the theoretical guarantee, you need to eliminate all possible runtime errors, including things like divide-by-zero errors.

It’s kind of pain when you’re not making a theoretical argument. You might still want to eliminate all divide by zero errors. Satisfying the compiler of this using a machine-checked proof might be more trouble than it’s worth, though. It might require you to use a language whose types support proofs.
This dust up is wild, IMO
Nice one :) Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Doesn't that make the ad a success? Getting people to discuss the product leads to greater awareness of the product. Awareness of the product might lead to more sales
I'm guessing this was an AI-generated video using Apple's own AI models. Probably generated on the iPad itself.
“calculate” in that phrase, refers to doing the math, and the understanding that that entails, not pressing the “=“ button on a calculator.
Absolutely agree with this (and with the parent). It’s insanely frustrating that every conversation with GPT-3 basically started with “I can’t do that, you should talk to an expert”. I absolutely am not gonna wheedle and argue with a god damned statistical model to do what I tell it.

Try the dolphin family of models. Dolphin-mixtral is really good, dolphin-llama3 is fine especially in its 8b flavor (I like dolphin-mixtral 8x7b better than dolphin-llama3:70b although the latter is smaller and does run on smaller machines better).

Pretty much the more guardrails there are the more useless it is, and yes, it’s very obviously only done because the lawyers get itchy handing people a digital library with the anarchists cookbook in it.
>>Yet the primary effect it will have is for China to become less dependent on foreign chips faster.

Honest question. If you could sell to somebody(and make profits) it would be foolish to create a situation where you might have to compete with them for the same thing(and now make losses)?
The more complex the data is, the more you need. If your values are always 5, then you need only one data point.
A super majority is a specified proportion that is in excess of a simple majority (e.g., where a simple majority would be 51%, a super majority might be defined as 60%). Per your link (which is admittedly interesting), military/defense only accounts for about for 770k of 2.2M full time federal employees. That is not a super majority, that is a plurality (the single largest group but not a majority).