skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 90's I brought this up to my squadron commander. He asked if I was afraid they would clone me. I said, "No sir, you should be afraid you would clone me." and we both had a chuckle because that was true. I had explained that multiple people already had their insurance retroactively cancelled whilst laid up in a hospital bed with a $100K+ bill because their DNA indicated the individual had a high probability of becoming an alcoholic some day.

The commander sent me down the path of FOIA knowing it would stall the requirement to submit blood to Washington DC for classified reasons and I was able to get out of the military by the time FOIA had completed. I ended up with several big boxes of paperwork that amounted to - they can do whatever they want with my DNA and hold it for any period of time and provide access to whomever they wanted. I have zero regrets for fighting/stalling that one.

To this day people are still dismissive about DNA privacy. I can not wrap my head around that. Countries are already working on duel-use medicine that can also be used as highly targeted genetic weapons. I can think of thousands of highly dystopian uses for DNA.
You say that as if all metadata is the same. I can tell you it is not. Every company that uses metadata will at some point use a field differently from someone else. "The Album" => "Album, The" type of things. "Album" => "Album (YYYY)" types of things. "Track remix by Artist" => "Track" + "Producer" as different fields.
That doesn't really say anything about alcohol's effect on (non-dementia related) mental clarity and sleep.

Also if you continue to read that meta-analysis beyond the sentence you linked to it seems that much larger studies did not find a correlation between reduced dementia risk and moderate alcohol consumption. In fact they found that high alcohol consumption was associated with significantly higher risk of dementia. The overall conclusion of the analysis was "Available epidemiological studies are not sufficient to verify a protective effect of alcohol on dementia development."
is with jump or without jump corruption? Depends if the money goes to the person asking or to the center. If the person is paid to let keep people in line, and keeps the money, it is corruption. If it goes to the center, it's probably called a vip pass or so somewhere. Skip the line doesn't strike me as corruption as much as actually "purchasing" your driving licence, or being let through a checkpoint with fruit you're not supposed to bring from one island onto another to avoid spreading tree disease...
Was one of the goals with EdTech to sort of gamify learning to get kids more engaged or something? I could imagine a scenario where some kids learn more by a paper / pencil / book modality and would do worse learning from an iPad— while other kids who are totally disengaged might learn something at all from an iPad so that’s better than nothing?
> If you don't think this is coming for every single area of business, you're foolish. Driving down labor costs is the golden goose.

I mean, that’s saying the quiet part out loud that I think more people need to hear and understand. The goal of these technocrats isn’t to improve humanity as a whole, it’s to remove human labor from the profit equation. They genuinely believe that it’s possible to build an entire economy where bots just buy from other bots ad infinitum and humans are removed wholesale from the economy.

They aren’t building an AI to improve society or uplift humanity, they’re building digital serfs so they can fire their physical, expensive ones (us). Deep down, I think those of us doing the actual labor understand that their vision fundamentally cannot work, that humans must be given the opportunity to labor in a meaningfully rewarding way for the species to thrive and evolve.

That’s not what these AI tools intend to offer. The people know it, and it’s why we’re so hostile towards them.
Yes, but the republicans got rid of most of the mandatory part.
> more paying patients

that's a chilling thought; don't give them ideas
Too expensive for the consumer

“Degrees” not credible enough
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The first time I had to agree to a card processing merchant agreement, it contained a very clearly stated and strict provision requiring the signer to agree that they wouldn’t take any adverse action against customers on the basis of chargeback requests or the outcomes of those chargebacks.

Haven’t seen that language in awhile.
I've used this site before when moving from Spotify to Youtube Music, worked really well and didn't take long to transfer everything over.
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The article doesn't match the conclusion. The buried lede: procrastinating with the Internet is easier than procrastinating without the Internet.

If you care about your kids, control their access to the brain rotting aspects of technology like a tyrant.
Humans already are non-deterministic black boxes, so I'm not sure I would use that comparison.
Thanks for reminding me of :~:text=.
Surprising that you imply they haven't already been capitalizing (ha!) on that idea since the 1970s :D
Yes, that's why I was focusing on percentage of peak hardware performance, not actual flops.
My daughter has learned more arithmetic in 200 minutes with flash cards and a sticker board than in a year with her school’s tablets

I think the goal is to give kids screens so they’ll quit bugging their teacher
I think the 'Pro' part of the name is a good indicator that this is a business-to-business venture, not something aimed at consumers. In that respect, 6 cents per image seems quite reasonable. If you're generating images for a business, paying a human to even visually review image quality at 6c per image is basically sweatshop wage.

