skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this is just a whole bunch of "maybe".

I think maybe we can train this further using existing linters and analyzers? At least the AI will emit far fewer lines of critically dangerous code, but we'll still have a lot of anti-pattern issues.

Maybe GPT isn't really a good fit for this kind of task. Maybe we can create a better assistant using simpler AIs. If we reduce the scope (e.g. language, framework) and programming style (e.g. OOP, code organization, design), the amount of context should be much smaller than what GPT is hoarding. This may also allow us to have some open-source programming AIs.
Can you elaborate a bit? Prophet can use MCMC sampling and includes uncertainty in its forecasts.
> progressively enhancing a form

Ah, didn't get that context; your clarification is appreciated. Though I'm not sure kids these days care about progressive enhancement-style webdev ...
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If I didn't know better, I could easily mistake that for a description of the Cell microarchitecture[0]

"...that combines a general-purpose PowerPC core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation."

and

"To achieve the high performance needed for mathematically intensive tasks, such as decoding/encoding MPEG streams, generating or transforming three-dimensional data, or undertaking Fourier analysis of data, the Cell processor marries the SPEs and the PPE via EIB to give access, via fully cache coherent DMA (direct memory access), to both main memory and to other external data storage"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29
> don't use "but people are already doing this" to justify copilot approach.

Why not? Most of the software is not built by checking the formal verification of specification but by looking into the code and having reasonable understanding that it works. Also there will be errors in the code whether we use copilot or not. Personally if I don't have an option to do a build and run and look into the output, I am reasonably sure that there is at least one bug in something like every 50 lines.
I've never felt "all-in-one" or generic learning tools are really of any good beyond learning the basics.

For instance for me learning Japanese I use probably up to 5-10 apps regularly to learn the entire scope of what japanese requires.
Can't say I was surprised to see TSA near the top of the rankings
https://microprediction.github.io/timeseries-elo-ratings/htm...
Yeah OP is just factually incorrect here. On paper many countries are poorer, and on the ground you can see standard of living is either worse or slightly worse.

Sure there is less corruption in EU healthcare, but outside of that sector Americans get better homes, cars, and disposable income.
Then GH will realise that their product will never be able to do Full Self Coding in it's current form (need to install a supercomputer (LIDAR) at home to do this safely in any language other than rust). This will require that you buy Github Copilot SFC Model Z, It'll be released next year once they've gathered data from your coding habits for awhile. Pinky promise
Yes, tldr is an awesome and I used it for some time but its library wasn't rich enough. Perhaps it got bigger nowadays, maybe I'm going to revisit it.
Entitlements are an 'investment' into loyalty to the federal government and the system it presides over. The military is cheap by historic standards. The entitlement system is so expensive that it stymies any significant federal policy ambition that requires resources. Our political leaders generally gave up on trying to reform entitlements in the 2000s (when it was last a TV dinner issue), so instead most just try to distract from the issue with trivia.

Thinkers these days tend to be frightened about trying to come up with alternative, more cost-effective ways to secure the loyalty of the population. The default position is to just not bother shifting away from the inevitable path to failure, because letting it fail might be an easier way towards creating consensus for a solution than trying to avert the failure. If the system fails because of collective inaction, no faction can be directly blamed for the failure (so the thinking goes).
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If you already knew how to do the thing, then you wouldn't need co-pilot. The whole purpose of this tool is to suggest a way to do the thing, and the biggest value is when you don't know how to do it and need help. In that case, if you can't trust the help what use is it?

As others have pointed out, at last Stack Overflow comes with context, the ability to rate and comment on suggestions, or even have a discussion about an approach. With this you take it or leave it. Saying you should already know what you need to do and what the tradeoffs are and how to evaluate the quality of the suggestion is basically saying this should have no value to you, and any consequences are all your fault if it does.
Nintendo rejected his idea because it was 2004 and there was no market for niche artsy indie games. There was no app store, and indie games at the time simply weren't commercially acceptable. In 2004, gaming was still this relatively new industry. Products were either geared towards children, or violent games towards adults.

I don't think he could admit to himself that Nintendo had no business attempting to sell his egomaniacal art project to a mainstream audience.

