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lolsal commented on US city-country mortality gap widens   kffhealthnews.org/news/ar... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
red-iron-pine · 2 years ago
its a problem that fixes itself, really.
lolsal · 2 years ago
> its a problem that fixes itself, really.

Is your lack of empathy an urban thing, or would you attribute it to something else?

lolsal commented on US city-country mortality gap widens   kffhealthnews.org/news/ar... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
nunez · 2 years ago
It's my understanding that there is significant social pressure to vote this way in these communities.
lolsal · 2 years ago
> It's my understanding that there is significant social pressure to vote this way in these communities.

True, but you could also say the same in urban communities.

lolsal commented on Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence   theverge.com/2024/1/18/24... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
AndrewKemendo · 2 years ago
My money has been on Meta for AGI since they started training people to label data for them (tag your friends!)

Between all their properties they have more instrumentation on humans, collecting human behavior trajectories and state action pairs transfer learning and inverse RL than anyone - and it’s not even a close second

Specifically and critically I think they likely have the largest egocentric multimodal labeled dataset collection platform from their meta quest and ray ban glasses products

Apple is the only group that will likely beat them to egocentric data collection at scale but I expect Meta to catch up quickly once people are used to it socially

lolsal · 2 years ago
I have always felt Ebay dropped the ball on this with untold amounts of custom, varying quality photos with tons of metadata added by users. Presumably they are working on using this, but I haven't seen anything from them for it.
lolsal commented on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit   aftermath.site/the-intern... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
jillesvangurp · 2 years ago
The way out is authenticity. Signed content is the only way to get that. You can't take anything at face value. It might be generated, forged, et. When anyone can publish anything and when anyone is outnumbered by AIs publishing even more things, the only way to filter that is by relying on reputation and authenticity so you can know who published what and what else they are saying.

Web of trust has of course been tried but it never got out of the it's a geeky things for tin foil hat wearing geeks kind of corner. It may be time to give that another try.

lolsal · 2 years ago
Sincerely asking - how does this solve the problem? I could generate a bunch of dog-shit and then sign it and publish it. Even with user attestation services provided by Apple, Google, et. al - couldn't I even automate generating a bunch of AI junk and signing it?
lolsal commented on Korean Smartphones Have Mandatory Shutter Sounds, 8 in 10 Want It Muted   petapixel.com/2023/11/06/... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
WD40ForRust2 · 2 years ago
Android wins again!
lolsal · 2 years ago
Sometimes things can be different without everything being a competition between corporations and testing brand allegiance.
lolsal commented on Things we always remind ourselves while coding   changelog.com/posts/thing... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
patrick451 · 2 years ago

  > - No one will die
  > - Not saving lives
Tell me you write throwaway CRUD apps without telling me you write throwaway CRUD apps. If your code touches the real world, human lives are often quite literally in your hands. This idea that you can just chill out, yeat some code into prod and head to happy hour will get people killed or seriously injured.

lolsal · 2 years ago
FYI this list wasn’t “everyone said every one of these things.”

Also, the “only real devs touch the real world” attitude is pretty sad. Not everyone wants to write guidance systems or heart monitoring firmware.

lolsal commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus   apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece
bombcar · 3 years ago
Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C.

Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables.

Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too).

It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also.

Pre-order Friday, delivery 22 Sept. Probably going to move on it just to get that USB-C, need to see what carrier deals I can find.

lolsal · 2 years ago
> not sure if it is a data cable, also.

I may get accused of being an Apple fan for this, but this is why I dread USB-C. My lightening cables always charge and have data. Having to care about this is a pain.

lolsal commented on $500M Solar Farm Near Glenrock Will Have Raised Panels So Sheep Can Graze   cowboystatedaily.com/2023... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
nielsbot · 3 years ago
"During construction, the Dutchman project will employ a peak of 447 workers, with about 20% hired locally. Once operational, it will employ three full-time workers."

Big difference in number of workers.. Only 3 full time when operational?

lolsal · 3 years ago
I imagine daily maintenance won’t be much and they’ll probably hire out to contractors for significant repairs/additions
lolsal commented on Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?    · Posted by u/smdz
allenu · 3 years ago
I do Mac/iOS development and am constantly asking ChatGPT about various APIs and frameworks. Apple's documentation is not great for explaining how to actually use APIs, unless you can find the one WWDC video that explains it or a sample project that they released years ago. I would normally google for sample code, blog posts, tutorials, or Stack Overflow posts. Something that might take an hour of searching and reading now takes a few seconds of just asking ChatGPT.

Even for things that I've done before, it's often much easier to ask ChatGPT how to do something than to look through my projects to find how I did it previously. It might sound lazy, but if it takes me several minutes to search through various projects to find that one time I did something, why bother when I can just ask ChatGPT and know in seconds?

I will say that yes, ChatGPT can hallucinate APIs that don't exist, and that can be annoying, but even if it does it 20% of the time, it's still incredibly valuable in the time savings the other 80% of the time it does hit.

lolsal · 3 years ago
I wonder how this is affecting what you consider knowledge going forward. This strikes me as students using google to answer homework questions and forgoing the actual “learning” part.
lolsal commented on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/elorant
Simulacra · 3 years ago
I still find myself reacting to news of wealthy people going to jail with a bit of disbelief. Is this me or do others feel this way?
lolsal · 3 years ago
I think I feel the same way. I think it has to do with someone like this going to jail sounds like justice, but it doesn’t really help any of the people he screwed over.

Sort of like when one of the government agencies issued a huge fine to a company that wronged users. Will I ever see a dollar of that? It’s punitive consequences, but not justice.

u/lolsal

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