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howrar ,

You might benefit from installing earlyoom. It'll kill some of your processes before the system freezes from running out of memory.

howrar ,

It is made by scientists. And we don't know how to make the model determine whether or not it knows something. So far, we only have tools that tell us that something probably wasn't in the training set (e.g. using variance across models in a mixture of experts setup), but that doesn't tell us anything about how correct it is.

howrar ,

I've heard Elon Musk (or was it Karpathy?) talking about how camera should be sufficient for all scenarios because humans can do it on vision alone, but that's poor reasoning IMO. Cars are not humans, so there's no reason to confine them to the same limitations. If we want them to be safer and more capable than human drivers, one way to do that is by providing them with more information.

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

howrar ,

The article is about Google. Why does it matter that it's missing from the Alphabet handbook?

howrar ,

Oh, I see. You're clarifying why jonne thought this was the case, not arguing for why they're correct.

howrar ,

You can criticize the way we name things, but the fact remains that the distinction between "skilled" and "unskilled" labour is a useful one and will continue to exist regardless of what you decide to call it. I feel like this comment is just a distraction from the real problem you intend to draw attention to, which I'm guessing is low wages.

howrar ,

They also exist because there's important differences to the jobs. For example, in how you hire. If you're looking for "unskilled" workers, you can cast a wide net with the job ad and hit mostly the relevant audience. You can go up to anyone looking for a job and offer them said job. If you need a bigger pool of people to hire from, you can make changes that have almost immediate impact (e.g. increasing benefits, working conditions, marketing). For "skilled" labour, there's fewer people in the pool to hire from, so you want to go directly to where they're being trained (e.g. job fairs at universities or trade schools), and if you need to increase the pool you can hire from, that has delayed effects since you need to wait for people to go through their training.

I was not aware of the negative connotation though, so I'll keep that in mind. I don't think changing the word itself is going to do anything about that though. Connotation will follow unless you change people's attitudes towards these jobs. I don't know how you would do that though. Any ideas?

howrar ,

I see what you mean with certain jobs being perceived negatively. Maybe the messaging should be about the value of "unskilled" labour/labourers rather than saying that there's no such thing as "unskilled" labour? To me, the latter implies that there's nothing distinguishing "skilled" and "unskilled" labour. The only people who would understand what you're really trying to say are those who are part of your circle spreading the "message", and thus it only serves the purpose of saying "I'm on team X! Anyone else?"

howrar ,

Everything requires skills, yes. Some skills take longer to acquire. It's the difference between taking a random adult on the street and teaching them to perform a job within a week versus a year or more. Whether or not you're self taught doesn't change the fact that it didn't take you a week to learn to code and it's not something that's part of a standard curriculum most adults would've gone through.

If you don't think "unskilled" reflects this distinction properly, suggestions for alternatives are welcome. But I still think this is a distraction from the main problem.

howrar ,

Maybe specialized vs general labour?

howrar ,

"skill" is a gradient, so the label "unskilled" is in itself meaningless.

You know what else is a gradient? Size. Does that make terms like "big" and "small" meaningless? Just about everything in this universe exists on a spectrum.

howrar ,

Specialized vs general labour?

My point is, if we care about what we call this, then just pick something and move on to solving the real problem.

howrar ,

I feel like I'm missing the joke. Can someone explain why Saddam is there?

howrar ,

Ah, gotcha

howrar ,

Shit takes time bro. We're all trying not to starve to death here.

howrar ,

Responding to your first two paragraphs:

The enjoyability of a piece of art isn't independent of the creator. I will only speak for myself since I don't know other people's experiences. When you see something that tickles the happy part of your brain, part of that emotional response is in knowing that there's another person out there who probably felt that way and wanted to share those feeling with you. In experiencing those emotions, you also experience a connection with another human being. The knowledge that you're not alone and someone else out there has experienced the same thing. I wouldn't read through the credits because I don't care who that person is. I just care that this person existed. When you look at AI generated work and it just feels empty despite the surface beauty, this is the missing piece. It's the human connection.

howrar ,

But the claps are in the wrong place

howrar ,

Bro took less than a minute to find and share this image. I need to know his indexing strategy.

howrar ,

Have you found any of the former?

howrar ,

I envy all of you who have uncommon last names.

howrar , (edited )

Some Willy Wonka experience thing in Glasgow. Entire event was AI generated apparently.

howrar ,

I don't see how it would be possible to completely replace programmers. The reason we have programming languages instead of using natural language is that the latter has ambiguities. If you start having to describe your software's behaviour in natural language, then one of three things can happen:

  1. either this new natural programming language has to make assumptions about what you intend, and thus will only be capable of outputting a certain class of software (i.e. you can't actually create anything new),
  2. or you need to learn a new way of describing things unambiguously, and now you're back to programming but with a new language,
  3. or you spend forever going back and forth with the generator until it gives you the output you want, and this would take a lot longer to do than just having an experienced programmer write it.
howrar ,

I block ads using uBlock. Does that count?

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

howrar ,

A nearby post office is nice because they can leave your packages there when you miss the delivery. I agree on banks though. Just give me ATMs for those rare occasions where I need cash.

howrar ,

We don't close it. It's never been a problem.

howrar ,

More expensive for the rich, yes. The rest of us want to stop having to pay for things we don't want through degrading our surrounding environment.

howrar ,

Well, Chrome OS is a thing.

howrar ,

Why haven't we seen any of that happening?

howrar ,

Ridiculously expensive housing without the salaries to match. But at least I don't have to worry about going broke if ever someone in the family gets sick I guess.

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