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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, good. Don't build roads, bridges, and trains. Let's build jails.

/s

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the problem they cannot solve yet is a) knowing what to do and b) knowing when it's properly done.

The result is possibly more output per qualified human, but with your competition having the same tool, you're just keeping pace, not advancing.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We have to either take it from them, or figure out how to get as much freedom from the rat race as possible by other means. The taking it from them part is difficult because the people with the money also have most of the guns and, by extension, laws.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"Normal" Americans can do this too if they have enough capital. The amount needed may be less than you think.

These outcomes are features of modern finance and there aren't a lot of secrets about how it works. A lot of people could benefit by learning and using the same rules for their own benefit. These so called rich people know it because they talk about it with each other. Normies can look to forums like coastfire, expatfire, leanfire and similar for tips about how to similarly exploit the finance regulation in place today.

If you get a W2, and you spend most or all of the salary for living expenses - with no gap for significant savings, you're trading a month of labor for a month of living expenses. It might feel ok because you sit on a leather seat or stay in the Hilton sometimes. But if there is nothing left over you're perpetually running on fumes.

The only way out of this is by cutting expenses and creating as wide a gap as possible and pouring it into assets that grow, not shrink, in value. With the power of compounding returns nobody is more than a decade, decade and a half or so away from freedom. But yeah, you do have to live like a miser during that time.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm having an issue like this as well. Blocked keywords, blocked communities are showing often in my main feed suddenly

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Lying to the court is at minimum perjury, no? I wonder if the culture at these Immigration offices is such that they are encouraging this behavior or if it's looked down on?

If you're an attorney at a prestigious law firm and you're held in contempt or caught lying, I think this would be career limiting, potentially result in the loss of your license, and look bad on your firm.

Lawyers might have shitty clients though, and that might be the case at these DHS offices. I'm thinking about that one attorney who asked the judge to hold her in contempt. If that's the case you'd hope the attorney won't act until they are confident in the facts.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GitHub should have insight on new repositories and repositories that are gaining files like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md that kind of tip off the use of AI coding.

My guess is there's a super long tail of projects people are releasing as open source that were vibe coded to solve some simple problem. Most will likely fall into abandonment or never reach any amount of viability.

On the other hand the cost of starting a project to solve an interesting problem has never been lower. It's never been easier to take a swing at building something cool that people might like. This should expose new opportunities that haven't been attempted yet.

My intuition says it's not all bad. It's like selling hammers to people who aren't licensed construction workers. Yeah, some stuff will get built that should not be built.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Ever since we started seeing traffic cameras showing up at intersections 15 or 20 years ago and recording license plates, I've had an uneasy feeling that these data pools just become a tool to move against people at any time in the future.

I'm not opposed to enforcement of rules. I want there to be rules in society and it's important that we have resources dedicated to the enforcement of rules.

What I don't want is a goliath unfair advantage that can be easily used to hurt people - even inadvertently - by ill-trained or malicious authorities.

The government has unlimited resources to prosecute people and destroy lives through the process. And it's extremely expensive for people to defend themselves, even when falsely accused. The risk to everyday people, many who are following the laws, is just too high.

And if the wind blows towards fascist tendencies, that pool of data on you just became your worst nightmare.

The Fourth amendment was created in response to abuses by British authorities. At one point we wanted to protect individual privacy and property rights from government overreach.

Americans are not free if they are being detained for "probable cause" because some database + opaque lines of code said there is probable cause.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I now avoid all videos showing deaths or serious injuries (if I know that kind of content is coming).

Feels better to not have those images in my mind.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This thread is actually really depressing.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't there an incident where Pelocy was begging for the national guard to be called in? Or maybe one of the cabinet members. And Trump kept declining.

So the only people to do the shooting were the limited number of capital police. I don't think they're set up for riot defense and it's a lot to ask them to individually put their lives on the line by just shooting into the crowd.

 

Today I set up a little project website on a new subdomain. It's not a www subdomain or a newly registered domain, which is easy to detect. We're talking about:

Randomchars.mydomain.com

Within 20 minutes, the anthropic ClaudeBot was on it. I could tell because the nginx access log showed a hit to robots.txt and then a handful of pages.

First off, how the hell did they find it? Next, is my DNS provider, Amazon Route 53 selling this kind of data now? Or is there some kind of DNS wildcard query?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Once they are following, I'd think you can begin to convert them to higher tiers of support through private channels?

