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Ask HN: I'm getting overwhelmed by AI. How to cope?
I can't keep up with the advancements in technology and it's taking my sanity away. I remember when GPT-3 was released in 2020 and it was all the news. I remember how "stupid" it was and how we mocked it, last year we got GPT-4 that blew everyone away and this year we are getting GPT-5. Technology is moving forward way too fast for my brain to keep up and all these LLMs are getting so good that almost nothing is worth doing anymore.

Learning takes time. Perfecting a skill takes time. I have to spend a year learning Unity game engine and another year to make a simple video game. Maybe I want to try selling it and make a living out of it. Why bother when AI can alredy give me code snippets and detailed instructions, in a year or two it will be able to produce a complete product. I can't compete with that, there are already tens of thousands video games for sale on Steam alone right now.

Maybe I want to learn digital painting and 3D modelling and animation to show it to others. Why spend years learning all that when text to 3D is already so good you can plug and play without very little work. Unity 6 is introducing an impressive text to 3D animation feature. That will make animators and modellers obsolete overnight.

Maybe I want to write a novel and have people read it, but why bother when Gemini can already do it better than I ever could. It's already producing and publishing both fiction and non-fiction in an automated fashion and it's getting harder and harder to know if it's written by a human or AI. You can't compete with all the spam on Amazon and even if you could, how could you ever prove to someone that you are the sole author and haven't used AI in your work?

Same goes for everything else that is not a strictly physical activity. There is already so much spam generated by people using AI products that I wonder how will anything have value in the future? I watched a Youtube short the other day and I had no idea the video was AI generated (it was a podcast) until I read it in the comments. I could spot these fakes in a split of a second just a year ago.

AI can do it fast, it can do it well and it can do it cheap. Everything I ever wanted to learn or do now seems like a waste of time. I am becoming apathic. I still have the same job I had when GPT-3 came out, still live in the same property and drive the same car. Seems like not much has changed in my personal life but the techno-world we are currently living through is changing so fast that I might not know how to navigate it in the very near future. So how do I cope with that? How do I adjust? What is my responsibility as a member of society in the context of intellectual participation if all the intellectual work is being outsourced to AI? Can I even be useful anymore? What is my role from now on? What do great minds of today think about that?
Love this idea. Very funny and well done!

Fun fact: back in ye olden days (90s, early 00s), we used to call these "boss keys," where you could hit a key on your keyboard while playing a game, and the UI would switch to a spreadsheet or document, so that as your boss walked by, it looked like you were working, but once they were gone, you could hit another key and jump right back into Quake or Hexen or Command & Conquer or whatever. Haven't seen an app with a boss key in a long time, and I think they're due to come back!
This is very cool, but I have a thought - I see this as a last line of defense, and I am concerned that this would this give a false sense of security leading people to be more reckless with secrets.
Turn the MacBook notch into a drop zone
See the Rasterisation algorithms[1] section of Wikipedia's Texture mapping article.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Rasterisation_...
Note that in an adversarial setting this will only be effective against careless opponents.

If you properly encode your secret it will have the entropy of its surroundings.

For example you can hide a string of entropy (presumably something encrypted) in text as a biased output of an LLM. To recover it you would use the same LLM and measure deviations from next-token probabilities. This will also fool humans examining it as the sentence will be coherent.
They're stricter in Japan if anything, but companies are better at knowing where their creativity comes from. (Domestically, I mean. They're pretty bad at it internationally.)
There is a huge difference between believing "perception is possession of objective fact" and "its mental abstractions all the way down," but I think a reasonable appraisal of the world makes both almost certainly equally wrong. My assertion that the machine elves are mental phenomena should not be taken to mean that I think everything is, which I think is a pretty silly idea.
I respectfully disagree… It is just what most people think but it simply not true speaking from personal experience of 25 years in the industry.
"design of a system"

The open-ended system design interview comes after the initial leetcode interview now.
How to think about LLM vs Context Optimization
If you extrapolate this increase out another 40 years, what does C-Suite pay look like?
>if you entered the housing market in 2006 you would be set significantly back

That's plainly not true where I'm from.
I should've specified polars, ibis, dplyr, pyspark, etc.

