I hate ads until I need them, then I complain that the algorithms still suck. My wife recently reminded me I have to give Shopee time to surface good options when I don't have the exact words. I expect this to improve as their models improve.

I rode Waymo in SF recently and was impressed at how calm it was. We just got in and a guy on a bike was riding in the opposite direction, and the Waymo just stopped and waited for him to yell something, and we went on our way.

Unrelated, I asked Grok to "Generate ANSI art of the cover of the first issue of Iron Man War Machine" (I did this back in the BBS days for a friend's welcome screen) and it repeatedly outputs:

|_______|\n |_______|\n

It's been going for a minute and still going as I submit this comment

I'm grateful for low-level work, but what I really need is massive mocap datasets of cats moving so I can make a cat game with realistic motion (none of this walking on an invisible treadmill that rotates), and access to everyone's tax returns so I can make tax-filing software that actually works easily (for complex returns).

The hardest part about making a game is the art.

Tangent: many in IT and engineering don't work on soft skills. I hope this shows it's not that hard.

Engineers are not hired to play office politics or drag out problems in endless meetings until they give up and pretend they don't exist. They're hired to get things done and that usually requires stating things in clear and certain terms. If this seems hostile, that's on leadership.

Those who want "soft skills" from their engineers are often looking to place blame. It's easier to blame the engineer who didn't raise concern when things were going off the rails.

> Those who want "soft skills" from their engineers are often looking to place blame. It's easier to blame the engineer who didn't raise concern when things were going off the rails.

That is not what "soft skills" means.

Suppose your boss asks for something on an impossible timeline. Do you:

- say yes, and work overtime to get it done (without saying that's what you're doing)

- say no

- say yes, and demand extra recognition for being an hero

- insult your boss's upbringing and intelligence

- suggest a more realistic timeline

- say what you can get done by the given timeline

You're impossibly lost on this.

The actual only reasonable option is typically that your organization has unfortunately stacked the deck with morons and it's impossibly (to the rest of your org) transaparent to the rest of us (yet we know... cause we're not 'tarded). You have to go to bat for us. Good luck. :)

Welcome to middle management and god only knows how you got there! :) ... we know tho. good luck again :)

I'll throw you a bone. The only actual solution is to find a place to work that isn't hostile to devs and has made commitments towards technical comptetency in who they hire. Promoting from within and all that. If they don't then prepare to be fired long before that incompetent underling is. After all they produce results and will document it, while you cannot.

Yes, this is a good example of being very bad at soft skills.

I am unclear on how exactly this is meant to show that.

There are benefits to publishing certain things and hiding certain things. Even children know this (yes lying/hiding is an innate capability). The word "privacy" itself is almost as poorly defined (or overloaded terms perhaps) as "AI", yet nearly everything I see about these subjects take these terms in some absolute sense. I don't know how you can actually argue one way or another (binary!...there's actually many more than two ways to argue these topics).

It was always strange to me that scientists (people that are expected to be rigorous in their experimentation and analysis) would not include history in their analysis.

However, the Latin root of the word "science" is about cutting or taking something apart and zooming in. Perhaps another word is needed to describe the process of putting whatever is scientifically discovered within a larger context to account for so many variables that are ignored during the scientific process.

I personally suspect that all the biomarker stuff are really just the biochemical remnants of processes that begin at the sociocultural level.

>I personally suspect that all the biomarker stuff are really just the biochemical remnants of processes that begin at the sociocultural level.

That is a bit extreme. The sun is still set to die out in five billion years, regardless how much we talk about it. Its entirely possible that Alzheimer's has an origin which goes beyond any specific social circumstance, though I doubt it.

"Math"?

As argued in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053625

Etymology: "learning"

How would X benefit from such an acquisition?

There are many things (I frankly don't think there's a more specific word for this) like diets and psychedelics where many of us (rigorously minded) are constantly seeking proofs within systems containing sufficient complexity to render conclusions nearly impossible.

Diet interventions aren't terribly hard to test, they just consistently tend to result in "as bad or worse than no intervention" (short of fixing the sort of malnutrition you rarely see in the contemporary developed world)

The rigorous result is right in front of us we just don't like the answer