skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This too conspiratorial for me, they could have easily figured out your intentions via other means.

Before jumping to this conclusion, I think it is worth sending messages about topics that are legitimately random and you have never searched online. This seems more fair, I really doubt Meta would lie about something this important because they could get destroyed with lawsuits..
My ex was raised in the FLDS. They were taught to perform fellatio on bananas in school. Notice I didn't say homeschool because they set up their own private schools. Even so - she could read. Despite this, public schools have well-documented results by the score:

https://www.nuroretention.com/blog/officials-80-percent-of-r...

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121374...

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-ci...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/i-couldnt-even-read-the...

https://phdessay.com/can-illiterate-students-graduate-from-h...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/11/...

https://www.highschoolcube.com/the-high-rate-of-functional-i...

And the list goes on. Several of these articles cite a rate of about 20% of adults in the US being functionally illiterate, with about one third unable to read above a 5th-grade level.

If homeschooling produces better results than that, then I'm all for it. Again: Kids need individual attention which they can get more readily in a homeschool environment. In large institutional public education systems, they just get "passed along" as they may be one of 30+ students in a class, and one of 5+ classes a teacher has. Public school teachers don't have enough time in a week to spend one-on-one time with each of their students. In the 90s my high school had class sizes of 35+ and I'm sure it's worse now in some schools.
Boomer immigrants bring their old world practices with them. A handful of isolated incidents indicative of a practice on its way out. Modi the current PM of India is from a low caste. The president of India is from a low caste.
Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you're going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So it's death by heat or mosquito.

(I chose mosquito since at least I can sleep with them buzzing around.)

edit: planning on getting insect screens soon. Thanks for comments pushing me to.
TL;DR: Treat LLMs like undergrad interns, and you won't be disappointed.
We are already there. The FDA has approved hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. And there are over 3000 clinical trials under way. We know already that we can effectively treat some blindness.

The reason I mentioned heart disease is because of how widespread it is and how dramatically it might increase average lifespan. For heart disease specifically it is indeed hard to tell how far away we might be from stem cell treatment being a success.

But stem cell treatment as a whole has already delivered.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367472/
My company has a pretty unique strategy where we have separate AWS accounts for each unit within the company. Each unit gets a prod and non-prod account.

We have ~150 accounts, so roughly 75 different department, with some having not much and others have a lot of resources.

Its complex, but provides a lot of nice security primitives. We have an overarching administrative account, but that doesnt get used (and lots of alarm bells go off when it is).
> And web apps are always a worse experience.

Check out:

https://timetable.fusion-festival.de/
Particularly with Google Search getting shittier and shittier with time.
Looks like this is list of embedded chips, not desktop. On desktop already was Pentium.
Read up on Allan Savory; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Savory
I presume this is a joke. Languages evolve over time (centuries in the case of English), there are very few examples of designed languages. English is especially complicated because it emerges from a melting pot of germanic, Latin, Greek, French, etc. The form of the word its emerged through a linguistic process that took a long, long time. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/its#
But tools are fun!
I feel like using suggestions for line by line composition might lend itself to better review by programmers.

As opposed to ChatGPT which spits out dozens of lines of code based on a request and therefore requires more involved editing after the fact to understand what’s happening.
Well yes? Heartbleed? The majority of significant security bugs are memory corruption and data races, both of which safe Rust prevents by design.
How exactly are they getting higher wages if their union factory jobs are moved overseas?
This is one of the reasons I really like the Mikrotik network gear, because of the Winbox application for management. It's Windows Forms (GDI) in the MDI style of most Windows apps of circa 2000. Lightning fast, responsive, and with nice touches like being able to drag files on/off the interface to upload/download and the ability to copy/paste entries like they were lines in a text file.

I know why the web for UI took over, but I sure do miss Windows forms-based applications. The web is fine for the UI to a bank or some other tool you don't interact with that often, but for tools where you can spend hours working inside, browser-based interfaces are terrible.
As someone who constantly scrapes and indexes every bit in every public S3 bucket I can find, for purposes of selling query access to my indexes, I couldn't agree more - FANTASTIC value add.

Of course, I never have, don't now, and never would run a business on someone else's computer though... all the hyperscalers will happily charge you more for 3 months worth of compute than the cost of the hardware the compute is being done on. Would I rather build a server for $5k or pay $1600/mo to rent that exact same server? Such a difficult decision! /s
In the original comment’s defense, sometimes you need to find where to start. For example: when writing a research paper, one might hastily cast a wide net before locating and drilling into a topic from a respected source.

