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I _love_ Copilot but the only reason I use it is because I qualify under their open source developers program, I just can't justify paying $10/month for it.
It can indeed be dauting. I think once I had the list I tried to make a plan that allowed me to hit multiple goals in the long term. For example building my website in high detail was so that I could learn enough to get a Big Tech type of job. Traveling around the world at least partly was to find a wife and start a family. For me, I took all the items on my list and tried to turn that into a direction. I also prune/add to the list when I am feeling down and trying to think of what to look forward to.
it won’t be the “new smoking “ until it’s stigmatized and taxed out of existence
The transition from accountability to predictability was rather unmotivated. I guess accountability is a strategy of optimization. You want to identify when sufficient gains can be made by unilaterally adjusting the process of an individual or team or organizational unit, and reinforce that adjustment with reward/punishment ranging from feelings of usefulness to monetary reward to continued employment.

If you model your productivity as hierarchical composition of dynamical systems, then I guess predictability would be a rapid step response, unilaterally in each parameter, in each system. Losses in productivity could then be traced back each system and form a low-latency feedback loop.

This model is cold and calculating and probably wrong. I just want to try make it more concrete.
Reminds me about a part of code I wrote quickly as a POC, it made it's way into Production unchanged.
It somehow ended up being the most stable feature, perhaps because it wasn't trying to do too much.
Just what it had to do and nothing more.
> What happens is wealthy countries give rise to wealthy elite, and poor countries have poorer elite.

This does occasionally happen, and by choosing your definition of "elite" carefully enough you can make it happen in more cases, but it is generally not the case. Poor countries generally have much greater inequality than wealthy countries, with the result that elites in poor countries (say, top 1%, 5%, or 10% by either net worth or income) are often wealthier than elites in richer countries.

> let's say Taylor Swift makes $100 million. Does that mean she increases GDP by $100 million?

Generally, the answer in cases like this is "almost". Your explanation leaves out what she does with the money after she gets it. If she spends it all immediately on domestic products and services, then yes, she does increase GDP by her earnings, because her spending replaces the forgone spending you correctly identify on the part of her fans. Similarly if she lends it to businesses who use it to buy domestic products and services, or if she buys their stock from them or from other shareholders who then go on to use it in the same way. So-called "entertainers" tend to be quite spendthrift, and those from the US mostly spend their money in the US.

To some degree Ms. Swift is an exception on this count, known for her wise investing, estimates are that she's grown her net worth to only US$450 million over her 18-year music career, despite currently earning US$150 million per year from her work; as a very rough approximation that means she's spent the first 15 of her 18 years of showbiz earnings already, and most of her savings are probably also in US stock markets and money markets.
You could tunnel udp through tcp, but have to install additional software on each machine, and could see some issues with speed/reliability.
NFT's are fine, in that the represent a token that isn't fungible, and as such, would be a great way which, if regulated, would allow for things like selling real estate (deeds) or automobiles (titles) and other things of this nature using the blockchain to avoid the possibility of forgery, and to cut out the overhead associated with verifying chain of custody in conventional systems. Obviously, the adoption needs to happen and regulations need to be written for this to happen effectively, but it very well could.

As far as trading silly gifs that you "own", well...yes, it's asinine. But not really any moreso than how much money kids these days are pumping into Fortnite skins and similar nonsense.
Ten years too early? no.

They got wiped out by microsoft, github copilot, and litigation issues around AI provided code.
Keyboard Real Estate
> Aren't you grasping at straws

That is being generous.
I pay for github co-pilot. It seems surprisingly bad for typescript and excellent for python.
At least in Basketball defense all about looking at hips, eyes lie.
That's considerably more prevalent in the US.
I choose my bar and restaurants by the abscence of large screens. ( Not only obviousely but if it can be avoided, I do )
Ultimately it would be discharged by sanitary water treatment plants back into the waterways, even if first supplied for human consumption.
How does your workplace/compliance officer feel about you using it?
It is incredible how the collapse of SA, having happened over a moderately short span of time, has largely escaped coverage.

The infatuation with the "rainbow nation" and Mandela overcoming the evil apartheid government.

But the policies have just been a disaster. And in recent years, it's become so bad that we have to read news like this. Anyone that can get out, has or is getting out. I worked in a project with ppl from Johannesburg; suddenly they had moved to my country.
True on the simple chemistry of combustion, but it’s also true that upper atmosphere combustion products may have a different climate forcing than sea level combustion.

There’s an argument I haven’t evaluated myself that even if the fuel was carbon neutral, high altitude combustion might have a residual forcing.

