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I remember watching an episode of the 1960s police drama, Dragnet.

In one of the episodes, Detective Joe Friday spoke with some computer technicians in a building full of computers (giant, at the time). Friday asked the computer technician,

> "One more thing. Do you think that computers will take all our jobs one day?"

> "No. There will always be jobs for humans. Those jobs will change, maybe include working on and maintaining computers, but there will still be important jobs for humans."

That bit of TV stuck with me. Here we are 60 years later and that has proven true. I suspect it will still be true in 60 years, regardless of how well AI advances.

Dario Amodei, former VP of research at OpenAI and current CEO of Anthropic, notes[0] a similar sentiment:

> "First of all, in the short term I agree with arguments that comparative advantage will continue to keep humans relevant and in fact increase their productivity, and may even in some ways level the playing field between humans. As long as AI is only better at 90% of a given job, the other 10% will cause humans to become highly leveraged, increasing compensation and in fact creating a bunch of new human jobs complementing and amplifying what AI is good at, such that the “10%” expands to continue to employ almost everyone. In fact, even if AI can do 100% of things better than humans, but it remains inefficient or expensive at some tasks, or if the resource inputs to humans and AI’s are meaningfully different, then the logic of comparative advantage continues to apply. One area humans are likely to maintain a relative (or even absolute) advantage for a significant time is the physical world. Thus, I think that the human economy may continue to make sense even a little past the point where we reach “a country of geniuses in a datacenter”.

Amodei does think that eventually we may need to eventually organize economic structures with powerful AI in mind, but this need not imply humans will never have jobs.

[0]: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace
This is the best possible response to the post!
If I read anything from this it's the OpenAI is looking weak and worried if they are trying to use this to garner support or, at least, generate negative publicity for x.AI / Musk.

Altman being the regulatory capture man muscling out competitors via pushing the white house and washington to move for safety, the whole board debacle and converting from not for profit to profit.

I don't think anyone sees Musks efforts as altruistic.
Doubtful and unnecessary
room temperature superconductors are inevitable, all matter is conductive and photo active in some way or another,and conduction is one of the non optional components of reality, so the number of possible compounds that might superconduct is huge
and now that there apear to be multiple mechanisms
that superconduction can function from, means that the search will begin in earnist
its a multi trillion dollar app
Yes or controlled through ultimately undemocratic powers and without free associative non coercive means (people are able to coordinate on work and employ leadership without requiring a hierarchy of controllers). We all pay our time and labor into these services but it’s proxied through money and abstracted away
> and he actively empathised with the protestors.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/narcissistic-mirroring.html
> You must not follow the NBA or MLB then.

On the contrary, the NBA was one of the sports I had in mind when I made my comment. (frankly I'm not clear which part of that comment you found factually incorrect, such that you would write something like this)

> One of the major narratives of the most recent NBA postseason was how unfortunate it was that the Eastern Conference was so plagued with injuries that it limited the quality of competition, and it frequently has been a major narrative.

I am sure that is a thing a human, or sports journalist, might believe, so, point taken. One certainly could view the "quality of competition" as being "compromised" if the athletes and teams are not functioning tip-top at the end of the season. A person could enjoy watching the competition less as a result. I think my original comment makes it clear that I don't view things that way. I find the fact that someone else might view the matter differently as being... not especially noteworthy?

> Meanwhile in baseball injuries are so pervasive it's almost a question of which team doesn't suffer injuries.

What part of few of the sports I follow allow for contenders to be at the top of their game towards the end of the championship. People are tired or playing injured made you believe I needed to be reminded that people get injured playing baseball? Not upset, just baffled.
And Iraq? Or just the switchgear sets?
Apple and Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok
Your reply is rife with logical fallacies that has little to nothing to do with anything originally raised.

> People want paradise and absolute success on all fronts of existence, now, I mean right fucking now or they are losers.

Complete straw man argument.

> I have trouble having sympathies with rich folks complaining that they can’t buy central houses in main capital city right out of pocket from first 2 years salary

Ad hominem. Try engaging with the actual point rather than resorting to thinly veiled personal attacks.

> Same situation all over the world

False equivalence.

> Be prepared half of folks will be either very welcoming of Russian attack on Europe

> EU green deal is killing European (not only) automotive industry right now

This bizzare tangent has absolutely nothing to do with addressing or refuting any of the specific points made about NZ's economy, infrastructure or cost of living.

> You should travel a bit around the world, you would then understand how high NZ stands globally

First of all, they have. They are an immigrant. Not to mention its an appeal to relative privation. You can't just dismiss legitimate criticisms by claiming they are not valid because worse problems exist elsewhere.

