skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR - Models can learn from massive validation, not just massive text prediction.

I agree our current crop of Copilot, GPT-3 and chatGPT can introduce subtle bugs, and that's a big problem. Checking for such bugs takes time. They code like someone who read a lot and has good memory, but never implemented anything complex.

But there is no reason to be the same in the next iteration. Language models can be fine-tuned on code execution, that means giving sufficient exposure to trial and error to learn how to avoid such bugs.

Having a way to test its outputs is the key to self improvement. It works the same with AlphaGo - the model is generating its own training data, and this process can eventually surpass human level. It just needs tons of compute to iron out a lot of bad ideas.

Alternatively, the model could use a code execution environment at runtime, too. So it could iterate a few times on an error, eventually using web search if it cannot solve it alone, instead of simply failing and leaving it to the human to fix. It is pretty good at proposing fixes and will recover most of the times, like human devs.

I'm leaving this for further reading. It's fascinating.

> Evolution through Large Models

> Large language models (LLMs) trained to generate code can vastly improve the effectiveness of mutation operators applied to programs in genetic programming.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896

The paper is from OpenAI, Ken Stanley who works on opendedness is the last author.
Looking at the demographics of the study, they only had 47 total participants, 15% of which were professionals and 62% reporting less than 5 years experience coding (which I would imagine is an underestimate assuming some people exaggerated their actual experience level). So that means they only had 6-7 participants who worked in industry and generously 18 people with more than 5 years experience. They also don’t report the breakdown of how participants did by experience. One other factor they use to measure is if the participant has security experience, but their bar for that is whether they have taken a single security class.

Given all of this, I don’t think the paper’s conclusion is convincing at all given that they were evaluating this on a pool of participants that a majority were students with not much experience programming when these tools are sold for professional use. I would bet if the study had a more uniform distribution of experience levels, you would probably see the “bugginess” trend downwards with more experience. Participants with more years programming just have had more time to learn how to use new tools more effectively in their workflows.

I definitely tweaked my methods of using Copilot plenty over the past year or so to take advantage of its strengths and avoid weak its weaknesses.
I am using my Pinephone as a daily driver, so it's probably possible. However if your bank requires an Android/iOS app, you may have a hard time. Can't blame Linux for that.
What are their goals ?
Returning to monke ?
Posting such a response is attempting to impose upon me time that I am not willing to spend on you. It's disrespectful.

The argument you're trying to formulate here is that being uninvited as a speaker at the grammy's isn't a big deal because the person was able to give their speech somewhere else in front of a completely different audience eventually. That's not how that works, the talk he was uninvited from is considered an honor in his profession.

Then you try to imply he benefited from it, so why is everyone opposed to it? That's akin to arguing that the reasons for naming a boy Sue is valid parenting advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gbtm-93oqE&t=146s

2:26 timestamp

listen to the end to understand the point fully.

per the link about naming, I'm not surprised you misunderstood what Feynman was saying, but that's not my problem.
Recently had the misfortune of fixing a really overwrought and broken chunk of html. Copilot kept trying to introduce tons of junk into it of nearly the exact same variety I was trying to remove.
I'm not sure how to fix this logically but still seems like copilot has a way to go improve helpfulness.
A lot of people seem to follow okx without being aware
> isn't like the people running it will just suddenly want to work for a new (hostile) boss

Have you ever done business in China? Everyone already works for that boss.

The boss may not be as present yet, but they’re there, and refusing to follow a Party member’s orders is a criminal offense.
I’d bet that’s unlikely. A lot of if Rail’s power comes from the meta progamming (convention over configuration, was it?) which would be needlessly hard in extension land.

Extensions shine brightest on CPU bound workloads by doing away with a lot of the intermediate Object allocs/frees. The gains tend to not be worth the investment in IO bound settings.

This doesn’t mean Rails won’t benefit from extensions.
> There are widely available stats on how much energy mining takes (based on GPU energy usage, nobody's lying about this, you can run an energy meter yourself)

What does GPU energy usage have to do with Bitcoin? Isn’t it predominantly mined by ASICs? (Though GPU and even CPU is possible, but uneconomical unless someone else is paying the bill...)
In my mind, I have an image that the median HN user works at a startup or FAANG company, getting paid a generous salary and living comfortably enough to not need to worry about these basic needs.

Thank you for highlighting that there are others out there who down on their luck (to put it mildly), with many things out of control. For example, the user who posted from Ukraine really struck a chord with me. Who would've thought last Christmas that this one would be so different for Ukrainians?

