skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is simply weak at English, although there are some typos that really should have been corrected even in non-idiomatic English (e.g. missing spaces between words).

Really, as long as the premise, evidence, and results are clear and reproducible, the quality of the English doesn’t much matter.
Wouldn’t you assume a high level of psychopathy is required to be a successful pornography producer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVIII
Footer to your footer. At least in the Netherlands, ounce is still used as well, it's defined to 100g.
In more impressive news, "38% of code generated by GPT-4 does not contain API misuses"
This is different still. It's more like how the US president's cabinet is unelected. I was referring mainly to the European Commission, and a common criticism I hear about it.

The electoral collage does follow a process that is election, even if there's one (or more) layer of abstraction between that and initial ballots.
This is basically what I was trying to say as well. The trade-off I'm talking about is not "off the shelf and boring" vs. "bespoke and exciting", it's more nuanced than that. The decision companies have to make is more like "what is worth our time and investment and what isn't?". That "time and investment" trade-off may involve custom code vs. off-the-shelf solutions, or it may be between a managed psql that doesn't provide a useful configuration vs. self-hosting and maintaining that configuration yourself, or any number of other build-vs-buy and expedience-vs-longevity decisions.

My point is just that it's very case specific, and you can easily guess wrong in either direction.
Yeah that statement seemed very strange to me too. I’ve been writing software for 20 years and I use ChatGPT4 everyday because it’s faster to edit and debug some code with a LLM than it is to write it all from scratch
Don't wan't to give my location but between 33-39C. Dry heat.
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.

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? I'd assume Walmart is already doing what they can to maximize net profit.
The claim “They are always novice developers that are not familiar with the APIs that LLMs generate code for them” seems pretty outlandish to me.
YouTuber Gerald Undone mentioned the Padcaster Parrot & the upcoming Pro. Mine is preordered. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ultimate-on-the-go-sm...
It seems to me (waves hands) that this could be implemented as a decorator.

Why not jack around and find out if this makes sense?

Even if good for one use-case, it may not generalize sufficiently to make core changes.
"Yeah, no. That's entirely contrary to the point of the real estate system. It was always designed with a capitalistic, first-come-first-served, mentality. Stake claim to your plot of land and hold it. The issue is those plots that are used for parking and never used should be forfeit, recycled back into the pool."

See how it sounds when you just change it from domains to real estate?
In Sydney (admittedly cooler but still hot) our house rarely needs AC due to trees. Trees make a big difference!
On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream
Copilot probably wins because it holds more of _your_ code against the desired output.

I find ChatGPT is really great at getting something going, think scaffolding wise. But if you enter the realm of gnarly stuff, it can get completely delirious with answers full of red herrings and sends you running in circles very quickly.
Tldr is that Deng is more on working with the US side. Xi is trying to build his own empire and working against the US and its allies. This triggered a series of events of the US sanctions and the investments which are currently leaving china. During covid they found out that it's actually viable to slowly moving the manufacturing out of China. It's a slow bleed but the downward trend of China's economy is visible
More damning of competition as a concept than the AI, methinks.
GP was speaking about the problems with carbon offsets today. You're talking about the need to decarbonize without acknowledging or addressing the points that GP made. Most are not stupid enough to say that we should set down "the game" of decarbonization and walk away. Many intelligent people are saying that carbon credits don't seem to be working to date as part of "the game". Rather than point out the obvious of how important carbon decarbonization is, it would be better to discuss what GP gets wrong about carbon credits or offer an alternative solution.

"Man, my weight and health are difficult to manage, there are all these challenges I find difficult to handle, many of which aren't even directly related to nutrition or physical activity."

"Having a physically healthy body is important, you should take your nutrition and exercise seriously."

"Thanks a lot for the advice?"
I used Copilot for a few months, and I've toyed with different versions of Chat-GPT, for code.

Not impressed so far. With some effort and improvement this kind of tech can be used to fill boilerplate and glue code, and that is very nice as this is something that can help to stay in the flow by avoiding boring work.

But, the problem is that it is too unreliable even for this style of simple tasks, sometimes it works directly but it is too often plain wrong. Frustrating to use, not enough value, so I will try again later.
Those are two different groups of humans we are talking about.

Cheap labor benefits consumers - primarily older people who are using savings (workers get higher prices as well, but they also get higher wages, so they're likely to win on net). Tariffs benefit domestic industries at the expense [primarily] of the people on savings/fixed incomes.
Each of those arcs do have a meaning, they're called 'degrees' and any human being whose not being obtuse for the sake of argument would tell you that they're 'real'. The point of calling nautical miles 'real' is that you can do easy mental math with them to express a distance in terms of latitude and longitude.
We absolutely need to kill ethanol subsidies at some point soon, as its ridiculously net carbon positive. To replace corn, we'll need another crop to grow and this could be the ticket.
Hey everyone, this was my proposal. Don't take it too seriously. I tossed it off on Mastodon, it's not a PEP or anything. Python isn't going downhill because of me!
I've heard this from many people now but I cannot relate at all. Copilot has changed my entire strategy of programming (which I have been doing for 20 years)

It writes lots of code before I even think about what I was going to do in that file. Half the time it just works outright, and if not, with minor changes.

It is fantastic when I have to build functionality in languages I am not great at.

I regularly copy and paste code from my colleagues PR's and paste it into GPT-4, it explains it perfectly and gives tips on how to improve it (which I add as comments to my PR review)
> Seems like this is proof that it's not.

How so?

In order for this MITM to work, you must hand over the encryption certificates, so to block MITM, don't expose your private certs.

