skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

First of all, it's important to retain empathy and remain professional throughout everything. Unless you're concerned about his personal safety, it's not appropriate to try to diagnose his cognitive decline or push your superiors toward decisions. Focus on adjusting your own personal work behaviors to accomodate him while still getting your work done, as frustrating as that might sound.

Consider adjusting your interaction style with him to include more frequent updates. Perhaps a daily summary of what you did that day that leads with bullet points about what you're still waiting on (budget approvals, decision making). Send him a short e-mail summary about conclusions from your conversations with him. These habits are actually good to have anywhere, but they're especially helpful in this case.

Second, don't assume that you're the only one seeing this. Your manager's manager is almost certainly aware of what's going on. If your boss' boss starts interacting with you more, stay professional and stick to the facts about work rather than making it personal about your boss' problems. Your superiors will put the facts together and come up with a process in due time.

Finally, recognize that your work situation could change in the coming months or years and prepare yourself for where you want to go. If your boss retires, do you want to move up into his position? If so, now is a good time to ask to take on more responsibilities and offer to help him out where possible. If not, consider where you'd like to go next. Would you like to be on the same time with a different manager? Then maybe stick around. Are you on the fence about leaving already, and this is the last straw? If so, maybe don't delay and start finding a new job.

If this becomes too much of a problem for your own career or job satisfaction, it's better to switch teams or jobs than to try to handle this situation directly. It's a difficult situation for everyone involved, but the last thing you want to do is end up on the wrong side of a difficult personal/medical situation.
The whole point of this comment thread is that it wasn't appropriate to use a statistical outlier like Gates to represent that hard work for normal people leads to his level of success (financially independent, multimillionaire in his 30s).
Does the github Java code make use of recursion?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791017 (HN: Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386419 (HN: Excel Never Dies)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20417967 (HN: I was wrong about spreadsheets)

https://mobile.twitter.com/amitranjan/status/113944938807223... (Excel is every #SAAS company's biggest competitor!)
This kind of thinking is why software continues to get slower and slower despite incredible advances in hardware.
I’ve also been using the Alpha for around two weeks. I'm impressed by how GitHub Copilot seems to know exactly what I want to type next. Sometimes it even suggests code I was about to look up, such as a snippet to pick a random hex color or completing an array with all the common image mime-types.

Copilot is particularly helpful when working on React components where it makes eerily accurate predictions. I see technology like Copilot becoming an indispensable part of the programmer toolbelt similar to IDE autocomplete for many people.

I also see it changing the way that programmers document their code. With Copilot if you write a really good descriptive comment before jumping into the implementation, it does a much better job of suggesting the right code, sometimes even writing the entire function for you.
There are a lot of diseases out there that are transferred on surfaces however. Not everything is about covid
Thanks for writing this. What you wrote describes me perfectly with the exception of the redemption at the end.
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Short-term vs long-term gains. You want your customers to stay alive longer to have more kids and more total customers.
In AI research lingo "understands" really means "makes decent correlations".
There's a lot of spectrum between "only try hard enough to keep the job" and PG described "great work" in many tech jobs, and indeed most tech people are somewhere in the middle.
Oops, no idea where I got the 27 from, thanks for the correction. Grading too many exams is confusing...
Interestingly this is why wood cutting boards are better than plastic ones.
> To be honest, I doubt that.

Okay, but that's...not much of a counterargument (to be fair, the original claim was unsupported, though.)

> Maybe I am special, but if I am releasing some code under GPL, I really don't want it to be used in training a closed source model

That's really not a counterargument. “Fair use” is an exception to exclusive rights under copyright, and renders the copyright holder’s preferences moot to the extent it applies. The copyright holder not being likely to want it based on the circumstances is an argument against it being implicitly licensed use, but not against it being fair use.
Also, you can do a text search.
something many don't know: you can torrent these courses.
> People think I am crazy

Perhaps there's a reason if people do not agree with you.

> I think it is very appropriate

Pedagogical and psychological practitioners don't think so. What are your credentials?
The messier issue is probably using the model to write code outside the US. Americans can probably analyze code from anywhere in the world and refer to Fair Use if a lawyer comes knocking, but I can't refer to Fair Use if a lawyer knocks on my door after using Copilot.
Has anybody read impro by Keith Johnstone?

He’s got a write up in there about status, and how before they “figured it out,“ the actors couldn’t make believable scenes of “everyday conversation”. Then, after some play or another he hits on the idea of everybody trying to make their status just a little above or below the other person’s status in conversation.

Suddenly the acted conversations became “authentic”.

