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The code is the best manual you'll every get in my experience. There's no substitute when working on a codebase.

When I'm introduced to a codebase I'll be doing significant work on, I'll often spend hours at a time just reading the code. Start at main() and skim until you get a feel for the overall architecture, then go figure out whatever subsystems seem mysterious to you. Rinse and repeat. Makes a huge difference when making changes, because that requires reading code anyway, and you'll have a much better idea of what code to read/change.
>Are you saying you are unable to compete in an open market?

yes. ~350M vs ~7B (1.2B China, 1.1B India) means more elites in the bigger population. I am talking only about immigrant visas, not foreign offices. I have no problem with foreign offices hiring people from that country. I do take issue with continuous importation of elite-skilled people. This is doubly so if our education system relies on importing the best people rather than home growing them or trying to remain competitive. There is evidence Americans are declining in STEM right? we should try to reverse that.

I am less concerned about the short term economy as I am with turning the US into a global free for all for the best that US citizens can't possibly compete with presently. It could turn into a death cycle for current Americans. Surely that isn't sustainable or healthy. No doubt, dropping H1-B numbers would lower GDP but we should build it back more sustainably.
While I would love to see this happen, I'm no longer convinced that anything other than fear of eternal torment can prompt people to actually defend the truth. It may be cynical but it's where I've been for a few years now.

I don't think there's any evidence of humans ever having actually stood up for any idea in large numbers, other than in religious settings. So to use the articles own insistence against them... What time evidence do they have that their philosophy is motivating enough to make anyone actually do what they want?
> The Genetic Lottery

This is such a transparently silly concept. Human beings do not mate randomly or even remotely close to randomly. The genes that you inherit are a product of your parents’ choice of mate, not some lottery. Those choices are informed by both biological and cultural factors.
However, in Montaigne's essays he often doesn't have a clear thesis at the beginning of the essay. You are reading his (magisterial) thinking transcribed onto the page.

The OP gestures towards a thesis ('here's why society's championing of cleverness is bad') and then spends paragraphs meandering around it.
Who can stop me from compiling and installing some software though?
What about a dense village or town, with nature nearby that you could walk to in 10 minutes?

I wonder if single family home communities might be nicer if the homes were clustered more closely together and surrounded by natural areas. But having only single family homes might not be dense enough to get the advantages that come with more density.

It's a real shame that zoning for single family homes, lot sizes, and parking requirements became so uniform across the country. It's not easy to do anything different. Making things worse the taxpayers in more dense areas end up subsidizing the infrastructure build-outs in less dense areas, through state taxes and grants [0], along with other car-related subsidies talked about in this thread paid for by all taxpayers.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
So I can watch a gif from the feed, but when I try to read the comments it’s “mature content” and for some reason I must use the app, as if watching it through the app un-matured it. Still the same garbage that’s pushing me away from their site
> For those cities, mass transit is the highly available mode.

But what cities are you talking about? In the Bay Area mass transit is absolutely not “highly available”. Nor in LA, nor in Atlanta, etc.

There is, to a rough approximation, one city in the US where you can get by without a car and not feel like you are severely restricted on schedule and destinations - NYC.
It should be pointed out that this is not really in the style of the KJV. It is in the style of a parody of the KJV.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit is one of the most prominent ones who was also very open about his stance back then. I think he's no longer MEP, but he's still a powerful player (much like a president or chancellor doesn't lose all of his power when the stops being the president). There are many more, I know a few at the local level in the city I grew up in, but they (like most, I assume) weren't people you'd know beyond the city.

Active and complete uncovering would hurt them & their parties/platforms/organizations today, providing plenty of incentive to keep the topic out of the spot light. It's not that they can stop discussion and investigations (they're not that powerful), but it's like a criminal case: outsiders investigating can only draw a very rough picture, and will only see so much.

With today's tribal situation, people look at everything through the lens of "how will this affect my tribe?". When the people involved are no longer around and sufficient time has passed, this equation changes and shifts from "I will lose the next election if this is a major topic" to something for the historians (at least that's what I expect, but it'll take a few more decades).
There's no evidence that Twitter removing stories about Hunter Biden (as opposed to the dick pics) was something that was either requested by the Biden campaign or even preferred. If anything, the only Democratic politician that shows up in his story told Twitter that he doesn't like the way Twitter decided to handle the story. It seems clear that the general political pressure was in the opposite direction as is claimed - Twitter had internally decided that these are against their own policy, but legislators on both sides (though for different reasons) thought Twitter should not done this.
Wow, thank you. I didn't know about dragging, I always resorted to "open -R" to drag a file to anything GUI.
> In Germany it is straight up illegal to display nazi symbols, do their salute, or even advocate their beliefs, isn't it? I was told as much by quite a few Germans at least.

