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conesus commented on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-... · Posted by u/maurycy

marricks · 9 months ago

Back in high school I worked with some pleasant man in his 50's who was a cashier. Eventually we got to talking about jobs and it turns out he was typist (something like that) for most of his life than computers came along and now he makes close to minimum wage.

Most of the blacksmiths in the 19th century drank themselves to death after the industrial revolution. the US culture isn't one of care... Point is, it's reasonable to be sad and afraid of change, and think carefully about what to specialize in.

That said... we're at the point of diminishing returns in LLM, so I doubt any very technical jobs are being lost soon. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/ai-scaling-laws-are-showin...

conesus · 9 months ago

> Most of the blacksmiths in the 19th century drank themselves to death after the industrial revolution

This is hyperbolic and a dramatic oversimplification and does not accurately describe the reality of the transition from blacksmithing to more advanced roles like machining, toolmaking, and working in factories. The 19th century was a time of interchangeable parts (think the North's advantage in the Civil War) and that requires a ton of mechanical expertise and precision.

Many blacksmiths not only made the transition to machining, but there weren't enough blackmsiths to fill the bevy of new jobs that were available. Education expanded to fill those roles. Traditional blacksmithing didn’t vanish either, even specialized roles like farriery and ornamental ironwork also expanded.

conesus commented on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users openrss.org/blog/using-cl... · Posted by u/campuscodi

conesus · a year ago

I run NewsBlur[0] and I’ve been battling this issue of NewsBlur fetching 403s across the web for months now. My users are revolting and asking for refunds. I’ve tried emailing dozens of site owners and publishers and only two of them have done the work of whitelisting their RSS feed. It’s maddening and is having a real negative effect on NewsBlur.

NewsBlur is an open-source RSS news reader (full source available at [1]), something we should all agree is necessary to support the open web! But Cloudflare blocking all of my feed fetchers is bizarre behavior. And we’re on the verified bots list for years, but it hasn’t made a difference.

Let me know what I can do. NewsBlur publishes a list of IPs that it uses for feed fetching that I've shared with Cloudflare but it hasn't made a difference.

I'm hoping Cloudflare uses the IP address list that I publish and adds them to their allowlist so NewsBlur can keep fetching (and archiving) millions of feeds.

[0]: https://newsblur.com

[1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

conesus commented on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/ulrischa

marcellus23 · a year ago

> the token with id 24912 for gpt-4o to be precise

How do you find this out?

conesus · a year ago

GPT-4o uses BPE (byte pair encoding). They released `tiktoken` which allows you to count tokens in strings in python.

    pip install tiktoken
    >>> import tiktoken
    >>> encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model("gpt-4o")
    >>> print(encoding.encode("hello marcellus"))
    [24912, 2674, 10936, 385]

conesus commented on Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious? heraldscotland.com/busine... · Posted by u/kull

krunck · a year ago

> He contends that the universe is just too perfectly perfect to be an accident.

If it wasn't maybe he would'nt be here to ask the question.

conesus · a year ago

    The universe may
    be as great as they say.
    But it wouldn't be missed
    if it didn't exist.

— Piet Hein

conesus commented on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe? arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514... · Posted by u/harscoat

adrianN · 2 years ago

Now do a lump of plutonium.

conesus · 2 years ago

How did that lump of plutonium become a lump? That part wasn’t natural.

conesus commented on Ask HN: What happened to normal-sized smartphones? · Posted by u/diggan

conesus · 2 years ago

Apple still sells the iPhone SE 3. Rumor has it that the next iPhone SE will lose the home screen button but retain the same size. The camera isn't as powerful as the iPhone 13/14/15 lines but I find that it does fine in low light and takes the same exceptionally beautiful photos in good lighting. It has portrait mode as well.

It's not that much of a trade-off in terms of features or capability and it has the small size you'd expect.

conesus commented on Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading solreader.com/... · Posted by u/omarfarooq

pyrophane · 2 years ago

There are a few red flags for me here:

1. I can't find any information on the website about the company itself, where it is located, or who runs it.

2. The testimonials are described as being from "early Sol Reader customers," but I don't think they've shipped any of these yet, so without anything more specific than "Dave B" or "Maya S" these at least seem fake.

3. The images of the device look like renderings rather than actual images of the hardware.

conesus · 2 years ago

We’re in SF. Those are real testimonials. And while those are renderings the actual devices look identical. Lots of photos on X showing they look like you’d expect. As much as a photo on Apple’s website looks like the real thing.

conesus commented on Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading solreader.com/... · Posted by u/omarfarooq

trey-jones · 2 years ago

I can only speak for myself - I like reading while lying down (and holding a Kindle in front of my face), and my arm does get tired, but even in bed I don't think I would sacrifice awareness of my surroundings for slightly more comfort.

conesus · 2 years ago

You can see around the lenses and have decent awareness of what’s going on. I can see my partner and interact with her on the edges. I can also drink tea and see where everything is. It’s nowhere near complete isolation.

conesus commented on Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading solreader.com/... · Posted by u/omarfarooq

fold3 · 2 years ago

Will it have an unlocked bootloader? sd card slot? Do you need an app to add book in the device? (sounds like it from the tech specs)

Is it sweat/water resistant?

conesus · 2 years ago

So far the boot loader is unlocked and you can flash on top of it, although I don’t know why you’d want to since you’d have to rebuild an entire OS but it would be possible. Our waveforms were easy to get right so it’s not as simple as driving the eink displays with OSS drivers.

To add a book you can use a mobile app or text directly since we’re manually buying the books for now. Once we have a book marketplace it’ll be self serve on the mobile apps. We are planning side loading capabilities so you can use the mass storage device, but there’s a bit of preprocessing we’re doing to the epubs that we’ll have to replicate for self serve epubs. To get around that you can email an epub to add@solreader.com and we deliver it directly to your device. Handy!

The lenses that ship with these limited editions will be dust and moisture resistant. But if they drop in a tub all bets are off. That may change one day.