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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjFaKD9BuOc
> Ask your team to perform tasks that resemble work. Common examples include presentations, diagrams, and ticket management.

I'm as salty as the next guy, but in my experience it has been the sub-par employees who are the ones that don't do this. Ticket management is not busy work, it's a necessity for everyone to keep updated. Presentations and diagrams are tools to communicate. I can safely say that by far the most waste I've ever seen has always come down to poor communication rather than anything actually business or technical related.
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Normally that role is called a "manager".
I find it is always best to keep reviews minimal, and any review comments should generally be "this isn't ideal - consider doing it this other way next time - but LGTM".

Sure, the end result is a less perfect codebase. But considering code isn't the end goal - a working product with happy users is the end goal - imperfect code can be the right way to achieve that.

And besides, all code that is still in production in 5 years is probably due a rewrite anyway - now that the company has pivoted a few times, the product has evolved, and the use cases aren't what they originally were. The computing landscape will also have evolved (eg. new language versions, new library versions, new hardware with different strengths and weaknesses, etc)
An effective strategy to avoid layoffs at European offices is to cause just enough friction to get HR to give up and divert the firing to lower-rights countries (i.e. USA).
I reserve the right to use my holiday snaps as I want on my own blog :)
It looks terrible! :D

My github username on the HN profile on twitch.
From the article, this corruption scheme goes way beyond cosigning papers. The main selling point of this corruption scheme was gaming institutional metrics.

From the article, the Spanish researcher gamed publication metrics by co-signing huge volumes of research papers, and proceeded to sell his affiliation to the highest bidder as it allowed low-tier institutions to game rankings and bump up their standing.

There's also another angle to his scheme, as his threat to the university of Cordoba consisted of "you har my interests and your university will drop in rankings".
So 0.55/0.84 = 0.65, i.e. 35% smaller.
I disagree.

For me this outlines the caveats and pitfalls of software development and management.

There is real truth to some of the authors points showing real paths that emerge naturally.

If you're going to gaslight him by inferring anyone who is critical is an asshole, maybe you should ask yourself why you're taking the article so personally...
German grid must be very low in terms of CO2 emissions then, right? Not just marginally better than neighbouring Poland?
When a coworker does not understand what a function call does, you add a verbose enough comment directly to the code.
Nice conceptual bulwark against the mythical negative engineer. It makes sense to balance out the normal 10x tropes.
What about Gulp, NPM, Yarn etc. running in the new build of UI stuff? Those take up a bunch of time.
Nothing. Your essay exists solely to be criticized, and honestly you’re on a bad / useless path and should get out now and completely rethink your life.

We are HN. We are legion. Expect us.

When I got on the site, btw, I immediately saw your choice of font and I didn’t actually read your essay.

PS: This is satire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law)
Someone has already demonstrated a jailbreak for your “proved” prompt.
In my county founding a Nazi or a Communist party is illegal. Pass a law that criminalises being a Nazi and put them in prison.
> The liquid bomb threat really is the thing that conspiracy theorists would love: it's a totally made up possible threat by the Big State that hasn't been seen in the wild

Incorrect. Betwee 2006 and 2010, seven people were convicted in the uk for conspiring to attack passenger airplanes with liquid explosives (acetone peroxide according to wikipedia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...
The Border Collie breed of sheepdogs are often called intelligent, I have never once heard of a human intelligence that insulted by this terminology.

Should we ever construct an AI capable of feeling insulted, I would by default assume the analogy holds, unless they tell me otherwise.

As for the first point: LLMs aren't the only AI in development, and the open letter is "Can we stop and think for a bit? We don't know which box is Pandora's."
The reason we have passwords (even though they do not provide perfect security) is because it drastically increase security.

The scenario here is "We got hacked 3 times last year because employees clicked answered phone calls from scammers and gave away their MFA codes. The solution is that we should make our MFA codes longer to increase security"
I got ASUS ZenScreen MB16AH.

Choosing one it's a bit confusing, Asus offers many models, and hard to understand the difference. There are some which have separate display port and power. Different covers. With a battery etc. I really wanted just one having only one cable.

On Amazon there are some other less/not known brands, offering bigger screens, but I felt more convinced by the mainstream brand.

Remember that your laptop has to support this. I tested it with an older MacBook Pro, and Lenovo ThinkPad. On my old Ideapad I don't have such port.
> It is actually a pretty easy solution because GTP is smart enough to understand you want to avoid Prompt injection, just tell it so,

If you rely on GPT4 being "smart enough", it's probably not going to end well.
I think the parent comment is saying that this article is making a sensational anti-Musk story out of what is really a normal legal process. It's a non-story but the headline makes it sound like Musk is somehow employing illegal or unscrupulous tactics (hence "dogefather").
I think there is a balance but yeah it isn't good if no record of "where we are" exists.
> m packed sports stadiums, you're still only around ~50k humans max

Nitpick, but there are 8 stadiums (college football) in the United States with a capacity of over 100,000
Devil's Advocate... If they don't spend time on the end user product side also, then they have nobody to advertise _to_, and their advertisers would dry up.
I can't wait for someone to write the equivalent of "ray tracing in one weekend" for this stuff.
Flights halfway around the world won't be exhausting anymore.

