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by jmfldn 4y ago
A postcode and house number is all that's needed in theory in the UK, so something like `2 A12 1XY`. In reality that would be weird and people would add the street and town. One issue also is that, even though the postcode pinpoints a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Something like this seems possible in the sense that the productivity gains, accruing to the few who master this, will be so massive that it will impoverish the rest of is. We could be talking Elysium levels of inequality. The caveat here i
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Part of me is very against banning things like this, but I just can't see how this isn't a massive potential risk that we should avoid. The precautionary principle applies here for me. I guess this will accelerate the already pret
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Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok(newstatesman.com)
1 points by jmfldn 4y ago|5 comments
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"US policymakers are turning their attention to TikTok following the Chinese spy balloon debacle." I wonder how serious this is?
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by jmfldn 4y ago
This is very true. But could the program itself just be a normal program, but written by a neural network? I guess this is kinda what GPT 3 can do? One way or another, I want to be able to read the source. Or am I missing the point? Maybe f
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by jmfldn 4y ago
My personal take is that mindfulness as a stress reliever is normally fine in small doses. It can often be very beneficial in lowering stress. If you have a known underlying mental health problem however, I would recommend taking this up wi
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I mean... it's not that bad but everyone has gone down a notch in the last 10-20, years imho. The only people living in 4+ bed detached / semi detached houses are people with inherited wealth or huge joint incomes. Doctors, senior
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Yep for sure. Asset inflation caused by things like quantative easing, the poorly-implemented covid furlough scheme and various other 'trickle up' economic policies over the decades, helped to fuel the rampant wealth inequality we
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Londoner here. I think those from outside this city, let alone outside this country, would be amazed at the amount of working poor there are here, let alone non-working poor. Yes, it's a 'rich' city, it's also got a lot
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Lighten up mate.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
It's important to shine a light on the limitations of AI detection software, and this case study on GPTZero does just that. False positives can have serious consequences, particularly in sensitive areas such as healthcare.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
> Apprentices need to be paired with journeymen to learn the craft. I have not met a single successful team that has not had at least as many journeymen as apprentices -- ideally even more. This! I couldn't agree more. We inflate pe
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by jmfldn 4y ago
> basically unusable for anything except very technical things It's problematic here. I use it as a kind of search engine for technical questions occasionally, but it's only safe to do so as I know the subjects I'm askin
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Yeah it does to be fair. Code style to me means something more than this.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
That only addresses superficial concerns like formatting. A linter can't rewrite the code and change the style.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
My original point was about avoiding the reductive view of comparing one country against another solely by how much cash one takes home for a given job. Just on healthcare, did you know your per capita spending is 2 to 3 times higher? http
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by jmfldn 4y ago
You could argue that's still paying for it and the premium will be high compared to equivalent national insurance payments here.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Sure. Overall you probably end up with more money in your pocket. I don't think many would dispute that this is an upside to living in America for an engineer. My point is that money as the sole metric is a bit pointless and reductive.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
We pay zero is the point.
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Pretty normal yep. If you work in things fintech and / or are super senior then salary could be much higher. Overall this looks about right. Remember that in the UK we have access to more public services and benefits etc. Americans pa
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Exactly. This article, and many like it, are pure clickbait. Passing LC tests is obviously something such a system would excel at. We're talking well-defined algorithms with a wealth of training data. There's a universe of differe
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Exactly. I see this being eclipsed by the Stable Diffusion equivalent for ChatGPT. You could then have cloud providers offering whatever specialised compute you need to easily run one of these as a server. Host your own instance in other wo
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I don't mind paying for AI services, but I want it to be transparent. I want to see the source code, the training data and so on. What I'm paying for should be the massive compute infrastructure needed to train and maintain the mo
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by jmfldn 4y ago
> We can read in history books (and maybe first-hand knowledge from a few senior folks on HN) how there was concern about moving from assembly to the first high-level languages That's an interesting point, I'd like to hear more
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I think I see your point, but in my thought experiment, this future AI will be bootstrapped from the current accumulated knowledge of programming and software engineering. I don't think it would be back to square one. At the very least
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Right exactly. So to my original point, are tests enough? Would code, apart from machine code, be irrelevant at this point? How do I inspect the program? Do I need to?
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In my thought experiment, let's say that I tease out the requirements but the machine implements absolutely everything. That's the question I'm driving at. How do I verify the software's functional and non-functional req
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I had the same thought!
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Ask HN: When AI can write all code, what is the role of programming languages?
5 points by jmfldn 4y ago|13 comments

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