skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone actually seeing things IRL like 46 % of code written by Copilot? I'm using it in RubyMine in a few years old Rails codebase with some complex bits, and while I find it much more useful than RubyMine's already nice autocomplete, I can rarely get it to write more than a one-liner before it misunderstands my intentions and touches something it shouldn't.

One thing that I think contributes to this is that the codebase is really messy in places, so often there isn't much good code to parrot, and things that are named like should only do thing A often do thing B on the side.
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> It often attacks people with respiratory issues who need invasive devices to treat their lung issues. A lot of people got such treatment for covid.

First, it doesn't "often" attack anyone -- there have only been several thousand cases, total.

Second, you can't bundle together "was on a ventilator at some point" with "is currently on a vent and in a hospital". Very different, and again, the latter is where this fungus is being seen. People in hospitals, having serious full-time care. These are not "lung issues", they're acute, near-death interventions.

Third, people in the ICU on a vent are at serious risk for everything -- a rare fungus is far down the list, below things like strep, H. inf., S. aureus, E. coli, etc., which are ubiquitous, and all over your body, right now. If you're not worried about those, you shouldn't worry about this.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056625/#:~:tex...
Yet there are a lot of poor people willing to donate to mega church pastors that even have their own private planes, and his base probably overlaps with them quite a bit.
I much prefer apple programming to pear programming. (ba dumm tsss.... sorry, couldn't resist :))

Although I'm on the Java side, I've yet to see a leetcode interview in CH, maybe I got lucky so far, but most of the interviews I had before were completely reasonable, maybe even too easy. The one that I failed miserably was an architecture discussion, in which I got an empty paper with a pen, and was expected to come up with the design of their existing system (I was allowed to ask questions). But even from that I learned so much, so no hard feelings. I will know much better what to do next time :)
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Virter: CLI tool for creation and cloning of virtual machines based on libvirt
Not vinyl though, but yeah…
Unfortunate about slack. It really seems to have stagnated. At least we have discord; I'm really glad they turned down Microsoft's 12 billion offer.
Wasn't this "open sourced" in their recent sourcecode leak already?
Apart for small lenovos machines, mac minis can be a good proposition. I think a m1/m2 is hard to beat. You could also do refurb like in
https://eshop.macsales.com/configure-my-mac/mac-mini
Most of the people in management don't have good metrics by which to judge productivity of teams, let alone individuals. Even if they do, they want more. Being able to see butts in seats gives them confidence and allows them to feel good. It's partly rational and partly irrational. Devs/Engineers for some reason have a hard time understanding this.
Well, our copious use of antifungals seems to be doing the opposite, so I'd say it's worth a try.
I don't think they were claiming that academics are responsible for politicians behavior, rather that politicians often use academic work with little to no understanding of it and/or as an excuse to give their predetermined conclusion (increase spending) "expert backing."
A single binary is nice...

Perhaps second place is using the rpath origin linker option to create a relocatable application.
Not sure how that affects my question. I'm asking whether there are statistics about the outcome of this situation, regardless of its parameters.
> debtors must use the payout to pay off debt, non-debtors may keep the money and do what they please with it.

First of all, this isn't what your article says. It says that savers must buy newly issued corporate shares and the funds raised by these new shares must be used to pay corporate debt.

Second of all, this basically requires the government to perfectly micromanage billions of transactions, which is impossible. What's to prevent a debtor from immediately opening a new line of credit?
Here's a chart of the data I'm assuming you're referring to: https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/get-chart.php?y=2023&m=1&n=41...

I wonder how strong the correlation is with actual house buying, prices, etc.
Even those places that do have their own website (as opposed to just relying on Facebook Pages and Google's information sidebar), they just use Squarespace or Shopify. Shopify in particular has also been incorporating a lot of AI into their tooling as well, reducing the need to hire copywriters, translators, etc.
Seems like a housing price crash and AirBnB regulation would make them look a little bit less like geniuses, no? A lot of people have a hard time spending >$500k on very basic or even dilapidated homes across the USA. I'd enjoy seeing the speculators left holding the bag on massive losses if those prices return to normal AND they lose their main revenue stream.
Empiricism by definition is concerned only with the past. There is no way to extrapolate from where we were to where we will be with such extreme technological shifts.