I’m not well-versed in JavaScript (I’d like to be, but neither me nor my company have the resources right now to commit). When JS work comes up, I’ll often Google/ChatGPT to point me in a general direction before pulling up technical documentation on whatever comes back. I’m pretty good at learning, but sometimes it takes me a while to find out where to start.
Thanks, GPT.
Depends on how bad the building is. I’ve found keeping windows and curtains closed until the temperature outside gets lower than inside in the evening (if you’re not dealing with a intense enough heat where that doesn’t happen) gives you a lot more of cooler time in the house.
It's likely that that would've happened even without the empire building, because the purchasing power of their citizenry has increased through modernizing their industrialization. So companies would still want to look for alternate sources of free labor.
The interesting question is if passive voice is so bad, how did it come about in the English language and why did it survive? That directly contradicts a lot of this advice.

Though I try to use primarily active voice because it helps me save on word/page count when I'm trying to submit papers to conferences.
The last thing we need right now is people living longer.
Run the code it writes, if it gives an error, paste it into the chat and 90% of the time the LLM can fix the issue.

People are missing the point here - it's not about writing code in one-shot. An LLM-enabled loop can generate the code and test and refine it until it works
It’s really too bad! I’d rather not be using AI as a search replacement, but I do feel like search results have degraded significantly.
What do you propose for these long term changes?
It’s both under and over-hyped. The whole “AI is going to write your entire app for you with a couple sentences prompt” crowd is full of shit, but for small sections of code, variations on existing scripts and functions, writing tests, etc, GPT-4 is pretty incredible.

I work in data science and have to write a lot of repetitive stuff for parsing and cleaning data. It’s reduced my toil so dramatically in this respect, I can’t imagine going back to writing all that stuff again. I’m now much more ambitious in what I’ll experiment with as well because I know setting up the first stages of the data pipeline are going to be 10X less work than before.
I just don’t see how it could save time.

Programmers nearly universally agree that reading code is harder than writing it.

So when you have chat GPT writing your code, you have to read and understand it to ensure it’s actually doing what you need it to without awkward bugs or problems.

Given that it’s harder to read than write code, it seems to stand to reason that the “time savings” must be nil.
It also provides this unwanted bullshit like coupon notifications and buy now pay later scams. I know it can be turned off but it should never have been included. Really, I don't know why people still use it. If you want chrome, just use the real thing.

The only reason I use it is Microsoft lobbied my work to make it the "official" browser. Not sure why they're so proud of their copy of Google's stuff with a thin layer of Microsoft veneer. I don't find it a strong selling point of a software company when they have to admit someone else does a better job.

Personally I just use Firefox and love it.
Backend being written in TS is a big downside vs. Hasura’s blazing fast Haskell backend.
iPSCs are useful when you want to run experiments in hard to obtain cell types. For example, brain cells. It’s hard to justify drilling into a person’s head to take a sample. Much easier to use some iPSCs derived from skin or fat cells.

Obviously iPSCs are cell models and not the actual cells you want, but they are usually better than immortalized cell lines or cadavers.
Perhaps also get some screens for windows. Very common in the US even in areas with low mosquitos
You have to put it in context: How good is the human alternative?

I have interviewed hundreds of engineers across the entire skill spectrum. I think GPT4 right now is about on-par with a mid level developer.

It makes a lot of mistakes, especially around counting, and usually can notice and fix them if they're pointed out. Humans do this all the time -- how often do you get a compiler error from something silly?

It often misapplies interfaces on the first go-around. Again, this is just like humans. We make mistakes, notice them, fix them. If you simulate this by telling GPT that its code produced an error it will often correct itself.

The absolutely killer feature of GPT4 is that it has these skills in every subject. It's fluent in kernel operations. Databases. Networking. Various UX frameworks. Any language.

It's definitely not perfect. But, if the alternative is hiring a mid-level human engineer, GPT4 is a really compelling alternative.
In your analogy, yes, I'm the person that sees nutrition as exercise as the only levers, and so then my alternative solution is "well we need to get it right then". Open to other ideas for levers too.
Meh. My coworkers do what you’re doing, and then I end up rewriting their stuff. (AI generated stuff generally passes code reviews because it gets the benefit of the doubt.)
Yeah. One of my friends and coworkers started his career at GS around that same time and had some (very!) positive stories about both the tools and the people building them. It sounded like the combination of Slang and SecDB was a real force multiplier for building and evaluating the kind of complex mathematical models he was working on. That's the kind of tool development that shows off just how high-leverage engineering work can be.

My (100% outsider's) impression is that the focus, culture and teams at Goldman Sachs are totally different now thanks to market and regulatory changes, and that it is not a good place to work in a primarily technical sort of role any more.
I had the impression at the time that it was something they were doing intentionally and wasn’t part of a one time spontaneous conversation.
The over-hype is causing it to look under-hyped. 48% of the code being freaking correct from 0% about 5 years ago is huge.