> Be prepared half of folks will be either very welcoming of Russian attack on Europe… Tens of millions of immigrants and refugees, you see them everywhere

Appeal to emotion.

> People want paradise and absolute success… it’s an immature approach

You're projecting.
> SLAM is likely exactly what they were doing on Mars

I think the system on Ingenuity just used feature detection based 2D optical flow rather than a more full-scale 3D environment-reconstruction type SLAM setup. Which is fine since neither would work in a blank environment like that.
The hype cycle for Segway was insane. Ginger (code name) wasn’t just going to change the world, it was going to cause us to rethink how cities were laid out and designed. No one would get around the world in the same way.

The engineering behind it was really quite nice, but the hype set it up to fail. If it hasn’t been talked up so much in the media, the launch wouldn’t have felt so flat. There was no way for them to live up to the hype.
Exactly my question. As somebody who reads a book every two weeks... I wouldn't say I have a particularly "better" brain...
You can try to force initial communication, like randomly connect 2 users in close proximity to one another.
By pushing new lines on you even if you don't need them, creating very low expectations for technical service, and automating away customer service at every turn.

I feel like there is a shadow cartel where all telcos agree to suck as much as possible so there's no real incentive to switch. Also aggregators love re-bills where you pay them for another provider's invoice but they can't do anything service-wise on it.

At my work (in charge of 140 Windows laptops/iPhones) the only way T-Mobile would give me a deal on 30 new iPhones was by selling me 50 new SIMs for lines I told them I absolutely didn't need. I'm turning those off now. Don't even get me started on Granite or Telepacific, each of which make Comcast and AT&T look like shining examples of greatness.
In the Trump Administration Crosshairs: Cell Phone Radiation
Nice one. You made me stop and think.

I was thinking about condensing my thoughts into a post, but I'll make one point on the issue of premiums. In the article, it says the cost of insuring a family of four is $25,000 a year. That sounds accurate to me.

I know from experience (being self-employed for a period of time and having to figure this all out myself) that if your family is healthy, you can replace all 4 full-term plans with 4 short-term plans and pay about $4,000 a year for the same coverage. The only difference, really, is that your insurance coverage ends after one year and you have to apply for it again. This used to be seen as risky, but with the ACA, someone will always be forced to insure you. So, it's not the same anymore.

That's not even all we could collectively do to solve this problem. Just imagine if all the healthy people in America just did that. I know, there aren't many healthy Americans left. And a lot of people have health insurance as part of their benefits package.

But many of those people are paying their dependents' insurance out of pocket. So, someone on a full-term plan could switch all his dependents to short-term and save about $5k per year per person. And it doesn't cause any noticeable difference to someone's coverage.

Imagine if only 1 million healthy Americans went from full-term to short-term. The health insurance industry would lose 5 billion dollars of income a year. That's not huge for a $500B industry, but it's not nothing. Corporate America sits up and starts paying attention to what's going on at ANY loss of revenue.

This is not insurance advice, but just thinking out loud. Verify everything yourself, but my point is that there's a lot everyday Americans could do to hurt these companies in their wallets. We just need to come together, share ideas, and trust ourselves and each other more than nameless, faceless companies.

Here's a goalpost for you: a healthy person should not spend more than $2,000 a year, total, on any health care related expenses. Even that number is ridiculous. But it's probably about half of what people are paying. If we all focused on that, and helped each other achieve that totally achievable goal, we'd change a lot about this rotten system.
Is a 400C superconductor also inevitable?
I struggled to read books while I was working. When I retired and suddenly stopped getting hundreds of emails every day, my book reading ability--my general ability to focus--came back. I read a lot of books this year, including long novels (1Q84...much longer than it should have been) and histories.
Honestly, feels like a solution in search of a problem. But it's awesome that you've gotten 1700 sign ups!

> I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.

Sounds like you talked to him with the idea of trying to incorporate meet.hn into HN directly. What if you got permission to do a monthly "Meet HN" thread where people can link to their meetups on meet.hn, similar to "Who's Hiring" and "Who's Looking". Seems like it would give you what you want with regards to getting eyes on meet.hn but without any need for technical implementations.

But yeah, while it's a cool idea, forcing the HN aspect is probably going to be a permanent and severe bottleneck. There isn't any real solution to getting this in front of people on HN but not on meet.hn regularly (and speaking as someone who isn't interested, I'd be irate at any change that did do that). I'd encourage you to instead make this a broader meetup solution for people that fall into the HN niche of interests and advertising it more broadly.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but: I was having a look at scheme-rs and read in the readme that you support syntax-case. This somewhat surprised me as the lower level macro facilities are the ugly underbelly of otherwise straightforward coding. More than once I have seen people skip syntax-case entirely and just go for er/ir-renaming macros instead.

