jakeydus

If you enjoyed this I'd highly recommend checking out A Semiology of Graphics[0]. I was a little surprised to not see it mentioned in the article, but I recognize the article was less about types of data visualization than it was about how we create data vis.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Semiology_of_Graphics.h...

I could build the greatest healthcare tool in the world, but if it's not HIPAA compliant then it's worthless in the United States. More than that, if I built it without HIPAA compliance in mind as a first principle, what other mistakes did I make on the way?

I'm not trying to gatekeep and say that only domain experts should be allowed to build software, but part of being an engineer is doing due diligence to understand the domain well enough to build the product. If OP failed to recognize that any forensic accountant that gets caught uploading privileged documents into a random AI tool would be both breaking the chain of possession of that document AND client privilege, what other mistakes did they make along the way?

I went through the entire website and couldn't find a single mention about privacy. I'm not a domain expert, but I would expect the product site for any legal tool to at least have a disclaimer.

I think OP's being hyperbolic, but defending an idea that is dangerous at worst and immature at best doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering. Engineers who build products that put people (or their data) in danger are bad engineers. We need to hold one another to a higher standard.

Why is it that every "I built a cool AI tool" author shared on this site can't be bothered to write the article themselves? I'd be more likely to give credence to how great your slop is if you were at least invested enough to write the dang article yourself.

Here is my hot take. AI is going to replace some developers (not all) and the first ones it replaces will be the ones who can't code without it. The developer in this story provided a relationship with a forensic accountant, a few discussions with paralegals, and limited guidance to an agent. The agent did literally everything else, including writing the article!

Dang, did I just see someone get rimjobsteve-d in the wild?

It's not crazy --- it's visionary.

That was the gist of mine as well. "There are too many problems and too few people who care. So please care, and don't let the size of the problems keep you from caring."

ArcGIS Location Platform is a pay-as-you-go solution and their APIs are very generously priced IME.

I’ll be working on my law blog. The Bob Loblaw Law Blog.

Let’s say a tin of the queen’s biscuits and hazelnut treacle candies and turkish delight and jupiter jumpers runs 10 quid/day. 250 workdays a year means that one perk cost $2500. I guarantee it had an outsized impact on morale. Company of 100 employees means that cutting that perk earned everyone an extra $25/year. Yay!

Yes what the fuck is this entire thread

Nobody should.

Sorry, I love Linux, but could you imagine managing a fleet of the cheapest hardware possible and also teaching a bunch of 6th graders how to use Linux? School IT workers are already heroes. I don't like Google, but they're a necessary evil to keep those guys from tearing their hair out every day unless we dedicate significantly more resources to computing in schools.

I build environmental and structural sensor networks for work and this has my wheels spinning, but honestly I can’t think of many uses for the additional bandwidth. You could packet additional metadata maybe? GPS or network info? I’ll get one and play with it but off the top of the dome I think sub-Ghz is sufficient for most everything I do.

Remember last year (?) when one of the major AIs produced a bit of code that included Jeff Geerling's name in a comment?

Two birds with one stone thing maybe?

How would you describe the difference between them?

Don’t worry I’m sure there’s a few products without copilot integration still. They’ll get to them before too long.

I knew flappy bird was a bigger deal than it got credit for. Didn’t realize it was agi until just now.

You’re right. But your statement was that no product worth using is bug free. I said that no software exists that is without bugs. Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using. But since all software has bugs, that applies to every product ever made. It doesn’t have any discriminating power. So it’s not fallacious on its face but it’s not useful either, and that’s what I was trying to point out.

No product is bug free. Are all products worth using?

The hard looped animations are so painful to look at

You're not learning, though. So much of learning is going down the wrong path, realizing it's wrong, and retaining what you learned from that wrong path and realizing its applicability in the future. Being able to immediately find the correct answer doesn't teach you anything, it allows you to memorize the correct answer for this situation. It expands the depth of your knowledge graph (assuming you remember the answer) but you don't expand the breadth.

Proximity doesn’t automatically result in interaction, though. If every one of those 100 people get in their private mobile room every time they leave their private mobile room there is no chance for any of them to interact.

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

One is making implicit assumptions based on data available to it. The other is literally saying "hey they're right here at this time". At least adtech has _some_ level of obfuscation to it.

But I'm with you both suck.

Honestly private prisons are a farce anyways, so yeah this seems valid to me. The government doesn't get to get out of its obligations to citizens by outsourcing to third parties, and third parties don't get to wield government-level authority without government-level accountability.

I don’t think people in SF (especially those in the AI thought bubble) realize how much anti-AI sentiment has exploded. Go on any social media site besides HN or r/chatgpt or xitter and you’ll find that the cocktail mixer is largely viewed as a folk hero.

The first link shared was to a post requesting projects that aren't AI. I'm more interested in that one, so I appreciated the distinction, personally.

RadioLab did a phenomenal series on illegal immigration years ago. One thing that stuck out to me and has stayed with me ever since was an interview they did with a woman who had been deported multiple times, risked her life multiple times, denied a visa and asylum multiple times. They asked her why she kept trying to get across the border and she said that the alternative was death for her and her family.

Whether or not she was being honest I don't know. But it did make me realize that the broken system has created an all-or-nothing choice for so many people. No punishment or policy could ever outweigh the alternative for them, so you'll never be able to stop immigration, illegal or not.

I'm sure I'm not doing the argument justice, but your comment reminded me of it.