skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they've done it backwards in regards to it writing tests. Tests are the check to make sure the A.I is in check. If A.I is writing tests, you have to double check the tests.

You should write tests, then the A.I writes the code. It almost doesn't matter what the code is, as long the AI can regenerate the code from tests.
I see a lot of record profits in the supermarket chains suggesting that a fair bit of the inflation is probably price gauging.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/carrefour-p....

I imagine its like this all over which each part of the logistical chain opportunistically cashing in using the excuse of inflation.
(Software dev for 15+ years)

I'm using it for Typescript + NodeJS development. I find Copilot most valuable when it's something I'd need to Google anyway, like how to format a date string or how to do X in selenium. 8 out of 10 times the answer is right, and the other times it is at least interesting (gives me an idea of what to look for).

This quick feedback is _way_ faster than googling and keeps me in the IDE, and also just makes it more enjoyable to code when there is this "pair programming" partner that I can interact with via code/comments and it will generate ideas for me, even if they aren't all perfect.
If we can only accurately identify AI writers 50% of the time, then we cannot identify AI writers, because it is a binary choice and even with random choice you would identify AI writers 50% of the time.
Yes, you are thinking right, it’s all about power. I think it’s a few kind of power actually.

The biggest is the power balance between capital and labor. Capital wants cheap and pliant hands to do the work. That’s behind a lot of the fed interest rate raises and recession drumbeat in the media.

But another one, and a very important one is the power of one person over another. The best and most intimate and controlling kind of power is the power over another person’s body. Where they go, how long they stay there, how they behave. For a leader to really feel that power, they need eyes and sometimes hands on the people who work for them.
Their purchase price may be lower but their monthly payment is unlikely to be lower due to interest rates.
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I just got an update from my realtor that, compared to 2021, houses are now getting 5-10 offers instead of 10-20. Every open house I go to is packed and has an offer deadline at noon the day after (they aren't bluffing - it goes straight to under contract the next day). It's impossible to have any contingencies - even home inspection. Most are going for $50-$100K over asking. This is even with 7% interest rates, the stock market down 20% and tens of thousands of layoffs in my relatively tech (and Amazon) heavy area. The rental market is so tight - there's basically nothing on the market and the few dilapidated homes that go for rent are between $5-7k/mo. And this is late-March 2023.
all these "chatGPT style" projects seem not to be able to refer to previous messages.Nice UI though :)

What's an alpaca?

> An alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American [..]

Does it eat meat?

> It does not eat meat.

what's the scientific name for it?

> The scientific name for it is Homo sapiens.
I would also add there may be an speculative factor as well, perhaps exacerbated by the pandemic.

Some price hikes on products and services just don't seem to have any economic rationale behind them.

And not all of them are quite obvious because you may get a full product or service with a reasonable price increase that follows inflation but of lot less value.

Take for example hospitality (hotels and restaurants) and home services (roofing, plumbing, landscaping)

My theory is with the pandemic many businesses realized they can reduce quality and level of service without impacting profits.

It's pretty normal today to pay $200/night for a hotel and not get room service for 4 days or more, or go to a restaurant and get a mediocre food and service and still be automatically charged 20-25% on the final bill, in some places even after tax!

My hope is we will reach a point of BS that businesses will start competing again for quality and service and gradually bring things to pre pandemic levels, but that may take a decade or more.

Meanwhile I am cooking a lot more at home, traveling to places where I can hike and camp and do a lot of small projects at home myself.
It does not get the job done.

Last problem I had with Pi: my keyboard did not work for some reason. Guess what, Pi has shitty USB 1.1 implementation (USB 2.0 is different stack), on top of that it does not give enough power to connected devices. With normal computers I had similar problems in 2003!!!

For serious use it is like Gentoo. You have to learn about its boot process, how it bootstraps from video memory.... Or how USBC power delivery is not really important (remember Pi4 initial batches?)...

It only makes sense if you are deploying embedded devices on midscale (~100 devices). For hobby projects it is a nonse. You have to learn completely new HW platform just to read sensor data...? Haha
I think I can follow that logic. But what do we do about the inflation that this brings?

If all of a sudden there is a huge amount of extra cash in teh system, then prices go up alot. Lets say everything goes up 20%.

Now the poor who had debt no longer have debt but the price of life has gone way up for them.

The rich just pocket the money and the inflation doesn't affect their day to day life very much. Infact they are better off as assets have now inflated due to this new money.

Thinking about this more, this like the poorer you are the worse off you'd now be in this situation.