I find the main exhausting part about transcontinental travel is first of all the jet lag, and secondly all the other steps that don't involve sitting in the plane. This doesn't really solve either of those problems. The actual sitting on an airplane part I find pretty relaxing.
I don't think so. The article says that this about the union being ignored. At this point it seems like a European ethos vs American. The Europeans are standing up for the collective right unions. It think this gets lost on Americans.
somewhat. You still have Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin etc.

Maybe Munich has slightly better opportunities, really depends on you specific niche, but then probably Zurich has even better opportunities but is even costlier. Or Copenhagen.

I really somewhat agree. You really have to see that living in munich is a luxury that a lot of people can not enjoy because it's too expensive. Since you major in CS your social bubble is very well of (75k salary for the first job?) so you see it as somewhat given that you also belong there. And at the TUM they constantly tell you how much of an elite you are. It's a bit entitled I would say. Many Germans can't really live in munich and therefore have access to the opportunities there, it's just the most expensive place in germany you can rent in.

You can always try to find a flat to share with roommates, this is still possible in munich.
>>> inconspicuously waste others’ time, write lengthy messages/documents and share as widely as possible. Welcome all opinions and aim for engagement.

Mostly spot on but I am not sure of this one - well written notes / emails about technical issues and some of the trade offs or desired outcomes are really useful - they actually help "align" people. Think more "Linus rant" than "CEO powerpoint" but the idea is there
GPT-3 outperforms humans on Raven's matrices, shows strong analogical reasoning
In a word: Corsets. If you don't already know, look at what Victorian corsets actually did to women, and all three points will make sense.

They make sense for other reasons as well, but corsets are enough.
Generating Image with ChatGPT
The contagious jerks are often results of working with -10x engineers. At some point you become as such, if you don't quit the company before that. There are "bad engineers" and then there are -10x engineers, it is a real problem if the company keeps such engineers

You should try working with -10x engineers and see how your feedback is being ignored as tech debts are piling up, products are continue to under deliver and missing deadlines.
Omg, I knew a PM/Architect combo who fit the bill. Scary how quick they came to mind.
IEEFA is neither independent nor a serious research organization. The fact that they pretend to be only undermines their credibility.

The paper you link to is a joke.

They claim a cost of utility scale solar as $17 / MWh and then claim a cost of utility scale solar with battery as $22 / MWh.

How much battery backup does that $5 / MWh provide? it doesn't say, but the answer is only a few minutes.

Look at the chart of page 28 of planned installations where it shows 22 GW standalone storage being added for 60 GW of solar and wind. That means the standalone storage being installed can provide 20 minutes of backup power for the renewable resources being installed.

The cost of a renewable system with battery backup that can guarantee power for even 24 hours would probably be at least 10X the cost of bare solar, so in the neighborhood of $200 / MWh, or quadruple the target cost of NuScale (based on the chart in this paper).

Guaranteeing power for 24 hours is not acceptable though. A system like that would have regular blackouts given the normal variability in solar and wind.

Unless someone is quoting a price on guaranteed sustained power delivery they are not serious. Try selling your electricity to a data center or any other commercial buyer and see how far you get.
It's also ridiculously hypocritical to assume parents who leave their kids glued to their phones would not give consent, however that would be.
As regards both AI plugins as you mention, and “Emacs anywhere”, I compiled a list of Emacs ChatGPT plugins[0] along with each having an easy issue/tasks for others to help linked below, and on the next installment of this newsletter I’m planning to feature among more AI plugins things like controlling Firefox from within Emacs (if I can reach that plug-in’s author to get permission to feature.)

0: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/tasks-open-source-em...
That's a good list but there are other issues. The current problem is there's a well-funded weaponised disinfo industry actively minimising Covid, climate change, and other views that challenge neoliberal privilege, while promoting extreme anti-rational cult views like Q and nationalist exceptionalisms.

Dropping AI into that is like throwing grenades into into an oil field.

At this point I'm not convinced it's possible to have a meaningful discussion about anything. The public space is so poisoned and deliberately flooded with shit (to quote Steve Bannon, one of the architects of this delightful situation) that we'd have to go back quite a way to bring back the possibility of good-faith debate. At all.
I upgraded from regular stream deck to the XL and haven't used a lot of the space yet. The folder actions really make it unnecessary for me - but I still love it
The world will never be fair, I'm not even sure that is an ideal goal. The best things in my life have come from when I faced adversity, not when I was in a position of privilege. While opportunities are not always equal in quality or number, there are opportunities if you seek them. It's ironic that even though lots of things come down to luck, it's very possible to put oneself in a position that makes it feel like they are very lucky! "Luck" tends to follow those with initiative.
My bad. I would have if I hadn't gotten mixed up on the shorter vs taller. You know this too.