Pandas is easily the worst dataframe api.

I'll never go back to SQL from polars, it's far superior in both composability and readability imo.

Not to mention complex transforms can be version controlled and unit tested, and then you can compose these together.

It also maps to/from SQL quite naturally.
You’d think so, but then there is Fiji Water, which is literally brought across the ocean from Fiji.
True here in New Zealand too, and across most markets in the world outside the US.
It looks like the title on the article has changed. Originally the title was "Online streaming services must hand over 5% of domestic revenues, CRTC says".
…if you find it?
Thats cool. Feels more like a storyboard for a show than a comic. It was a bit long winded and could probably be condensed to a 4 by 4 grid of panels (IMO).

I liked the bit about “my actual fiancé” … that was a good twist but the rest was fairly tropey.
> I will say, however, that unless Christianity is true Judaism doesn't make any sense, because Judaism lacks a universal cosmology (it simply can't answer the question "why didn't God choose all people").
In Judaism, the answer to that question is that God asked each nation to accept His commandments, but they each had cultures that were incompatible, and refused.
When He asked the Jews, they agreed unconditionally.
Hop Labs | Software Engineer, Machine Learning | REMOTE (USA and Canada)

Hop Labs (https://www.hoplabs.com/) is hiring software engineers for a few projects. We are looking for someone with ML and infrastructure experience, mid-to-senior level. Our company works with clients to build production-grade machine learning systems (see https://www.hoplabs.com/work).

I'm happy to answer questions about the job or the company: mflanagan at hoplabs dot com

Here is the full job post:

https://www.hoplabs.com/ml-software-engineer
Architectures for Central Server Collaboration
the american system is setup to increase stock prices, whether ceos have talent or not, being in the middle of this setup can help them justify their own salaries.
See also:

- trufflehog: https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog

- detect-secrets: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets

- semgrep secrets: https://semgrep.dev/products/semgrep-secrets -- (Paid, but may be included in existing licenses in some cases
Very nice! I feel like I have a decent understanding of the Fourier transform, and it receives much love out there in terms of coverage, cool visualizations, etc.

For the people out there who enjoys working in explainers ... maybe consider covering the Laplace transform too? [1] I used to know how to use it to analyze electronic circuits, but I kinda forgot all about it by now (oops :-p) so this is my lazy ask :-).

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform
XDG_CACHE_HOME same text across bott resources https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-... or https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

> $XDG_CACHE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific non-essential data files should be stored. If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.cache should be used.
Yes, I agree; see e.g Alan Bates for a famous example. But I don't think anyone could be faulted for not being Alan Bates and just moving on with their life.
Not Just Scale
https://popvssoda.com

^ Roughly accurate but not 100% because my mother's family used "pop" in N. Texas.
I also have no idea. Your post seems very informative to me - I originally assumed everything is online without checking. This is extremely surprising to me and even a bit out of character for Mozilla. And I can't even find information where is the kickoff happening! I assume it's in California because obviously, but this whole thing could be communicated better.
>>And in the case of the self-transforming machine elves we very clearly have a compatible alternate hypothesis: they are generated by the brain

And what is the actual evidence for this alternate hypothesis? Please provide the exact description of neuronal circuitry (numbers of neurons, network architectures, interconnectivity patterns, amounts of neurotransmitters used, spike patterns and the resulting EEGs etc) which generates this exact experience. Ask a distinguished professor of neuroscience. Use integrated information theory, emergent properties, quantum collapse in microtubules, whatever currently established paradigm - and provide the exact, 100% comprehensive and full description of the brain state that presumably generates this exact experience, also allowing to differentiate from all other experiences like just "machine elves", "non-self-transforming machine elves" or elves with any other properties. Or just begin with the 100% comprehensive and full description of the brain state/circuitry generating the taste of vanilla, which would be distinctly differentiable from the state/circuitry generating a taste of chocolate or garlic.
Also Oracle is in on this one: https://www.oracle.com/customers/cohere/
Very cool. To nitpick: the “even-ness of the cosine” graph should probably draw lines to the Y axis instead of the X.
I do think it’s an interesting line of inquiry… but not robust enough.