You can display them for educational or artistic reasons for example. This is not a religious law. It's forbidden to walk around randomly with a swastika on your T-Shirt or recruit people under your new fascist party which has a swastika as a logo for example.

> That said, my problem with the censorship approach is that these groups appeal to actual problems within society and individuals, and by censoring them, none of that goes away.

Those groups have enough other ways to display their affiliation and intentions. Nobody here has a problem distinguishing those since the education on those topics is quite thorough. Which goes for your second argument on how to fix it. I doubt there is a country on this planet which schools their children more clearly on this topic but there will always be that bottom parts of society which will still go there. They follow the myths and do have those "forbidden materials". However they do also have a problem coming along. It's illegal. They can't spread it openly and promote it this way. It works quite well.

> Officially censoring also gives an anti-establishment sheen to them that definitely appeals to some.

They don't need a picture of a swastika to justify that story.

I think the misunderstanding here comes again from this "free speech" doctrine which doesn't allow for self thinking. Everything is 1 or 0 because otherwise it would be too complicated. But it can work different. It works in Germany at least.
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Pious lies work much better, most people aren't interested in truth. The enlightment is completely dead, why try to resurrect these old, white, male driven ideas?
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I asked ChatGPT if it understood the rules of the board game Codenames; it did. I described the board and asked it to play the role of the Spymaster, and it provided a pretty solid clue.
This text could have been generated by GPT-3 itself. It throws together a bunch of unrelated concepts, touches them superficially, uses a bland corporate style, and there is very little coherence overall.

It is fundamentally flawed, and fundamentally human. As AI evolves and becomes ever more perfect, this sort of author will actually become more and more
important. When you can get perfection in your fingertips, it is the fundamentally flawed that you will crave.
I haven't read this book, but I do try to mention a person's name. Not because of them, but because otherwise I will have forgotten their name in 2 minutes.
HN's content is entirely nonfiction, which demands a focused and discuplined style of writing: claim, defense, conclusion. Because its goal is to entertain, fiction frees the author to meander, muddle, or mislead — all of which impede making or defending a thesis.

If an article is nonfiction, then get to the point and stay there, dammit.
I am sure you currently work with or have family members who secretly are addicts. Labeling them as a cost to society, disease spreading, and committing crime and justifying their death instead of talking about them as people in pain is definitely disgusting and not the type of discourse I would have expected from this site. But hey, keep on with your reductionism as justification for complicity in peoples deaths. Also remember, they can't get needles not because they don't want to buy them but because it is illegal to sell them.
Who designed the standard for harm in this instance? How is the self-inflicted harm of addiction that is the actual foundation of the secondary harm caused, for example, by dirty needles and overdose weighed? Is the harm dealt to one’s family considered?

“Helping them stay on drugs” is the practical way of looking at it, because in practice that’s what’s happening. “Reducing harm” in this context sounds like some sort of neo-Hippocratic Orwellian spin on the fact that the alternative is to address the greater issues that lead to and foster drug addiction that are beyond the scope of this tiny box that I’m typing into and do not involve more needles.
Anyone can 'try' to sue anyone for any reason. Actually trying that in front of a judge will led to legal trouble.
>By the way, I think this is also true of the "luxury" ubers - it's a much better experience than driving.

Well, sure. In general, being driven is better than driving. If money were no object, I would absolutely book a car service for a night in town rather than driving myself. But that would add about $300 to the evening--which I can afford but wouldn't pay just so I didn't need to drive.
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It's how everything on the internet dies. Advertising infects and ruins pretty much everything. Even normal websites are just as bad, they even have the exact same escalating ads problem. By now the web is unusable without uBlock Origin and Instagram's problem is we can't install an ad blocker on it.

There should be a way to speed up this cycle to make them fail faster. These corporations are making way too much money selling off our attention to the highest bidder as if it was their property.
Reddit always had a hive mind, it's just the hive mind no longer agrees with you so you think it's irrelevant?