Unless the solution is to close your eyes and pretend like inflation would never happen, which the last year has shown us is not a reasonable belief to hold.
I’ve been using you.com because it adds sources after each query.
Yep, audio starts within 10-15s. Unpair your phone then pair again, select no when it asks if you want to sync contacts and messages
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Some of us haven’t seen the show yet ! :-(
> everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt

I'm generally supportive of these types of measures especially in a financial crisis, but keep in mind that economically, this isn't too different from a bank bailout. The primary net effect of giving people money to pay off their loans is making lenders whole.
I'm not the author of the post, so I can't tell you what the author does.

What I do in my projects is that I tell varnish-cache to cache assets in "/static/..." forever. And I have a "curl -X PURGE <varnish_endpoint>" as part of the "ExecStartPre=" of my go binary.

• https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/purging.htm...

• https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.ser...
> Does a Bolt or Model 3 really impress a woman (or anyone for that matter)? The Model 3 is supposedly called the California Camry after all.

It's pretty impossible to generalize about what impresses women, but the "drive a luxury car" method sort of lost its charm sometime around the turn of the 21st century.
From a theory pov, inflation can be cost push (raw materials cost more for producers) or demand pull (demand more than available supply).

In the real world - both can happen simultaneously.

When interest rates rise, not only does higher cost of borrowing discourage investments and spending (an attempt to kill demand to bring down prices) it also reduces the money supply of the economy.

The money supply refers to all the liquid assets and cash that are in circulation in a country's economy. It is important because it is closely related to the credit market.

But money supply works in conjunction with market risk - which often branches out to two functions - liquidity preference and risk premium. The former is a theory that suggests that an investor might prefer 6% over 10 years than 3% over 5 years. The latter suggests that one investor might pick the 3% (lower yield) option because it has better risk premium - say the 6% is a bond in a DVD store, and the 3% is a government bond (example).

What we're witnessing now is the spiralling, second order effects of rising rates - which on the one hand attempt to kill demand and curb prices for consumer goods, but on the other, affect the money supply and force investors to rebalance their portfolio and start evaluating different risk premiums.

The Fed has dug itself into a hole because monetary policy changes have massive spillover effects into other areas of the economy, not just inflation and cost of borrowing, but also things like how participants in the economy view liquidity and risk premiums.

Can't A/B test monetary policy, or life. Institutions, like people, will learn to face the consequences of their actions and learn to live with their choices.
I don’t know about jetbrains, but the neovim plug-in is not full featured like the vscode one. For example, it doesn’t have the “explain this code” feature. The repo also does not allow issues or PR’s so you can’t even ask for it to have feature parity. I am a paying GitHub copilot user with the neovim plugin (in Emacs), but I find this second-class treatment frustrating. I expect copilot X to be more of the same, since it is even more deeply integrated into vscode.
One hot take -- If the fed loses appetite or ability to continue increasing interest rates, I think those carrying large amounts of debt on hard assets are going to look like geniuses in the face of runaway inflation.
Traders in interest rate swaps
To get on-motherboard, one might even say.
I mean I get what you're saying. But it doesn't just struggle with those things - they aren't even the sort of things it can do.
The irony of this comment is absolutely wonderful.
I do agree, though the US does export it's inflation with a lot of the world trading in $.
Do you genuinely believe machines can't handle most of those jobs with ease?

The only reason why they haven't already been replaced is because humans can be exceptionally cheap. Much easier to hire somebody to sit at a desk for $10/hour doing repetitive tasks than spend millions implementing systems across the board to do what they do (for now).
Warp AI–AI in your terminal to debug errors and write scripts
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UBI is a half-measure, we need democratic, communal control of industry.
> moves to Austin because it is less “vulnerable to climate change”

> commutes by plane

hmmm
Over the top speaking fees is an equivalent of over the top priced alcohol in establishments involved in money laundering.

It is only acceptable, because lawmakers don't want to close the door to getting paid for favours.
I think this analysis is generally correct, but we already saw it happen during Covid, and prices in cities didn't really drop during that time, they just flattened. There seems to be an equilibrium in which landlords are preferring to hold out and leave units vacant for a little longer, knowing that they will make more money in the long run if prices don't drop. this has been ongoing in commercial real estate for a long time, so it's not surprising that the same would happen in residential.
ChatGPT on Managing Humans
Looks neat! But I would need it for pushing numbers around with Python, not building websites.
Next step: Don't even show me the code. Just the results.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650554/
> guess you could try to have some kind of price controls to limit corporate profits.

That just creates shortages, and then you still have inflation, in fact you make it worse, because people still want the stuff, but then getting that stuff just involves off the book transactions, insider deals, and other nefarious and illicit actions to get the stuff.

