skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just as effective for me. No matter how much I'd like to, I can't review code with the same thoughtfulness and thoroughness that I apply when I write it. I know the same is true for the people who have reviewed my PRs as well, but maybe its different for others. I do use Copilot but mostly it only generates one liners for me that save a little time.
Ha! I remember getting 5.25% on my Savings Account at Silverado... Until I got 0% and was forced to learn what F.S.L.I.C. stood for. But yes... they were heady days!
The Fed is the central bank. Its primary purpose has always been to be the lender of last resort and provide liquidity to the banking system. Of course they track the health of the banking system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort

It's often stated that their two goals are to maximize unemployment and minimize inflation, but those are ultimately secondary to maintaining the overall health of the banking system and financial sector (although it's generally thought that aiming for those two goals help achieve that stability).
1930:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
> float16 parameters vs 4bit parameters

What does that mean?
The section on "none of these things have the idea of links so we just will have a manifest of them in side data" to me illustrates why these other markups don't seem like something I want to see grow on the net: they're unconnected mediums, without real notions of the web & the global address space & links. They're just their own things, used for isolated documents & apps.

I want to be OK with uncoupling & choice & freedom on the net. But the only use cases I can imagine now seem regressive. And like a Fall Of Babel. The web's power is in part that there is a user agent, with extensions, and view source, and a kick ass devtools any user can hack around in. I want upstart alt-web-mediums to have at least a plausible case for being perhaps better for the user. But we go from a legible known shared base to a fractured maze of different illegible WebAssembly based platforms, that seem to offer strictly worse terms of use in every way to users.

The reason I oppose the freedom of platform for devs is because it seems in direct tension with the freedom of the user. The internet isn't for devs, the internet is for end users. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890

If I saw a malleable, user-enabling platform arise, I'd be more willing to entertain this
nobles' rebellion against html.
> Flatter dynamic range (everything is bright now).

I was about to write this.

I like the improvements, but I dislike that everything is brighter and with less contrast in the examples. The CS:GO environments look more characterful, almost like comparing The Matrix with a greenish tint to a hypothetical Matrix where everything was bright and clean.

I wish they could mix the improvements with the older lights/contrast.
Yeah, I use copilot quite extensively to help my RSI (though I always know what the expected output is, it doesn't solve problems for me) and that doesn't ruin my enjoyment. If what you describe is how programming ends up, I think I'd enjoy it.

(And my wrists will appreciate it :) )
Every third game one player would get voted off the team in a 5v5 game, and you don't remember many problems? That's a serious issue, it absolutely isn't normal.
Pretty cool. Now, I wonder, can't you label a certain region of space with a prompt, and let the diffuser do its job? Maybe with some mathematical function to bend into another area.

The idea would be to roughly place the elements in a 3D scene, and adjust the prompt as the camera is moved around the scene.

Here, it's obvious that the "fireplace" prompt causes the model to place a new fireplace as the previous one comes out of view.

Even if you can't precisely label portions of an image, changing the prompt as the camera moves (or changing the weight coefficients for a prompt describing multiple orientations) would avoid that kind of "unnatural" result.

Regardless, impressive results! I wonder if it would perform better if it was re-trained to output a depth channel as well.

It could be useful for (artistically) filling gaps in photogrammetry projects.

I can't wait for painting or drawing styles to be applied to the output!
The 'reimagined' blood and gore effects shown on the game's official website are truly abhorrent :(

My interest has been continually been drawn to team-based first-person shooter games (like Counter Strike) for their potential in terms of strategy, tactics and team coordination, but the gore is enough to put me off most titles immediately. I can see that some effects like blood stains can form part of the games' mechanics, indicating the direction from which a shot came, but what if one simply does not want to see these graphics? CS:GO doesn't even have an setting to disable them, and this is not unusual in the genre - I hope this sequel adds such an option.
The user may be referencing work done on global and domestic demographics (aging populations in china and at home) and supply chain challenges highlighted by the Ukraine issues, since Ukraine is home to critical manufacturing inputs for farming + Russian exports going offline (fertilizers and oil). Ukraine won’t come online any time soon to its previous capacity and the replacement for it isn’t known yet. The story on Russia is that it is being cut off completely from the west.

The work on demographics is done by Pradhan and Goodhart and of course Peter Zeihan likes to discuss the latter as well. I don’t know where Zeihan gets his sources but he consults for the military and other government agencies.

In any case, I’d like to see asset markets deflate courtesy of the Fed raising rates, so I would agree with your take on the Fed holding more responsibility.
> Without us they have no donor.

