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It depends if you mean software development as in building software or "Software Development" as in the bloated and ridiculous industry that has evolved around building software.
At one of my very first programming jobs (during the first dot com boom) an older developer took me aside and said “I’m going to tell you the single biggest productivity enhancer I learned in my entire career, ‘always number your punch cards’”.

I think he meant it just as a joke but it’s actually stuck with me as pretty valuable. At one point in his career being a programmer was as much about manipulating paper cards as it was systems thinking.

At some point in the future manipulating text may not be a central job of a programmer, but I doubt systems thinking gets replaced anytime soon by currently understood technologies.

I remember people claiming intellisense style code completion would be the end of developers, but I’m sure there are more developers now than when it was introduced.
Frankly that's like asking a calculator to write you an essay. It's simply not the right tool for the job if you want to do mathematics. It doesn't actually understand mathematics or logics, it just knows patterns in its training data and how to apply them to input. It can go through the motions of answering your question but it can't know whether the answer makes sense.

I think no matter how much breathless media outlets and futurist fanboys like it, we need to stop pretending conversational AI is "generalized AI" just because it can perform language. It's a fully automated Dunning-Kruger machine. That's amazing a lot of the time, but it's a specialized tool with specialist applications.
Thank you, yes, this exactly.

Even broad measures and reviews of "teaching quality" one can consult beforehand are at best statistical and simply not predictive for the experience of any given kid.
Not sure how helpful it is. I wasn't told much lies as a kid. Plenty of wrong things, yes, but those were all common misconceptions (some still widely held by people today, plenty of them present on this Wikipedia list[0]).

Someone close to me, however, was told a lot of such lies in their childhood, and continued to believe them into adulthood. When we met during our university years, I unknowingly debunked a few of those stories during casual conversations, and the person later thanked me and told me that, sadly, this completely shattered the trust they had for their father.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
A counter argument would be that, those who are allowed by the anti-cheat to play freely for a decade, are those who were filtered down by the anti-cheat to who it sees as a "good player" to itself. But when the anti-cheat finds someone that they do not like, for example a developer who has tooling such as CheatEngine, WireShark, AHK, or WSL installed, will get discriminated against in preemptive bans, unable to get more than be a casual in said games.

It also does not help that "good players" by the anti-cheat's eye will often enable this bias by doubling down whatever the anti-cheat says is bad.
A black box that no human fully understands the behavior of, even its own developers, yet is ultimately trusted without review of anyone hit by a ban. A system ripe for enabling bias to absolutely excessive proportions, and need to be held in better check.
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This has been happening for years and years, it is called SEO. If anything AI is an improvement
I don't know. I asked it to write a simple Bash script to monitor a folder for certain files and then execute logic on them.

It gave me a flawless Bash script purely from my description.

If that isn't impressive I don't know what it.
Maybe transaction wise paper money is still a small percentage.

But my understanding (correct me if wrong) is that the total money running in the country at any momemnt is never more than what is printed.

With digital money the central bank can issue it without the cost to print. As per (1) it costs around Rs 10 to Rs 17 to print Rs 100 note and have to be reprinted once they get damaged.

(1) https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/will-digital-currenc...
OpenAI is not open at all. Don't be fooled by the name.
I think it will come for the low hanging fruit first. Thing of all the simplistic code that gets outsourced to India. Banking applications, general mobile apps, internal time trackers, internal resource management tools, etc. It is going to reduce the costs of creating/maintaining those run of the mill business applications.

As you get more specialized, there is less example code, thus the AIs do worse. As you move to the cutting edge, there is almost no example code.

So things that have been done thousands of times, will get eaten by the AI coders first. Then it will move up the value chain, how fast it isn't clear.
Yeah that hit home to me as well. When I was 13, I remember downloading some kind of exe file that dialed out to some international number to some BBS in South America. It was just one time but that call ended being a several hundred dollar phone bill. I got my computer taken a way for several months after that. It was good lesson in computer security to not trust random files from the Internet.
First thing on signup: YOU HAVE TO DO ADDITIONAL IDENTITY VALIDATION, yes, even though we took your home address and credit card and phone number already.