If you're generating images for personal use, there are lots of open weight models that are quite capable.
Also, this project seems to be based on https://pol.is which is open source.
What references you have for "even more of"?

Global inequality is dropping : https://ourworldindata.org/the-history-of-global-economic-in...

Yes, probably the richest do now crazier stuff than before (ex: planning to go to Mars rather than making a pyramid), but lots of people have access to more things (like food, shelter, etc.)

There are enough open source models weights so that everybody can use AI for whatever they want (with some minor investments in a couple of GPU). It is not some closed secret that nobody can touch.
You missed the point. He might have had kids back when he was 25 or whatever, but denying him insurance when he's 60 is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
If you don't trut humans you shouldn't trust AI-.

AI is based on human input and has the same biases.
It is able to handle well multiple conversation. Sometimes it surprises with better discussion or questions that I would have asked. However, there of course corner cases. Sometimes, the other side hang up probably thinking it is a spam call.
>“We could de-rank results from unethical or unsustainable companies and rank good companies higher,” Kroll says of the eco-minded Ecosia.

Censorship…for reasons. How’s this any better.
I find all caps identifiers wind up just looking like interchangeable blocks, where lowercase have word shapes. So all caps just slows down my reading.
There is no negative effect to doing so, why would you not?
Interesting because I'm willing to give the US Marine Corp, which conducted a comprehensive investigation before firing him, the benefit of the doubt.
Not much I would think - there is a clear difference between just being outside and being outside while expending lots of energy, at least for me.
There's this earthquake phrase in past tense:

> We felt like we had agency.
McClelland’s Three Needs Theory: Power, Achievement, and Affiliation.
I had suffered from this until i realized that my main motivation (learned from all my experiences in the past) for everything i do is Affiliation.
And more or less what is written here "I’ll never get anywhere if I’m paralyzed by the fear of what others might think. It’s time to put that aside and focus on my own growth." is what helped me get some distance to what others may think.
The more you put AI, you automate, the more you centralize control. Heck, when you don't need humans anymore, then there's no work anymore and it remains a few very wealthy people. You end up with a big inequal society. And I believe there's a 99% chance that you will be on the wrong side of it.
Geographic Coordinate Systems
Also which LLMs are you using ?
> Driving down the cost of manufacturing because of process standardization and automation brought down the cost of consumer goods

This is true, but it has nothing to do with AI.
That's never happened to me. I can't remember ever having more than 10 or so tabs open at once, and even then, they get get closed quickly as I finish getting what I need from each page.
Sea squirts digest their own brain when they become stationary: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2022/07/20/what-can-sea-squir...
Minus the accountability.
How much of this student screen time is spent on:

- Khan Academy

- playing games such as _Dragon Box_ (which teaches the principles of math and esp. algebra)

- reading and using books such as:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

https://www.motionmountain.net/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...

and at the elementary level texts such as: _Just Grandma & Me_ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wanderfuls...

and how much of it is what else?
To some extent yes, but that data is usually sent from record label with the same values for different streaming services. But anyway, don't tell me that they can't at least figure out that there are more than one artists with the same name...
Arithmetic is one of the places software excels. Fast Math is ubiquitous. Where do you think the friction for your daughter was?
My reply indicates that that GP was instructed to think outside the plan rather than naming the thing “thinking outside the plane.” It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of the lack of quotes around the phrase making ambiguous the intent of the parent to my post.
Are you suggesting humans are deterministic?
Not to mention the massive cost increase to those who previously bought yearly Zone 3 passes. I saw my transit costs increase overnight from $2200 per year to over $3500 with the introduction of Opal.
The key point:

> Seeing as the great majority of students spend over 80% of their digital device time using these tools to multitask, the automatic response for a great majority of students using these tools has become multitasking.. Unfortunately, when we attempt to employ digital devices for learning purposes, this primary function quickly bleeds into student behavior.