Hindsight bias.
Instead of emulation like this (which is really cool, BTW), I'd love to see something like GNUStep or Etoile growing into a full implementation of all macOS APIs so that I could just build a native Mac application against it and have it run on Linux.
Fed can just print another 20 trillions. Treasury can mint a special 10T USD coin to payback FED. Nothing needs to give. As long as people have "faith" in USD, the music will continue...but those damn Yuan and Rubbles. Taht we need ro launch another Iraq war with China and Russia. They have WMD that we can blame on and get our boys there with poker cards - a version for the Russian and a version for the Chinese. Surely we can beat them as easily as Iraqis? Ignore Afghan - we always intended to replace Talebans with Talebans while we wash 10T USD for congress money laundry.
That begs the question of what is basic human nature. We lived through much more tyrannical systems that were assumed to be as God intended. This was what led to violence of democrats and republicans against monarchs.

There is a kernel of truth in that communism could not have existed so far, which is why communist states have went for a transitory approach. They could not leap to communism but they tried to work towards it and failed in many places.
Correct - once the world saw the Fed dumping $1 trillion into the money supply to prevent a collapse due to Covid in 2020, everybody else did as well. It takes time for that to make its way through the pricing system (bearing in mind inflation is measured over the last 12 months, its a lagging indicator).

There are also demand factors as well, but most of what we are seeing is monetary in origin, raising interest rate is also somewhat "demand" driven, in that the big trigger there was the market for buying MBS (packages of loans mostly made by banks and S&L) market froze and then spiked up significantly.
What market?

Anecdotally, I follow many smaller markets in the Midwest and the South (plus Chicago). I wouldn't call it a buyer's market anywhere. But I'm not seeing anything like this.

I also have a few friends shopping on the East coast - and they're in a similar situation. It's not a buyer's market. But also not crazy.

My understanding was that The Bay, SoCal, and Seattle had massively slowed down. So I'm just wondering where this could be - or if things have recently turned around a lot.

Maybe my info is just bad...
You don't have to discuss any disability. I leave that to the interviewer's imagination. The point is to let them know they are already on thin ice. They would have to show how they administer their tests fairly, how those tests have some scientific basis and predictive value, are necessary for the job, and don't discriminate against protected groups. Of course they can't show those things so they have always just dropped the issue. I've had recruiters try to haul out their personality tests too, just say no.

Companies fear one thing even more than making a bad hire, and that's getting sued for their shoddy interviewing/HR practices. A complaint can trigger investigations and lawsuits from the state, not from the candidate. The ADA is sufficiently vague and comprehensive at the same time that it's a bogey-man for HR people.
Ouch, this nukes a few startups I was watching working on "basically this". What's the plan control.dev and cursor.so?
My thoughts and experience as well. Seth does not suffer or get exhausted online. He's had his list of what to avoid internalized for a long time. As do I. Believe it or not, you have some agency when using the internet. Even in the face of "the algorithm" (what that has come to mean).

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
vscode is an incredible piece of software, better than all the paid options in my opinion, the amount of features they pump out month to month is outstanding, just a bit slow due to electron. I never understood why they put so much effort into a free product that I run from Linux and Mac, but I'm happily paying the copilot subscription so it all makes sense now.
You can still do that with musl, can’t you? Can make a static c binary with that
> Commodity market speculation is also caused by too much cheap money sloshing around with nothing productive to do, and the solution is still to increase interest rates. By the time central banks decided to raise interest rates

That's a fair statement, but the timing is crucial, as you seem to note above, and the timing of the interest rate hikes is what the author is criticizing:

"But as importantly, through lack of analysis, regulation, oversight and foresight - central bankers have shown this last week they were prepared to use high rates to risk and even precipitate bank failures and global financial instability. They have done so, and continue to do so by deliberately tightening monetary policy into heavily indebted economies, with falling real incomes. Economies that have still not fully recovered from both the GFC and the pandemic."

"In other words, their effective preference is for class war over financial stability."

"The big question central bankers must address is this: why did speculators and venture capitalists notice these imbalances while they and financial regulators did not?"

> wage growth had already lagged behind inflation

Wage growth almost always lags behind inflation, because it's much easier and quicker to raise the price of goods than for workers in general to demand and receive wage increases.
This is correct. Economic theories are merely one of a portfolio of reasons to spend lots of money, and not anywhere near the most important ones.