No thanks, I'll keep using Digital Ocean or someone who doesn't make me jump through hoops.
Scared overconfidence = oxymoron
Well I won’t be surprised if we all end up regretting the current level of bullshit. Fast.
When you add performance as a consideration, for just straight computing tasks, you might also want to consider a refurbished or used 1 liter PC. They'll have a 6th or 8th generation intel CPU and power draws usually below 60 watts. There are also some other alternatives like Orange Pi. Generally speaking, some of the other options don't have a PoE capability (my Pis are all PoE) and you lose the exposed GPIO pins. But if you're just running a web server and don't care about PoE or hooking an i2c device to it, used 1 liter machines aren't a bad way to go.
If you actually use and care about the software this shouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately to run even a small business where a niche product only needs to be bought once it needs to be way more expensive than that licence was.

I have a lifetime licence to my text editor and I've used it every day for over 10 years, wouldn't have an issue if the creator changed their mind about it and actually the community has asked them to so it could be supported but they were not interested.
How well does the AI on stuff that you would not find implemented online or in its training data?

Another important question is about scale, making a thousand times a 10 line application is not the same as making one 10000 lines application. How good will the AI be at that?

Right now it is the same as "googling the answer", just faster. Which is impressive, but far from career ending.

I think another important aspect is that a lot of SW development is building upon already existing code bases. One benchmark for an AI would definitely be its ability to take in an entirely novel code base and make edits to it. I would guess that any current language model, no matter how well trained can achieve that. The tendency for it to invent by itself seems to make that destined for failure.

>Also, What fields do you think will be safe from the AIs

Any industry which is more than a bit hesitant about change. E.g. aerospace and defense.
Full disclaimer: I work at Convoy

I used that kind of title because I think it'll be useful to people to learn how webhook event filtering might work if they wanted to build it in their own systems. We also plan to write about how we built it.
Once I bought a programmable outdoor water control valve from Aliexpress.

It seems Chinese taps are not really comparable with what we use in North Amrica?

I then ordered a "Orbit" from Amazon and a month later received.. the same Chinese one i got on Aliexpress???

Amazon was decent to return it right away but what the F? It was blatantly obvious they were just drop-shipping given the massive wait time.
Yuan digital currency comes with expiry date.

https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/digita...
Which is impossible so you prefer to have games with cheaters then?
Will 2023 be the year we discover the truth about Covid’s origins?
It is just a pin off the chipset. The headphones was just a cheap way to get a 'free' antenna. Those chipsets do a lot of stuff. If you printed out the docs it would probably be a couple of reams of paper. They fuse things out for different cost points and just do not hook things up for others. It can also be if they hook it up it is an extra dollar per device. Not saying that is what happens but it is a distinct possibility considering the way they bifurcate the cost of those chipsets. From a consumer PoV though it is frustrating as the HW is there...
It's not surprising. Liberals want the government to take money from people to fund itself. A digital currency allows them to do that much more efficiently.
I love how you asked people to share a smart summary and analysis, but all you got was hackernews comment pontifications. Folks: pretty sure they meant a researched article that takes longer than a poop to write.

I'm interested in this too.
Kingston is definitely not an off-brand drive.

Anecdotally I've had more Samsung drives fail on me than any other brand. Everything from OEM drives to retail EVO drives.
>You can even purchase the land, while promising to maintain a public right of access, and then close the right of access indefinitely "for safety", etc

The public is reaping what it has sowed. This is only possible because for decades a huge chunk of the public has treated the pursuit of safety or "the children" or any other "you're evil if you criticize anyone who purports to stand for this" type of subject as something that is more important than all other interests.
The biggest indicator missing is value. Like, 5 stars for a 30 dollar vacuum pump... if it works a few times I would give it five stars. For a 300 dollar one. It better pull the needed mmhg perfectly and work for years. There's a use case for both
I've recorded every Amazon unboxing (including a full recording around every angle of the unopened shipping box) I've done for every large ($100+) purchase I made with Amazon for years when I first heard claims like this arise, and it actually proved fruitful when Amazon shipped me a counterfeit 2080 Super mid pandemic. They refused to believe me until I sent an unlisted YouTube link of the unboxing.

I don't have prime anymore. Why would I?
>We could very easily fix it by applying old recipes that worked well yesterday but nobody (with the power to) wants to fix it.

There are urgency services that are literally closing due to lack of personal, right now. Even in major cities. An the government is now considering to open a reflection on reintegrating thousands of people that were laid off (not fired but no longer paid) as they didn’t consent to be vaccinated.

