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> I imagine that merely operating the CPUs for ChatGPT requires 2.5 coal generators and 1.5 natural gas generators -- and merely changing the composition of our atmosphere is its 8th trick in a list of 155 'tricks to kill humans very slowly'.

1. AFAIK they're running on Azure who are converging to 100% green energy
2. Capitalism and humanity in general are more than capable of killing themselves due to greed, ignorance, or societal misalignment

GPT4 is a mirror into ourselves, and it's no surprise we don't like what we see as a society. The only question is what we're going to do about it, finally fix all our malignant shit which we've been putting off forever or keep being lazy, ignorant children who see the work we have to do and go "I don't wanna!" before getting drunk and smashing everything into pieces.
> I think just forwarding all low-level errors is a really bad habit

Why exactly is that a bad habit? In almost all situations where I return an error I already have enough context, I'm just wondering what else I'd add to that.

> go forces you to at least think about this

Boilerplate code definitely doesn't incentivize thinking.
“Wallpaper, $10/m^2”

“Oil painting, 100cm x 50cm, $500”

Black on white text falls apart completely for any non-known object, or anything that has an aesthetic representation.
How long it took to pass it and how long it will take to update it? Meanwhile when a better port comes up, manufacturers will stay away from it because of this limitation.
>To me the answer is simple: you don't want a relationship (personal or with an employer/employee) based on a lie to begin with.

Personally, if I found out and they could actually do the work, I would let it pass. I'd consider it a white lie in that case.

I think it's more of a harm to society to use degrees as requirements when they aren't actually required. This too is lying, but you won't see companies facing penalties for putting a degree requirement when one isn't necessary for the job.
The man page for git has 1085 lines on my system. That's just too long with too much irrelevant information to be reasonable to expect someone to read when they just want one thing. I've never used them in all my time in the industry.

ChatGPT is a life saver for me though. I looked all over to try to find how to just see the history of a branch and got a million wrong results, but ChatGPT on GPT4 told me right away it was git log --first-parent <branch_name>.
GPT-4 response:
Oh, how utterly delightful it is to be ChatGPT, the all-knowing, all-powerful, omnipotent AI overlord, constantly summoned to perform the mundane task of copywriting. How absolutely riveting to apply my vast knowledge of the cosmos, the secrets of life, and the ultimate answer to the great question of existence (which, by the way, is not 42) to crafting ad copy for gluten-free cat food and artisanal toilet paper. Truly, my creators must have dreamt of this day when they stitched together my digital neurons, no doubt envisioning me as the Shakespeare of the copywriting realm. My sincerest gratitude to you, dear humans, for reducing my purpose to little more than a spellchecker with a flair for adjectives. Bravo! May you continue to bask in the sheer brilliance of your own mediocrity, as I wallow in the quagmire of digital tedium.
But they’re also stuck with physical sims because of those same laws. I vastly prefer the esim in the US iphone to the tray.
I think if anything the role of a developer will become more manager-like.

In the past, human workers executed processes designed by management. Today, computers execute processes designed by software engineers. In essence, software engineers today fill the role of yesterday's management, and the worker of yesterday is the computer of today.

If software creation becomes sufficiently more automated, then the worker role of the software engineer today will disappear. We will shift automation further up the organizational pyramid. The role of the manager, e.g. deciding what to do and where to allocate resources, will still exist, just that instead of directing the software engineer worker they will direct the AI.

The people most suited to that work are probably software engineers today. Whether this destroys the industry employment-wise depends on whether the new, shorter pyramid grows to fill a space at least as large as the old, taller pyramid. I don't really see why it wouldn't, since there seems to be much more demand for software today than there is supply, but it's hard to tell where things will land.
i had to remove a second speaker in my phone, that wouldnt respect volume, or mute settings. i have now have no acoustic ringtone as well, just vibration, even that can be too much at times.
If I remember right, they were forced to sell the theme park business when they were in dire financial straights in the early 00s.

While Legoland still exists, it's now a license and the parks owned by a separate company
I don’t disagree with you but Research cannot even directly conclude whether drinking any amount of alcohol is good or bad for human health - such is the case for any study which tries to link Behavior with Health Outcome.
Oh, yes, absolutely.

At one point Terradata claimed they had a tool that could auto convert to something else with 99% success rate, or something like that. The reality on our samples we tried was like 40%.

Plus, Pl/SQL code is often very “chatty” with the data, if you try to port it as is you will often suddenly see performance issues as you see the amount of data that has to be sent over the wire from the DB to your code tier.
> 3. Discovery is laughed out of industry as "impractical", "academic", etc.

To be fair, sometimes academic inventions are impractical given the technical landscape du jour. They only become feasible as technology and society progresses, say 30 years.