This post seems to be a similar take at a different scale and perspective. Interesting stuff.
> Like all things in life, when its implemented well it works

This is false. A QR-code based menu does not work for people that do not use a smartphone.
Pack it all up, boys, programming's over. Hello, AI.

Anyone want to hire me to teach your grandma how to use the internet?
IMO the way this implemented at Alpine Inn in Portola Valley using www.toasttab.com is amazing. Being able to sit down and just immediately fire off some drink orders and so on and then close out your tab without having to wait for staff to come around is fantastic.
I'm not sure I spend less time actually coding stuff (because I have to review the Copilot code). But the cost of the code I write is definitely reduced, because:

- the review from my peers is faster (the code is more correct)
- I come back less to the code (because I have thought about all the corner cases when checking the copilot code)
- As I care more about naming & inline docs (it helps copilot), the code is actually cheaper to maintain.
There is a proposed law right now in the USA to disallow platform owner to own companies that use it platform. There was hn story earlier in the week. Couldn’t find link, pardon
Password were easy to guess so they now must contain two special character, spaces, commas and at least one key that is not in your keyboard. In the end it doesn't even matter because passwords are useless. Why is security becoming this mess?
You obviously haven't watched the episode nor are you familiar with Bret and Heather's rigorous scientific approach regarding this topic.
It's what it sounds like: rebar made from basalt (basalt fibers specifically): melt the basalt, extrude it, mix it with polymers, shape into a REinforcing Bar.

Problem's it's way more expensive than steel. It's also a pretty young material so I don't know how much safety and longevity information we have. Steel's well understood.
> StackOverflow snippets are perfect example for that.

You basically just explained why your worry is unfounded yourself. This is already the status quo. People already write buggy code and copy buggy code from SO all the time.

The goal of this isn't to write perfect code, that's still up to the programmer to do. This won't make a bad programmer not write buggy code magically.
> Doctors and lawyers have protected their professions successfully for centuries.

And one could argue that this means we all pay more for health and legal services than we otherwise would. You have to calculate both costs and benefits; what price does society pay for those few people having very high paying jobs?
They will have paper menus available as well. Don't panic.
It’s not surface area so much as the faceted sides of crushed sand lock together when compressed instead of sliding past each other
As a current Xbox Game pass subscriber, I absolutely love it.

You can try out new games within seconds, and play them remotely via your Android phone/ browser (Razer makes an exceptional controller for this)and locally on your PC or Xbox .

The one downside is the streaming selection is very very limited compared to Xbox. I was so impressed I tired to buy a Series X , but I can't find any in stock.

I personally prefer to pay 15$ a month for a wide selection of games. Not for everyone though
If you played with OpenAI beta, you won't be surprised -- it was only a matter of time until this becomes widespread.
Some quick thoughts:

* Is there another reaction? Depends on what "doing ____" is? If it's recreational (e.g. daydreaming) that's it's whole own problem (and it is a problem). If it's another task on the job (e.g. spending more time working with team Y than us - which happens with ad-hoc resource allocation), it's normal IMO.

* More broadly, re: tedium - it depends on the role and the expectations that were set. Some companies have roles that are not meant to be grown out of, but simply left.

* Also, re: just doing a worse job over time - I don't think that's the only option. We all do things that are repetitive (e.g. wash the dishes). Many get better over time, many get worse, many just do the same quality forever.
Yes, Excel “runs the world”, and in most organizations, you’ll find a fairly narrow slice of Excel power users that build and maintain the Excel that “runs the world”.

We may not call them developers or programmers (or we might; I’ve been one of them as a fraction of my job at different times, both as a “fiscal analyst” by working title and as a “programmer analyst” by title), but effectively that's what they are, developers using (and possibly exclusively comfortable with) Excel as a platform.
Another interesting story from the book was about arguably the first successful pigeon control strategy, developed in Basel and now used in many places: encourage people not to feed pigeons (since they reproduce much more when there's an excess of food) and build your own pigeon lofts on rooftops, feed the pigeons there, and then replace their eggs with fake ones! I think this is the guy: https://anatomie.unibas.ch/IntegrativeBiology/haag/Feral-Pig...
> Even more so: "a crowd of tech workers who generally are trying to pave the way" are professionally engaged in using, critiquing and developing user interfaces.

“I don’t like it” is not a critique though. The people you would want to hire could try to answer “here is an imperfect solution, how would you improve it?”
> For a seasoned veteran writing the code was never really the hard part in the first place.