So yes, there are some levers government can turn to instantly make situation a bit less terrible. But this will not be enough to make situation sound. No one want to go to work for miserable wages in awful conditions that are promised to be degraded constantly for what decades of data allows to forecast. And you don’t form new doctors, nurses and so on over the course of a night, not even speaking about what makes a group of trained individuals becoming an efficient team.
I’ve never had any problem getting one until this last year. Right now they’re just temporarily prioritising B2B customers - people whose livelihoods depend on it rather than those using it for hobby projects.

Eben has said[1] that he expects supply to improve considerably in the new year, starting with the Zero.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/yswb2d/raspbe...
It's interesting that Tesla hasn't made a splashy entrance into generation.
> I don't understand why you don't have companies like Tesla building fuel cell (hydrogen) solutions for commercial use cases.

Oh god, can that damn hydrogen hype please die out. Hydrogen has an incredible amount of conversion loss both at generation and in recombination (each step only has about 40-60% efficiency rate) compared to way over 90% for lithium based batteries. Additionally, it's fiendishly difficult to safely transport it because it's highly explosive, and it will slowly leak out wherever it can.

The only place where hydrogen really has its uses is in synth-fuel applications (e.g. for airplanes) to shift these away from fossil-origin fuels, in processes where the heat of a burning flame is required and as raw material in chemical processes. Hydrogen generation capacity is incredibly scarce, we should reserve it for those processes that literally cannot use any alternative.
Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud. It's the reason I would never get into that business, so I kind of understand why a company would prefer not to allow anything crypto related on their platform.
Exactly. Because it seems transparent. It would just be better if the customer service given through the company's support channels were adequate. Not these veiled attempts to market via customer support.
If governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software? The economic benefits (of edu) and the number of people directly and indirectly affected has to be on the order of airplanes / airtravel.
I was really hyped when I asked ChatGPT to write some classes to encode some data, everything seemmed magical when the code was outputing and making sense to me at first glance.

But when a tried it didn't work and spent an hour tryin to fix it.

Then I decided to write my own code and stop wasting time.
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> The real threat that I see is that the AI will leave the boring part to us

Do you enjoy writing code just for the sake of writing code? The thing I enjoy about programming is the results of the programming. Code is just the language I have to speak in order to get the idea that's in my head onto the computer screen. If I could just speak English and have the same result, I would be just as happy.
"TL;DR: I'd much rather have things done by humans as long as the machines replacing them aren't much better. Those are people who rely on those jobs to survive, and I don't see a point in replacing them."

I'd rather have universal basic income and a strong social safety net, so no one needs jobs to survive.

Automating away the jobs that people don't want to do is a step towards making that more economically feasible.
> Today, with a little effort I could generate a fully working code of a rnn based time series forecasting using this tool.

Interesting. IME even for toy problems it generally spits out code which fails to do what I requested for many inputs or at all. Using this tool to solve a problem requires not only that I understand what it spits out but also that I understand how to actually solve the problem, so that I can work out which parts of the rubbish it spits out are broken and ask it to iterate on those.

It doesn't seem frightening or particularly transformative; I'm not even convinced that using it could save more time than not. It's not doing anything radically different to https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import and the latter works better.

The worst part is that just as with tools like Grammarly, the people who would most benefit from a properly working version of such a tool are exactly the people least well placed to understand when and how the output of the tool is wrong.

I welcome evil players attempting to use it: their evil plans will self-destruct in hilarious ways.
Just remember, for companies less profit growth is equivalent with less profit
> Maureen must have been skeptical, but Mum immediately backed up Dad’s story.

The author’s mom also sounds pretty cool.

Having a significant other who is on the same wavelength as you as who is your partner even in silly stuff is one of the underrated blessings in life.
Something similar happened to me in 2000 on eBay. I was 16. Entering college and bought a desktop computer from eBay. I got a case with nothing inside. eBay didn’t do anything to help. Never shopped with them since.
How many times does this need to happen again until people stop uploading their OC to Youtube?
If I have to buy something on Amazon I've gone out of my way to make sure I'm buying from them directly lately. Too many issues with them pulling crap like this when it's a third party seller. But by forcing them to be the seller I force them to also be subject for that transaction to my state's consumer protection act. That seems to cause them to care more because suddenly they are on the hook because they are not just the marketplace.
Not if you download a small number of large files ;)
I'm all in on DBT for several reasons:

1. One source of transforms for static data
2. Easy to do plug-in or changes, even 'materializations', are Jinja. So I can have custom implementation for a specific issue
3. DBT to Metabase documentation, still super new but imagine other tools getting intake of metadata and metrics from dbt
4. I'm the data team, and managing a huge amount of workflows. If I just use a select and not DML style of writing the queries, it will 'orchestrate' it for me.
4.1 I can have a quick version controlled workflow for a new report/kpi/metric that we don't know if it is even important yet.
5. The speed trade-offs are made up for with the time saved from point 4
6. Embeddable in to the datamesh I dream of no one knowing I use DBT or any software at all, its all just [company branding] magic
You are worried that an Amazon lawyer is going to contest your evidence in small claims court.

You probably don’t need to be concerned: they’re unlikely to show, so you’ll just get summary judgement.
Anything that I buy from a Facebook group or something similar over $x, I set up a camera and record myself opening the product. Anything that I sell over $x, I record evidence of packing and shipping. I don't really have a set value for x, but it's definitely under $690. That might not have made a difference with Amazon, but it can't hurt.
No, because you pay by the operation, but by the amount of data in that operation. S3 also has operations costs, but those are separate from the egress costs, which are throb the roof.
That's such a weird question lol, there is more online stores then Amazon and Newegg? There is hundreds. Just go buy it from literally anyone else besides Amazon if you give me your state I can probably tell you a list of about 100 that will ship there.
One scenario where the "believes anything" might be useful is to use ChatGPT to get alternate takes on opinions. If you have some great idea or strongly held opinion, get ChatGPT to take the other side of the argument and poke holes in it. The creative but inaccurate characteristics of ChatGPT are less of a problem in this case but it might bring out alternatives you haven't considered.
>A reduction in the number of cyclists on streets;

Really a goal of the move. For sure there's a reduction, article suggests 15-40% which jives for me. So long as a bikes are allowed on the road, you will have movements to punish cyclists. Soon as a city has bike pathes all over enabling you to get to your destination and banning cyclists off the road and sidewalks. Then this problem will be solved.

Bike sharing systems basically cant function where bike helmets are mandatory. Which is super interesting because how many people really just ignore the bike helmet rule anyway?

>More exposure among vulnerable populations to unnecessary interactions with police.

Police brutality is a huge problem for the USA. Not anyone else.
The way they communicate is better too. Both companies increased their prices in the past year. DigitalOcean announced[0] theirs in an article that mainly focused on a new cheaper droplet supplemented by lots of useless text about how they “ adapt our offerings to meet the needs of our customers and their desire to create software that changes the world.”

The link to the page with the new prices didn’t have some overview of the changes, and figuring out how much more I was going to pay was frustratingly hard.

Hetzner’s article[1] just clearly explained why they increased their prices and had a table with the new prices.

I really appreciate that no-bs way of communicating.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/new-4-dollar-droplet-updat...

[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/
Yes, z15 is an issue :)

Still an arm vs x86 should be doable and maybe even riscv.
This is a noble pursuit—I wish we would civilize the men in my home country on the subcontinent. But the subtext of a German publication extolling a Latin American for trying to make his people more like white Europeans is not lost on me. The attitude of “it sure would be better if they were more like us” isn’t far below the surface.
Sure but then we can replace nearly all non-manual professions.
yes and it should have been a long time ago. You need to see AI's as frameworks and then we will go from there.

No job will be safe and thats a good thing. People value themselfs to highly and i bet from experience all of us know at least one guy who could have been easily replaced with a shell script.

That is not meant in a way that that person is not able to do other things or is impaired in anyway, buutttt imagine how many jobs in general could be replaced by very small shell scripts. Coding aint gonnna be any different.
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The interiors of these things are so sterile that it completely detracts from the natural surroundings. It's like a sci-fi story where a room in an affluent city apartment is teleported to the middle of the forest. It's lame to even try and call this off-grid living. This is glamping for people who are too afraid to leave the city behind.

A real off-grid cabin is like a hunting shack or a boy scout cabin: four walls, a roof, beds, a table, and an outdoor shit house. Heat is optional from a fireplace or gas/kerosene heater. A step up would be indoor plumbing and a basic kitchen.
Now that you mentioned it, I wonder as well!
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I don't know about totalitarian systems. They are involved with CBDCs. How do you know they aren't proponents of CBDCs?