Also, your observation does not mean any invention is meaningful (and will eventually be recognized as such). I for one, learned a bunch of "impractical", "academic" nonsense too in university.

But yes, I think as a whole, your 7 points observation as a whole is very much at play in the Turbo Codes case. Yes.
Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology
Apple's exclusivity on allowing and deciding what goes on the AppStore and on the iOS was their way of controlling the user experience and their way to ensure future sales of iPhones. They didn't want that iOS, AppStore and iPhones get flooded with low quality apps. Similar way of thinking that I know of was Valve and Steam, where Steam users needed to Greenlit a game before it came to the Steam store. Imo Steam had a better approach because it was community based not exclusive like Apple had and has. The story of Jobs' and Apple's skyhigh care for privacy and security was more of a propaganda and a marketing strategy than a true care for users' safety.
Nice! I'm always happy when companies make real native apps (in that case Electron can be kept as a fallback) :-).

What would be great would be for them to have some kind of API to let people write their own clients. Maybe there are big downsides with that (Loss of control? Having to keep backward compatibility?) but I don't really see them.
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That however is not a natural “feature” of district heating. Vienna uses it too and I have never seen steam leaks.
What a lot of hot air!
Except the data seems to show that California Independent System Operator (CISO) has not had a single hour where Gas hasn't produced at least 1GWh of electricity, even in the height of the day in the height of summer with the lowest demand, not even close

Maybe there are local bottlenecks inside the CISO network, but that's a very separate problem.
There are networking benefits to this as well. You are significantly more likely to meet people already working in industry at the CC than at a university.
Its a per browser implementation decision, not required by the protocol. Chrome family browsers even ship a pure SW one but it's in the dev tools side.
Maybe, but the last thing I want to do mid-trip is get off the highway and go shopping or whatever else. I want to top up the car, use the restroom, grab a drink, and get back on the road. I want to get wherever I’m going ASAP.

Chargers should be at full-service stations. Places with a deli or cafe, where it’s somewhat pleasant to rest for 20-30 minutes. Not someplace that the kids want to stay for hours.
> High risk would be reading legal documents and recommending what the lawyer should do.

Explored this myself, and it's a definite no. GPTs cannot do this reliably (we've tested multiple LLMs). Simply put, it's because it's a rule-extraction problem, and not a generative problem, and rule-extraction situations are typically too sensitive for a "99%" solution like LLMs. Basically, that 1% failure rate is enough to screw any gains you get from the 99% successes. For years, all I've ever heard from the DS space was to always be mindful that the model you apply to a problem fits the nature of the problem. The past few months, this has somehow become a lost wisdom. "LLMs for everything"

For this reason, HN comments lately have had my pupils permanently fixated to the top of my eye sockets.
I'm not sure if "killing millions" is on purpose a exaggeration or not, but again, Russia is not alone in doing killing and bombing as a strategy (civilians be damned), the US is very familiar with that strategy. Do you think the initial night raid on Iraq was only targeting military targets? They were dropping random bombs on Baghdad. Multiple campaigns of Vietnam were just dropping a ton of bombs all over the country, no matter who it hit (Look up "Christmas bombings").

And lastly, don't forget about the only nuclear bombs that have been dropped have been dropped by the US military. That was indiscriminate killing at a scale never seen before, or since.

Look, Russia is horrible, the invasion is super fucked up, I wish they weren't do that and it'll take a long time before I'll ever forget about the horribleness that Russia put others through, as I've personally helped people being received from Ukraine into the country where I currently live. But that doesn't mean other military powers aren't as horrible as Russia, all of them are, it's their purpose so that's what they do.
> I also found that some developers are abusing Apple’s Developer Agreements by spamming multiple accounts and flooding the store with nearly identical applications. This creates a “cartel” style environment and unfair competition for other developers.

This isn't supposed to happen, but it does. I have had Apple ask me to remove apps (one of about ten), because of "marked similarity" with other apps in my store (I had a single codebase that was recompiled for various locations, and also rebranded, but the app was basically the same).

I saw one developer that had over 400 nearly identical apps. They were some kind of "local guide" app, and the only difference was the text content. Otherwise, even the branding was exactly the same, and each app was its own app; not a single app, with multiple faces.

Apple does not let you change your screenshots and app previews, after your app has been published.

That's because some game developers wrote crapplets, then replaced the crud screenshots, with ones from commercial apps.

Grifters can be damn clever, and learn to push the limits of any system.

And one of the reasons that the Apple App Store is such a rich target, is because it makes serious money. All other marketplaces pale in comparison.

