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> You could say a human is laundering GPL code if they learned programming from looking at Github repositories.

I don't have photographic memory, so I largely don't memorize code. I learn general techniques, and memorize simple facts such as APIs. I can memorize some short snippets of code, but these probably aren't enough to be copyrightable anyway.

> The type of model they use isn't retrieving

How do we know? It think it's very likely that it is largely just retrieving code that it memoized, and doing minor adjustment to make the retrieved pieces fit the context. That wouldn't differ much from finding code that matches the problem (whether on SO or Github), copy pasting the interesting bits, and fixing it until it satisfies the constraints of the surrounding code. It's impressive that AI can do that, but it doesn't sound like it's producing code.

I think the alternative to retrieving would actually require a higher level understanding of the world, and the ability to reason from first principles; that would be much closer to AGI.

For example, if I want to implement a linked list, I'm not going to retrieve an implementation from memory (although given that linked lists are so simple, I probably could). I know what a linked list is and how it works, and therefore I can produce working code from scratch.. for any programming language, even ones for which no prior implementations exist. I doubt co-pilot has anything remotely as advanced as this ability. No, it fully reliant on just retrieving and reshaping a pieces of memoized code; it needs a large corpus of code to memoize before it can do anything at all.

I don't need a large corpus of examples to copy, because I use my ability to reason in conjunction with some memoized general techniques and common APIs in order to produce original code.
That is exactly what the parent, to whom you responded, just linked.
An Intel Wafer Fab Cleanroom Circa 1980
* Adopt this automation platform

* It eventually becomes too much work for the PM as the product grows or the PM just gets tired of the tediousness of creating tests for all the edge cases

* PM hires someone to help with creating the automation tests

* That guy now becomes "the QA guy"

* Repeat till you've re-invented "the QA team"
On the one hand, it is easy to see the direct link.

OTOH, you can't blame a person - or company - for playing according to the rules of the game.

It comes down to: "Why should I eschew a car and take 250% longer to travel places on COVID infested public transport, when my neighbour Bob jumps in his BMW SUV and drives."

We need leadership from lawmakers or nothing meaningful will happen.
> (Also worth mentioning: everyone’s assigned password was their social security number!)

My student ID in college was my SSN, and that was only 20 years ago. :(
> But then you're settling for low quality testing.

Not necessarily though. I would also argue that manual testing is just an insurmountable timesink. You'll never have enough time because manual testing balloons to the time allotted.

> There's an excellent methodology a good test team uses on devs that throw it over the wall. They throw it back with the first bug report.

Sure, but continuing a cycle of "not my problem" helps no one and wastes time. Removing QA as a team/role/specialization, and instead making it a step in the process a dev goes through to ship software, you're fixing the broken feedback cycle QA teams create.
I agree.

Reparations: who can be found living that was harmed? I wish someone harmed could be found. It seems difficult and messy to assign how much cash and to who to give it to, and then where do you stop?

Diversity points: They're insulting to all people who work hard. This sets back an individual and tells them they don't have to do as much because of fashionable identity political concerns. Merit should be the only decider.

Aid: Get people who are presently-struggling compared to other groups the direct help they need to compete.

What is with throwing away standardized testing? Are multiple choice questions "racist" now?

What exactly is "diversity?" I can understand avoiding biases of people who inadvertently hire people they like who look like themselves, but smart hiring managers can analyze accomplishments and test candidates for potential. Talent is better than whatever identity bingo game is being played to meet "inclusion" goals. I go to the UK to get away from American touchiness about race and gender.. there, with very good friends and colleagues, you can take the piss out of each other with absurd epithets in private and everyone knows it's not meant.
High volumes of chargebacks are an indication of fraud which is a larger issue than the fees. Especially if a processor uses a big bank to use the payment rails, the bank will monitor fraud levels of the processors and will exit a processors business altogether if it's too high, meaning the processor is out of business. That's why processors won't work with high chargeback risk businesses, keeps the average low.
They're using a commercial scanner: https://www.sizestream.com/technology

The margin of error is less surprising if you consider that they're interested in the precision of measurements like hinged upper bust circumference, not the position of raw points in a point cloud. According to the paper "Erroneous measurements occur because of the 3 D Body Scanner’s incorrect placement of anthropometric landmarks or the physical positioning of body parts which increase measurement paths against the algorithms. The 3 D Body Scanner’s incorrect landmark and measurement placement, in this study, causes measurements with a range of up to 32.9 cm (M=14.6 cm; SD=12.67 cm)."

I.e. if the scanner confuses your arm for your leg, that's going to throw off the measurements a lot.

It seems like SizeStream could easily improve their product by applying some basic filtering to remove outliers.
The Witcher 3 protagonist uses sign language
IMO, per captia measures only matters for countries that allow unrestricted internal movement.