What you have done is amazing. HN is truly a fantastic community. I wish everyone a wonderful and happy holidays.
I think we need more information before we can proclaim it terrorism with certainty. If it was say teenagers with guns or something, that is probably not terrorism, that's stupidity. But I do think it wasn't an accident and was likely planned, attempted to stew disorder. But the world is complicated, people do things to try to blame the other side. There is actual right wing accelerationism, but we need a little more evidence before we can confidently say what this is in headlines.
Are there any cross-platform native UIs for Rust? Something like wxWidgets or GTK?
Prescod-Weinstein should be sued for defamation if its true they're been spreading false rumors about their adversaries.
It worked fine, the magneto provided a small amount electricity while active. And the house had radiators, no blower needed.

To me, radiators are the best heating system, too bad they have been out of favor for decades.
Looks like it's for couch coop. If anybody wants to do this on a home PC there's also [Parsec](https://parsec.app/) or [Sunshine](https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine)
I don't know what you do for your work, but I suspect you haven't used chatgpt/copilot/etc enough to see the benefits.

Do you think tab-autocompletion is useful? AI assistants can do that on steroids.

Do you ever use example code to learn a new package? ChatGPT does that at a new level.

When I hear developers I work with saying stuff like the above, I think it sometimes comes from a place of insecurity. It's ok to find these tools useful, it doesn't mean you aren't an elite programmer. In the end the best developers will find ways to use these tools to learn faster and build better.
Yeah, I gigve very few apps notification rights, and zero websites in my browsers. I truly do not see why browser notifications were ever allowed, they're 99% abuse.
It means “platoon” in Spanish.
I feel bad that my immediate thought wasn't "what a wonderful gesture" but instead was "how many of those in need were scammers?"

It's weird to me that I like to think of myself as a positive person but come up with that sort of thing.
What is ChatGPT’s actual competitive advantage over search? It can’t tell you the second largest country in South America correctly, it’s an extremely cool demo but I can’t think of anything it could replace Google for. The underlying technology is extremely powerful, but it’s been powering Google for years
They're largely living off money from past films. Residuals help, but it's mostly the paychecks.

Screenwriting is somewhat unusual, though, in that the official credits for a film don't always represent every writer who got paid for the project. There's a whole complicated thing with establishing who gets credit and who doesn't. Union arbitration can be involved, and so on.

There's often a lot of intermediate drafts that don't lead to credit but nonetheless earn big paychecks for the writers.

And of course writers are often paid for scripts that never get made at all. The big win is writing a huge hit that earns substantial residuals for years, but there's a lot of money made at levels below that too.

As for who is footing that bill, it's the producers/studios.
Is there any evidence that this has anything to do with accelerationism?
Nope, that's a scam. Do not send money to that account. Contact DHL customer support directly using the number from their web site. This is a common scam.
reCaptcha v5: Which lines have errors?
Since difficulty recalculation is based on number of blocks, not time, would a scenario be possible where hashing power keeps crashing constantly pushing block difficulty recalculation in the future and essentially freezing transactions on the network?
> I don't know where this romanticizing of car free cities & no cars comes from

You can’t possible imagine any of the things they often loudly shout about?
Probably not, but if you ever watch a cycling race with commentary on TV then you’ll hear it used. I’d guess since they expanded out from just cycling it’s probably not super unusual for people to come across them first though.
I spent a few days working on using ChatGPT to write code. I've been meaning to write a blogpost about my experience, but here's my synopsis.

Where ChatGPT was best was when I wanted to do generic data structure work with common tools. Prompts like "make a Python class that stores keys in a redis sorted set, with the score as a timestamp, that removes members older than a configured time on access / insertion." I know how that code should work, I know what's correct- but it's nice being lazy and letting ChatGPT spit out a class for me I can clean up.

Anytime I want to do anything weird or nonstandard, ChatGPT is an uphill battle. Try asking it to write a convolution function without using Numpy (say you're using PyPy or AWS Lambda and C extensions are a no go). It will often insist you have to use Numpy- it argued with me at one point it wasn't possible without it! (This has gotten a bit better since, but was still quite interesting)

Working with pre-existing code, especially anything database related, was not worth the time spent at all. Terrible query plans, misinterpreting the schema that was provided, etc. I do love SQL though- I'm quite biased here.

It was interesting in that when it worked best, I needed to know what to ask for. I asked a good friend who started learning to code a few months ago to try it, and she was way less successful with it versus reading documentation.

Ultimately I think with tight text editor integration it will be great, but it's still going to require someone skilled and who knows what to ask for- at least for a couple years. As for how productive it's made me, I've stopped using it for anything except greenfield work with common libraries I already know how to use.
> Its profitable to pretend that personal choices have nothing to do with drug addiction

That is true, and there are systemic issues we should fix.