Nope, frankly given how long reddit's been around and how it continues to gain in popularity I expect it will outlive everything on that list except for youtube. It's the webs default forum and there will always be a demand for a forum on the web.
Is this a joke? How can you see a dense list of links or posts like in the old reddit?
Due to heat, water damage, rust, mice, misuse, and probably other reasons; appliances tend to break down with time and require service. You want them to be relatively easy to repair by a fairly unspecialized repairman who just figures out that one of a few parts is broken and replaces it and everything starts working again.

Wouldn't appliances with more complicated UIs that are driven by more powerful computers end up being less durable and be harder to repair? Does that factor into it?
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We are living in the post-truth, post-modernist era, and I am very happy that more and more people are realising where it is taking us.

I feel genuine relief reading again things like:

<<<We cannot have differing rules based on the speaker’s skin color, gender, or political affiliation. No one has a higher claim to the truth because of their group identity. “Who you are does not count;” Rauch says, “the rules apply to everybody and persons are interchangeable.”>>>

Something that over the last few years has been heavily contested and went from being one of the most obvious values to one that triggers the most vitriol.
I think you're overstating the early popularity of microcode a bit. Microcode didn't really catch on until the IBM System/360 (1964). The problem was that storage was very expensive so it wasn't cost effective. IBM had to invent weird new storage techniques (TROS, CCROS, BCROS) using transformers or capacitors to make microcode practical.

The same thing happened with microprocessors. Early microprocessors didn't have enough space for microcode so they all had hard-wired control logic. It wasn't until the 8086 generation that you could put enough transistors on a chip to make microcode practical in a microprocessor. The 8087 co-processor is an interesting example. In order to fit the microcode onto the 8087 chip, Intel had to use weird semi-analog multi-sized transistors. This let them store 2 bits per transistor in the microcode ROJM.
If 'your' state that is. There are any number of states unfriendly to each other.
Not only that, they send cards in the physical mail offering $30 to $50 for 5 star reviews. I've received a few of them at my home.
You might be thinking about updateable/modifiable microcode.
I drive a pickup truck. Like my dad, grandpa and uncles. Do you think there might be a genetic compent to my choice of vehicle? Its strongly suggested as such, according to you.
We need more uses of long and short - a kilometer is a short mile, a kilogram is a long pound, etc.
It's an issue with an ideological movement developing out of the hippie movement, please don't try to make this about Jews, you'll only derail what little discussion can be had.
Honestly I'm not that interested in the code part. It does well but it's not perfect, it's good for some stuff - just like with the copilot. For more concrete things like coding I like to have the control and not use a middleman.

What blows my mind is that I suddenly gain extra powers that I previously did not posses.

For example, let's say I'm developing an adventure game and I need to write content but writing is not my speciality. Fear not, I have access to Janet from the Good Place and it's called ChatGPT here on Earth.

So I'm writing a dialog for my character who is a gentlemen in England that came from old money.

I simply tell chatGPT: rewrite the sentence to sound more posh "I want to eat cookies but I am not hungry yet"

chatGPT: "I wish to partake in some biscuits, but I am not yet famished."

Okay, maybe its a bit overdone but I like it and can already imagine his moustache and the hat, I definitely couldn't have written that by myself and if "AI" think this is about right then it will probably sound right to many people because that "AI" is essentially a result of a study of other peoples work.

IMHO this AI stuff enables access to mastery and experience, not really replacing the thoughts of real people. It's the same with Dall-E or Stable Diffusion, you still need to be able to think ideas but the ability to paint like Van Gogh comes for free(or something like 0.01$).
That's close to answering a question from a bit over a year ago: "in 5 years will there be an AI that's better than 90% of unassisted working programmers at solving new leetcode-type coding interview questions posed in natural language?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020401