China strictly controls how many people are allowed to migrate from the countryside to work in the cities, so it is, in some respects, multiple distinct economies with a centrally controlled standard of living.
Please don't post unsubstantive/flamebait comments to HN. Especially please don't cross into slurs. This one was borderline but it certainly fits the format that we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: if you could please stop creating accounts like this and definitely stop creating accounts to break the site rules with, we'd be grateful.
"All the CO2 that is produced by burning one liter of oil can be sequestered by less than one liter of olivine." [1].

Given that formulation I assume that the amount of olivine needed is the same order of magnitude as the 1 liter of oil to produce the CO2.

The world is consuming 97 Mio barrels of oil per day [2]. I doubt we can mine that amount of olivine on a daily basis. Is it even available in that quantity?

How is olivine considered an adequate option to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere?

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[1] that Wikipedia article above.

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
We have a team that helps with testing infrastructure but the tests are created by developers on the functional team. Everything is automated. Seems to work well.
Solar doesn’t provide nearly as much energy and for desalination you need a surprising amount.

Nuclear is a great use-case since the problem with nuclear is it needs a constant water source. If you’re desalinating you’ve got that problem covered.
The thing is, this is a chaotic effect of the jet stream going into tighter oscillations. Think of a river in a flat area meandering more and more until oxbows form. It's an analogous phenomenon with the jet stream and pressure.
The jet stream tends to follow warmer air, which means increased temperatures overall give a "flatter" plain to meander on, to return to the analogy.
Obviously, like anything, it's far more complex than the analogy permits.
Yes, whenever a legal gamble comes up, the lawyers are the house.
Vast quantities? LOL, their plant in hawaii does only 128 tons a day. Americans use 3 tons a day. Each. Even relatively thrifty nations use over a 1 ton a day per person.

Hardly "vast quantities". And it's not cheap, they're currently using "reclaimed" solar panels to provide power. At scale, this not possible and not cheap.

More to the point, their main goal is to plant and grow trees, not provide fresh water.
If you want something it's closer to, it's sikuli script. Visually looking at the page (or whatever, tbh), then manipulating it using the keyboard and mouse. It's basically done using a KVM, so much closer to what a user would be able to see and do than something like cucumber or gherkin.

However, we also allow you to test using a crowd of humans, should folks need more nuanced feedback about things, or have much more complex things to ask.

Disagree on who should be writing tests; I think that's the case today as tooling doesn't support anyone but engineers (QA or not) automation things, or manual tests.
But can it run on an N64?
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

Cliff Mass's blog has been providing good context about the meteorology of the heat dome.
I work in the semiconductor industry and happened to come across this by chance. It is remarkable how far this industry has come since then...
Asking for estimates is fundamentally an expression of distrust. It’s obviously unpleasant to have to participate in a regular ritual in which those in power over you express their distrust.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes distrust or limited trust is justified, but it’s not an ideal.
It's already happening but barely anybody notices because it's so politicized.

Syria for example has been in over a decade of civil war, refugees spilling over deep into Europe affecting local politics, as the ME region was already saturated with displaced people trough Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yet most peoples take on Syria is a regurgitated: "The Syrian people rose up against an evil dictator regime! Arab Summer!".

When in reality the people in Syria went trough a 10 years period of drought [0] prior to "shit hitting the fan". A combination of the climate getting hotter while water is getting more scarce in the region, as Turkey controls the majority of freshwater inflow into Syria and large parts of Iraq [1]. An inflow that's steadily getting smaller, as Turkey is expanding its own agricultural infrastructure projects, with plenty of dams, in Southeastern Anatolia.

In 2008 Syria sought more drought support from the UN, and particularly the US. The cable can be found on Wikileaks [2] and the warnings by the Syrian UN representative and minister of agriculture read pretty much prophetic in hindsight.

[0] https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Fu...

[1] https://climate-diplomacy.org/case-studies/turkey-syria-and-...

[2] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html
Indeed, "Klein bottle" is not descriptive of the origin, it's descriptive of the type of goods. Trademarks indicate origin and must do so distinctively to be registered.

