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>Because ChatGPT is so hugely popular and experiencing truly massive demand already, you may not have been able to actually personally use it yet, but suffice to say, it's kind of like magic. And it's still early day

Hypefluff. Could have replaced ChatGPT with crypto, penny stocks, or Juicero.

Show me the money. I mean actually show me. No more theorycrafting, hypotheticals, or bullshitting. Show me a company using ChatGPT and how its use is reflected on the bottom line of their financial statement.
I use "heritage" instead of "race" so as to cover any situation where a person's dual ancestry can mark them as an outsider. This could be based on race, religion, ethnicity, or any other factor by which people decide someone is "not one of us". I assumed it would be understood that a specific mixed-heritage is an issue only when living in a community where such a distinction is made. For example, I don't think there is anywhere in America where being part French would mark you as an oddity, but there was a time when being part Irish would. In that case, I argue the thing to do is place the children in a community where being part Irish is the norm. The point is to raise children in a social situation where they don't feel singled out by their peers.
I look forward to _not_ having that freedom unsuspectingly foisted on me.
Maybe they should try that at meta : Instead of a certified badge for 10$ a month for yourself, it would be great to be able to put some "schandmaske" on someone else for a few bucks a month to expose their sins to the world.

Bots and bad behavior will be quickly tamed.
This is not popular news yet but most of the tests with lab mice may be invalid. [1] I suppose now we need a movement to get natural mice used in lab tests or something along that line.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5jFxe9jJ0 [video][7 mins]
There are monastics in the West, perhaps you're simply unaware of them.

Your "No True Buddhist" argument is sweeping and fallacious.
Yeah! I didn't end up taking a job at Stripe, but I came away very impressed with their process. Only one interview was leetcode-ish and it was a phone screen and purposefully not a high bar. Then the real interviews were: that debugging one which I loved, an "integration" one which involved live coding while plugging a few different unfamiliar libraries and APIs together (also something I really do in my job), a standard system design interview (still don't really love these...), and an in depth conversation with a hiring manager. Still a tough day, but pretty decent process I think!
> I'm not convinced.

Great! Because that's not what I'm trying to do. Figure out what works best for you. We did.

> particularly if the code should be cross-platform.

Ours, currently, does not.

> Then there is the whole issue of message (de)serialization. I don't see how this can possibly be easier than starting a thread and communicating with concurrent queue.

We develop in C#. All of this is available from MS.
>“content creators” are not providing much value.

Depends on the value you put on entertainment.
Jevons would like to have a word with you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox)
Like the issues we have seen with Bing and ChatGPT, it seems that self-driving cars are a long way from being resilient to real world uses. The issue is the complexity of the domain space, which which might not lend itself well to the mathematical model. You can get impressive results, in some cases exceeding human performance, but the problem is when they fall short in spectacular ways. The human brain is much more flexible in recovering from certain types of errors. Bing might suddenly profess its undying love for a user, while self driving might become inexplicably convinced that a cliff is the correct path because of some odd arrangement of pixels. The problem is especially keen when there are adversarial influences dedicated to creating problems.
Putting stickers on road signs can trick humans too...

In fact, road signs are just stickers on a bit of metal themselves.
I've heard all manner of Xenophobic nonsense, and I don't take it seriously unless evidenced.
It's about jitter caused by the OS, or in this case HW (e.g. due to SMM or similar shenanigans), that can be problematic for real time or HPC applications.
WunderGraph cloud takes API development to a whole new level of simplicity. I'm excited to build my new app ideas on the cloud platform.
The article concludes:

"Eventually, though, someone will release a program that’s nearly as capable as ChatGPT, and entirely open-source. An enterprising amateur will find a way to make it run for free on your laptop."

Well not in the near future... Large language models like ChatGPT are called "large" for a reason, and they're too big for your laptop for the foreseeable future. I think you'd need a computer with several high-end GPUs that each have 128+GB of RAM to be able to run one of those. Maybe a laptop from 2030 will do.

Otherwise a very good article.
I'm guessing the journalist made the wrong simplifying assumption. A lot of people from the brahmin caste don't eat meat, so maybe the anecdote is about a brahmin and not-a-brahmin interaction. There's plenty of people who're not dalits and eat meat.

The journalist may have attempted to "simplify" the anecdote instead of explaining all these details, but ended up screwing it up. To anyone who's Indian this comes across like it's "fake news", whatever their intention maybe.

Americans already have enough damaging stereotypes of Indians, it would be nice if reporters were careful reporting subtle problems instead of editorializing everything to fit their audience.
Uh, I think you are confused about Hugo unless I'm missing something.