It didn't get a very welcoming reception -- "highly unlikely", and the tenor of other opinions in those comments then tended the same way. But I was being too conservative. (I thought so at the time but it felt sort of outside an Overton window of reasonable technology opinions.)
I wouldn't read that deep into it. This seems like an alpha/MVP that isn't even supposed to be used yet. E.g. it can't even be logged into (which is probably the root of your mature content issue).
Well, this isn't really an AI. It just scrambles from pre-fabbed assets, afaik
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Also I would add that Geely really revitalised the Volvo car brand after Ford almost ran it into the ground. The Geely Volvos have a much clearer (and better looking IMO) design and are strongly pushing into the luxury market.
May I ask what your beliefs are? Some of the strongest seekers-of-truth I know are atheist, or so agnostic they might as well be atheists. The biggest liars I know of are deeply religious.
The lottery part is the fact that you have no way to influence what you got, not that it is uniformly random.
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Most fine motor skills should be well within the grasp of robots/AI. Just look at what robot-assisted surgery can do today. But I believe soft fabrics and other easily deformed materials are still very difficult for them. So maybe time to brush up our cloth handling skills. However, it's also an area of active research, so probably not something to bank a 40-year career on. I for one welcome the day we're made redundant by AI/robots. We can easily become interesting and amusing enough to be kept as pets by our AI overlords.
The more that we can voice these views calmy and rationally, the more that people will reflect upon it.

It takes courage to do so.
We should stop letting them have it as if it was their property.
> Design to be inclusive, and everyone benefits.

Note that this is not always true. For example the tax instructions in the US are designed to be able to be followed by anyone (add line 3 to line 4. Subtract line 1 from line 5. Multiply line 6 by 2. etc.), but the result is that things like piecewise linear functions that anyone comfortable with basic arithmetic and algebra would understand at a glance become a completely incomprehensible 25 step worksheet that's basically an assembly program for humans to follow.

So keep in mind that things like algebra and equations don't just exist to torture people. They actually make it easier to understand and explain a lot of concepts.
Said every skilled worker whose industry was disrupted by tech..
I did read it. I don't believe it to be the smoking gun so many others around here do, nor do I find the conspiracy narrative it is purported to prove to be credible. I don't expect anyone who has bought into that narrative to question it for a moment, however.
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same im barely 3 years into my career. this is causing me a existential crisis whether im gonna end up jobless in a couple of years
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The "weird" (or "funny" or whatever you want to call it) thing is that the detector I linked was originally made for GPT-2, but still works reasonably well for GPT-3 (and derived) output.
This definitely looks like something that would boost hair growth..
You (the child) do not get to pick the outcome. Hence it is a lottery.
It's within a significant digit of the specified distance, though. A few football fields of error seems pretty good to me for 42 miles. What's the required accuracy and precision for this rocket launching system?
Wolfsburg? Doubt it. But Ingolstadt? A bit more likely. The Audi R8 shared quite a bit with one of the Lamborghini models (can't remember the name).

And don't forget the SUVs
> Do round numbers to the nearest whole number [and do not use decimals unless it's money]

is very bad advice and may lead to all kinds of inappropriate rounding. Trying to find an additional representation (possibly visually) without using decimals or percentage would be much better guidance.
IEEE Computer Society's Computer magazine is also a good one. They have a number of other publications, but I can't speak to any of them: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazines
But if you believe the story, Muskhead was ... correct about Twitter "moderation"/"censorship"?

Taibbi is about as muckracking-leftwing as it gets.

Now, I'm not saying Muskovite won't take cash for "moderation" from the political parties.... this is going to be a MASSIVE cash spend presidential cycle.

What I'm shocked about is that there isn't a "moderation" bidding system. Democrats give twitter 10 million to suppress this story... does the RNC want to up it to 15 million to not suppress, or 20 million to PUSH it?

Maybe Elon will make a profit after all.
fantastic to see this type of state intervention. People have choices, but those sometimes the consequences of those choices are too severe and choices need to be removed
Maybe I missed it, but I think the article skipped an important point.

Science != policy
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Many dudes I knew in prison on drug charges were ex-military recent vets who picked up a pill habit from their service related injuries/chronic pain. That pill habit needed to be fed and pills got harder to find leading to dealing/importing fentanyl analogs from China.
To get to the truth, you have to be open-minded. Many modern secularists claim to be open-minded, even the left leaning liberals claim to be open-minded, but they're more closed minded than their ancestors. Everyone wants the great claim of being open-minded without the cost of actually being open-minded. There's an element of sacrifice when it comes to getting to the truth.

To actually be open-minded, you have to sacrifice your idealism, which is a lot harder than it seems. Especially since many of our prejudices are hidden to us, and we could spend a lifetime preoccupied with identifying what's true and what's prejudice.