Former Mozilla fellow here. I wish I could agree with this sentiment, but it's untrue. Mozilla is a corrupt nonprofit which exists solely to advance the interests of elites. The users don't matter. Within Mozilla there is disdain for the concerns of regular people.
QML is also very much like that. One declares relationships and the interpreter/compiler figures that out automatically. Highly recommend tinkering on it.
oh you're one of those guys who wants to take us back to real life through computers?
What resources did you use to figure out how to do that?

This is an interesting use of spreadsheets.
The COVID economic policies lead to a K-shaped recovery. It was a money-printing bonanza that didn't do enough for average people while transferring wealth to the very top.

This was layered on top of near 0% free money and QE.

It feels like we're replaying 1979 all over again.
Replacing people with machines is a profoundly positive goal.
Reducing toil and getting more stuff done are valuable things.
Smart people can use the AI tech to be more creative and productive.
Growing enough potatoes to keep the dumb people doing mindless office work well fed is not a big strain on the economy.
Oh please. China bans every American social media platform. At worst you can say this is evening the odds a bit.
What is `!-*f(6s6U8Q9b` here:

const questionCriteria = {
filter: '!-*f(6s6U8Q9b' // body_markdown and link
}

I thought maybe it is a hard-coded CSS element name in StackOverflow answers, judging by the context, but it's not that. Could you shed some light on this?

Found in the How2 source file `how2/lib/how2.js`. Thanks.*
> number is meaningless unless compared to productivity

No, it's not. Productivity adds a dimension to the question: it tells us the pie got bigger without more ingredients. But that isn't relevant to the absolute size of one's slice. Real wages are meaningful without preference to productivity.

> wages have comparatively been flat since the 1970s

Flat isn't falling. Taking into account benefits, per your Pew article [1], they're up. (Barely.)

The real economy grew in that time, and the rich got richer with it. That's a problem. But it's not a problem of falling real wages.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
That's interesting, considering the fact that it doesn't do any reasoning. Sure, it can generate plausible sounding explanations, but it generates those just like it generates everything: one token at a time, based on the expected probability of that token appearing next if this text were found in the wild.
It could be that there will be an increasing premium placed on historic data stores, and that even the AI could end up choking on their own vomit.

Someone on another HN thread pointed out to me that (of course) there's already a sci-fi story about this.
Well you put a fairly normal select query there, which is can be accomplished in Lucid as well. Additionally change tracking exists since it's an ActiveRecord implementation.

It's not all magic as well. Looking into the internals of EF, ActiveRecord, Hibernate, or other ORMs reveal patterns that once familiarized can help reason about the behavior of complex queries. I only state this to try to work against the commonly found wisdom of "big frameworks are magic" that tends to scare away learning developers from hoping to understand them.

There are intersections and disjunctions of feature sets between the various ORMs, with some features for EF still only available via extensions (or nonexistent). I don't think this makes the Lucid ORM any less of an ORM.

Again, I like EF Core. I simply think that as far as node-based ORMs go, that Lucid is the one I've had the best experience with, so wanted to highlight it.
Good idea, what's your plan?
The Internet Archive is defending its digital library in court
Think Stepford Wives for tech.
I wonder... is MS likely going to make it harder to swap the URL on the official copilot client in light of this? Will they continue hosting the "competition"?
Are you guys going to separate the networking code from the engine? I would love a sane networking framework to use with Unity/Unreal. I've been writing my own source-esque networking to work with Unity but it's far from perfect. I would love a solid open source implementation here.
Exactly, but at our current point of civilization we don't really have many options to deal with people that break minor social norms. The person the author of the article was speaking of has realized that if they hold their ground until for anything allow physical violence they can get away with a lot because civilized people realize getting into fist fights over mild offenses is detrimental in the long run. If a politician ran on a campaign to change laws and setup law enforcement to deal with these people any sane individual would wonder why focus on this instead any number of more important issues. If civilization continues to progress I feel like eventually we will get to the point where 'jerks being jerks' is the biggest thing effecting our quality of life.
I gave GNOME a chance after 40 and personally I don't regret it the slightest, things just work in an intuitive way.

Though I will admit the only GNOME app I use is the image viewer and sometimes folders. My workflow consists of a couple terminals, a browser and sometimes binja. But unlike window managers, oddball programs like Vivado, Matlab, Zoom, etc. work well too.
Can GPT pass my programming courses?
Yeah, who cares? There's one of you folks soiling every good technical discussion about Asahi.
Just that it's happening faster and more ruthlessly than ever before.
Even though verbosity is looked down upon by a lot of developers, I think that maybe applying a bit more that when naming these properties would've helped avoid the their ambiguity… "innerText" and "textContent" sound too much like the same thing. Something like "renderedTextContent" and "fullTextContent" would've been better.
Ask HN: What can I a software engineer do when I'm replaced by ChatGPT?
We do not know what happens in the future but let's assume that we get AI to a level it can easily translate a grunt from a domain expert to a working + fast code. Based on same assumption, It can probably then easily deploy and maintain it as well.