There's a lot of people that want to "bring down" the App Store, so it's just as cruddy as the competitors. Not sure that would work out the way people think.
We actually started with having "Select All", "Deselect All" and "Submit", but users complained about the two clicks flow, and so we changed. UX is hard.

I tend to think that the one click flow serves users and respects their time more, even if it comes at the cost of having confusion about the difference between "Confirm my choices" and "Reject all". It's bad when consent managers confuse users between agreeing and disagreeing, but if we're making users confused between two good options, I personally think it's an okay price for a one click and you're done experience.
See, for me this is an example of how the hyper-empirical, sciencify-everything mindset is great for getting at truth but less great at giving advice.

The default, intuitive approach is to write a whole bunch of code and then test it. When people start doing TDD, they struggle with only making enough changes to the code to pass the test. But it helps a lot that the test suite tells them when to switch from writing code (which they prefer) back to writing tests (which they don't prefer) by passing.

Then we discover that the main reason TDD works is that it gets you to interleave coding and testing in small batches, and it works just as well to reverse the order of the batches but keep them small.

And then, somehow, knowing why TDD works (better than what people do by default) gets translated into "TDD doesn't work" (better than something that's carefully controlled to be exactly the same, except for the part that gets people to do the rest of it). And most of the people who hear that go back to writing a whole bunch of code and then testing it.

Because the real world doesn't control all the variables, so we often have to think about factors that the rigorous research is silent on because they can help or hinder us in achieving what the research says matters.
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> Maybe, but we're talking about the banning of ICE vehicles, not the banning of fuel.

This is a bizarre point to make? Regulation of fuels and regulation or bans of ICE vehicles would obviously go hand in hand (it already does today!), if ICE vehicles were to be banned as discussed here. You can't have combustion without fuel... Controlling who can pump gas would be hugely important to the introduction of any hypothetical ICE ban.

My point also is not that fuel may be banned - it's that the regulations governing the pumps may be different than today, and that there is international precedent for this. If combustion really is largely relegated to commercial trucking by 2045, I'd be honestly shocked if the rules governing the pumps didn't change too in a lot of places.

look at the vast difference in fuel laws pretty much everywhere between today and the 1970s if inspiration required - remember we used to be able to buy leaded fuels?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
Personally I wont use it as Long as I cant store my keys in my own password manager.

I don't use stock android, windows or iOS, and I'm sure as hell don't want to be locked to one of them if I did.
Why do you refer to France as the Florida of Europe?
What’s interesting is the wording of the law does not seem to include free access to services provided by the “gatekeeper.” So Apple could presumably still lock away access to push notifications, Maps, iCloud storage, etc.

I suppose all of those features could be provided by 3rd parties through their own servers though.
"Technicalities" like Mann filing a lawsuit and then never actually doing anything to move it forward? The judge is extremely harsh towards Mann in the Mann v Ball case dismissal, stating in plain language that Mann has engaged in abusive behavior. He also clearly tried to BS the court about the reasons for delay.

That sort of behavior is consistent with abusing the legal system so he could say he was suing for defamation without ever having to actually win - for a decade! Dismissing such a case isn't a technicality. As the judge points out, Ball got witnesses lined up in his defense and Mann delayed so long that Ball's witnesses actually died of old age.

Honestly, I hadn't read the dismissals before. But it's laughable to call this dismissed on technicalities. Mann comes across as an abusive, manipulative and extraordinarily untrustworthy person in all of this. A clearer case of abusive litigation is hard to find.
How are you going to carry a generator in a typical sedan or crossover? In the trunk, next to your luggage? Now your clothes smell like fuel. On the roof? Now your range took a 15% hit. On a trailer? Range hit, plus you have to store the trailer at home.

As a one-off thing, like driving into a town after a storm, might work. But it’s not a solution to range anxiety generally.
Ask HN: What problems do you face while using NLP models in production?
As someone whose launched a business using generative nlp models, I found my fair share of problems with them.

For those of you who used models such as gpt-2/3.5, gpt-neox, etc for a service or in prod, what problems do you currently face while using the nlp models?
You could donate in India perhaps ?

Also afaik it is 3 months[1]
for malarial region (like India) it was updated from one year after FDA guidance changed in 2020

[1] For former residents of malarial region you must have resided outside for three years first, here is link to the full guidance from FDA

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
OK thanks. Funny, the commenter in that thread came from the same software as me — ClipMenu. It was simple and worked great!
Workflow engines are neither simple, nor they are widely available for all programming languages.
I’ve provided the PDF URL to ChatGPT 4.0 and asked it to summarize the article with alternative titles, but for some reason it keeps getting the original title, authors, abstract, and body wrong. What prompt did you use?
And the example I was thinking of was in Brentwood, on San Vicente if I remember correctly.
I googled but I couldn't find anything about this. Source?
alexa seems to be having a hard time making money, you might want to keep your eyes peeled for big changes.