E.g. this paper would be much more interesting if it measured the threshold at which the LLM starts to become good at X, and linked that threshold to the number and character of training examples of X. Then, maybe, we can begin to think about comparing the LLM to a human.

Alas, it requires access to the training data to do that study, and it requires a vast amount of compute to do it robustly.
@dang Previous discussion, please merge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551474
Would like to remind of the context that this is Bosworth’s blog. Agrippa to the Augustus. Before trying to shame him, consider that he might have learnt his lessons the hard way.
That Gartner whitepaper your CEO read last week.
Sofas of the last 15 years suck if you think buying a stylish looking $1000-2000 sofa is going to last. Try $4000-5000 and you will get a really nice long lasting sofa. You can repair / restuff / reupholster it every 10 or 15 years. This is not new. Reading people complaining about cheap stylish furniture breaking down after a few years reminds me of people complaining that commercial flights used to have more legroom and hot meals - those same flights also cost a lot more (inflation adjusted).
Nvidia's New GPU [video]
> I was sort of with you until this, when I realized you have no idea what you are talking about.

I love the pith of your comment, but it wasn't very nice.

Like the Churchill quip about being called drunk.
Is there a way to view this without logging in to X? Even with JS enabled, it's impossible to get context.
Most of that reads like it should be an OS feature.
To the contrary, retaliation is game-theoretically sound. You can't allow an adversary to take what they want and win every battle "because they have nuclear weapons" without capitulating world domination to that adversary. This is like playing poker and folding every hand--you will quickly lose everything. World War 2, and the Sudetenland proved this very well--you can't forestall war by gifting land to greedy dictators, it just makes them hungrier.

The US has to retaliate, as without doing so, it will hand world-domination to Russia, China and any two-bit dictatorship willing to use nukes. Moreover, Russia has repeatedly threatened European NATO members, and those members would rather the battle be fought in Ukraine than on their own turf.
I think it's not even just 'recent history' - it's current reality (let the whinging about Continental Philosophy commence).

The past decade has taught me that Robert Anton Wilson's "reality tunnels" is a very real phenomenon and far more powerful an explanation of the "reality" of the (socially constructed) world that I would grow up in than I ever suspected.
Lithium iron phosphate prices have been dropping recently. They are now cheaper than lithium ion. I think they are cheaper even considering the lower density. I think they are cheaper than lead-acid when consider the lead-acid lifespan and usable capacity.
Predicting what people want to consume is hard, especially if # of impressions is your success measure. More broadly, I have been endlessly surprised by how users use my products and what in particular they liked. You do tend to get better at feeling this out from seeing people interacting with your product, but you stand to be bewildered, forever. If only you saw in what circumstances people read your posts!

At the same time, some might say it's about the area under the curve. If 10 folks get their mind blown by in-depth treatment of some curious topic, it's roughly same amount of utils as 1e5 impressions on some silly quip if you ask me.

I, for one, am perpetually grateful to lcamtuf. I have been looking up to him for like 15 years, and he has shaped me profoundly by showing what level of focus, productivity and insight is possible. You wouldn't think that someone's life trajectory can get changed by super detailed CNC lore write up, but here we are, years later (: Thanks!!