This post is my own view, not legal advice, and unrelated to my employment.
uBlock Origin works fine if Bypass Paywalls Clean is also installed:

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Also relevant: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/multi-region-databases/
Which could completely destroy modern civilization over time. Once certain tipping points are crossed most of the earth could become uninhabitable for large parts of the year.
heh I remember doing a little bat file that was something like

@echo off
net use e: \\Network\Share

to get to the network shares which I could see in windows 2000's network display but would just tell you 'access denied' if you tried to simply click on them. Just giving them a drive mount like that worked fucking swimmingly. It gave us access to pretty much everything, including this program called 'photodex' where the username and password was the first initial of our principal's first name and his last name and the password was 'teacher'. Some other kid figured this out at some point before us, and we found a folder containing bunch of shit with super obvious file names like TEENPORN.JPG.EXE and the kid we didn't really like in our IT class who turned out to be a registered sex offender as an adult (he told me this at a wedding after complaining that they took his guns away, and all i could do was remember this incident and laugh) actually went and clicked one of these because he was a bit thick in general, and ended up getting in shit for this. I don't remember if they managed to lock things down properly after that but I think I remember recalling that this ruined the fun.
Dev sometimes aren't the best QA because they think like developers and not like end users. The mindset prevents you from doing things on the corners that end users do. Its like your instincts kick and a keep you safe without the railing where an end user might plow ahead thinking their path is ok and fall off the edge.

Devs should do automated unit and functional tests, but after that, get some good QA that do not have the same boss (at least at the first level) as the developers.
There's also a capital investment problem - good equipment is expensive to set up, even leaving aside the operating costs problem.

Achievable, yes, but only for the rich for now. eg Gulf Arab states and Israel are early adopters, the latter with some EU subsidies to defuse water rights as an point of conflict in the Jordan watershed.
We might get to play the whole thing eventually, hes still working on it!
The person I'm comparing to is essentially my equal in ability, except for the things that are different between living in the US vs India.

I know col is better in India, that isn't as big a deal as you think because once you get past food and housing to luxuries to buy things are more expensive there. (Except servants are dirt cheap, while I wouldnt dream of one here )
Yes! I made a post about that just recently on Facebook, about how annoying that is. And I was told the workaround was to use the browser’s “duplicate tab” feature before opening one. But that doesn’t help either: it just loads the current url in a new tab, which loses page state.

What we need is something that locally duplicates the page state into another tab. But then, sites already break that by a) firing off requests that can be dangerous to duplicate (not idempotent) and b) synchronizing state across tabs (argh!) so you can’t have different state in different tabs for the same domain (or just session, idk).

Facebook is notorious about that last bit and won’t let you eg have one tab with your feed best visible and another with a conversation hovering over it all.
> County health officials said 123 people were infected with the delta variant from June 4 to 18. Ten were fully vaccinated, and none of those people needed hospital care. Three people infected with delta were partially vaccinated, and 110 were not vaccinated; two people were hospitalized.

Small sample size, but overall getting the vaccine seems to greatly reduce the severity of infection.
Even so, such AI doesn’t exist. All the AIs that exist today operate by fitting data. And to be able to perform a useful task it has to have well defined parameters and fit the data according to them. I’m not sure an AI that operates outside of these confinements have even been conceived of.

To make an AI that outperforms humans in any task has not been proven to be possible (to my knowledge) not even in theory. An airplane will fly faster, higher and with more cargo then a flock of geese, but a flock of geese reproduce, communicate with each other, digest grass, etc. An airplane will not outperform a flock of geese in any task, just the tasks which the airplane is optimized for.

I’m sorry, I confused the debate a little by talking about efficiency. My point was that there might be an inverse relation of generality of a machine and it’s efficiency. This was my way of providing a mechanism in which building a machine that outperforms humans in any task could be impossible. This mechanism—if it exists—could be sufficient in preventing such machines to be theoretically possible, as at some point you would need all the energy in the universe to perform a task better then a specialized machine (such as an organism).

Perhaps this inverse relationship doesn’t exists. The universe might conspire in a million other ways to make it impossible for us to build an AI that will outperform us in any task. The point is that “AI will outperforme humans in any task” is far from inevitable.
You are probably correct.

I didn't really mean to suggest population control, even though I wrote just that. The problem as I see it is that everybody tries to approach the problem as if it will be solvable by technology.

The only way I see that we can solve a climate crisis or the survival of humanity long term is to actually work together. Which I'm pretty certain will never happen, since there will always be greedy and selfish people.
https://archive.md/KxNGG found it
With respect to other opinions in the dialogue, I think you and I are aligned on this.

Feels a little similar to discovering that Amazon probably hired the pinkertons[0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...
Yeah, I know what you mean.

I've a few principles for that: https://principles.dev/p/documentation-should-be-close-to-th... and “They Ain’t Gonna Read It” (not on the website, yet. But it is here: https://blog.nuclino.com/brown-m-ms-or-why-no-one-s-reading-...)

The trouble with the documents you've mentioned is they don't really create capability and it's really the social structure that enforces those values and principles as opposed to the documents.

With engineering it's different because it provides tangible value.

From a team perspective it can help you transfer mental models. Programming is an abstract activity that benefits greatly from those shared models. They build capability, help people learn rapidly, settle disagreements, bring the team together as one and are used in things like code reviews and filtering of technical decisions. People come back to them again and again - it's integrated. Then when a new member of the team comes a long, you're not going back to those discussions again and again.

