FrustratedMonky

I don't think it would kill it.

Even if an estimating tool comes up with a higher price, as long as they can reduce the time to do a quote, it helps.

I think problem here is thinking that eliminating the cost of the manpower to do the estimate will bring cost down enough to do the job.

When really, they need to introduce a premium for small/odd jobs. A lot of people understand that small/odd orders are going to cost more. So a tool to efficiently get them a small/odd cost is still good. The order is going to cost more, but if you are ordering small/odd, you accept that.

The goal is to get the companies to have a tool that is efficient enough to even take peoples calls.

That is a mistake. Being fully compatible with Python was a big selling point. Now they are just another knock off that wont get enough traction to make a dent. Unless this GPU programming thing is so amazing it takes over the industry with one small niche feature, guess that is the hope.

To be fair, a good bit of the apps/programs/projects posted on hacker news could use a good '1-pager overview'. Like has nobody every explained the 'elevator pitch'. A little marketing doesn't mean you are selling out. Obfuscating your product doesn't make you hip.

This is cool and all, but every manufacturing plant in existence has these problems and has developed tools to speed it up. Everyone has something special that doesn't fit just right, or has an infinite number of combinations to solve for.

This seems more like a free-market problem where there just isn't any incentive to capture a market below a minimum.

Isn't Mojo expressly for building AI frameworks? It isn't really needed or special as a language by-itself. It's main purpose is to make it easier to program these high end graphics cards for AI.

So maybe an AI image isn't the worst.

Not that many people on the mountain. Shout it at the McDonalds. Of course, you'll be arrested.

Maybe shouldn't say 'self improving', but 'able to make logical leaps beyond what they learned'.

"Languages with a lot of bad code out there (e.g., PHP) will perform worse "

This is what tells me that AI's are not 'self improving'. If they could read a manual and understand it, then they should come up with better solutions. Not just regurgitate bad slop they learned from bad examples.

I don't think it is zero.

If they are producing code, there is some knowledge being absorbed. Nobody is using AI to create an app is learning zero.

Its just what they are learning, is not as much as they think, and really random, not-structured. Like reading just a few random chapter of a book across multiple classes. They get a smattering of ad-hoc tidbits of knowledge.

I am really worried if using AI is reducing someone's already gained knowledge. Moving someone backwards. That has me a bit more scared.

" skill decline is real"

Is this -> More people that are not devs, are using AI to create things, and are skilling up to a mediocre level?

or

Is this -> Existing experts, are actually loosing there skills? Using AI is reducing someone already known skills.

IF the key is spatial navigation processing. Would bicycling be included?

When in my car, I'm just dumbly following the map app. But on a bike, I'm still having to keep track of where I'm going and a route.

"study adjusts for age"

maybe it would help this thread to have someone explain exactly how they control for age, if everyone in the range they want to study, is already dead.

What is the actual process to control for age? This comes up a lot, and the only response is "oh, well, we controlled for that", well exactly how?

Seriously, I'm curious.

//lot of downvotes, not a lot of anybody actually able to explain it.

From Article, the age question does seem sketchy.

"Although proportional mortality analyses do not provide information about the population at risk, with careful selection of controls and risk adjustment for factors that may affect competing risks (eg, age, sex, and social class), these values can still serve as a useful indicator of variations in disease frequency across different occupations.16 17"

We are so far to the 'right' now, that even getting a salary is socialism because it is taking money from those poor billionaires that could use that money to invest and create more jobs.

" source was probably the IRCG"

Curious. What is your source on the 5%? Why is random chud on the internet a 'better' source.

Maybe you guys just shouldn't read blogs.

"I’d rather see a shitty Microsoft Paint drawing as opposed to some AI image."

The problem is, there are also AI generated MS Paint drawings that you can't tell is AI. We are only noticing the AI images that are in an 'AI' style. The AI tools allow you to make images you can't tell is AI.

I was responding to you mentioning fiber. But of course, the "internet" does run on servers, which also have a replacement rate. There were data centers before AI, and they had a lifespan well below 30 years.

I'm not arguing that the current build out isn't crazy, just that AI isn't going away. Just like everyone thought the internet was a fad, but then it continued to grow (remember web 2.0). AI will morph into something useful and will be sticking around, even if we can't envision what it will look like.

I've been through several network upgrades. You are saying the fiber in the ground lasts a long time, but all the equipment on either end gets replaced every ~5 years. I agree this build out seems pretty crazy, but people were saying the same thing with the internet. Arguing if the equipment has a replacement rate of 2-6 years or 30-40 years, I think isn't the part that makes this a bubble.

Yep, that is what the bet is. The build out will continue, even if it looks different.

The Internet was a 'bubble' at one point, and after it crashed in 2000, it didn't go away, it continued to build out. We're still using the Internet after the Internet bubble popped.

If the demand is great enough, they can fly trades to site and put them up in a hotel, just like any consultant.

From your other answers, you know what you are talking about. So wont argue the point.

Because I think we would really be arguing about, what level of reality can be calculated in a browser. Sure, a simulation can be done in a browser. But that could be anything from a thermostat with a single simple equation, to modeling all of the air flow thermo-fluid dynamics in a house down to millimeters volumes. There are limits. And I guess if using WASM browsers have gotten a lot more capable. It would come down to what fidelity we are saying is 'reality'.

wow.

Well, actually, my dear fellow, "NEWS" is short for N.E.W.S., which is North, East, West, and South. Indubitably. How smart, very intelligent.

The article didn't mention any follow up. He actually served his full sentence.

Did he sue after? Was there any accountability?.

Running a simulation in a browser is not going to be a complete representation of reality. To think that is possible is really weird. So really, what is happening, we are arguing over the 'Title'?

"an astrophysicist at Harvard's Black Hole Initiative"

He probably knows. It's in a browser, there are probably some trade-offs. Calm down.

Yeah, but they do all go up and down together. It isn't isolated to software jobs.

One thing on the first graph that jumps out, is that ALL unemployment has gone up/down in same ratio's. Maybe the current job market is not about AI, but all the other variables in the economy that has always driven unemployment.

Maybe the scary thing, the economy itself is suffering which is causing the unemployment, not AI.

HR always adds a lot of years of experience.

Even when Java 1.0 came out, HR was asking for 4-5 years of experience.

Seems like a decades long problem with people writing the job descriptions don't actually know what the job is.

An engineering nightmare. But as a passenger, it might be nice. Can take time getting on to the container and settled, and then the whole container gets loaded.

I'm interested in what you are referring to. Do you have link to this truck, the story..