However it is also true that some people will latch on to anything — “personal choices”, “systemic issues” — to justify callousness and lack of compassion. It’s an ugly way to live, always looking for some justification to spit on those who are in already in trouble.
I love hard core history, but I recently discovered The Rest is History and it takes the number one spot for me.
I hadn't considered the "hopelessly stuck" aspect, and that does seem promising.

I fully agree on your other points, though. Communicating the requirements to the AI in a non-ambiguous way is more-or-less equivalent to just writing the code. I can't even get firm requirements from my coworkers, and we all presumably have "real" intelligence.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34139810
Probably after the era of PC/XT upgrades, the 386SLC had the clock speeds and on-die cache that made close to the DX.

I really enjoyed my time developing on OS/2 1.2 and later 1.3 with the IBM intern-developed VESA SVGA driver. It was multitasking that really worked. My first PC was a clone 386DX with socketed cache chips, 8MB RAM, and 11 MHz overclocked ISA bus to make the video updates faster.

My next PC was a PS/2 Model 77 running OS/2 (and later Win NT). It was so hard finding an MCA SoundBlaster-compatible card (by Piper Research) so I could play Doom.
The FBI was issuing these sorts of requests. I’d welcome specific evidence to the contrary.
Since valid conservative viewpoints exist outside this segment you've just reduced in your stereotype, then yeah, you are powerful at personally enacting this marginalization while demonstrating precisely that it's your own projected ignorance which does so. Do try better at buying things before selling your product.
And if you want to do the opposite, consider wearing a very realistic Trump mask while you throw rocks at seagulls outside Mar-A-Lago.
You don't get it. It's social media. You interact get upvotes(dopamine hits). argue and feel entertained through the screen of your device.
I utilized the term in reference to the flagged submission for the sake of simplicity and ease of comprehension for the individual in question. The term 'emergency' carries connotations and should be used with caution when describing any situation.
> The store (Amazon) will know your change of behavior and use that to bombard you with baby clothes advertisements.

Targeted advertising is innocuous compared to some of the ways your shopping history could be used against you. Imagine if health insurance companies could decline claims based on too many purchases of pizza and beer over the years. I thought this was supposed to be illegal, and I don’t know which laws apply now or have in the past, but ~20 years ago I did hear from a friend who worked in the credit card industry that he had seen this kind of thing happening. Has left me with nagging fears ever since. (I guess I should find out more so I’m not just spreading FUD :P)
Can someone explain the significance of gambling in Asian cultures? I noticed this growing up with many Taiwanese friends. There seems to be some cultural component to “luck” but I don’t know if that’s ethnic or something else
> Title VII carves out several opnions as, by law, not "valuable" in the sense that expressing them constitutes either harassment or creation of a hostile work environment. And doing business in America means complying with that law...

Yeah, but the thing is that what Damore did was nowhere near the criteria of title vii hostile work environment. You're making it sound as if there was some legal obligation for Google (or any other American business) to let him go, but there was not. It was cowering to activists which lead to the termination, not any legal obligation for doing business. The argument that it had anything to do with title vii holds no water for me
My workflow has been share->print->pdf for many years. Then view through eboox reader synced over google drive across devices.
I suggest kiwi browser that has kept chrome plugins.

Mozilla has managed to slip to irrelevancy with a series of Nokia like decisions. Have no idea why pdf export on Android is any kind of news in 2023 but I hope it is interpreted as a return to some sort of right direction.
That’s about parent’s environmental exposure affecting gene expression in their children. The notion that this can be passed down over multiple generations, where the parent’s generation wasn’t directly exposed to the environmental conditions, is fringe.
Or maybe posting all our creative output on large searchable databases actually amplifies creativity due to tools like AI whereas aimless boredom tends to result in local efforts such as scribbling?
> The bicycle crowd feels unsafe too.

Except their feelings don't correlate with actual safety. Statistically, same direction rear end collisions are the least common type of collision while collisions at intersections are the most common. The bicycle infrastructure solutions the bicycle crowd comes up with increase the risk of collisions at intersections. Specifically, right hooks (where a right turning motorist turns across the path of a cyclist going straight through the intersection), left crosses (where a left turning motorist crosses the path of a cyclist going straight through the intersection), and drive outs (where a motorist entering the road from a side street crosses the path of a cyclist).