 

I came across this article in another Lemmy community that dislikes AI. I'm reposting instead of cross posting so that we could have a conversation about how "work" might be changing with advancements in technology.

The headline is clickbaity because Altman was referring to how farmers who lived decades ago might perceive that the work "you and I do today" (including Altman himself), doesn't look like work.

The fact is that most of us work far abstracted from human survival by many levels. Very few of us are farming, building shelters, protecting our families from wildlife, or doing the back breaking labor jobs that humans were forced to do generations ago.

In my first job, which was IT support, the concept was not lost on me that all day long I pushed buttons to make computers beep in more friendly ways. There was no physical result to see, no produce to harvest, no pile of wood being transitioned from a natural to a chopped state, nothing tangible to step back and enjoy at the end of the day.

Bankers, fashion designers, artists, video game testers, software developers and countless other professions experience something quite similar. Yet, all of these jobs do in some way add value to the human experience.

As humanity's core needs have been met with technology requiring fewer human inputs, our focus has been able to shift to creating value in less tangible, but perhaps not less meaningful ways. This has created a more dynamic and rich life experience than any of those previous farming generations could have imagined. So while it doesn't seem like the work those farmers were accustomed to, humanity has been able to shift its attention to other types of work for the benefit of many.

I postulate that AI - as we know it now - is merely another technological tool that will allow new layers of abstraction. At one time bookkeepers had to write in books, now software automatically encodes accounting transactions as they're made. At one time software developers might spend days setting up the framework of a new project, and now an LLM can do the bulk of the work in minutes.

These days we have fewer bookkeepers - most companies don't need armies of clerks anymore. But now we have more data analysts who work to understand the information and make important decisions. In the future we may need fewer software coders, and in turn, there will be many more software projects that seek to solve new problems in new ways.

How do I know this? I think history shows us that innovations in technology always bring new problems to be solved. There is an endless reservoir of challenges to be worked on that previous generations didn't have time to think about. We are going to free minds from tasks that can be automated, and many of those minds will move on to the next level of abstraction.

At the end of the day, I suspect we humans are biologically wired with a deep desire to output rewarding and meaningful work, and much of the results of our abstracted work is hard to see and touch. Perhaps this is why I enjoy mowing my lawn so much, no matter how advanced robotic lawn mowing machines become.

 

I was recently in the Bay area and tried these e-bikes from Lyft.

When you're finished you are expected to return them to a docking zone as opposed to ditching them wherever you finish. These parking locations are all over the place and easy to find.

They get the job done and the bike is fairly pleasant to ride on flat surfaces. Hills aren't recommended. The city is bike friendly in most areas with bike lanes all over.

If you're looking to get around and the weather is good, I'd recommend giving them a try if you're in SF.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27409933

And there are lots of other sizes too, such as the huge 40135 (40mm x 135mm)

 

And there are lots of other sizes too, such as the huge 40135 (40mm x 135mm)

 
 

Pretty sure I'm having heat creep up the Bowden tube, as it's getting jammed a few cm back from the hot end and then can't push the filament any more. When I get it out there's a little molten bulb at the filament.

In this fail, I think it jammed as usual and the extruder found a way to keep going.

I tried turning down the hot end from 215 to 200 and it's still failing. My cooling fan is running at 100%.

This is the third time I've had this print fail at about this layer, around 1 hour into what will be a 26 hour print.

Any ideas?

 

I'm in the process of hiring for a position and I have two candidates. It's a tough call because both are very proficient but each has some unique attributes. I thought I might ask ChatGPT's assistance with thinking it through.

I recorded myself talking through my thoughts on each one as I read through their resume and the Q&As that I've done with each. Then uploaded the audio file to the whisper-1 api for transcription (for this I'm using the OpenAI API).

Then I pasted the transcribed text into GPT4 and then prompted it with: "Above is my transcribed notes comparing two candidates for a position together. Help me think through this decision by asking me questions, one at a time."

ChatGPT proceeded to ask me really good questions, one after the other. After a while I felt like it had got me to think about many new factors and ideas. After about 22 questions I'd had enough, so I asked it to wrap up and summarize our next steps, to which it spit out a bullet-point list of what we'd concluded and, what steps we should take next.

I don't know if everyone is using ChatGPT this way, but this is a really useful feedback system.

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