At the time he was better off selling it on Steam. If he so badly wanted to get a Nintendo license he should've repurposed the engine into something less abstract.

I think the game is an impressive accomplishment for one person. But compared to what else was coming out at the time on the DS, by multi person development teams, it really doesn't look that good. It almost reminds me of a Newgrounds flash game.
True, but if you live anywhere in western Europe you have to work really hard to fuck up your life forever.
Exactly. Copilots are fully-capable pilots who frequently take full control of the plane. It's not an appropriate analogy at all.
> how do you pay for your kids to go to college?

Just to point out, there are some _really_ good college's in the EU that don't cost $$$. eg:

https://leverageedu.com/blog/free-universities-in-germany/ (random page about it)
Indeed,

through I also think we might need to better differentiate between content platforms with social
aspect (YouTube, TickTock), Social Networks (Facebook, Instagram?) and Messengers (WhatsApp, Signal, etc.).
I think we just learned more about you than about our company. My personal choice would be to avoid those conversations in the hall and just use chat. However I've learned over the years not everyone is like me and most people do talk to people in the halls, the water coolers...

One useful bit of advice I got years ago was when in person instead of reaching for chat when you need someone walk over to their desk and talk to them. For the vast majority of people talking to them face to face is more meaningful than the chat even if to you it seems that chat is more efficient.
We have figured it out. People with a PhD and given enough time can do it. Scaling this will be possible, especially with the help of AI, as soon as there is the actual will there to do it.
> My current hypothesis is that the team is all that matters.

Man. One of the worst jobs I've ever had was working as a paralegal in a law office, but I had two friends there that made it so much fun. We'd send each other emails making fun of the attorneys (obviously a risk but the IT person was a friend), joking around, talking about the future, sending dumb memes and getting hammered after work.

After that, I got my first dev gig working with one of my closest friends, and it was a blast.

Now I'm working for a company doing really cool stuff, but I don't really know the people I work with and it's sort of a cold environment, and I feel like I'm stagnating. I really, really think there's something to what you said. They're not bad people, not by a long shot, and maybe something will develop, but the camaraderie I had at the law office gig was special, and I miss it.

My goals have narrowed: be a good father and husband, serve my community in whatever way I can, write fiction when I can. I think that's good. I also don't hold it against myself that I had loftier, maybe unrealistic, goals when I was younger. People change.
I haven't used this one yet but it is free for the next day or so on the Windows store - https://user.camp/apps/mind-maps-pro/
Human nature does not change, not even at gun-point. This is what technology is, to change the world around us, so our brittle little society does not break down and we within it.
Technology is the anti-thesis to ideology that believes one can fundamentally alter human nature.
But due to our exponential insatiable nature, all technology in the end would become exponentially powerful. Handing out WMD-Gadgets to glorified monkeys at the end of the curve.
No flying cars due to 9/11.

Philosophy aside, i was always fascinated by the ability to produce plasma with lasers - if need be in midair.

I added that to a game i develop, were the basic containment field for fusion is "augmented" on the fly, by printing plasma-circuitry into the outer layers and running currents through that. Its just scifi, in reality the interior of a reactor is to chaotic and unstable for such things, but its fun to imagine. Like printing a coil shaped laser lightning rod.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/fet-open-laser...
> What if through pursuing AI research there is never any threatening superintelligence but instead we get a second industrial revolution that lifts the globe entirely out of poverty, or allows for the easy colonization of other planets.

There is exactly zero possibility for that. Our problems with the more are not due to lack of comprehension but lack of incentives to do the right thing. Having ML algorithms enforcing the biases they've been taught by Silicon Valley sociopaths is not going to have a positive impact for society, especially if you take into consideration the ecological impact that a "smart society" has in terms of sensors, computing capabilities...

We need a Butlerian Jihad because some of us are slaves to the machines (for the most drastic examples take Amazon workers, but that's just the tip of the iceberg) because the machines are controled by our evil human overlords. AI is not going to annihilate all humans, but it may very well help the masters of this world to eradicate all humanity we have left.
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When I first heard the phrase, it was enough savings to quit your job without having another lined up? I guess people have different definitions.
Really? I think it happens pretty often. It’s a form of bikeshedding, if you don’t know jack about the actual technical issue in question just blurt out your thoughts on the product (or whatever) the issue is in context of.
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This article is written about UK networks, where none of the networks advertise data as being available at "2G speed".