The one way to reduce the risk of intersection collisions is to ride in the center of the general purpose lane, but certain members of the bicycle crowd don't feel safe doing that. But feeling safe doesn't correlate with actual safety from a statistical point of view.
The bicycle crowd isn't pushing for people to ride bicycles, they're pushing for basic, safe, all ages and abilities cycling infrastructure so they're not killed by a car.
The best bet you can get is something like App Store guideline rather than law, I think.
The question is why would you want something like that? Native is meaningless on non-Apple platforms. For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern native Windows app, because it uses Win32. Gtk is "best viewed on" a Gtk-based Linux desktop. Qt Widgets, much like wx, emulates the LAF of Win32, so doesn't look correct any more on Windows. Qt Quick is a modern hardware-accelerated UI toolkit, but that's not a unique thing any more.
Actually crashing on bit flips is a second problem, and an indicator of the first problem.
I lived in a country lacking capital (first because it was robbed by communists and then due to the risk of the transition managed by a deeply corrupt political elite) and I can tell you existing demand was only met through imports.

It sucked for everybody - without local capital the entrepreneurship was very limited, jobs remained scarce, specialists emigrated and the trade deficit became unmanageable. In the end multinational corporations slowly entered and bought various state-granted monopolies (the only real monopoly entrepreneurship can't solve) on the cheap. But that tiny capital started a snowball effect that eventually raised the living standard to unhoped-for levels. Now we have both billionaires and a wealthy middle-class. It took a long time though.

Careful what you wish for - a country without successful entrepreneurs and local capital(ists) is an easy prey on the international markets.
I’m very well alive means in a vacuum, but what makes an option (in this case I’m assuming an article of clothing , but it’s hard to tell as this seems to be mostly unintelligible ramble) “alive” as opposed to perhaps “dead”.
"Passion" can be defined as "a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passion The point is that HR people mean "passion" to be you're highly motivated, or driven, to do it. Emotions don't necessarily come in to play the way you're suggesting.
And what warden gains from catching such person? Is there just warden's personal satisfaction in it, or such diligence encouraged by the prison system?
This reads like satire:
“ Investigators probing the attacks last month at substations in Moore County, North Carolina, zeroed in on two possible threads: extremists' writings in online forums encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure, and recent disruptions of LGBTQ+ events across the nation by domestic extremists, law enforcement sources told CNN.”

Why on earth would you sabotage the electrical grid to disrupt LGBT events? Why don’t they have a thread for Americas numerous foreign enemies? Is that not a possibility?
I think they're useful for some PWAs. I give gchat notification perms on my desktop which is a nice feature.
This is where "real life" is helpful. Ask other people who use these things which one they like. People at the dog park, salespeople at well-curated pet stores for the dog scissors and other people who like hot sauce or gourmet cooking stores for the same. Coworkers, friends of friends, etc. If you don't interact with others for whatever reason, look on large retailer sites for reviews - and read the bad ones. Sometimes a common problem with the product will be commented on a few times. Well known/established brands can be a guide (vs no name garbage from amazon/china).

Search engines are pretty useless these days - any answer I'm looking for regarding anything is not found and instead I get AI/bot pulling non-answers/keyword driven paragraphs into a click seeking website.

At some point what could have been a great tool was taken over by capitalism and adtech. It's a shame.
Fun hands on use-case/story. Trying to connect sensors & actuators sounds fun! It's clear that they need some kind of infra/platform that they can run on-prem, & this feels like a lock.

There's a new Dynamic Resource api in k8s 1.26 that feels potentially well suited to managing their various kinds of node-attached resources in a pretty broad/generic/cloudy way. Taking the cloud from anonymous compute/storage nodes to an all encompassing management system for whatever we have is an interesting next step. I rather doubt we'll see folks like this spend the 3x effort to pioneer use of these abstractions but over time it should start to emerge & become more regular. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dyna...

There's also a really neat really nice CNCF Sandbox project Akri which performs semi-similar-ish functions as Dynamic Resources. One of the examples they use as a goto is managing a fleet of OVNIF cameras, like, security cameras. https://github.com/project-akri/akri

On another topic, appreciate this article talking about the mixed human/robot workflows. Good to consider! I worked at a great & interesting data-warehouse company a long time ago that had some very complex long running ETL pipelines & limited compute resources (good number of boxes... pre-cloud era!), and a lot of time-sensitivity. The company used Jira to manage the ETL end to end, with custom workflows where work would gate, process, get checked through various stages, with processors updating the ticket as work advanced or to report % complete. Intensely sharp choice not to build it ourselves, to use a tool for tracking work, even though the code (robots) we built were doing 9/10ths the work. Fun to see a similar topic discussed here.

Good problem setup, interesting view here. Would appreciate a little more technical specifics, but still fun to see.
And nobody's going to exploit those device-specific vulnerabilities (that probably require local code execution anyway) unless you're a high-value target.
Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
That's not what happens when people doom scroll. They are not perfectly entertained. They are profoundly bored on social media. But they still scroll for scraps of entertainment because more promising alternatives are not really accessible to them at that moment, because of physical limitations or their state of mind or their energy levels.
I don't know her but Wikipedia doesn't something special about her