Also, if you're reading this lcamtuf, I would like to put one vote in favour of re-instating the American essays. Pls don't pull a Kafka on us! I did read your "choosing how to be remembered" post, but still, the fact that you took the American essays down feeds right into the topic of this current post. I found them positively entertaining and insightful.
Me neither. I'm sending words of support, because I don't know why you're downvoted.

I assume parent's post is sarcasm, but I'm not 100% sure - I know there are people who hold similar views unironically.
a bunch of poets from the 'beat generation' also lived of odd jobs
You can disagree, but I and many others can very much make a claim. I argue it can even be a well supported claim. Your personal disagreement isn't a refutal of any and all claims.

>You cannot argue against general rule by pointing out specialized exceptions.

Lertcode hards in interviews have been getting more common for a decade now. At what point do we stop pretending that more cats aren't losing their 4th leg and announce an epidemic?

It shouldn't be common, but it's becoming more common. I haven't seen any claims in any conversion even disagree with the notion, let alone provide hard evidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579119
Apparently Privacy is no longer a critical priority or function at Elgoog.

Makes sense, given all other recent public signals from them. The writing was already on the wall when founding privacy org leader Ms. Lea Kissner departed the goog in 2019 for greener pastures at Zoom and Twitter.

Overall it's disappointing, but not unexpected for Late Stage Capitalism.
Tyranid's Lair: Working Your Way Around an ACL
> I think it was on the second reading that i figured out it was supposed to be alternate reality science fiction

The only reason I knew this was because I read the Wikipedia article after I finished the book. It was a strange experience to enjoy the prose even though I had no idea what was happening.
Are there any roles at this company that would be appropriate for a hobbyist programmer with an interest in network security, but without any professional experience? I'm pretty comfortable with Python and I've spent a lot of time goofing around in the network security space over the past several decades. The tools I already work with are pretty limited but I am quick to learn new technologies. KnowBe4 has been on my radar for a while now because I am located right next to Clearwater but I haven't seen any positions that seemed appropriate for my low level of professional experience. Even the technical support role says it expects a minimum of one year experience in a similar role.
I used to run a small telco noc and if any of my guys sat on something like this rather than reporting it to me I would have turfed them.

Especially because both of the ISPs we supported insisted on using a lot of dodgy CPE.
I was curious after reading this, so I looked it up. Seems murder rate in china is 12 times lower than usa (source wikipedia). Actually murders rate in china is about the same as people killed by police in usa.
Ex-OpenAI staff call for "right to warn" about AI risks without retaliation
That was my take as well :)

FWIW, the take-home problems were the most fun I've had in front of a computer for a long time.

That made up a bit for the Marathon of interviews.
True. There are men who watch the Lifetime and Hallmark channels, for example.
But... you can't imply that Apple has astroturfers on HN.

lmao, I think HN is in-on-it. Or maybe dang is an Apple believer.
Why? That’s a nutritionally complete meal with 35g of protein (flatbread, beans and eggs) and is certainly more nutritious than a plate of mac and cheese or a salad with a light dressing. Irrespective of your perspective on it, these people can have 5-10 days of meals for what the average American pays for one meal. Having lived in India for a few years, I can remember getting food poisoning once that entire time. You can also pay 3 times that for food made very hygienically and it’s still a pittance.
I run Linux and have 8G and compile things. Works fine. Currently ~/.cache is 2G, but that's because I cleared out ~/.cache/go just yesterday after compiling ~1000 Go modules for some testing, which bloated it to >50G.
Don’t expect reasonable behavior from a phone snatcher.
He said he wasn't really a developer and this was more of a proof of concept. Having a configuration screen is a bigger task than having something hard coded
> It stinks even worse with the half-adoption state we are in now, with some apps writing to those directories and other apps not.

It stinks about half as much as before.

> Part of the spec stinks, too, like the spit between cache/config/data config where the spec has no written rules specified on when anything is expected to be cleaned up and when or what can or should be backed up by the user.