Yes, to most coders this Copilot software is just a fancy keyboard.
Point is that the average does in fact write code worst than that (including myself). Having this kind of stuff automated in such a way that it is somewhat "looked after by GitHub" will increase the quality of software overall.
When you sign up for the waitlist it asks permission for additional telemetry, so yes. Also the "how it works" image seems to show the actual model is on github's servers.
> This is a pretty cool new product just being shared on an online discussion forum.

This is not one lone developer with a passion promoting their cool side-project. It's GitHub, which is an established brand and therefore already has a leg up, promoting their new project for active use.

I think in this case, it's very relevant to post these kinds of questions here, since other people will very probably have similar questions.
One of my greatest regrets is how much time I wasted on 'work' in my 20s and 30s. I was an engineer, I made a comfortable salary, but I rarely took a vacation, I never traveled outside the UI, I took days off reluctantly with a vague feeling that I was letting someone down.

"Later", I told myself. When I'm successful, when I'm stable, when I have the money to travel in style and not backpack around and stay at hostels. Then I can take a break and have the adventures I want.

My in-laws confirmed this attitude for me - they retired in their 50s and traveled the world. What a great life goal!

Guess what, life happened. Health issues. I'm never going to travel the world. All that time in my 20s in 30s - I was healthy, I was happy, I was carefree, and I didn't appreciate it and threw all that time away sitting at a desk looking at a screen. Today, now, that's about the only thing I'm fit to do.

Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.
In the US, yes. Elsewhere, not necessarily.
Now I have to connect to their wifi before I can see the menu? And the restaurant is expected to maintain a menu server? What is MORE practical about this?
If you had $1mm today you for sure no longer need to work to cover living expenses in most places in America. I guess healthcare is a question, but even then your annual income rate will probably qualify you for Obamacare subsidies.

Even with kids. Though that makes the budgeting a little more tight.
What do you use for running simulations of your mechanical models?
I feel like a lot of it is the same stuff that you get in generic self help books, but explained in contemporary techie language and cultural references.

Not that that is necessarily bad per se, there can be a lot lot of value to reminding people of things that may seem obvious. But it's annoying when people treat him like a genius for saying fairly standard platitudes in a clever way
I'm surprised this doesn't exist. Google, FB, and Apple (and I imagine Microsoft) have a lot of this stuff built in that is light-years better than any open source solution I'm aware of.

Given that MS owns GitHub and how valuable this is - I imagine it will be coming soon.
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I refuse to buy phones from Chinese government majority owned companies tho.
Have an anxiety disorder and a fear of failure - you'll always be worried that by not working, you are going to fall behind or something bad is going to happen.

I say this partly tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think it's altogether incorrect. Having a compulsion to work to the level of 'alarm bells' going off doesn't sound like fun to me.
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I honestly think this is solving a real problem with commonly used languages and their lack of syntax abstraction and expressiveness.

Do you think there's a risk that a tool like this could lead to an explosion of the size of codebases written in these languages? It's great that programmers can be freed from the need to write boilerplate but I fear that burden will shift to the need to read it.
> An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.

We have the technology. The cure is cheap. It's criminally insane that the US doesn't make life-saving or life-bettering drugs more available for free.
I'm not in there. I never saw any value in a LinkedIn profile.
Donated to openinsulin.org yesterday which is a very cool project.
tabnine works quite similarly to copilot. it's not a thing that "knows about types and libraries", it's a similar predictive machine learning method as copilot seems to use.
Call me old fashioned but I don't source my medical evidence from two creators on youtube.
What are you talking about? That's the exactly the purpose of jsx - manipulate html with straightforward javascript. and jsx is just a wrapper for React.createElement().
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> You obviously haven't watched the episode nor are you familiar...

If you are going to be rude to someone like that, you should provide your own evidence. Provide us links to specific points in the talk that you feel makes this episode substantial. Or show some manners.
> Is it even copyrighted?

Isn't it subject to the licenses the model was created from, as the learning is basically just an automated transformation of the code, which would be still the original license - as else I could just run some minifier, or some other, more elaborate, code transformation, on some FOSS project, for example the Linux kernel, and relicense it under whatever?

Does not sound right to me, but IANAL and I also did not really look at how this specific model/s is/are generated.

If I did some AI on existing code I'd be quite cautious and group by compatible licences classes, asking the user what their projects licence is and then only use the compatible parts of the models.-Anything else seems not really ethical and rather uncharted territory in law to me, which may not mean much as IANAL and just some random voice on the internet, but FWIW at least I tried to understand quite a few FOSS licences to decide what I can use in projects and what not.

Anybody knows of some relevant cases of AI and their input data the model was from, ideally in jurisdictions being the US or any European Country ones?
Or you could ask for a printed menu, it's not hard. Every place I've been to with QR cards has that option. The sense of entitlement and grumpiness these days is unsettling.
From the faq:

> GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set.