I think transoceanic travel is critical to human flourishing, so I definitely hope we can minimize that residual.
global warming is generally correlated with wetness, not dryness.
I purchased the aformentioned book after reading this comment out of interest (happily married so I don't care about dating anymore). After about 70 pages I have to say that I am not impresed at all. A bullet point list with these "undercover sex signals" would have done.

In my view nothing more than badly written psychobabble which probably does more harm than good.
Yes, 8% only seems high in comparison to companies that are ran by adults that don't evaporate with your money every few years.

No financial company in the world that isn't a fraud is going to pay me a $800/year for parking $10,000 in their bank account, once all risks are taken into account.
That sounds incredibly rude to me.
Is this a deliberate strategy of the current regime to "dismantle the legacy of colonialism"?
Paying for copilot :) at least in go it’s great to write tests and sometimes some smaller functions :) totally worth paying for it, even from your own pocket if the company wouldn’t allow expensing it
> The vast majority of drinkers should be kept away from children.

So, no children in restaurants for dinner for example? Or family & friends barbecues? Or weddings? New Year's celebrations?

> The drinking brits would like to know how you came to that conclusion.

I live in the UK. Most people I know here drink, ranging from seldom and socially to frequent binges. I know perhaps one or two that I've seen become even slightly violent, and it's usually followed by an insurmountable amount of apologies and feelings of shame.
Refusing to have children to stop global warming completely defeats the purpose. Global warming isn't going to destroy the Earth within our lifetime, so our future generations are the only reason we should worry about it at all.
Sequoia Agreed on $200M FTX Investment While Founder Played League of Legends
Thanks very much! It's taken years of work and I still try and work on it daily if I can. I like to imagine what it will be like in 20-30 years (assuming I'm alive).
These guys were a complete joke; and a good example of fleecing the VC community.

Good riddance to bad rubbish
I tried it. Ironically, it was pretty good for Powershell and so so for Python (in my case at least).
I had a similar thought. I think in this instance, they mean something like a labeled/supervised training approach where the model is given not just the tokenized code, but also perhaps is grounded in the possible structure (indentation vs. semicolons, function-scope, etc.).

My understanding is that copilot is largely a self-supervised approach. They feed a massive body of (somewhat noisy) code into the model. The model really does learn a lot of structure on its own and this is a testament to deep learning on noisy datasets.

I'm guessing the "hooks" that they have already from IDE's, language-servers, etc. _are_ quite "structure-aware" - so they want the predicted structure as well as the code, so they can improve the typing experience beyond line-completion.

I think the estimation of 100 million for such a task is maybe too high? I don't know - it feels like you could actually get quite close to such a system by simply using thousands of custom prompt engineering tricks that prepend structure examples to the prompt?
Women do that stuff too. I have seen women promote crypto scams as well. It is subtly misandrist to use these terms I think. But no one will stop using it because that is part of the society wide perception of men being viewed as less moral than women.
If some form of secure boot is used, then replacing the flash won't work either. There is one-time writable storage inside the SoC itself is used for verification. You won't be able to get it back into a state where it accepts non-signed firmware without also replacing the SoC.
I can think of a few that seem to be developing nicely: Botswana, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Namibia.
It's not transitory, but it is transitive.

Between yesterday and today, inflation happened.

Between Today and tomorrow, inflation will happen.

Therefore, between yesterday and tomorrow, inflation happens.
There are two differences.

First, if a cop pulls you over for speeding, it's not for "traveling at an unsafe speed". It's because you were going faster than the posted limit. The law says nothing whatever about such a speed being unsafe. In practice, cops usually don't pull people over just for speeding, but only for going significantly faster than the general flow of traffic. But that's only usually; cops in most jurisdictions have monthly or quarterly ticket quotas, and if it's getting close to the end of the quota period and they're behind on tickets, it's simple to go out to places where people routinely speed and start pulling everyone over. I have seen this happen.

"Driving erratically", unlike "going faster than the posted speed limit", is always a subjective judgment on the cop's part (in most jurisdictions it's something like "reckless driving" or "driving in a clearly unsafe manner"), but the whole point is that it's supposed to be rare; by definition most people on the road will not be driving recklessly and this kind of law can't be abused in the way I described above just to make a ticket quota.

However, the important difference I was talking about was not between speeding and "driving erratically", it was about under what circumstances the cop can write you a ticket that forces you to either pay a fine or come to court. Under our current laws, a cop can do that whenever he pulls you over--there will always be some traffic law you were violating. ("Driving erratically", or something similar, in itself is a traffic violation under current law.) Under the libertarian system I have been describing, the cop could not write you a ticket that forces you to either pay a fine or come to court unless you actually caused harm. He could take steps to prevent you from driving if you hadn't caused harm but were clearly not capable of driving safely, by an objective test (such as a breathalyzer), but he could not impose a fine or court appearance on you.
Thanks very much! Hearing people like it is a huge motivator to continue work on it. Even when I could say it's good enough. I want to get 1 more "wow" out of someone, somehow.
> Seems like a better alternative would be to do the exact opposite: force elites to stay in their home country and make it better.