Caches don't have to be backed up and can be deleted if you need space. Most people will want to back up configs. What other data should be backed up is a question different people will answer differently. And containers don't solve this.
Additional citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-04/bond-trad... | https://archive.today/aRElH

> Bond traders are tilting dovish again, piling into wagers that would benefit from a faster pace of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts as Treasuries rally.

> “The next move that the Fed is going to make is ultimately going to be one that protects the strength of the labor market, rather than one that in which they need to be fighting inflation,” Kelsey Berro, fixed-income portfolio manager at JPMorgan Asset Management, told Bloomberg Television Tuesday. “We do think that inflation generally is under control.
Hmm, my local dns servers, adguard and dnsmasq don't seem to recognize it. Do I have to configure something? I prefer the .lan that I'm currently using.
Transformer.js is being embedded in Firefox 130
I'm not sure why mind-control is alright. High pressure sales through social pressure is a real thing. Blue Bubbles, I'm looking at you.
Nominal job openings chart:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL
The warning was on the table, so it was realistic, but the people dropping the bomb wanted to blow up a city. The warning was in the form of a demonstration of the power away from a city that could have caused the Japanese to change their path in the war. Instead we destroyed them because we were greedy.

Hand waving away a warning as not valuable because people were extra vicious back then is the exact kind of ignorance I’m talking about. To not even try is pathetic, and just blood lust.

The same for OpenAI, to guarantee you can preach about AI danger to the public while developing the danger is just ignorance of one’s own deeds.

The bomb may have stopped the war for the Japanese but in no way was it ever “the only option” or “the best option”. They did it because they could.
No but I should. I have been using Kagi Ultimate and it’s ChatGPT frontend which is generally fine but I do miss out on some of the sexiest newest features of ChatGPT as a result.

I am debating downgrading my Kagi membership back to pro and signing up for ChatGPT again so I can play with the upload features
Appreciate your thoughts.

In case it helps explain the wording: I went with "exclusively for Mac" because I intended it to be an in-group signal to Mac folks that the product is high quality and conforms to the norms of the Mac platform. In my experience, cross-platform GUI software usually doesn't conform to Mac software conventions (and IMO just kinda sucks by Mac software standards). So my wording is trying to convey that the software isn't your typical cross-platform Electron/QT/GTK app.

Anyway, would love to add Linux support, just trying to figure out if that's what I want to do with my life right now.
Legal fees extend beyond lawyer fees but it does make it less helpful than it might first sound.
Those graphs are inaccurate. They only show a few levels of exponent for the floating point.

There is a benefit, but it's overstated by those graphs.

The math is simple enough. When you calculate 1/990-ish, it comes out to about 0.001. Everything below about 0.001 is between 990 and the far plane.

Now, of the floating point values between 0 and 1, what percent of them are below 0.001? It's 91.4%. Only 9% of those values are being used.

And only 1/4 of floating point is between 0 and 1 to start with.

Floating point is just not the right way to store these values. It makes sense to have denser values near 0, but the exponential nature of floating point does that to an extremely overkill extent.
according to this same logic, unless humans remain artists, there will be no new styles to copy ;)

also according to this same logic, any artist who uses a style that was informed by "thousands of (other) legitimate artists" whose art this person consumed prior, that person is "stealing"
Ask HN: Why are we still using CVs like old times?
I've been reviewing applications for my company and I've realized that for small companies, it's still a manual work of reviewing "sheet" like CVs. Some people can't format them properly so it's even worse.

It's 2024, what alternatives do we have to paper styled CVs?
Maynard's videos on Numberphile are great. Like Tao, he seems to be able to explain things clearly to non-experts - I think another sign of greatness.
It wasnt found in the wild... unlike Pegasus.
IANAL, but this isn’t an administrative order, it’s a decision by an agency in a proceeding. It’s analogous to appealing a court judgement; you appeal by bringing the same dispute (with the same parties) to a higher court, not by launching a lawsuit against the lower court. The USA is similar.