Though I would submit that they do have some pretty significant impacts in a couple of particular places, at the Treasury and the Fed. In Congress, of course, it's probably all but irrelevant except as which fig leaf some more sophisticated ones may reach for.
A debt jubilee was my argument when student loan forgiveness was all the rage. We're making carte blanche value judgments on the debt that people hold as if getting a degree in Computer Science is a more noble use of money than bridging the gap between paychecks when life comes at you unexpectedly.

Nobody should be stuck paying 30% interest year over year. Those rates should be categorically illegal, and if anyone thinks they're truly necessary, then we need to re-examine our society as a whole. Debt repayment needs to be capped at the original sum plus an additional total value.
Another way: collective purchasing- the high quantity gives them more negotiating power. I think that was the original idea of buyer's clubs.

A good example of this is my parent's internet fee. It is way less than mine since their gated community is buying it for everyone in the community.
I think we are talking about things like interrupt latency, not NTP synchronization.

MCU interrupt latency can be extremely deterministic. I ran some measurements for work and found Linux to be adequate for many uses, but it is a valid concern. There are some Linux kernel patches like PREEMPT_RT that attempt to bound Linux latencies, but generally MCUs are a lot better suited if latency is critical. In part because they just have less software running on them to interfere with timing.
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Fast feedback loops!

In my Fast Development workshop I recommend:

Goals are speed (low latency developer feedback), and quality (create something the client expects and values).

Speed: use `entr` or another tool to automatically run tests when a file changes.

Quality: "test" first -- write a test before code, if you have to think about the code. In this way you get high-level dev feedback, before the code is written.

Quality: use the system to calculate your function's result. Then either use "assert 0, value" to emit the result to you the developer, or use the debugger. In either case the computer does the work and you get feedback.

The above three-part process is similar to the OP, "conversational" is a good term for it.
> Almost never.

Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34976493
Ask HN: Can CS/SE academics not familiar with AI still publish papers nowadays?
Or are most fields in CS/SE now expected to make use of AI in research papers?
Nice try…
They could fall for a while and still not be down or close to flat over the past 2-3 years. Home prices were up 25%+ in many areas from 2020 to 2022. One of the craziest things I've seen. There are so many entrenched interests in housing that barring a crazy downturn they aren't going to fall much, unfortunately. A home which was $250k around my area in 2017 is now going for $500k, despite the current conditions. Make that make sense. The Fed, zoning boards, entrenched investors, and builders royally screwed everyone.
Agreed, I was merely pointing out what their initial comment was saying.
How does this impact home prices and the affordability of homes? If I bought my current (US) home on a 5 year mortgage, my payment would have been above $12,000 per month, which seems pretty unapproachable for the majority of buyers. Or is it a 5 year fixed / 25 year variable deal? How does refinancing work under those circumstances?

Certainly a 30 year fixed mortgage is an amazing deal for a homeowner. If the rates go up, you are protected. If they go down, you can refinance into the lower rates, and likely at a better LTV ratio (as you've paid more equity into your home). At this point, with my interest rate, I am better off putting excess cash into a bank account or Treasury bonds than paying my loan faster.
Yeah, I almost added CS to the original post, but their problems were relatively unique to them, rather than being an extreme case of a common problem, like regional banks in the US (who didn't need to hedge interest rate risk).
I agree with this for the most part but "just build a better browser" is naive. For starters, everyone has a different of what "better" is. I'm actually pretty happy with Firefox for the most part and I think being the company that sells safety is a good fit for Mozilla to move into.
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i wonder when redfin will start kicking themselves for abandoning their home buying spree
What you’re suggesting doesn’t make much sense from a practical perspective?

What is debt anyway? Let say I hold 100k in leveraged derivatives which are the equivalent of someone holding 400k worth of the underlying asset (they put down 100k and borrowed 300k).

What happens under this scheme if everyone gets 100k? I buy another 100k of derivatives and the other guy has to spend it paying down debt…

This is just a massive miss-allocated stimulus program (financed through.. you guessed it.. more debt) if that’s what Keen is suggesting maybe it’s one of the main reasons nobody takes him seriously?
This performs considerably better than simply running llama.cpp. I've tested with 7b, 13b and 30b parameters alpaca models locally and I couldn't get them to produce accurate instructions to cut a video with ffmpeg, but this one does.