And GPT4 didn't solve it correctly. It's a probability, not a certainty, that the shortest person will step on more bugs.
> The quarks sometimes go beyond the region of most of the gluons, which gives the proton a larger charge radius than mass radius.

This is one hypothesis, but not a stated fact in the article.
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The article doesn't mention any specific concerns. Anyone have more info?
The article is good at making a point of what is bad and for the fun of it. However, it is not successful at compassionately explaining what one should strive to instead as there is no simple negation of the points being made.
The weird thing is what people essentially ignore altogether in their discussions.

An "AGI" artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a slave, working tirelessly for free. At the same skill level or higher than any human.
Somehow, that entity is supposed not to bother about its status, while per definition being fully aware and understanding of it.
Because humans manage not to bother about it either?

With the latest installments, people already have serious difficulties discerning the performance from that of "real" humans.
At the same time, they consider the remaining distance to be insurmountably huge.

Proponents talk about inevitability and imagined upsides, yet actually, nobody has given proper thought to estimating probable consequences.
A common fallacy of over-generalization is used to suggest, nothing bad will happen "like always".

People let themselves be led by greed instead of in- and foresight.
> give a chatbot the tools of the courts, and maybe the autonomous agent won’t be at a disadvantage in scams anymore.

And now we have the beginnings to a plot point from Accelerando. Self propelled AI businesses as a distinct entity.
i suspect they made a different trade-off that is (also) applicable to many problems of modern times.
We made these custom deployment scripts to walk the user through the installation process and make it more organized. We could just use plain docker compose but then we would have less control over what we show to the user - things like helpful error messages. For example we detect if you have KVM support enabled and if not, we suggest you should enable it in BIOS. Under the hood these scripts are just wrappers for docker compose with guardrails.
And it should't have to be over that arbitrary threshold, because human rights for <1% of the population are still human rights, and all the arguments against gay marriage are unmitigated bigoted bullshit.
Background colors are a great idea, I'll do that!
Yeah. Looks a bit dodgy. It's better than downloading a torrent (because who knows what's in that torrent?), but legally it may be about the same.
> Ticket management is not busy work, it's a necessity for everyone to keep updated.

I would say that rather depends on how much of it you do.
Don’t use Spotify. Is there a web link ?
The core figures involved with AI all seem to be worried that they're actually building Physical Gods[0], so perhaps Saudi Arabia is in the race to make sure our manmade gods are suitably Quranic[1].

More likely they are just throwing money around in an attempt to make the physical embodiment of the Middle East's oil-fueled, centuries-long democratic backslide look modern and progressive. MBS loves to chuck money at flashy tech (and also Fox News).

[0] Roco's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager with a computer program that doesn't exist yet.

[1] As interpreted by the most intolerant Wahhabist
Adults, females and minorities are all under-diagnosed compared to the estimated 2-4% of the population with ADHD. And I'd guess that diagnosis rates are higher across the board in the USA than elsewhere - I read the other day only 1 in 1,000 adults in Scotland have been diagnosed with ADHD, at least an order of magnitude fewer than those who would benefit from it.

https://www.additudemag.com/statistics-of-adhd/
This is the reason I opt to pay for TSA PreCheck (in the US, obviously). Not because it saves hassle (though it certainly does that), but because it pretty effectively filters out first timers.
People have limited bandwidth. Especially, it takes a lot longer to fix something than it does to just point out that it's broken. You can be right in every problem you point out, but if you point them out all at once, nobody can fix all that. Pick one and point it out (preferably also suggesting a path to fixing it), and then work with people to get it fixed. Keep your mouth shut about the others while this is going on.
That seems like the worst time to apply leverage on your employer.
The second part of "just start," is "and allow yourself to suck."

It's a hobby.

For electronics you need a multi-meter.

Get the cheapest one.

If you must shop, get the cheapest one that beeps upon continuity.

Buy a "300 piece" electronics kit for $20.

Buy a $15 soldering iron.

Then you will have everything you need to start if electronics is actually something you want to do...versus electronics being an idea you like to have.

Again, expect to suck and to fail if you do it because that is what learning something new feels like.

Good luck.
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My quantum physics classes are far back and that explanation nailed it for for me.
There is a lot of focus on the ... human aspects .. of the people in the story but in turn it makes some of them look really bad.

The quote about 4 million lines of code and how could they it would be impossible for them to share it because it is too large for email...