Absolutely not! We need people in position to make decisions to see the world and understand it, not be insular nationalists because they know no other country. We need more people high up in government who are familiar with the mainstream ideas and cultural quirks of other countries, and we need more contact between cultures. Having people go to other countries is vital.

You also want enough of them to come back home, ideally (though not all of them, expats are still useful from a soft power point of view), but keeping them and preventing them from going abroad in the first place is really bad and counter-productive.
I don't like neither Chinese, neither Russian government. That said, unless we restrict such events to a very limited set of countries, we have to let a number of countries whose behavior we don't approve, as long as the event itself is properly handled.

Chinese Olympics where properly handled, ditto for Russian Winter Olympics (at least as far as I remember).

Qatar didn't at all. They promised a lot of things to FIFA and then went back on a lot of them.

Promised that the cup could be held in summer, we ended up doing it in winter (while forcing all the national and international competitions to adapt their scheduled.

They promised people could drink alcohol, went back on that two days before the beginning.

Promised proper accomodations for the fans, nope.

The list is longer but I think I gave the idea.

A world cup is not just the matches themselves. It's the fans, it's the atmosphere. It's the tradition. If you're not going to respect that, you shouldn't host them.

I don't blame only them though, half of the blame is of FIFA. I realize that there is always corruption going on in such events (although I don't like it), but I would expect the money not to be the ONLY thing that matters. Instead, this such a case.
Smoke shops have exploded but it isn't clear to me that there is higher availability - every convenience store in the US sold cigarettes and most still do. Even pharmacies like CVS/Walgreens used to sell them. I think just now you have dedicated storefronts for certain types of smoking products.
As a civilization, we build things in tiers. Tools to build other tools to build other tools. (And it's a bit circular too) And materials. So, you might have at the bottom things like extracting ore, fossil fuels, plant matter etc. Then you might turn that into crude grades of iron, separate various hydrocarbon chains out. Then you might refine that into steel of a certain grade, or industrial lubricant. Machines you build with that are used to make other machines. Maybe one of those mills a part, that's used in another machine. Etc.

Some things, like jet engine turbine blades, are at the end of very long chains. Also, it's a complex engineering problem because lots of different systems need to be made to work together, reliably, under high temperatures, pressures etc. Different specialists need to agree on how to make their components work together.

So, I can't just get together with my buddies, get some funding, and disrupt the industry. (For that and other reasons). Or maybe you could, but it would be tougher than doing so in most other industries.
The fundamental physical limit to latency caused by the speed of light is gleefully ignored by many web "application" architects. Apps that feel super snappy when hosted in the same region run like molasses from places like Australia. Unless the back-end is deployed in every major region, a significant fraction of your userbase will always think of your app as sluggish, irrespective of how much optimisation work goes into it.

Some random example:

Azure Application Insights can be deployed to any Azure region, making it feel noticeably snappier than most cloud hosted competitors such as New Relic or logz.io.

ESRI ArcGIS has a cloud version that is "quick and easy" to use compare to the hosted version... and is terribly slow for anyone outside of the US.

Our timesheet app is hosted in the US and is barely useable. Our managers complain that engineers "don't like timesheets". Look... we don't mind timesheets, but having to... wait... seconds... for.... each... click... is just torture, especially at 4:55pm on a Friday afternoon.
My workflow is such that if something isn’t broken but I know it is somehow an issue (clarity, style, etc.) then I just save them in a notes file. Eventually a few weeks later I collect up enough of these small issues and then resolve them in bulk. I do this for CR notes when people write non blocker comments I say I will fix in a follow up.

My coworkers take the same view as the author in that they think you’ll never “fix it later” once the code is committed nobody will ever get back to it. But I prefer doing it this way because the overhead of constantly going in to correct my code for small unimportant things is a waste of time I would rather resolve them all in bulk.
I have a Model 3, previously had a Fiat 500e, VW GTI, and Saturn. I’ve driven other high end cars and their systems are way harder to use imo. It’s worth just trying yourself vs. listening to people on HN.

Most people don’t bother with their in car nav and just use their phone. I’ve heard apple car play isn’t bad though.

The Model 3 did have an update that made things worse for a bit, but they fixed it. Since I’ve owned it (2018) it’s much better than it was when I bought it because of updates.
This article commits so many logical errors, it becomes hard to unpack. But here are a few that struck me:

1. Attribution of the slower growth in energy usage to a environmental backlash by showing a correlation but no evidence of causation

2.
> Indeed, as is now becoming clear in the context of climate change, it is only through the continued development of our technological powers that we can hope to arrest and reverse the immense damage we have caused.