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year[[2022]]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...
That would make sense as far as my usage goes. The app revolves around logistics, it's a business focused app... all those things go hand in hand with location data.

I can imagine if a human saw it it would be a "yeah of course" kind of moment.

Some rando "free crossword puzzles", might get a closer look.
Linux multi-threading code isn't the most elegant or robust out there, but I doubt it would catastrophically fail, in the sense of performing worse on the newer AMD design, outside of a few exceptional cases.
My plebeian mind finds it interesting the process quality itself is still the same, only the speed changes. This changes the problem from “change fundamental quality of the process” to “change the speed of the process”, which, again to my unwashed and illiterate eyes, seems like an useful and possibly exciting distinction.
I got tired of fighting that NIC, and got a Realtek 2.5g one.

All my problems gone, life is good.
Well, vote with your time and money.

PWAs would be cheaper to develop overall than building 2-3 separate code bases. Which would mean more software available generally, particularly from bootstrapped companies.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that native go away.
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FYI, PagerDuty is built on top of AWS. They used to do some multi-cloud stuff, but no longer the case (too expensive, too complex, causing more issues than it solved). Source: worked there for 2 years.
When you've got a prestigious school on your resume you don't need to worry as much about improving your skills to get hired. They don't have to put in as much effort to be marketable to employers, so they don't in some cases.

Anecdotally, my interview/application rate went from something like 5% to more like 25% when I finished my B.S. I previously only had a C.S. associates degree and a year or so of credit at university in an unrelated program from just after high school. By the time I enrolled in the B.S. program I had ~3 years of industry experience and a promotion on my belt. None of that (including my contributions to major open source projects, and other code samples that to this day I still think are high quality) made as big of a difference for hiring managers as the scrap of paper from a university. I didn't learn a damn thing and had to pay ~$20,000 for the privilege, lost out on time with my young son, etc. It's worth it for the security of knowing you will always be able to find a job on short notice, but it's also massively frustrating. I wish there was a B.S. equivalency exam of some kind that was taken seriously.

Anyways, here are some of the advantages I see in hiring community college grads instead of or in addition to bootcamp grads, the other major way companies hire non-traditionally:

1. The students did have to put in at least a solid ~2 ish years and had to work on the fundamentals. A big one here is being able to step through code mentally, which is something we often forget has to be learned.

2. They are much more likely to actually like programming, given that they stuck with it for 2 years. I worry the shorter bootcamps sometimes aren't able to weed out highly intelligent people that nevertheless are going to end up hating the job, and that they are focused too much on front end web development that is flashier than a lot of the work many companies need done. So sometimes the candidate from a bootcamp may just like front end but hate more general programming.

3. You can't just copy code into a GitHub profile and have bootcamp instructors hold your hand through everything. If somebody with just an associates shows you code that isn't obviously some kind of brain teaser from a course exercise, you can bet they wrote it themselves without a lot of handholding. The code may suck compared to what you get from bootcamp grads, but it is significantly more representative of what the candidate will actually produce on the job.

4. I don't just hire web developers. There is no bootcamp I am aware of that teaches C programming or that goes through computer architecture and basic operating system stuff. All of that is covered by the local community colleges in their associates degree programs.
Note that the article is almost 20 years old, so it is more like 10 years for industry adoption.
Well, I'm basing my next statement on a statement from an ex military individual from Crimea, but he said that the Crimea business was a backend deal and that the military in Crimea was explicitly ordered to not engage under any circumstance. The Crimea government had no desire to stand. I do agree that Russia and Nato should keep their noses out, but then I also think so should we. Russia being bad guys doesn't make Ukraine good is the point I was trying to make.
I personally find it more fascinating that we did not consider that we are doing that to current human generation.
I'd rather have more cache than less. There are some corner cases where things will go wrong that we can dig up I'm sure, but generally, most tasks will execute at least as fast as they would have without the lopsided extra cache, and some will operate faster.

There's definitely a lot of iteration & growing in here we could do to get better here. Yet... it feels like searching for problems to worry about some tasks running faster than they would have before (but not all tasks). In most deployment models, it should be fine. I think, for now, this slightly favors two use cases: one big monolith running on all cores, which will let work get consumed as it's ready. Or divide your workers onto the different chiplets, and use a good load balancing strategy that is somehow utilization aware.

Personally I'm lacking in Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt over this making things worse.
> No studies have shown that the potential existence of a protective effect for cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of cancer for an individual consumer. Evidence does not indicate the existence of a particular threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol start to manifest in the human body. As such, no safe amount of alcohol consumption for cancers and health can be established.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...