With everyone and all the news talking about it constantly inevitably people are going to start rolling their eyes.

This is bias. 48% is half way to 100%. Once it reaches 100% you don't have a job. You realize that right? It's halfway their to taking your job and you're underwhelmed. The bias is on your side.

It's typical. It's like an indie band is only popular when not many people know about it. Once everybody starts talking about it all the time it loses it's popularity. People start thinking it's not cool anymore. That's the bias you are suffering from.
There's records of it, Graeber details some instances in The Dawn of Everything. As to your definition of culture, I would say it's lacking in sophistication. And when not abandoning it, in many cases it can be foisted upon people.

Imagine a scenario where some people's hand farm, but their traditional trade partners elected to buy into the globalist system: there's simply no way for them to compete against industries of scale. So they're disintegrated from their neighbors and can't rely upon them for trade. And if you look at the record, there is evidence of widespread trade networks from people's dwelling in South/Central America to the North American East. If we take Diamond's word for it, that's a considerable disruption due to the sort of intrinsic constraints he proposed (poor progenitor species for agriculture/beasts of burden) that may present if extremely strict conservativism is abided.
Might be helpful to have those big wide feet?
to keep it simple, this is just scratching the surface of what is there.

teratogenesis is a major hurdle to the tech.

to a large extent it is induction of a process that is autonomously regulated.

consider, the gotchas involved in reusing materials to produce structure.

or the complexity involved in changing the nature of a large multinational conglomerate of corporations.

the difficulty lies in 're-vectoring' an assembly to alter process that is dynamic and has many possible responses to one specific change, dependent on past event, multiplied by each cell in the respondent cohort.

assembly theory, and informatic complexity apply here, overtop the biological phenomenon.

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rejection rate is ideally not a consequence when these stem cells originate from the recipient.

the tech of topic deals with genetic manipulation, and is simplistic as DNA is not the only component having influence. cytoplasmic factors, as well as the state, and point of process are informatic and determinative.
They've been saying this since Jurassic Park came out in the mid 90's, still nothing has ever materialized.

I'll believe that when pigs fly...
> It's funny, for me this is not at all what the web is about. I see CSS styles as at best a suggestion for how the website would like to be rendered, but the browser is fundamentally a user agent that can render stuff however the user likes. If you don't like how Edge renders things, you can always switch to a different browser or change the settings.

I agree but this is something that Google is trying to break with WEI by banning modified or "untrustworthy" browsers.
I view unions like i view government. It's possible, sometimes likely, that a government becomes a horrid entity for control over people.

However. Governments, and perhaps Unions, are by definition (correct me if i'm wrong?) an entity that is by the people and for the people. Some for-profit company or individual has no ethical obligation to treat workers correctly, fairly, etc. So if we remove unions and government, what power do individual people have?

To that idea then, people need a gov/union to have a voice - but govs and unions also need to be built with an extreme attention to oversight. Which we usually fail to implement correctly. Nevertheless it's the only tool we have - to give individuals power by distributing agreement. So to me the question isn't for or against gov/union, but rather how we can build them to scale and last. Especially in the face of pressure to corrupt.

Happy to hear opinions on where this is wrong, though.
A mid-level human engineer can iteratively fix the mistakes they start making, instead of that just being the final result. Can GPT-4 do that?
Up to $40k!
> In this hypothetical, communities would see the same effects as if Walmart chose not to exit. They would just shop and work at "Not-Walmart", same as the old Walmart.

Not-Walmart is a different company that doesn't have a union, and if they should get one, actual Walmart can start selling goods to some different Not-Walmart who doesn't. Then Not-Walmart #2 drives Not-Walmart #1 out of business by offering lower prices if the union manages to increase Not-Walmart #1's labor costs.

After people have seen this happen they realize the union can't actually secure them more than the wages available in the free market without causing them to lose their jobs, so when they take a job at Not-Walmart #2 they wonder why they would want to spend time organizing another union and paying dues.

> Some might argue prices might increase due to an additional corporate layer, but then the question I would have is why wouldn't Walmart just raise the prices themselves and take those extra available profits for themselves?

These kinds of operations often have minimal overhead. Existing Walmart pays a salary to a store manager. Not-Walmart is owned by the person who would have been the store manager and makes "profit" equal to what Walmart would have had to pay in salary.
You have completely missed my point and I am not sure how to get you to see it. My point is that you did not respond to what someone has said, you ignored it and went on your own tangent. And you did it again.
Not updating your app or submitting it to the app stores for an average of 1-2 years is a disaster. Always update as soon as possible.
That sort of uptime always scares the sh!t out of me when I see it.