Or, you know, stop continuing to cause damage

3. Somehow, this article seems to ignore “risk-adverse” policies that have great harm to the environment, like not re-regulating fishing and grazing rights

I mean, there’s a kernel of something here. We need to be learning what technologies enable us to protect ourselves and the environment, and we’re being too slow to do that. But just building a bunch of nuclear power plants isn’t it - that just doubles down on our expectations of endless growth and increases the likelihood of nuclear proliferation. Instead we could be investigating geothermal or even thorium reactors. Or better yet, figuring out how to end our reliance on a system that requires constant economic growth.
Other forces at play.

The nuclear energy movement in the 1970s was closely affiliated with the nuclear weapons movement. As one indicator of the latter, the phrase "ban the bomb" was already peaking in 1963, as the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was being proposed: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ban+the+bomb&y...> (Google Ngram viewer)

A similar search for "anti-nuclear movement" shows a later peak, in the late 1970s, which would correspond with the Three Mile Island incident (1979): <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=anti-nuclear+m...>

Essentially, nuclear power had a significant public-image problem, and it got markedly worse just as embargo-based oil shortages were peaking for a second (and far more significant) time, with the Iranian Oil Embargo (also 1979): <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis>
I am not offended that regular people would foot the bill for ICUs if state decides to pay for those. My point is that I do not see why it would be an improvement in any way over the status quo. It will not make them cheaper or more available, most likely quite the opposite.
People are seeing observability as a separate subject from product making. I see it as two side of the same "does this thing work" coin. To a product person, does it work mean are people using the tool to solve their problem. To engineer, it means the tool is solving the problem correctly. The former is answered by various analytics tool while the latter is answered by QA and observability tools.

IMO this is doubling effort. Given all the logging,metrics and traces, can we not tell how good the product is performing? Given we know how a feature is used by users, all the clicks and APIs, can we not guaranteed future changes not breaking a user journey? I'm at the moment prototyping a tool to capture my thinking in product and software development. Having OtEL is making my idea so much easier to realise
Limits of Macroprudential Policy, and Impacts of Healthcare Costs on Small Firms
I mean I totally agree that an experienced rower will never catch a crab under normal circumstances, but as I type that I remember that the one I witnessed was due to a rower getting heat stroke in the tail end of a 5k - so, I guess there’s the counterexample.
The key issue is that ml/dl is pure statistics - there is no intelligence or learning or conceptual awareness of space-time, so that technology can never do so many things people try to do with it.
I mean, you need some reason to get out of bed in the morning, and naive optimism sounds a lot better than my dread of the consequences if I don't.
Individual developers pay for tools, they just have to be worth it. JetBrains' whole existence is a testament to that.

From what I remember, people got super annoyed at Kite for placing ads in open source projects and they just never caught on.
Hackathons are always completely optional and rather inconsequential. When they're not, they're called "exploitation" instead.
Or have your Google account blocked because Google is too lazy and have yourself banging on Google’s door
Would you care to provide 1--3 examples of what you're describing here?
Bros were supposed to be masculine tech people that weren’t fat pimply nerds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer

Jocks are masculine men that only care for sports.
“proof that publishing your wild ideas still matters”

I’m curious if it was ever confirmed that the published idea was consequential. That would be the part of the story I’m really interested in details of.
what kind of authentication mechanisms does it work with? We have an oauth and ldap backed cluster. This tool would be a nice drop in tool for diagnosing issues.

Will try next week at work
> would be a great way which, if regulated, would allow for things like selling real estate (deeds) or automobiles (titles)

Absolutely not. The source of truth for real estate is the local government's land registry.

The NFT blockchain can never be the source of truth, since ownership can change due to court action, bankruptcy, eminent domain, or whatever.

You cannot have someone refuse to give up their passwords, and just give up "ok, I guess you own this real estate or car forever, then".

No. The police will come arrest you if you squat. The government will not care that you have the private key to an NFT of the house.

Blockchain solutions inherently cannot be the source of truth. Which means they'll drift away from the truth. Which means they become pointless.
Pong inventor made Steve Jobs work night shift because of his bad B.O
I have and I will. You don't know me son.
You think copilot is self-sustaining/profitable?
This might interest you.
https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
Most of the people who have the option of “studying hard” do not work as hard as the blue collar workers in rural India or rural China. I’m not sure there is a valid argument that consumption should be based on who “works hardest”.

Emissions taxes are the fairest way to balance consumption. That works even for the privileged who consume without hard work.
Until Microsoft grants Copilot users blanket protection over copyright claims from Copilot generated code, I wouldn't even think of touching it.