> This is why, when using a computer for homework, students typically last fewer than 6 minutes before accessing social media, messaging friends, and engaging with other digital distractions. This is why, when using a laptop during class, students typically spend 38 minutes of every hour off-task. This is why, when getting paid as part of a research study to focus on a 20-minute computerized lesson, nearly 40% of students were unable to stop themselves from multitasking. It’s not that the students of today have abnormally weak constitutions; it’s that they have spent thousands of hours training themselves to use digital devices in a manner guaranteed to impair learning and performance. It’s also that many of the apps being run on those devices were carefully engineered to pull young people away from whatever they were doing.

> And perhaps this is the key point: I’m not saying that digital technologies can’t be used for learning; in fact, if these tools were only ever employed for learning purposes, then they may have proven some of the most important academic inventions ever. The argument I’m making is that digital technologies so often aren’t used for learning that giving students a laptop, tablet, or other multi-function device places a large (and unnecessary) obstacle between the student and the desired outcome. In order to effectively learn while using an unlocked, internet-connected multi-function digital device, students must expend a great deal of cognitive effort battling impulses that they’ve spent years honing - a battle they lose more often than not. (of course schools do often try to implement blockers and restrictions, but this opens up an eternal cat-and-mouse struggle, and the mice are very good at finding ways to evade the cat.)
Sure, I’m just referring to the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a widespread standard on what “Busy Beaver” refers to in the literature. Scott Aaronson tends to reference the shift function, but older papers consider Σ as the “Busy Beaver function” or the “ones function” as you point out. My number came from running the machine itself and considering the largest contiguous section of output (since you typically start with a tape consisting of infinite zeros).

If we think of the nth prime as the output of a Turing machine that computes the prime numbers where n is on the input tape, then if people are saying the output aloud of such a machine, it would make sense to do so similarly here as well.

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter. All these functions basically grow at the same rate asymptotically.
A combination of Claude and ChatGPT. Each one is used for certain responsibilities
I haven't had a drink, or smoked for two months and my sleeping has improved so much it is crazy, absolutely crazy... I do need to get back to the gym, it is just so hard to muscle the strength to go when I'm not feeling particularly good about myself, which is dumb, since that is the reason I want to get back into it...
Well, as long as you aren't imposing the noisy syntax into everybody by pushing the case-change back into the code...

But getting some editor that highlights the SQL will completely solve your issue.
AI is better in simulating communication but worse in understanding.

>you can do the same thing with GPT-4o and get a reasonable response in no time at all -- at and no cost.

Reasonable doesn't mean correct. Who is liable if it's the wrong answer?
The poster wasn't talking about men over 60 that are fathers, it was men over 60 who will likely have another child. Your statistics drop from ~62% of men who father children to ~0.1% of men over 45 who father a child (and undoubtedly that goes to almost 0% after 60).
You might consider reading up about Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius models. He has a book that, in my opinion, is a blog post of content turned into a book, so you can get the information distilled in better places. He has a podcast about it which is much better than the book. But sounds like you don't get energy from the type of work you get from a leadership/management position. That's totally fine and normal!
Not FLAC? I mean I guess I can run them through something to convert them, but I'm surprised.
I think something this article demonstrates is how AI implementation is resulting in building resistance to AI because AI is being forced onto people instead of being demanded by those people. Typically, the people doing the forcing don't understand very well the job the people being forced to adopt AI actually perform.
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Yes but OpenAI is flagrantly using the people's sci-fi defintion understanding to radically overvalue it's, to be blunt, utterly mid products.
PhotoPrism and PhotoSync are also a fantastic pairing. PhotoSync natively supports PhotoPrism as a backend, and you can self host PhotoPrism.

https://photoprism.app

https://photosync-app.com
That's why she was nicknamed Amazing Grace.
I work in EdTech, I have for a very long time now, and the problem I have seen is no one in education is willing to ACTUALLY let kids learn at their own level.

The promise of EdTech was that kids could learn where they are. A kid who's behind can actually continue to learn rather than being left behind. A kid who's ahead can be nurtured.

We had this. It worked well, in my opinion at least, and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be" was just… insanely frustrating.

Now in order to keep schools paying for our services, every kid is banded into a range based on their grade. They are scored/graded based on their grade level rather than their growth. It's such a crying shame.
They are making sales, like to Los Alamos National Laboratory, but it looks like it's mostly being used for testing if it's valuable.
The article lists the reasons it takes long to count. Which do you think have anything to do with voter ID.
That has been around for a long time. I remember it in the early 2000s.