It's a static site generator and is nothing like Wordpress. I've run Hugo sites behind nginx, caddy, and netlify with nary a problem.
But it does mean that the people who were formerly knitters now have more material wealth than a lot of the upperclass people of their day. In order to buy a pair of shoes, that knitter would have had to work months if not a full year to save enough money. Now even some of the poorest people among us only need to spend a fraction of their weekly income to buy a new pair of very serviceable shoes that are probably much better made and more comfortable than the cheapest pair a local cobbler could have made by hand.

I believe that means in a very real sense that the time saved has gone back to workers. We all already share in that collective productivity increase.
Aligning UK food standards with US ones would be extremely difficult, expensive, and unpopular, and would shut down most of the UK's remaining food trade with the EU and other places which align to EU standards. And potassium bromate would be the least of their worries...
I both understand the surprise - after all, I used to spend a lot more than two hours a month on this myself! - and consider it a lot of time for what I consider to be a very low value activity.

Reading and commenting on HN is also fairly low-value activity, but I certainly learn useful things more often than I do when futzing around with my OS, and that's just bonus; it's mostly an entertainment activity. Playing with my Linux configuration used to be an entertainment activity for me as well, but once that stopped being the case, it stopped being a good use of my time.
There are lots of companies where talking to customers is a requirement for a PM to have continued employment. I’ve worked for more than a few. Seems to me that’s a pretty significant incentive.
ChatGPT was released less than 3 months ago, maybe give it a minute? The ecosystem around LLMs has been flourishing and is accelerating, look at langchain, look at all the open models out there. And in comparison to crypto, there is hard, actual usefulness to it, today.
You can just deploy docker containers to many of these services and the versions are pinned just like you are used to. I’m not sure what you are expecting side effects to be here
"Fancy" scrolling often breaks my favorite way to scroll: by clicking the middle mouse button and just dragging the mouse relative to the anchor point to control the scroll speed. I'd advise anyone who wants people to stay on their page to just leave scrolling alone, but if you're gonna mess with it anyway, at least consider all of the possible modes of scrolling people use and how your new take on scrolling will affect their experience on the site.
Isn't it lovely, just when OS vendors (at least iOS) finally decide to tighten their privacy controls to avoid ad-revenue-based companies to track more and more, a new and more subtle form of advertising comes up.

It would be very difficult for people to differentiate what's an ad and what's not. At least google and likes showed "Ad" or "Sponsored'. Will AI do it?
The theory of 16 stages is pretty entertaining.

> According to Ingram, one must continue to meditate through these awful experiences until reaching a deeper state of awakening. He makes it clear that the consequences of stopping are severe.

Ron Hubbard himself couldn't have stated it any better. He'd be proud.
Poor customers don't have money to plan.

Rich ones just don't care about how to plan, they care about earning more.

Useless stuff then ?
It means the consumer got a cheaper product and the person who invented, built and operated the machine got a share of the profit.
And to that I say, good riddance. Copyright as it exists in 2023 is an abusive dead weight on knowledge and culture and we would be better without it.
This was always my understanding but IANAL.

I brought this up at a startup I worked at when the CTO insisted we change the year in every source file.

I gave multiple examples of other code bases at Microsoft and Google and other big companies that dont include the year at all in some cases and definitely dont update every year.

He said our lawyers said it had to be updated but I was always suspicious he didnt actually ask.
Sure but these look like the sort of thing that would be a low probability to fix where as something that’d fool humans would be at least a high priority (not gonna say every town would fix it quickly)

Also something that fools humans about street signs would probably also fool AI
This is part of progress (be it good or bad progress).

It used to be that the majority of the US population worked in agriculture and today thanks to automation - it’s around 1% of the population. Same goes for numerous roles (secretaries, switchboard operators etc.)

As far as ChatGPT goes - I have a lot of concerns around it, but I am still not convinced it will replace search. I think it might compliment search. Either way I think it’s a good thing if how we search changes. Search is broken, it no longer brings me the best results, it’s becoming harder and harder to differentiate between ads and legit links (this is of course intentional because of revenue and KPIs) and I know longer trust the results. I am not sure if chatGPT is the answer, but maybe it’s part of the answer.

Important lesson - teach your kids to have a self development mindset. They need to be prepared to have multiple career changes and that their current skill set might be made obsolete at any moment. It sucks, but it’s reality and when things change, they change fast.
> Western Buddhism is based off

There is nothing well-defined as "Western Buddhism". The western buddhism I studied is based on Theraveda, and not Mahayana or Zen.

> If Buddhism in East Asia is appropriation and people in East Asia have no authority

No, they indeed do not. Western Buddhists or someone who learned from them don't tell these people that they are doing Buddhism wrongly, and should change. So, someone like you shouldn’t tell Westerners that their practice is wrong and baseless and East Asian is version is the one true one.
Adding to this, fructose is a signalling molecule used by our genetic survival trait to tell our liver to store more glucose as fat. The extreme example of this is bears eating loads of berries before they hibernate to store up fat. It works in humans too, just not to the same extreme as bears.
"Fact checking" is the one I worry about there. If AI confidently tells you something is true will you know that it's not?