The only thing I can think of in the UK that's similar is, the "Always On" offering from giffgaff, an MVNO (https://www.giffgaff.com/help/articles/what-does-always-on-m...). It offers 80GB of data per month at full speeds, then unlimited data at 384kbps.

The UK networks generally offer either a fixed data limit, or truly unlimited data plans.
The problem is of their own creation since they are all the same parent company.
LOL. Lower class Americans have as much disposable income as middle class Europeans.

Our poorest states are as rich as or richer than your average European nation.
> If you dive into the C specification, you'll discover that the values I tried to cast lead to undefined behaviour [10] which means that my program could have done anything. In practice, the behaviour I observed can be explained very simply.

This is not entirely correct. Note that this is integer conversion as opposed to signed integer arithmetic overflow. The latter is indeed undefined behavior, while the former is implementation defined.

https://cigix.me/c17#6.3.1.3.p3

> Otherwise, the new type is signed and the value cannot be represented in it; either the result is implementation-defined or an implementation-defined signal is raised.

In C++ since C++20 the result is defined. Before that the result was implementation-defined (without the option to raise a signal).

AFAIK all major compilers do the obvious thing in both C and C++. The undefined behavior of signed integer overflow is indeed used by compiler optimizations.
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Yeah, Map (or WeakMap if keys are objects and you don't need iteration) is much better at this kind of thing.
It's also Japanese for "ugly".
If people don't die from your mistakes they're not important IMO.

Note that people die if data is lost, causing companies to go bankrupt (suecide). But really, not everything has to be correct, look at Intel and AMD. They've been compromising correctness for speed for quite awhile, and we're mostly fine.
I'd personally consider it bad code. It uses NaN as an error signalling vector, and makes it an unstated assumption. I suppose it would be acceptable if the project uses magic IEEE754 values / floating point traps this way, and everyone is aware of it.

I don't know Go, but from briefly skimming some articles, I believe a standard practice would be to define the function as:

func averageRuntimeInSeconds(runs []Run) (float64, error)

and then detect the situation when all runs failed, and return an error. Alternatively, there should be a documented assumption that the function expects non-zero successful runs in its argument.

A sufficiently smart ML model could probably do either. This one doesn't, and the problem of NaNs is something I'd have a good chance of missing during code review.
> So someone who makes a truly groundbreaking invention but for some reason (e.g. it requires huge capital) does not want to create a company for manufacturing it, should not be able to use patents?

If it's "truly groundbreaking", how are so many other entities which are being sued blindly stumbling into the exact same thing? That seems like a loose definition of the "obviousness" part of patent invalidation to me.

If an inventor doesn't want to manufacturer it, they're welcome to sell licenses or even the whole patent. That should mean going out and actually selling the damn thing. Make a case for its value to buyers, which should be easy for anything "truly groundbreaking", right?

But to just patent something, do absolutely nothing, then circle back around 15 years later and sue everything that might be infringing? That's the (potential strawman) situation that people are actually reacting to. I would not have any issue if these patents or licenses to them were actively being marketed and sold.
isn't this something that's being executed client side? why trust it at all?
It seems PathQuery's entire novelty is better handling of recursive querying for query optimization, but "details are admittedly not discussed herein".

So the paper has a sort of weird feel. It goes like this: PathQuery is a good language, because it has good semantics and it is optimizable. Some words on its good semantics. We don't discuss how it is optimizable, but trust us, it is.
Then it can be picked up in a code review.
It helps that the game was originally done on a C64 and ran on lots of other low-end platforms. There was also and unreleased NES version.
The brewing process itself, which involves holding the mash at a pretty high temperature, probably does more to purify the water than the small amount of alcohol.
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What working with WASM looks like today
Pardon my ignorance; what does RH mean in this context?
Heh yeah. It's been 8 years since my last "hey progressive enhancement is still important" blog post. Almost time for another!
It's a good tool but it's not enough to learn a whole new language. As a user it helped me a lot to memorize new words and also to easily understand common sentences and expressions. For speaking and writing skills is much more limited and you would need a teacher and real-world practice.