I found the syntax-rules implementation but didn't really see any part of syntax-case. Did you mean you support syntax-transformers in general (together with what looks like a very nice syntax-rules implementation), and not syntax-case in particular?
The linked article doesn't make this distinction and only talks about reading comprehension in general.
Its true. Also it looks like Musks original statement was correct that they should have gone with a C-corp instead of a NFP.
> OpenAI is the fastest growing startup by revenue, ever.

No it's not. Facebook hit $2B in Revenue in late 2010 - early 2011, ~5 years after its founding.

https://dazeinfo.com/2018/11/14/facebook-revenue-and-net-inc...
What do you mean by "connecting" them?
It's an aside, but these sorts of timelines are very American centric.

I don't know when your autumn ("fall") or summer are in relation to September. Don't mix keys here, either use months or quarters, not a mix of things including some relative to a specific hemisphere.
But that's part of DOGE, not the DOD.

Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more efficient than a TLA.
Land on Mars is cheap...

But no, I really doubt that's all it takes. Unless you discount all of the R&D costs as SpaceX operational expenses.
It seems the humans pursuing AGI lack sufficient natural intelligence. I'm sad that humans with such narrow and misguided perspectives have so much power, money, and influence. I worry this won't end well.
You can (usually) run your remote tmux in a window in your local tmux session; then you can use the local tmux session's copy/paste features.

I commonly run "ssh remote-system" in a tmux window, then attach to a tmux session on the remote system.

If you nest tmux sessions like this, you have to type the prefix character (Ctrl-B by default; I use Ctrl-Space) twice for the nested session to see it.
OpenAI is an American company
Speed reading is a skill you can learn; it just takes practice. I can't imagine doing this with any book I'm trying to enjoy, though—successfully interpreting the semantics correctly isn't the same as letting it "hit you", if that makes sense. For highly dense texts (think e.g. Kant) I can't imagine actually understanding anything at that kind of speed—at best maybe you could memorize it and process it later.
Steve Jobs said that Segways had the potential to be "as big a deal as the PC."
At a hospice literally right now for a loved one (who is sound asleep). The nurse working there quoted something like this: ca. 95% of the people admitted will die of dehydration since they can't take in fluids after a certain point.

My knowledge of anatomy is poor, so I am unsure how I feel about this. It isn't helped by the morphine, which seems to further separate the loved one from reality in a manner that seem premature (compared to the other painkillers that the person has been on that have been having a high degree of efficacy).

And to be clear, I am 100% behind the idea of hospice and medically-assisted suicide. Just feel very torn right now with the impending loss of the loved one.
Yeah. I feel as if there's a (small, but growing?) group of people out there who just sort of see, ok, well, everyone isn't as well off as I think they should be, so those who are doing well must just be hoarding everything. Which really just doesn't make sense at all.

It's usually based on nothing other than pure vibes.

It could theoretically be true if e.g. some billionaire just decided to buy up a load of houses and leave them empty just to piss people off, but whilst theoretically they probably could do this (e.g. if I back of the envelope it, Elon actually has enough net worth to offer everyone in my hometown double the market value of their house and then just leave them to rot without even renting them out), no-one actually does.
Intel used microcode starting with the 8086. However, patchable microcode wasn't introduced until the Pentium Pro. The original purpose was for testing, being able to run special test microcode routines. But after the Pentium, Intel realized that being able to patch microcode was also good for fixing bugs in the field.
create whatsapp / signal group for each city and drop a user into it when they sign up
Yeah, vivid hallucination or dreaming with open eyes while reading.

It's a hypnotic state. How else can you imagine a world while your eyes rapidly scanning pages of words?
I never thought about that but yeah, I can transcribe what someone is saying and listening at the same time I think I could do a good job of being a "dumb pipe" too just taking what they say and very quickly saying it out loud. I also sometimes watch the news while listening to music my wife finds that totally bonkers.

Your thing seems cool but yeah, I can't imagine it and trying to imagine it is, annoying. You would have made a good lawyer, if you're not one already. The lawyers I know who are world class can both do what you can do + are also just intelligent/smart/fast. Oh I guess maybe you're a SWE? I guess a "10x" SWE is probably doing this too, it's why I never made it in comp sci.
Teflon is known to not interact when it is in its stable long polymer state. But if we accept that it is breaking away from that state, we know it is not stable, and is potentially reactive.

Personally, a touch of avocado oil in a coast iron is much (much) lower risk (and price) than taking bets on whether this particular PFAS matrix will see the same fate as all the prior (now banned) ones or if we have somehow finally solved PFAS once and for all.

Not to mention all the known-bad environmental PFAS’s the manufacture and disposal of these 2 year pans creates.
> The product market fit is fantastic. This isn't the first time I've heard random strangers discussing it in public.