I mean look at the USSR, being rich wasn't important, there were no rich. Yet there was still an exploitative parasitic upper class that dined on caviar and fine wine everyday while most of the population was waiting for hours in the cold to get bread. The only difference was, now it was based on who you knew and being connected instead of the amount of money you had.
When life happened before, you sold out. Now they'll just rent it out. Even the divorce lawyers will realize it's more profitable to have a two party rental income arrangement.
At the same time, we have a historic undersupply of homes and have been building less than we need to for a very long time.

So in a few markets with oversupply, there might be a bubble pop, but in many areas with strong economies there's not much to pop.

Vacation homes or other areas with highly variable supply seem more likely to pop, but in the economic power houses of the economy we are still undersupplied and this it self has been a huge limiter on national GDP, by denying people access to higher paying jobs.
Siri still sucks?
> how to turn data into a commodity

This is an interesting problem both for public datasets like the ones you're showing, and for internal datasets created and exposed by teams within an org. There are a lot of moving pieces to consider over and above the basics of getting data into and out of systems:

* How do you communicate the data schema in a way that provides both strong guarantees (data you see WILL match the advertised schema), while still being adaptable to change and unexpected circumstances (schemas WILL change)

* How do you deal with transformations/data cleanup in a non-hacky way? Then how do you scale them?

* How do you deal with data ownership? What if one data product consumes another in a nontrivial way -- who owns what?

I'm working on a team building a product to solve these problems! We recently opened beta signups so if you're interested, check us out: https://www.estuary.dev/

I'm happy to answer any questions :)
This applies to managers and many founders too. I imagine it's gonna affect the startup scene more than people expect and the number of current model of startups where you build a custom software solution for a problem may also fall. It applies to all white collar workers. This is the goal of a corporation like Microsoft to develop such a system (to consolidate those added values), and it will happen one day as it happened with physical labor. Although we are not quite there yet. It might be far or not. Who knows?
Sounds more like admins need to read over change logs better and properly test updates on dev environments before just blindly updating systems. Features get deprecated, APIs update, crypto algorithms get dropped, it's entirely on the admin to ensure an update will actually work with existing code and systems.

On a very critical system, I wanted to use a newer python module that fixed a very annoying bug in the much older version we were running. Of course the module required a much newer version of python too. I upgraded everything and found that a function in a built-in module I had been using was entirely deprecated, very bad since it was used all over my code. I ended up writing my own module to overload the deprecated function into the new proper way of doing what I needed with only a simple change to my import statements. If I had just properly read over change logs and ran the update on a dev system, I wouldn't have any downtime since I could have made a fix early.
That same compounding effect also works for the additional investments of the lenders. After all is said and done, the lending group will be able to use its newfound cash flow to purchase ever more investments at prices that the newly debt-free won't be able to match. Soon, the newly debt-free group will be "forced" back into debt because there is no other way to afford (say) a house. An exception would be if the interest on the debt is wildly higher than the interest gained by the investments, but even then the real problem is the high interest rates. There are better ways to regulate those than giving even more economic power to those already wealthy.

You can't get away from wealth disparity by giving to everyone, eventually you have to take from some group to give to the other. The group being taken from will generally not like that.
I also find it problematic that ChatGPT resembles how I write about anything non-trivial, and it's lead to me being accused of using ChatGPT to respond to people's messages before.
This is awesome. So happy to see this technology maturing. Great job team
None of those things could be implemented in the 1970 or 1980s at reasonable cost so they're not actually solutions at all.

Hell even making Ethernet fully switched didn't really happen until the 1990s thanks to Moore's law making the ASICs cheap enough.

Without mass adoption there's no reason to invest. Look at Token Ring, Ethernet's only real competitor at scale: it quickly started to lag behind. Ethernet shipped 100Mbps several years before Token Ring. The 1Gbps Token Ring standard was never put to hardware.
> The pandemic created a lot more chronically ill people. This is a condition typically associated with people who are already seriously unwell.

You're making a huge leap.

The magnitude of "unwell" here is critical. This particular infection has been killing people who are at end of life -- people in nursing homes, hospice, etc. Maybe the pandemic created more of these people, but it's not the same thing as "long covid" (if that even has a definition).

Folks with these sorts of ME/CFS/Long Covid constellations of symptoms are simply not in the same class as elderly people in nursing homes.
Well it's hard to argue against the idea that the final aim of Copilot is to automate as much of software engineering as possible.

I don't think that their aim is explicitly to replace humans, but to be as helpful as possible to developers, but doing that does exactly the other thing
That's true, and beyond the simple observation that the two options (mortgages and renting) will maintain a kind of general equilibrium, there is a more complicated issue called the Law of Rent which shows that land value is based on the productivity that is possible at that location, over and above the alternatives.