Reboot at least once a month folks, even for those single node critical systems. Better it doesn't boot on a Friday night than mid morning on a Tuesday.

Also, monitor and send alerts :))
Lol. We must have had different experiences in Cairo in the 90s.

Mosquitos murdered me daily when I slept with the window open.
In line with this, another comment someone said "perhaps they're doing exactly their job but their job is not actually what it purports to be."

It's possible they're doing exactly their job but that it's not a job we need done. The job we need done is rapid decarbonization. So how do we do that?
Maybe OT, but I keep looking at these Fediverse projects on OpenCollective (clients, donation-based instances) and I can't stop wondering surely these people are not depending on these amounts to make ends meet?

I mean, here is one of the most popular mobile clients for Android, with 6 people listed on the our team section and they are having relationship-breaking arguments going over a total budget of ~ $7k for the whole year?

Between that and all the "donation-funded instances" that never seem to be in the black (and the ones that do can only say so because they are getting all free labor from volunteers/moderators) I really start to wonder if we will ever make a dent on the Big Tech and VC-funded companies. The resources being given to the developers is ridiculous small, and no one wants to admit it.
Impressive genetics hubris. Given 200 years we might have the technology to do this. If this team wants to prove they can do this then why not start with two closely related rodent species as proof of principle? In my opinion—-and speaking as as a statistical geneticist who studies microevolutionary differences and change (variation with species)—-this is simply a PR stunt by a group that does not understand population genetics very well and takes Mendelian models of gene action much too seriously.

I actually hope I am totally wrong!
Completely agree. Any metric unto itself will only show a partial picture. Using LLMs as an iteration partner can solve any problem which is embedded in latent space (which is pretty much all problems that devs get paid to solve).

People seemingly desire to zealously defend the LeetCode way of solving problems for some inane reason.
Yes, like I said if you give it the results, eg "That code resulted in this error. What's wrong?" it will more often than not correct its mistake.

Hooking it up to automatically run the code in question and examine the output is a trivial undertaking - many folks have already done this.
If you have the space and desire, build a reasonably sized shed (10'x10' in US for example) from scratch and up to code will take you probably around 100 hours if you put in windows and electrical.
Given that the second is an older unit [0] than the redefinition of the metre, and defined based on "nice" subdivisions of the day, it would seem that there's still a bit of a coincidence there.

Since the metre was previously defined by the seconds pendulum, it was entirely defined by the definition of a second and the value of g. From the equations, 1 m = 1 s² × g / π².

While this makes g ≈ π² straightforward, it seems coincidental that the Earth's circumference was close enough to 40 000 km that the redefinition of the metre was a nice power or 10 without too much change to the metre.

[0]: Late 16th century, based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#Fraction_of_solar_day
Sorry all, I meant Privoxy. Didn't even realise Privaxy was a thing.
I don’t think I have ever seen an air conditioner used outside as depicted in the comic. Is electricity just cheap there or is that a cultural thing?
I wonder if anyone has done a feedback loop with GPT and compiler errors to train this sort of thing
It's because of bad July figures[1] and a healthy dose of wishful thinking.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/china-economy-july-industria...
This is my same sentiment, author has been too dramatic with the blog title. Updating from 30 to 33 SDK is just a disaster waiting to happen. In the mobile world that is just too long.
Since it's a theme in more than one comment thread:

If you're a contrarian, I'd soften rules to constraints.

Their utility is less in what they do to your results than in what working within them does to you.

Constraints force you to be attentive and mindful, and this helps you understand the tools, materials, and techniques at your disposal.

It someone scolding you about passive voice is offputting, talk yourself into writing pair of stories or posts or journal entries in entirely passive and entirely active voice.

Be fastidious about both. Learn your materials.
The very concept of abductive reasoning was introduced by C.S. Peirce, who was one of the premier logicians of his time, among other things. His work is certainly apropos to programming.
Oof, it looks like India is in some extremely deep trouble going forward. Places like Delhi are packed with people, few of them able to afford to buy and run the AC they'd need to survive. I'm not even sure if the power grid could support that if they could afford it.
To write the code you need to know what to write. In many cases I find it easier to read proposed solution to my problem and then figure out from there how I actually want to implement a solution. It's great starting point.
> Ok but everyone here is defining "community" and "social aspect" differently.

indeed.

> Umm, ok, how is that bad?

Like I started my comment off with, "If you are asocial". I was really thinking of myself when I wrote that, although I'm an atheist. I think this is ridiculously difficult for some people to comprehend, and I have completely cut people out of my life because of it, but it is genuinely exhausting to have a conversation with someone, especially someone I don't know.