As an individual. One of the reasons you look back at your principles to remind why you believe something or to be more convincing. They provide value, so they keep being used. It's also part of that persons identity. It defines what they care about and helps them join teams with people who are aligned.

So I agree to an extent - They Ain’t Gonna Read It... Unless it provides value.
Essentially yes. We are trying to move to a hybrid model where we can send excel workbooks to the customer for completion, and then directly import these into the system. This would get us ~80% of the way there.

One huge upside with configuration is that it can be copied really easily. If you have a model customer that is very similar to others, you can use it as a starting point and save 99% of the work effort.
From the comments:

> These guys were important once, right? I don't think I'm old enough to remember such a time. I thought they were a law firm for a while because they only seemed to be mentioned in court cases.

Ouch.
I can't imagine anyone doing "serious trading" using Robinhood. I also can't imagine a scenario where I would need to talk to a customer support rep at Robinhood. What kind of support might I need while occasionally placing limit buy and sell orders?
In the late 70s, or early 80s, I played Dungeon on one of the Caltech/JPL PDP-11s. My father brough home an accoustic-coupled terminal, and I went through a lot of paper. The version I played had been modified to take place in the Arroyo Seco up behind JPL. I wonder if whoever did that is still around?
> I could go to the IRS site and get all the documents they had filed by banks and my employeer, for me. They have that info...

As Robotbeat says, this is literally because Intuit lobbied to ban the IRS from being able to do it for you -- which is also literally what TFA is all about. YTF do people comment on stuff they obviously haven't even read?!?
I see everyone quitting jobs like FedEx that honestly have nothing to do with remote work (it was never an option) and still probably counting towards this statistic. There are larger forces at play than that debate right now.
Not sure. I'm using DigitalOcean Managed Version and have experience with EKS. There are pros and cons on both sides. What I like about EKS is support for API and k8s logs (accounting / security), coupled with CloudTrail and IAM integration for RBAC/user management is a bliss.
Ivermectin is not simply one of an innumerable number of things without evidence of efficacy against covid. There is evidence, including a number of published studies which have already been linked in this thread. The evidence is disputed in that some studies find smaller or no beneficial effects - but it is not correct to say that the use of Ivermectin is without supporting evidence.

Describing the function of Ivermectin as a prophylactic as working in some "niche way" is also incorrect. A prophylactic is the opposite of a niche - it would be broadly useful to pretty much everyone. Describing Ivermectin in this way continues a pattern in your comments of being misleading and unfair towards the claims which you are discussing.

This unfair pattern is continued when you suggest the use of Ivermectin is being "laughed at". Some researchers don't think Ivermectin is promising, but nobody who is actually reading the research thinks the claims are laughable. As I mentioned before, throughout large parts of the world Ivermectin is in use and there are a number of scholarly articles supporting its use.
Amazon are selling it; if it's tortuously acquired he can sue them.

My opinion, not legal advice.
No, I was never able to contact a live person at Amazon.

However thanks to this Hacker News article, three Amazon employees have contacted me, with varying degrees of success.

As of this moment (around 4PM Pacific time on Wednesday30 June), my listing has been 404'd ... I'm unsure if I will be able to recover the reviews if I rebuild it. Or even if I can rebuild it.

Most of all - thank you to my friends on HN. What a bright spot in an otherwise weird situation!
Jira Is Bad
Wow, Snowflake can do incident notification via webhooks! Pretty cool.
> Why can’t the QA people just live on the dev team?

Because there is little incentive for devs to police themselves and there could be multiple dev teams spanning client/server that needs to be integrated and tested.

A slightly better org to own QA would be product team.
The Earth has had 2,000+ ppm CO2 concentrations in the past and hasn't turned into Venus.

And more or less we're going to dig up all the dinosaurs and plants that died and turned into oil/carbon and put them back in the atmosphere and return to that if we do nothing. But we have a record of what that looks like and its not Venus.

That's also a very silly things to "fear" since to turn into Venus you gotta do things like melt all of Antarctica, Greenland and the Himalayas first which will take a couple hundred years. There's an awful lot of thermal mass in all that ice.

Disruption to agriculture and food production though doesn't require turning the Earth into Venus.
Why not? Because they definitely will and do. I’ve seen wait staff pull nearly $100/hr. Bartenders can make way more than that. It’s all perspectives. Those same people have also had nights where the place needed to be cleaned, or for some reason the restaurant didn’t have customers. At that time the owners will be required to pay them minimum wage.
That would be an oligarchy, good sir.

In a representative democracy you get a voice on who executes the orders regardless of whether you are rich or poor or smart or stupid or went to business school with who-knows-who.