It's obvious when it's telling you it's still 2022 but what about more everything else?
In California I have seen this. I am one of us.

Indians born in India 90% of the time want to marry indian only, maybe by choice or by parent's or society's pressure. That too in same religion and caste.

Like I said in my original comment, caste mostly doesn't matter when hiring at work, but people don't marry out of caste, religion. Intercaste Love marriages happen, no doubt, but maybe in a single digit percentage in USA in Indians.

First few generations still know & believe in caste for matrimonial. Brahmins, rajpur, jatt etc still is the factor. The third or fourth generation born starts paying minimal attention to caste when finding love.
> Especially since it's going against everything we did since the invention of the steam engine

Much earlier. Special skills and inventions giving you business, military or social advantages have been a thing since special skills and inventions have been a thing.
Sure it can give you cool results from time to time just like Google and SO, yet you still need to analyze its output and understand all this shit

Software is not like art

One error here = doesnt work

Meanwhile errors at image may be hard to spot or even cool
Most front end devs I manage don't like pre built components and want to roll their own. They might quibble over the behavior or style and feel the itch to change it.

This is also a terrible waste of resources to rebuild the wheel over and over. A few components, sure, when there is a compelling case for custom. But you do the business a disservice by consuming so much time on items just because you want to.

I also find it incredibly demoralizing trying to advance a project and the bug log is full of bugs about basic component behavior you would just get out of the box with a pre built set.

The most likely alternative to boring, functional, and WORKING, is BROKEN and dysfunctional. Please don't break navigation. Have predictable menu behavior. Etc... There are other ways to be creative.
I think it does a great job of synthesizing certain things like recipes, book summaries, etc but as soon as there’s anything important involved it’s just wasting time. It spits out a lot of things that seem correct but on closer inspection is not and that ends up costing a lot of time down the road. If it’s not right 100% of the time, or at least tells you when it’s not that confident, it can’t really be trusted. At the very least hopefully it’ll help get rid of all the SEO junk sites littering the internet.
> So, I came to the UK when I was 15, studied for over 10 years, got my citizenship. All legal, privately paid for.

Did you pay resident fees or foreign student fees? If you paid resident fees the cost of your education, would have been heavily subsidised by the British tax payer [1] . Given you spent so long in education that will have been a considerable burden. Probably as much as half.

Most people earning less than £40k are a net drain on the Exchequer. An increasingly small percentage of people are propping up the country

[1] https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/01/29/how-much-should-taxpayers-...
I think the important distinction is that humans aren’t confused by the stickers that confuse “self-driving” technology. The stickers in the article, for example, are unlikely to confuse a human.
We can have both, can't we? Obviously I don't like cul-de-sacs personally, but nowhere in my comment did I suggest banning them. The phrase you quoted was just a turn of phrase as I described my preferred style of land use which is currently illegal in most zoning laws. Right now.

It's kind of funny that your reaction to my comment is "he wants to take away the cul-de-sac" when all I'm asking is if we can get zoning for a decent alternative. I'm not asking to replace all the suburbs with this style of zoning, but especially as you get to areas with high unmet housing demand, zoning needs to be reconsidered.
They're not that complex if you understand CSS

And let's face it… to understand the example code you only need understand what > + * do in CSS

Using intrinsic sizing, and the sorts of approaches Andy Bell suggests reduces the volume of CSS enormously and can often get rid of media queries and huge numbers of selectors that get repeated across viewport sizes

I'd really encourage you to watch this talk by Andy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhIiI9Ld5M
I read this at 8:22 laying in bed waiting for my coffee to kick in and feeling drowsy - a daily drowsiness that only disappates after multiple days off where I can wake up with no alarm (i.e. vacation). Even if I try to sleep early, my sleep is choppy most of the night and requires being able to go back to sleep til 10 or 11. I have more energy at midnight than at 8a. There's no blue light or other trick, here, it's been like this since childhood.
Job requirements "discriminate" and narrow the candidate pool. Also only one state considers it a protected class. Compare that to sexual preference which 29 states consider protected. Being able to cut candidates if they were involuntarily cut from their job isn't high on my morality list compared to other social issues.
This is the right answer.

I think the startup scene is mostly a huge grift. Companies that don't make any sense being propped up by VC money until they find and exit (typically an IPO) and are left to crash and burn. I avoid working for startups like I avoid the plague.

But I like that the grift exists. They inject money into the industry, being indirectly responsible for my salary being much higher than I ever expected.

I hope the startup grift and the advertisement fueled maelstrom keeps going until it's time for me to retire, god bless them.
One easy way to flip your schedule is to stop eating 12-14 hours before you want to wake up. This is also great for when you are traveling timezones.