I am getting mental whiplash from all the ChatGPT replace developers and will not replace developers arguments.

---

What kind of jobs that I can pivot to?

I would also like to write code on my personal time.

---

Background:

I am not an expert in Mathematics (will probably do OK at high school level) and have no other experience except building Software. I can run a good retro session. Would consider myself a generalist.
A different project, perhaps, although with the speed they are popping up it's not easy to keep track, but I was just playing around in a live multiplayer 3D worldspace [1] where a text prompt to instant 360 Skybox is a really cool feature to see working as it forms all around you in realtime (cool on PC amazing in VR). It extends the pipeline of whatever Blockade Labs are using under the hood [2].

[1] https://hyperfy.io/ai-sky

[2] skybox.blockadelabs.com
What is wrong with the CodeGen model that they are using?

It is a reasonably large model (up to 16B params) that has already been trained on both natural language and code. I would expect it to underperform larger models, including GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, but this should still be very useful for autocomplete and boilerplate in simpler cases. It is a bit under trained compared to Chinchilla, T5, or LLaMA, but it still performs well.

According to the paper[1], this model is competitive with the largest Codex model that was the basis for Copilot originally.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13474.pdf
And Moloch laughs in the background.
Those are the same people. People holding properties have capital, thus more political power than the average Joe. Which they then use to influence city governments.
Me: what is a symbol table used for in a compiler ?

ChatLLaMa: A symbol table is a data structure used by compilers to keep track of variables, functions, and other identifiers. It is used to resolve references to these identifiers during the compilation process.

Me: what information should be stored in the symbol table ?

ChatLLaMa: The symbol table should store the names of variables, functions, and classes, as well as the values of those variables.

Me: what do you mean by values ?

ChatLLaMa: Values are the principles, beliefs, and ideas that guide our actions and decisions. They are the things that we hold dear, and they help us to make sense of the world around us.

**

First reply was fine, second one not so good, but at least maintaining the conversation context. Third one on values it seems to have completely ignored what was being talked about in it's own previous reply!
> We're going into a period of elevated military risk and spending. In the 1990s, we were exiting one.

That was certainly a common-though-mistaken impression early in the year 1990; it wouldn't last through the year, and it definitely doesn't describe the late 1990s (when the US was a direct participant in the most significant European conflict between WW2 and the present, which was also where the renewed Cold War at which the later Clinton “Reset Button” was directed began, simultaneously with escalating threats & conflict in and beyond the Middle East involving Iraq, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda.)
Counterpoint: I think our writing in general has vastly improved, but because it happens slowly we don’t notice the absolute difference. I have two examples of middle aged friends who have changed drastically after 2000. One dyslexic friend got a job at 30 where they had to email professionally, and their writing improved a lot (not just spelling, but metaphors etcetera). Another was functionally illiterate (got others to read), but they needed to read and write for work, and they learnt to do the basics (I can send a text and get a reply).

Most jobs now require writing, and most people when doing anything will learn to do it better over time.
Lower than the expected 0.5 points, so the last few weeks definitely had an impact on their decision.
I did interpret it as effectively reflecting along the same path, I was using "buffer" in a more abstract sense to compare how it would be processed digitally. But I don't doubt I've misunderstood something, my description of photons traversing the medium is probably what sounds physically inaccurate, I'm no expert in photonics and don't really know what a PCM is.

As someone who does, are you able to corroborate whether the effect differs abstractly from what I described in terms of reversing the signal, as in a LIFO? Because this was my gripe with the article, the way the concept was explained makes it sounds like something more than it is.
> at least we have Discord

Poe's Law?
This book is intended to educate people on anthropogenic extinction. Nowhere does it say it intends to influence government policy.

The government is not the only way to protect endangered species.
If they're not already filled in the magazine you're increasing the time it takes to reload the gun dramatically and adding the need to haul all the water around required to activate all the ammo. Doesn't sound like a great option to me.
The causality arguably goes the other way. Banking stability is instrumental to maximum employment and price stability.
Say a bunch of rich people move in and want their lawns to be perfect and are willing to pay for the service. Your landscaper is going to up his rates for his normal services to reflect the fact that time spent doing those is time spent not mowing some rich guy's lawn.
Fed increases rates by 25 bps but signals hikes are near an end
Homeowners sometimes die, get divorced or have to move to a different area. Number of sales will go down, but not to zero. The prices of those sold due to exigencies will drop because of inflation.
Productivity increases may be mostly due more to improvements in capital vs improvements in labor, though. If I make my peasants plow the field by hand, and then buy a horse, I'm not going to pay the peasants more for that. Rather I'm going to tell them they should be glad they are able to use the horse, as their muscles are less strained. I may even pay them less as it's less intensive.
Professional photography for LinkedIn headshots is also an example of it being idealized. And my team's photo is not one of me having a beer on the beach for a reason.