I'm guessing this covers it. I'm not sure if someone posting their code online, but explicitly saying you're not allowed to look at it, getting ingested into this system with billions of other inputs could somehow make you liable in court for some kind of infringement.
"My heart is in the work" indeed.
It's weird as fuck to me that legalization is even considered because one of the (or just the?) largest negative effects of people doing illegal drugs is the added legal consequences on them and our inability to help them because they are considered criminals.

Allowing businesses to legally sell, develop, and advertise addictive psychoactive substances seems dangerous to me. History has shown that if they come up with a new compound that is 20% more addictive but 15% more dangereous, you can bet that this will be their next best seller. On top of that, we should welcome their "innovation" for tax dollars and give them a legal shelter ?

We already have seen what it leads to with opioids, even when we gate it behind doctors prescriptions: a usage crisis. We need more control, not less.

And we need a legal framework that does allow us to help users instead of putting them to prison, that does not pack the courts with addicts, and that allows the police to focus on more pressing issues. That is what decriminalization is about.

Extreme repression is as bad as extreme indulgence, there is a middle ground.
The UK has wattle and daub wood frame houses that are 500 years old, too. The hatred for wood frame houses in the UK and Ireland is a strange thing, especially considering the pyrite scandal a few years back, the mica one now, and the hideous carbon footprint of concrete.

There are a few people fighting this, https://gracedesign.ie/ makes stunning beautiful house frames, and I'm having my own house built in wood right now. By coincidence, so are the people in the field next to me. But there's decades of prejudice to overcome.
What I'm hearing is that you should startup a biz to sell those doctor-making carrots.
Depends on the type of the diabetes. There's both Type-I and Type-II diabetes. Type-I is an autoimmune disease where your body attacks the insulin producing cells in the body, and can no longer regulate your blood sugars (high or low) and the person must take insulin. Type-II is sometimes caused by obesity, but is also caused by age sometimes. This can be controlled by oral medications, exercise and diet, sometimes, and lower doses of insulin to assist with their blood sugars. It's often referred to as "insulin resistant diabetes".

EDIT:

Forgot to mention. COVID seems to have been causing a rise in Type-I diabetes cases in non-juveniles =/
Regardless of tone, I thought it was chock full of great questions that raised all kinds of important issues, and I’m really curious to hear the answers.
"Data Parallel Algorithms" by Hillis / Steele is an excellent introduction to SIMD programming at a high level (assumed to run on the CM-2).

Its found in the 1986 issue of "Communications of the ACM". I highly recommend the read. The prefix-sum methodology introduced in that beginner-level article remains the basis of a large number of GPU-algorithms today.
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For me it depends on the type of restaurant.

Some restaurants live and die by their ambiance. But others the main draw is the food and/or the price and/or the speed. In that case, I would enjoy having a QR code order option.
> natural ability, practice, and effort

I'd argue that perseverance (vs practice) is a better partner in that combination.

Practice suggests doing the same thing over-and-over.

Perseverance is never giving up when there are road blocks.
Well, I guess my response here is that you've got more of a show/hide multiple sections thing a-la Jenkins than an accordion--which is more of a "show one section at a time" thing. Thus there's no real top-level state to keep track of, each section knows whether of not it's displaying.

And that's why I was saying you have to be careful about what you put in an accordion. It's (usually) not like section 1 is gonna be drastically different than section 8.

I suppose my point, which I'm kind of getting a better grip on now, is that this post isn't so much about "implicit state in compound components" but rather "where does state live when components kind of depend on each other", which like, describes a web app. The compound components/accordion thing is a red herring; anything could go in here: form validation feedback, notifications, etc. etc. etc.
Actually there was this really novel language CM-lisp <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10...>

that one never got off the ground - I always assumed because of the difficulty of compiling that for a SIMD machine.

*Lisp was fine, but it was really just a projection of the Paris model.
self hosting a now 300gb database using mariadb, been in production for 14 years with almost no downtime and very good performance. i do not DBA all day, i do it maybe once a year to do a version upgrade.

this perception of having to be special or only focus on sysadmin stuff for self hosting is incredible. cloud providers have managed diamond cartel levels of consumer propaganda in the tech sphere, its pretty amazing once you notice it.
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> I never traveled outside the UI

Beautiful typo :-)
Is there really that much of a difference between a programmer building a database and one building something mundane?

Obviously, there's some core algorithmic work that needs to occur, but that's always been done by a very small number of people anyway. The rest is still glueing.
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