For example, stop eating at 4pm, and you'll more easily wake up at 6am the next day. Do this for a couple days and you'll find yourself on the flipped the scheduled.
> I don't see current AI coming up with new ideas for example

I'd check that carefully before relying on it. I've personally used AI to come up with new ideas for a few projects I'm working on. I've read several articles detailing how people are using it to innovate in their business and I'm 100% certain the reason why ChatGPT is at capacity during working hours every day is because there are droves of people using it daily for work now. I'd even go as far as to say that brainstorming with ChatGPT is one of the most productive use cases.
Later in 2023. We will cover it like we did with Milan-X.
This will be a game of cat and mouse between the search companies and the regulators. It has to be clear it is an advertisement of sorts, at least in most countries, however, there are different ways to do this. It will put a significant number of lawyers' kids through university.
Many people, mainly misanthropes, won’t be happy until everyone lives in a soulless box in the sky and eat crickets for dinner after a day of standing on a crowded train. Every apartment block will at least come with a suicide room.
The irony is these types of jobs are usually in companies that aren't going to spend any money to invest in the back office tools/processes their employees use on a daily basis. Any AI/ML tooling is so far away from that type of company that those jobs might be safer than others.
I wonder if leaving the year alone messes with seo slightly
This is good advice, although it made me chuckle a bit that he in fact recommends removing years entirely, but then still has (c) 2021 on the footer.

I'm always in favor of removing lawyer boilerplate though.
you're right, we should actively work to remove the advantages that those elites that can communicate clearly and effectively have. There should be quotas for positions that are dominated by the best performing communicators, as determined by 360 reviews. Additionally, those identified as such should be forced to work remotely, on a 5 second delay and throttled bandwith connection.
No? Whose fault it was when apple removed the ability to run i386 binaries on CPUs that could run them just fine?
> Those jobs all disappeared but do we really miss them?

That's basically true, but consider this; right now, some people would vote for candidates who bring back coal mining just to restore their jobs and income. This is easy in hindsight of a couple of centuries, but very challenging at the time.
I fully agree with your comment. But what you and pigsty keep repeating is that: "if it is free to choose, and lifestyle based approach adopted by anyone in West", it is wrong.

I don't agree with this.
The ethics of embryo risk screening
If you ask a lawyer, you will get a "You should update them". If you ask them to justify it or pushback, you'll normally get a "Yeah, no need".

If something has no perceived cost, and has marginal utility, then you'll get asked to do it.
Netflix produces garbage, because they want garbage.

Imagine there would be some AI that produces movies. Some interesting person (war veteran) would tell it its story, did a few iterations and corrections, and in a month would have a decent movie...

That will happen with writing now!
> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine

Let's crush some puppies m'boy.

Them bills, they keep coming.
True software engineering, no. But for those those who are essentially line workers, stitching together frameworks and libraries and earning a spectacular income doing it, I'd say it is.
What have humanities scholars ever done for me? Granted, some have written books I like, but is there any evidence they wouldn't have done that absent said scholarship?
Better than no checking, which is what we will do 99% of the time. There is a NLP task called "entailment", where two affirmations are judged to see if they support each other or not. A combination of search + entailment would work for fact-checking articles.

But if you want to do this properly you need to first mine all facts from all sources, then do reconciliation, then update your "truth" table for reference. Probably everyone will want to select the sources of truth they want loaded into the system, we're not going to agree on truth.

Even the bare minimum of knowing when an affirmation is controversial or doesn't exist in references would be of great help. AI could indicate <controversial> tags for the first and <citation needed> for the latter. Fortunately search can tell us when no results are found, unlike LLMs.
Same for me on chromium
You’re confusing facts with anecdotal evidence.
… which for many is all eaten up by runaway inflation in certain key constrained areas like housing.

This is why in the US there are hordes of homeless people with smart phones and why the poor generally have no problem having houses full of appliances and giant TVs. Gadgets have indeed gotten radically cheaper.

The things that are hard to make cheaper for structural or physical reasons like housing, health care, tuition, and child care tend to inflate so as to eat the surplus. Housing is the worst culprit in many markets.
I'd say it's reframing the problem in a way that makes the original question about resume gap pointless.
AFAIU algae fuel has been researched since the 70'ies, with little to show for it.

Recently Exxon quietly cancelled their algae fuel project. One wonders if it was ever supposed to achieve something or was it just greenwashing.
The University takes 50% of my grant money off the top as overhead. Here's an example, a 100k grant usually covers a grad student for 1 year but only covers me for 3 months.
This looks like a fun project to tinker around with. I have one small request. The pack file in the repo is 146MB. Is there a way to make that smaller on github?

pack-5d55e1f4809a8dae84591bc04b019b2ae8137f77.pack 146M