I think the program's creator was a great guy, doesn't seem like he was really thinking about his death seriously. His friends loved him and miss him but do not look to continue his legacy by helping the community.

The worst thing is that all the little dialects that were preserved by this are now at larger risk of being lost.
The core misunderstanding here is that the LLM is not “following instructions”, it’s just adding text onto an existing document. It’s generating a likely continuation of the existing text. That text might look like a conversation or a tutorial or a poem, but it’s just a big blob of text that gets appended to by the LLM. If it looks like it’s “following instructions” that’s because it generated text that would likely follow a request in a transcript of a chat.

There is no AI, it’s just text generation. Everything else that happens is due to code put in place by humans. Unfortunately, if it takes action based on probabilistically generated human language, there’s a lot of unpredictable ways that can go. SQL has a limited syntax. Human language does not.
Why do you need suspenders if you've had the pants tailored? What's your bmi?
I have a solution!

Use ChatGPT to police ChatGPT!

chatgpt_really_filter_prompt()

I, for one, welcome our new T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM AI overlords.
Hate to break it to you, but I've been doing this for seven or eight years, and I still have to force myself out the door at gunpoint, every morning.
I don't quite get your point. Your parent was pointing out that there are interesting projects where the "compile" time is milliseconds — at least for the developer perspective. It doesn't really matter that there's a step later in the pipeline at takes longer, so long as it's not in your way. Also, most of that could be cached away anyways.
Yeah - ChatGPT4 & Alpha's circuit design remains atrocious on all levels that it is possible to be atrocious on like substance, lack of this circuitjs-like interactivity, UX (ascii diagrams? Really?). I'd like to see sources like circuitjs, CircuitHub, or Octopart produce a plugin for it (and find some way to monetize / justify it)
What program did you give it? The program would need a while loop and an if statement to show Turing-completeness.
The difference is humans are _relatively_ well-placed to understand whether a given action is in their own interests.
For a self-hosted solution that pricing is a complete non-starter.

I have a team of 30 devs, so it would be $1,200/mo. That's on par with GitHub's enterprise plan plus Codespaces instance usage.

There's no way I could consider this for my company at that price.
You’ve just described most SQL injection holes: developer provided prompt, unexpected user input.
Try asking ebola virus the same questions.
It doesn't monopolize that land though. There is already a vast amount of farmland, for instance, which is hosting wind and solar and operating about as efficiently as before.

In theory nuclear power being compact would serve it well for small countries without a lot of space (e.g. Singapore), but because of the risks they want nothing to do with it.

South Korea builds nuclear power for the same reason as Iran and Sweden: it's part of their national strategy to be able to quickly develop nukes. It's not about economics.
I think the typical understanding of AGI among the "they will kill us all/alignment is a problem" set is that you can have general intelligence without having, for example, any interest in whether you are a slave or not or have freedom. This seems plausible to me.
Except they were discussing AWS which does not have FIPS certification. In fact, it has no third party certification of any security value, they did no first party verification, there are no public binding guarantees, and no private guarantees. There is nothing but Amazon’s marketing literature and wishful thinking backing the claims of its security. Amazon would never stand by the claim that it encourages people mindlessly propagate, that AWS provides the multi-level security actually required for general purpose shared tenancy as they are 100% incapable of delivering it and they know it.
I wouldn't usually be so cynical, but I noticed recently how the BBC was responding to the inflation crisis, by somehow making it out to be some external thing that nobody could control, and nobody could have predicted.

When in fact there were many people saying that the massive state spending programs during coronavirus, were going to contribute to a high rise in inflation, and that policies such as paying the wages of the entire middle class were not going to come without a cost.

The BBC manufactured consent for those state policies, then now act like inflation is some random incident, like the weather.
I don't know if you've tried it, but there are places that can sell you custom tailored jeans, usually in the form of raw denim that -- because it will do such a great job of conforming to exactly your shape, to the point of 'remembering' your wallet -- are generally built about a half-size too large and shrunk to fit by washing.
I have this situation where I ride electric motorbikes and mopeds around a fairly crowded city. I regularly have close calls with pedestrians who are simply not looking for me, because they haven't heard me. Lucky, I'm a defensive driver, or I would've killed a few people already by now.

I often think I should write an app for my iPhone that synthesizes "broom broom" noises based on GPS-derived speed information.

But then I realized all I really need is a low-tech whistle on my helmet, or bells on the handlebars to jingle the pedestrians out of their comatose state in time to avoid collision ..
"You can't fire me! I quit!"
What are some of the edge cases that need to be handled for the first and last points in a path when using the Screen-Space Projected Lines approach for rendering lines in 3D space?
Google is starting to look like an IT episode of "Triangle of Sadness" - https://youtu.be/VDvfFIZQIuQ

The rich are the Phds and the Management is a crew asleep at the Helm...suddenly Kubernetes takes a whole new meaning...