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The arts. The further and further you go in instruction, the more it becomes about the little differences and quality. Practice always helps, but quality definitely taught and learned by many as well.


Fantastic claims require fantastic evidence.

Please be careful with things like this before someone gets hurt or worse.

I have friends in the medical profession who have tested GPT4 and it’s good, but not quite good enough for them.

I wouldn’t touch this with a 20 mile stick; something that claims actual medical advice like this.


Yep, as a medical student, I strongly believe we need explainable AI for healthcare, and that AI only empowers clinicians to make the final call, and does not do any medical decision making autonomously. I really hope other players in the space like Hippocratic AI [1] and Google Med-PaLM2 [2] understand this as well.

[1]: "www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/hippocratic-health-raises-50-mln-seed-funding-build-ai-model-2023-05-16/"

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-science...


Do you even need ai? What about just a basic system where you type in some keywords like the symptom presented, it queries a known good source like the physicians desk reference or something, and returns results with a likelihood score to match your keywords? Such a systems seems like it would be useful and also would not need an ai model or expensive training to create.


> Do you even need ai?

Doesn't matter if you need it, AI is used here as a magnet for VC money.


> Retail and restaurant companies won't ever respond to my applications, despite constantly spamming the same jobs month after month.

I don't know of any place in the U.S. that doesn't have wanted signs in the windows for restaurant work. Between fast food, back of house, or front of house, there really are a ton of options both in downtown areas and suburbs from my experience.

Have you actually gone to one of these locations, physically, and applied? Did you follow up instead of just dropping an application by and hoping for the best?


This. I'm taking a break from big tech, and started a restaurant a couple years ago. We get a lot of people sending emails/social media messages saying they want a job, but so far we've only hired those who have come into the location (with great success). I use it as a litmus test for someone being able to actually show up for the job when hired.

The old adage of "why don't you go down and ask for a job" still works in service/retail.


> Have you actually gone to one of these locations, physically, and applied?

Are there any places these days that are sitting around with stacks of paper job applications waiting for someone to walk in and ask for one? I figured by now just about everyone would ask you to apply online and showing up in person would just get you strange looks like "how has this person never heard of the internet?"


I don’t know about the method of application, but the restaurant industry, in particular, has almost always operated on hiring bodies that actually walk in the door versus applications from someone online. Especially true for entry-level stuff in my experience (10 years in the service industry).


No, service and retail still like when people show in person


Examining the source, you can use coordinates instead of address when calling get_aoi.

https://github.com/chrieke/prettymapp/blob/main/prettymapp/g...


Excellent, thanks!


Sounded like a neat project but seemed light on documentation.

Had to go back to 2015 in the Internet Archive[0] to actually find a copy of the website mentioned.

The site is in Russian but Google Translate seems to do an okay job of bringing it into English[1].

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150223174714/http://www.hydron...

[1] - https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20150223174714/ht...


> The site is in Russian

The site was in Russian and English, but it was a site of Ukrainian maintainer of FREE!ship Plus, see details and link to page in English in my previous comment.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670328#36671965


How far from WSDLs and SOAP we’ve come.

I applaud this effort. I hate that we’re back to where this feels necessary. I’m not sure if there’s anything better.

JSON sure felt better than XML. But did we abstract too far, or did we just get so much better bandwidth and processors, that enriched data exploration is just insignificantly possible?

I read the use-cases for this, but I feel like: if you’ve gone so far to where this is helpful/useful, have you just gone too far?


> I read the use-cases for this, but I feel like: if you’ve gone so far to where this is helpful/useful, have you just gone too far?

I don't understand this perspective. JSON isn't used only for RPC, even if that's what most frontend software is doing. For better or worse, it became a data serialization and interchange format - the need for such support tools arises naturally once you're generating or processing anything but most trivial data, and you value your time/sanity.


Totally fair. I guess I was mostly considering the more typical client-server consumption, RPC-type uses and wasn’t really thinking just how much we use it for basic data interchange and serialization. Thanks.


Everyone seems pretty wrapped up in the social part. But I think many forget that “media” was actually a big part of this.

Photos weren’t always so easy to share. Having places where media was only based on your friends or people you knew was incredibly novel and useful. A single website you could log in to in order to view photos (and eventually videos) related to you was novel when we all had flip phones and a “camera phone” was special.

Sharing media was tough. Photos - let alone, video - required tech, bandwidth, and a whole-ass computer.

I think that in addition to the social aspect dwindling, changing, or evolving, we must also account for the fact that media is so much easier to create, share, and consume. This is true with friends, relatives, and strangers; locally and afar.

We don’t “need” social media anymore because the media part is mostly solved. Fewer and fewer people don’t have a connected media viewer and creator in their pocket at all times anymore.

Being social with media is as simple as texting someone, or many people. And we do it in high definition all day, every day. No login. No ads. No algorithm.


I do see myself going old tech, back to IRC clients and chatrooms like the 90's.


Yes, please. It’s been sad to see Freenode disappear. I’m afraid I don’t know where to call home in the IRC world anymore.


You may be happy to know, then, that Gary Larson is making new Far Side comics.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff


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Maybe you don’t yet grok vi.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118


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