> Decades old footguns - aaargh!

Indeed...

The tricky problem they have is wrapping it into some sort of lock could cause so many issues. Places that dont deadlock, suddenly could. Not a fun problem to solve. In practice it is usually not too bad as you are usually not changing your env vars much. But when you run into it, ugh.
Using portable SIMD in stable Rust
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if you can, start right away. i've always been known among my friends as the most sedentary, lazy, and effort-averse person in the world. but five months ago, that changed, and I regret not starting sooner. it seems like you develop a self-challenge component that you'll only understand once you start
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Wonder how many managers are thinking about the bus/lottery numbers of all the open source projects their developers are relying on, and then doing something about it.
New Zealand at least is trying _very_ hard:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/new-zeala...
What should terrify you is that "most of it" is highly contingent on context. "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at _____," is a real thing. (Last week, it was "egg prices.") Never underestimate people's willingness to ruin or end your life, and the lives of those they can put in a box with you, over something that is transitory and/or fixable. Genetic discrimination is just another, perhaps more versatile, box.
I currently use [JetBrainsMono](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/)
> "insurance" means there's some chance you're having an adverse event, and a lot of chance you don't

Exactly. Classic insurance is a bet: the insured is betting that something bad will happen (e.g. house burns down), and the insurer is betting that it will be fine.

The problem with health insurance is that the insured will always be correct eventually. The model fundamentally doesn’t work, except if you adjust the parameters of timescale, population, etc. (which tends to be grossly discriminatory except for voluntary behaviors like smoking).
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I did a bunch of research essays into medical uses of AI/ML and I'm not terrified, in fact the single most significant use of these technologies is probably in or around healthcare. One of the most cited uses would be expert analysis of medical imaging, especially breast cancer imaging. There is a lot of context to unpack around breast cancer imaging, or more sucinctly put, controversial drama! The fact is there is a statisticalluy high rate of false positives in breast cancer diagnostics made by human doctors. This reality resulted in a big overall policy shift to have women breast scanned less often, depending on their age, or something like that. Because so many women were victimized with breast surgery that turned out to be false positive or whatever. The old saying to make an omlet one must break a few eges is sometimes used, and that's a terrible euphamism. AI has proven to be better at looking at medical image, and in the case of breast cancer seems to out perform humans. And of course the humans have a monotonous job revewing image after image, and they want to be safe instead of latter being sorry, so of course they have high false possitives. The machines never get tired, they never get biased (this is a bone of contention), and they never stop. Ultimatly a human doctor still has to review the images, and the machines simply inform if the doctor is being too agressive in diagnosis, or possibly missing something. The whole thing gets escellated if there is any disparity. The out come from early studdies is encouraging, but these studies take years, and are very expensive. One of the biggest problems is the technology proficiency of medical staff is low, and so we are now in a situation where software engineers are cross traning to be at the level of a nurse or even doctors in rare cases.
The difference between a standard human-written algorithm and machine learning is exactly that inability to find the rules transparent, predictable, and not arbitrary.
I'm already surprised that they are not looking at the number, realizing that pilots cost much less to train than planes to build, and draw conclusions from there. The army has been more cynical in the past.
Don't speed and you don't get tickets. Really not that complicated mate.
Define “trust”, because that singular word carries immeasurable weight.

Can we trust AI to make consistent predictions from its training data? Yeah, fairly reliably. Can we trust that data to be impartial? What about the people training the model, can we trust their impartiality? What about the investors bankrolling it, can we trust them?

The more you examine the picture in detail, the less I think we’re able to state it’s trustworthy.
>Generally in my book projects should only be assigned to teams

User stories are assigned to teams.
Ya this is the fallacy with leaving human rights up to the states.

There are certain shared values which must be defended in order to have a free society. Which means that people who don't see a problem with these eventualities (due to their intolerance) can't be allowed to control government. The tolerant can't tolerate intolerance because the intolerant break the rules of the game and eventually collapse civil society.

Unfortunately I've watched intolerance reign for most of my life, definitely the last 25 years, which is roughly everything after the Dot Bomb, 9/11, etc. Now ignorance fueled by propaganda created by billionaires under wealth inequality determines our election outcomes and I worry that it may be too late to stop the global societal collapse that's coming.
The teacher ignored her and figured she was fine screwing around with the tablet. We also motivate her with good old fashioned bribery. It works!