Wonder if it's the 4bit quantization.
I mean web developers generally earn high salaries so statistically...
Masterstroke is that they are including Linux, in WSL also in windows server. They are 1 step away from being a Linux distribution that runs legacy windows software within containers :D
Trust me, there are plenty of places where people object to new people moving into the area permanently. If you haven't seen this you've never lived in Montana, Northern Idaho, etc. Xenophobia against out-of-staters is practically the regional religion.

Which, to be honest, is not totally unjustified, these places are wonderful and people whose families have lived there for generations are finding themselves pushed out by the rising property values caused by the migration of people out of the rich cities and into their communities.

It's unfortunately a feature of our system- if you don't have money you don't get to live in good places. People are just justifiably unhappy with that particular feature acting on them.
I heard a similar story about Bellevue and Sammamish, WA. North Seattle-area (Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mill Creek, etc) have seen a price decline.
One of two scenarios.

1. The Endpoint Verification extension is used to ensure that the browser/ system is compliant before connecting to certain services such as any SSO.

2. Internal tools were tested with Chrome and to ensure that users were using an up to date tool they were gated on the user agent.

Chrome offers a host of endpoint management integrations that make it a far better choice for Enterprise than Mozilla. Mozilla could very easily build a management portal for Firefox or, even better, build an integration with various SSO providers.

Whereas Chrome really only integrates with GSuite Firefox could support Okta, O365, GSuite, and more, making it the de-facto corporate browser.

This isn't even complicated, this is one of many ideas I have that are easily within their ability, are taken straight from the Chrome playbook, leverages their singular asset, and their major competitive advantage (that they are "open").

Mozilla's CEO has to be fired. The incompetence and mismanagement is obscene.
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I think this is generally correct. This is the situation in my area: Prices can never fall, because if the situation was such that prices would fall, no one sells. So there's basically little to nothing available, so buyers are stuck competing no matter the macroeconomic situation.
I'm friends with a woman who's part of this discord group which is a bunch of other women who share unsolicited dick pics from other known discord users and gamers around and they all make fun of them
Law enforcement will not use the Bard API. So technically he's right.
I agree that the environment is important. I'll end our conversation here.
I was just surprised that when you don't have filters on, it seems like it's just a porn platform. I generally don't like hiding nsfw stuff since those filters are usually pretty overly conservative, but....its the AI porn site in my head now.
No, experiments have demonstrated that GPT-4 can respond as if it had theory of mind. Basically all measures of psychological constructs need to be rethought given the development of LLMs.
This is a US average, correct? In the areas I'm looking at to purchase, prices dipped a little, then increased again this past month. One house I was about to tour sold prior to the weekend open house.

I don't know who can afford US$1.2+ million houses (not me), but they seem to be quite active and prices are not wavering, thus causing many houses that I thought were affordable to go up in price.
There are those who advocate for revolutionary violence, and there are those who advocate for reformist change.
Forgiving student debt is a standard use of public funds to benefit a wide swath of society. That's clearly different from bailing out a bank.
I feel like a lot of people read cyberpunk fiction and didn't realize that it's a dystopia, and tried to make it real because it was fun to read.

Like... people had to make these things. They put a lot of work into them. Someone had to come up with this idea, then they had to prototype it, then actually manufacture it, and install it.... and all the people in that chain resulted in advertisements being fed to you while you pee. That's what all those people spent their time doing.

If you ask any of the people in the supply chain, they'll tell you this kind of thing is stupid and probably shouldn't exist. And yet, it does, while other more pressing things we urgently need don't. The incentives of society are totally backwards. This is a priority inversion, which is the kind of thing that can cause a system to fail.

It started out cute ("Alexa, I need TP!"). Now it's getting dystopian while still having a cute outer shell (tracking your genitals and selling you ads while you urinate... but it's a game!). Soon it's going to get real, and we'll end up in Cube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(1997_film)). No one was having fun in that cyberpunk future.

> I fear the implementation details. Cameras are ~$15 and computer-vision is free. Let’s pray they’re not connected to Wi-Fi.

If it's not now, it will be soon. We need a new Moore's law for privacy. It states that anything that is private now, will be opened up and made public in the future if it can be monetized through advertisements. It starts with your biographical info on Facebook; it moves on to tracking your body through its location, how often it moves, its weight, and now urination in public places (soon there will be a scale under the urinal and they'll know how much you weigh); and it will end at your medical records, financial records, religious records, and even what you do in your bedroom. If the trend continues, if corporations can find a way to make money off of those records and data, it will be monetized and it will become public information when it's (of course) hacked and leaked.