This is just at my desk without being worried about if I've shaved since I can tell the AI (maybe not this one) to remove my facial stubble.
Is this a statement about continental drift maybe?

Otherwise, citation needed, your feelings aren't facts.

"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
It has existed since October 2022, so...
The other issue of course, is how do you de-jerkify your civilization without accidentally turning it into a dystopia.
we're always gonna need ditchdiggers
What's "Tidy First"? Is this a book I should have heard of?
That bit about "fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset" is precisely about that. But, yeah, no RLHF so far, although some people are already working on that.
the result of this will be similar to hiring infosys

hundreds of thousands of lines of buggy incomprehensible boilerplate that doesn't work on anything but the easy cases

then you have to rip the entire thing apart and start again with people that know what they're doing
american question: i tried watching Premier League a month or so ago, and, within minutes, some player took a clearly forced fake dive, then rolled around in fake agony, which the broadcast all replayed in slow motion, showing it was fake, commenting on such.

And I turned if off, puzzled.

I then thought, why is this so popular of a game? Culturally, I'm American and European, but not as far as football/soccer goes.
Even many of the desktop UI frameworks are supported on .NET 5+ (on Windows only). Both WinForms and WPF are back in "support" in .NET 5+ (.NET 8 includes [small] updates for both WinForms and WPF). Not every UI component moves forward, but a crazy amount of them are still compatible after decades.
Yeah but only 20-30 people in any region make it as a pro player. The odds are just about as bad as being an NBA player. You didn't miss out on anything.
It's called that because it's a implementation of the Copilot API
3000+ billion tons of ice lost from Antarctic Ice Sheet over 25 years
No, they are more prone to runs because there is no central bank to bail anyone out
The thing that gets me about it is the very real physical cost of all this cloud waste.

The big cloud providers have clear cut thousands of acres in Ohio, Northern VA, and elsewhere to build their huge windowless concrete bunkers in support of this delusion of unlimited scale.

Hopefully as the monetary costs become clear their growth will be reversed and these bunkers can be torn down
I doubt about "a lot". Also, "already solve" does not mean "solve better" or even "good enough".

It would be very interesting to see some in-depth comparisons with already-existing open source technology (like Hadoop, Hive, Iceberg, ZooKeeper) to get a sense of when and where YT could be more effective.
My goTos are NOAA.gov and pirateweather.net
A track record of it failing to hold up under numerous other periods of market turmoil is pretty disqualifying though, as is its spectacular failure to achieve one of its stated goals of being an inflation hedge when we finally got around to experiencing significant inflation.
> a common-though-mistaken impression early in the year 1990

American military spending as a fraction of GDP plummeted in the 90s [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
Kent beck is an incredibly famous software engineer.

Invented XP, and the wrote the most well known book on TDD.
Google's weather feature on Android does this :) They don't call it "high" and "low", instead calling it "day" and "night".
I mean... a ruby program is run by the/a ruby interpreter, same with python.

but I guess they aren't as presentation-focused in the same way, presentation focused for a certain presentation environment, as your examples perhaps are.

Hypercard, then, would be in this category?
Trust in Automation (2017)
You can be nice and work hard, and earn instead of win. That works for almost every engineer i've known over 30+ years.
didnt greta take down her tweet saying we only had until 2023 or it would be too late?
Why did Unicode reject the “external link symbol?” (2018)
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264787
> track record of it failing to hold up under numerous other periods of market turmoil is pretty disqualifying though

I agree. To be clear, I'm not declaring Bitcoin a safe asset. Just pointing out that it behaved like one in the preceding weeks. That's genuinely interesting.

> its spectacular failure to achieve one of its stated goals of being an inflation hedge

Correct. Though I'd be amiss not pointing out that equities, too, failed their traditional role as an inflation hedge in that time.
What action did he want them to take?
But if you ask ChatGPT to assume some other voice, it always just sounds like ChatGPT making a perfunctory effort to sound like something else, not actually like another voice.

And from what I've seen of the raw model, when you ask it to depart from this voice, it can sometimes, but the bigger the departure, the more the results are weird and inhuman.
Armbian?
Is there an “ought” argument that deals with the “left behind” concept?

Obviously there are tons of practical considerations to deal with, but in a theoretical, general sense, is “left behind” a problem? Shouldn’t lifelong learning be a thing everyone is indeed capable of?
Right. But, more than that, I'm talking about the fallout of shutting things down—of breaking the chain of production—and then the difficulty of starting things up again.

I was horrified when things got shut down. Even when I originally bought into "two weeks to slow the spread" and believed it was only going to be for two weeks, I was concerned that a global, advanced division-of-labor economy cannot be switched on and off like a lightbulb.