Hardly the evidence of PMF. There is always something new in the zeitgeist, that every one is talking about, some more so than others .

2 years before it was VR, few years before that NFTs and blockchain everything, before that it was self driving cars before that personal voice assistants like Siri and so on .

- self driving has not transformed us into minority report and despite how far it has come it cannot in next 30 years be ubiquitous, even if the l5 magic tech exists today in every new car sold it will take 15 years for current cars to lifecycle.

- Crypto has not replaced fiat currency , even in most generous reading you can see it as store of value like gold or whatever useless baubles people assign arbitrary value to, but has no traction for 3 out of other 4 key functions of money .

- VR is not transformative to every day life and is 5 fundamental breakthroughs away.

- Voice assistants are useless setting alarms and selecting music 10 years in.

There has been meaningful and measurable in each of these fields, but none of them have met the high bar of world transforming .

AI is aiming for much higher bar of singularity and consciousness. Just in every hype cycles we are in peak of inflated expectations, we will reach a plateau of productivity where it is will be useful in specific areas (as it already is) and people will move on to the next fad.
You sure it wasn’t a DX? The SX only came out in ‘88.

Either way, that would be a hell of a high end system for that time.
The article is a hot mess.

>Instead of being detected by radio waves, the drone reportedly was illuminated by electromagnetic radiation emitted by a Starlink satellite flying above the Philippines.

What they are describing is passive radar, also known as parasitic radar. It's not a new technology. European and US manufacturers have made it in the past, but there has been relatively little market for it because enemies of the West did not have stealth aircraft. It can be used to use radiation from mobile phone masts and satellites, but the signal is weaker and requires more signal processing.

Stealth aircraft are shaped to work against monostatic radars. The stealth does not completely disappear with multi-static or other types of radar, but it is greatly reduced.

These techniques work primarily for search radars. They reveal the approximate location of stealth aircraft. They don't work so well as targeting radars, but the search is the main problem. With new long-range IR or dual-head missiles, you can direct the missile towards the target until it picks the IR signature.
Which is not far from Aberdeen, where they test a ton of very secret stuff, like nerve gas, ENIAC, agent orange, and LSD, because it's the HQ of ATEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Test_and_Ev...
I've been hearing "nearly feature complete" for over a decade now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Predictions_for_Autono...
What makes you so sure about the LSD?
What operations would be faster in Git from using an insecure hash instead of SHA256? Commit is already reasonably fast.
>This article describes a new research result as a new research result, not as "trillion dollar industry by 2027".

I don't like that language either, but it may be wise to understand that different audiences are reading this, and it may be effective for the author to reach the others in this way. And besides, in general it's easier for a rationalist to ignore such language than it is for an industrialist to add it.
You just stated your opinion that I can't possibly be explaining the truth because you don't believe that such truth is either an objective facet of our shared reality or that anyone -- much less me, religious programmer chess aficianado on HN -- can know such truth. Your opinion is the result of your choosing to ignore and deny the truth, which is well within your right.

My knowledge is not an opinion, but I fully expect most people to doubt that I am describing our shared objective. The world is not the way it is because so many people have tried to learn about our human nature or how and why we should be self-evolving ourselves toward Wisdom and compassion. No, willful ignorance is rampant upon this Earth and its effects are why this world is as it is, on its current baleful trajectory.

Your thinking that you know me is of no consequence compared to my understanding of how and why you think the way you do. Your fanciful conjectures are but a trifle in the sea of truth within which we exist. I am explaining a crucial aspect of the truth, in serviceful honesty and compassion.

You are free to make of it what you will; I know your life (and those around you) will be happier if you act upon my advice, but which decisions you sow are your karma to reap in their own good time. Good luck! As with all things human, you have the free will to choose however you like, in ignorance or in Wisdom. Just don't think that the universe is ignoring you or failing to propagate your karma. We all reap what we sow, for good or ill. It the most pivotal dimension to our human reality.

When I say that I love you, I do so in the purest meaning of the word, for I (1) only want you and all those around you to be happy, and (2) ask for nothing from you for myself or any cultures I am a part of.

Peace be with you. We truly love you.
i've physically visited a larger one, it is not even a well kept secret. we all see each other at the same airports and hotels.
Oh my! This looks very neat, and I’ve been working on something similar to Storyteller (i think): https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk

I don’t get around working on it right now, but maybe there’s something useful there for you.
And they intend to "determine the fate of the world". As such, communication shouldn't be American centric.
This is great but i think Would people gather around hacker news as topi? Or within HN community you would need subtopics like I would totally go for meet up on AI + hn members
long time ago, whenever I faced a login wall, I would try asdfasdf/asdfasdf. 90% of all times it worked.