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hallway_monitor··on Helen Toner shares her side
Good science fiction writers. Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, even Orson Scott Card I'd trust more than today's politicians.
hallway_monitor··on What it takes to save the axolotl
Try having kids, building a life with someone is easy mode until you throw multiple children into the mix. It's the final milestone of the human metamorphosis and it's a challenge.
hallway_monitor··on New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
hallway_monitor··on RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
It's not a joke that one of the hardest problems is naming things. So many promising products and businesses shoot themselves in the foot by choosing a name that hurts adoption.
hallway_monitor··on Cloudflare API, dashboard, tunnels down
Right? This whole thread is more reddit than HN
hallway_monitor··on The Ideation Flywheel: A mental model for deciding which startup ideas to pursue
Find a partner maybe? That's my theory of why I'm not a unicorn CEO yet.
hallway_monitor··on The black market in GitHub stars
Interview with coding and design is nonstandard and possibly illegal? We must be living in different timelines.
hallway_monitor··on Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon
More likely too frequent use. Psychedelics twist reality, doing them too often definitely leaves a mark. Eventually you have trouble telling what's real and what's not even when you're sober.
hallway_monitor··on US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices
Yes
hallway_monitor··on A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)
I would just use a cloud product like Google drive or Google notes for this. Then at the end of the day paste it into the correct location in the log.

I've thought about this type of tracking in the past, but I haven't been confident enough that it would actually find useful patterns to put in the work to implement it.

hallway_monitor··on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
Drinking doesn't mean getting drunk, except to college kids. No friend of mine ever drinks to the point of slurring speech, it's a sign of a problem in an adult and quite distasteful. Drinking with friends is fun, getting drunk is stupid.
hallway_monitor··on Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images
California is a great example of being terrible in most cases.
hallway_monitor··on Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (2006)
Grouchiness may be correlated with age but not all older people are grouchy. Maybe it's actually caused by feeling useless and unloved.
hallway_monitor··on Effect of repeated low-level red light on myopia prevention
This is so sad but true. In my experience, most doctors learn approximately nothing after graduating medical school. The miracle of AI will be that it will replace these useless people.
hallway_monitor··on Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say
This is a good point, thank you. I don't think anyone here would argue against this feature if it was 100% accurate. However, mandating something that has many reports of erroneous activation seems like overreach.
hallway_monitor··on Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say
Exactly. It's 0.92% of the 38,000 car crash deaths in the US annually. I agree, this is noise and honestly it doesn't make sense the NHTSA would even consider a mandatory "safety" feature like this for that small of an expected change. Personally, I will not be purchasing a car with this feature until I'm forced to.
hallway_monitor··on The QR-code menu is being shown the door
I agree with this. After entering my card into Toast once, now from any restaurant I can scan the code, enter my tip amount and I'm done. So much better than using either cash or a card.
hallway_monitor··on HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update
No, and we can't trust it to big government either. This is my belief and fear, the government will or has already implanted itself with open AI exactly like they did with Twitter. So now we will have the most powerful corporation in the world secretly controlled by the US government.

Is there a lesser of two evils here? I honestly don't know, but I don't think we will get a choice.

hallway_monitor··on Attention, Hollywood: De-Aging Isn’t Working, So Please Stop Using It
I don't see why existing actors would play into the picture at all. By that time there will be famous AI actors. And you can license the model for $99 per film!
hallway_monitor··on Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
Thank you. Because what you're talking about is blind trust in someone who has been put into a position of supposed authority. I can't bring myself to do it - I don't know these people so until I'm presented with credible evidence that makes sense to me, I believe a position of extreme skepticism is warranted.
hallway_monitor··on Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
For chemicals that cause illnesses that take decades to show up, it's my guess that we will never find all of them, and there are likely a lot of them out there. It's a hard problem. Maybe it can be helped by using modelling techniques to extrapolate effects over time.
hallway_monitor··on The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
This tracks since 90% of all Java code is boilerplate.
hallway_monitor··on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
It's still available, just cloned it.
hallway_monitor··on Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video]
This is the one thing that makes me hate Apple with the fire of a thousand suns. I can't send a video message to my iphone friends without it looking like it came from 1995.
hallway_monitor··on When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty
Seems like it refers to bio-energy exchange - the mosquitos eat something, other animals eat the mosquitos. Another way of saying they are a major part of the food chain.
hallway_monitor··on Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
Yep exactly. I guess I haven't hit the 25 messages in 3 hours limit, but whenever there's an API or library I'm not familiar with. I can get my exact example in about 10 seconds from ChatGPT 4
hallway_monitor··on Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
You may have luck if you frame it in terms of an investment. Spend the time now to fix your alerts, add playbooks, improve process - because you immediately start enjoying the benefits. Less time spent on support means higher velocity. The longer you wait the more engineering time you've wasted It just takes a little patience up front as well as product and engineering collaborating.
hallway_monitor··on It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business
Once we can run our own personal, private LLMs it will definitely open up a world of possibilities.

Actually applications like this will probably be implemented on the cloud-based models, since 98% of the public does not care about privacy as much as people on this forum.

hallway_monitor··on It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business
I hope so.

You already need to meet someone in person to get a true feel for them. There are so many things that don't come throug video. Smell, for instance, generally plays an important role in our perception.

hallway_monitor··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
It has plugins now. It can search the web. It's connected to Wolfram. Zapier. It can do things.

Even before that you could hack something together. I told it how to request an image be included in responses - it includes [fluffy unicorn], I parse that out, feed it to another GPT to get a better description, then feed that to DALL-E to get the image to include

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