But I used Duolingo + Anki for all the vocabulary stuff and then I could focus the paid lessons on grammar + writing + speaking to be more effective (and save time & money)
You can be out and have a social life while drinking alcohol free drinks. I've been drinking alcohol free beers 90% recently, most of them aren't that tasty but a few of them are just as good as regular beers.

In my experience people don't care if you drink pints of vodka or orange juice, as long as you're physically here and engage socially. It's like being vegetarian, some friends might look at you funny for a bit but unless they're complete morons they won't actively judge you
The results are actual answers from StackOverflow.

The problem it has now is sometimes, answers can be the actual code. Or sometime, the answers is about explaining something (the code on those answers are not whole).

Besides, VSCode isn't officially support inline-completion yet. So this extension can only run on VSCode Insider for now

That said, the code is no joke
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I don't mind brands/logos but it's a double-edged sword. It's hard to like or want to wear something that's perceived to be in decline if there are logos/branding all over it. Gap, Superdry, Hollister all seem a bit passé to me. I still buy Gap, but never with the logo on it.

Uniqlo seem fairly on the ball. The single length trouser size is very astute, although problematic for me as I live outside of London. Basically, I don't bother to buy trousers from them as they will never fit. T-shirts and sweatshirts are fine though!
Why is Stardew Valley not rewarding? Do you have an example of a game that you find rewarding?
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Computer graphics maybe? You can shift goal posts what "correctness" means, but if a game renders something in a funny way, it's really not going to hurt anyone. Yes, if it's constantly a total mess nobody will want to play the game, but 1. that would be (presumably) found quickly during testing, and 2. this is a very gradual tradeoff. Nowhere near "paramount".
I don't agree. I use it all the time. I just don't do it blindly.
OP is correct, actually. I am not sure how you define or measure "standard of living" but common measurements include human development index [1] and quality of life index [2]. by both measurements the US lags behind many european countries. life expectancy in the US has been declining [3]. and the corruption in US healthcare is massive [4], especially considering that it can be three times more expensive for worse outcomes, and because it takes up such a large portion of the economy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...

[3] https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6753

[4] https://mebassett.info/healthcare-ppp.html

PS Am a US citizen who lives in the UK and travels (or did precovid) to the east coast and west coast of the US and to EU capitals regularly.
There’s what, only 300m-ish Noth Americans? You’re the only ones not using it as far as I know, that’s not exactly stalled.
And the junior coworker will use github copilot too..
Wow thanks for the recommendation, loving it so far.

I'm not a fan of Duolingo because it seems to just try to teach you a bunch of random words and sentences. Not very fun or useful for retention. Also you have to go through each lesson in sequential order so it's not like you can skip the random lessons you don't care about.

I much prefer learning through conversation, like what the Pimsleur's method tries to emulate. Both more fun and more useful. Busuu so far seems to center more on practical real world conversation, which is exactly what I was looking for. I hope Duolingo goes towards the same route.
I am currently using duo, anki, some textbooks and on-site courses with small groups (<10).

What apps are you using, for eg. grammar?
Housing as an asset class for the rich - it seems like a Monopoly board game - buy a set of properties across the globe in auctions, trade, flip, speculate, collect rent... And some of us spend decades writing code to pay off one mortgage.
The PS1 didn't really have a GPU in the modern sense. It had a rasterizer. That's it. A thing that draws triangles or quads, with primitive texturing. It doesn't have any vertex processing. It doesn't even understand the Z dimension. Nothing even remotely resembling shaders, of course. At its core, all it does is draw 2D triangles and quads at integer pixel coordinates.

Instead, the CPU had specific instructions (a coprocessor, in MIPS parlance) to accelerate fixed-point geometry processing. That's where the math happens. So it did have an "FPU" - a fixed-point unit, not a floating-point unit :-)
That's a recent myth about America and doesn't have much to do with actual American history.
At the very least you need to start a blog, what a career :D