It is for this reason that what you can afford is key. So land prices respond to the amount of disposable income that the potential buyers have. You are right that the affordability on the mortgage side includes interest rates, and it is possible for price changes to purely be making up the difference there.

But it could also be a broader phenomenon. If rental prices are falling, it is an indication that prospective buyers and tenants have less ability to afford that land, or that the location provides less value. Either way, a bad sign. But since land is so essential, it responds in such a way that no matter how prosperous a society becomes, it will always adjust to make itself about as difficult to obtain as always. The number of labor hours needed to buy a computer has fallen dramatically. But land values just kind of keep pace with the progress (or regression) of civilization.

People who have ownership over the natural world thus get to claim a growing share of the progress of civilization, purely by owning. Even if they only perform idle speculation.
Its just so different talking while being judged by people you dont know, throws things off. I bombed a few last time, one in particular where I was writing a switch statement. They wanted me to use a map. They asked what if the cases kept growing and... it didnt occur to me to use a map.

Im sure i looked like a novice. But in my day to day code... i flip between maps and conditionals and switch statements all the time, with ease. Its natural. But while interviewing? It just doesn't come out of me.
"It's pretty normal today to pay $200/night for a hotel and not get room service for 4 days or more, or go to a restaurant and get a mediocre food and service and still be automatically charged 20-25% on the final bill, in some places even after tax!"

To paraphrase the last psychatrist (Miss you!), if you go there it's for you.
Many people paid to host their code at Github to only then have it sold back to them and others in the form of Copilot.

IMO that's very anti-developer.
I still assume that Copilot uses my private repositories as training data, with them taking some care to not make it obvious. The software house i'm working at actually took the whole thing seriously and is currently migrating to an internally hosted GitLab. Not sure what potential leak exactly scares the responsible team, but interestingly it looks like it makes GitHub lose some worried customers.
This describes me to a T. I think if GP saw the js I write, they would understand why I don’t want to write it. But it works, I can get fairly straightforward stuff done quickly, and I’m the only jerk who has to maintain it.
I think you may be missing the intended audience for this — it’s aimed at folks who are visually or otherwise impaired and cannot type using a traditional keyboard/input device.
>> Paying only 50% means mortgages go under.

Given that the country shut down with 3 days notice, everyone was in the same boat. Banks offered the usual payment holidays and so on.

Certainly a lot of companies did as you suggest, and simply let everyone go. I'm not sure that's better than 50%. Clearly all our employees were welcome to quit, and since none of them did, I guess they preferred 50% to 0%.

I'll be sure to mention to them next time that they're welcome to take 0% instead.

Loans were not an option given that the banks were closed. (And given that our appetite for large loans is zero.)

>> They should get a bonus.. you did.

Did I? news to me :) I was on 50% like everyone else, and I was made whole last.
As it happens we issued 2 bonus' the following year. So yeah we share profits.

Obviously there were different approaches to dealing with unprecedented events. I'm not looking for employer of the year, but on the other hand I don't like firing people unnecessarily.
"Captain Bob" we called him, at 3Com.

In "The Big Bucks" I have two quotes from him, which he graciously allowed me to use as something he would have said (they're not very exciting). Normally I never have a real person appear and do anything; at most people speak of them in the third person.

In "Inventing the Future" I have the 1978 story about the lightning strike that took down the Ethernet between PARC and SDD. Bob had actually forgotten it, but he remembered the second lightning strike that helped sell Ethernet, because Ron Crane (RIP) had remembered the first one and engineered the Ethernet card to withstand them. As luck would have it, during a competition there actually was a lightning strike, and 3Com's survived it while the competitor's didn't.
AFAIK it wasn't in the leak (that "YT" platform specifically). Also, open-sourcing proprietary projects of this scale is a pretty hard job and it can't be done quickly — seems they had been doing it for a long time, starting long before the leak.
> Once upon a time the stereotype was that hiring developers is hard because they can’t communicate. Now candidate after candidate is able to communicate like they are a professional podcaster but they can’t seem to solve problems well.

LOL I've noticed this too! Somebody must be out there teaching people to do this! I mean I interview people, and they are so over-prepared with their sound bites and their canned speeches, and they deftly try to steer all conversations back to topics they are prepared with. Their style, body language and communication tactics are polished and sophisticated. They sound very pleasing. Their slick enunciation, cadence, and confidence make them sound like 20 year NPR veterans. But the content itself is a millimeter deep. It probably fools the exec class, but it doesn't fool a practicing engineer or technical manager in the trenches.
We saw last time that there’s no political appetite to allow home prices to ever fall on a nominal basis. The politicians went about inflating a new, even larger, bubble ASAP.

Why do you expect this time to be different?