Hacker News: Futurebot

Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can't Do the Job

Futurebot — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:55:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shopify-says-no-new-hires-unless-ai-cant-do-the-job-81c34f1e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617663

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

Need a bodyguard? Now there's an app for that

Futurebot — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91280360/need-a-bodyguard-now-theres-an-app-for-that

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092599

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Futurebot in "Accountability sinks"

Futurebot — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:14:56 +0000

What the article describes seems like a parallel concept (and an important one.) I wouldn't call them Accountability Sinks, though, as they seem more like Accountability Avoiders. Here are things we might think of as sinks in the real world:

- "Sin Eaters"

- Corporations, especially companies that are spun off and take on all the debt of the original company

- Voluntary stool pigeons (in criminal organizations, etc.)

- Certain religious martyrs

New comment by Futurebot in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

Futurebot — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:09:38 +0000

That's exciting, especially the discovery stuff. Thanks!

New comment by Futurebot in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

Futurebot — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:45:56 +0000

Cool idea. Are you planning to add profile photo, description, and location support like Letterboxd has? Maybe messaging?

Also, is there a way to find who else has listened to what I've listened to?

Shortage of Animal Feed Leads Scientists to a Novel Alternative

Futurebot — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://technologysaw.com/shortage-of-animal-feed-leads-scientists-to-a-novel-alternative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046672

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

UN chief calls for global risk management of AI

Futurebot — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/17/un-chief-warns-of-serious-unintended-consequences-in-ai-development.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028338

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

'It hasn't delivered': the failure of self-checkout technology

Futurebot — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240111-it-hasnt-delivered-the-spectacular-failure-of-self-checkout-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39001753

Points: 12

# Comments: 50

New comment by Futurebot in "Dynamic programming is not black magic"

Futurebot — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 17:28:59 +0000

I like the short forumlation to explain it: "Dynamic Programming is approximately recursion + memoization + guessing"

Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep

Futurebot — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/29/mobile_industry_looks_to_6g/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840072

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Futurebot in "OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain"

Futurebot — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:59:03 +0000

"The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company."

Alternatively, we could have these companies turned into research organizations run by the government and funded by taxes they way most research (e.g. pharmaceuticals) should be. There's more than one way to get good research done, and having it public removes many strange incentives and conflicts of interest.

New comment by Futurebot in "Etsy promised shopping with a soul. Then the scammers came"

Futurebot — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:42:25 +0000

https://archive.is/qEaU3

Etsy promised shopping with a soul. Then the scammers came

Futurebot — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/05/17/etsy-dropshipping-knockoffs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978746

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

New comment by Futurebot in "ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha"

Futurebot — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:06:04 +0000

The next grail here would be the automatic use of more trustworthy systems like WA when using ChatGPT in general. If one were to ask it to write an essay on a subject, that it'd infer which pieces need fact-checking based on confidence intervals of snippets of discernable and differentiable data, then run a query against said trustworthy system.

With this improvement, it would at least never get dates or measurements wrong.

I don't think we can ever solve the problem of needing real editors and fact checkers as ultimate sources of truth for ChatGPT's output, especially when it's for something critical, but for many tasks, this would be a major improvement.