> I've never understood how/why encryption is the answer to man-in-the middle.

No encryption = Bob ---> Attacker (reads files) --> Alice

Encryption = Bob ---> Attacker (cannot read files) ---> Alice
Yep wasn’t hard to find several articles explaining why. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/business/dollar-general-oppos...
And, at sea level. At altitude this no longer applies either because the circumference at altitude is greater.
Which version of GPT are you using?

I've found GPT4 moderately helpful, like getting help from someone with a wide but shallow experience of lots of things.

> I can't easily fact check it

Why not? How did you find out things about basic terminology or concepts you're not familiar about before GPT? Apply the same methods, although you just have to fact check rather than coming up with what to check, so removes a small initial discovery, at least for me.
They said "play", not "make".
$1K for a palm hat? A quote from PT Barnum springs to mind.
The other churches that are near where I live have abandoned historical Christian teachings or they have basically become MAGA focused. So I’ve been attending one of these mega churches.
Yeah, {zero, one}-shot is frequently wrong, to get good results you need to ToT or GoT (Tree of thought, graph of thought) which is currently only useful in more automated codewriting systems (like I'm building with https://atomictessellator.com) and not really useful in a co-pilot scenario.
> oflag=dsync

This will reduce performance
The malware will then rely on actual ptrace behaviour as a check. You could instead use seccomp_unotif and let the target ptrace itself as much as it wants: https://man.archlinux.org/man/seccomp_unotify.2.en
Just looks to me like the people who wrote this don’t speak English as a first language? It’s not difficult to parse what they meant to say.

Most of the users who are likely to turn to LLMs to help them code, are people who aren’t very experienced programmers. Hence needing help. These same people are more likely to fall for mistakes in the generated code as they don’t have enough experience to notice the errors.

LLMs are very good at sounding confidently correct about things that are subtly wrong. You need experience in the domain to notice these issues usually.
Before the Internet, Fonts in the DTP world were two things:

1) Expensive

2) A Black Market Commodity

People would have SyQuest drives full of fonts. Carefully labeled and organised.

A bad font would bring down your Mac.

A friend with a well managed Font library was a very valuable friend indeed!
> 5. Family- If you have a family, remote work is much greater for you. Especially if you have kids, a baby or someone ill or old to take care to.

Isn't this supporting the belief of many employers than when WFH, employees work less in part because they use some time to run errands? If WFH benefits you because you have to take care of the baby that means eg if the baby cries and your partner is busy, you can check up on him during work time. And if you do this and omit it from the employer it's not a stretch that you won't work extra long to make up for it either....
Which might work in other countries with a different climate, geography, and population density but until electric tractor trailers or teleportation become a reality it’s just increasing the cost of living for everyone who already can’t afford to “invest in green solutions”.

Unfortunately our current government doesn’t realize that they’re not comparable to California.
> Was Jane Street searching for product-market fit?

In a manner of speaking, yes.
So, sorta like a human, then.
The article is paywalled, but as a Gen Z who just did a remote summer internship, I have to say that I did not find it difficult to make meaningful connections to my team.

I've found major advantages to remote internships. For one, the pay has been much better for me, as I'm able to consider a much larger variety of roles. Additionally, I've found a better team than I could have locally. I've found a high-performing team composed of individuals across the country. I've found that limiting interaction to the people near my dreary Midwest hometown would needlessly cut off potential connections with skilled developers. Finally, not having a commute has been fantastic.

There are disadvantages, however. During my summer internship, my entire life happened at a desk in my bedroom, and I did experience noticeable weight gain from lack of exercise. However, I largely attribute this to living in car-centric suburbia, and I'm not convinced driving to the office every day would have improved my health. I think that living in an urban environment with a walkable office would be the best encouragement for natural exercise.

I can see how meetings without cameras could feel alienating, but my team is pretty comfortable with webcams, and I feel like I still had a lot of face time.

In conclusion, I had a great experience with remote internships, I made strong connections, and I'll be happy to accept my return offer, working remotely.
Not terrible at all.

It's super-useful to temporarily comment out a bit of code, and then to comment out a larger block surrounding it. Especially when debugging.

Sadly I've never used a language that supported that.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of heavy industry vs. commercial vs. residential for tradespeople. Despite that I've worked extensively in manufacturing facilities for oil and gas / chemicals industries throughout the southern US, most of the electricians I know personally work in residential and commercial so I'm not sure they care where those new factories are being installed, as they won't be taking those contracts. All the ironworkers I know personally work on government contracts and commercial skyscrapers. At the same time, 100% of the union pipefitters and welders I know work in chemical plants.

I follow quite a few of the subreddits for trades (r/trades, r/electricians, etc) and I can say that GP's comment rings true there. But I work primarily in TX/Louisiana/Mississippi, and the sentiment among tradespeople here is highly variable. There's a lot keeping people where their families and friends are, and there's a great amount of distrust for any information which leads to a decision they don't want to make.

Generally in TX I've had better experiences in the Union facilities, but in Louisiana I've had better experiences in the non-union facilities. I haven't interacted with union labor at all in Mississippi.
AI for nearly everything has been very overhyped. Paintings of people have extra fingers and other strange artifacts. Using it for writing prose is hit or miss. Full self driving cars are thwarted by rogue traffic cones.

I think we'll have AI some day, but today it's just not at the level that all the hype claims it is.
If you’re going to throw out an open leading question like that, maybe you could give a good reason why you are asking it?

Lots of ethical sex positive people would be happy to be owners of a fabulously profitable site for ethical sex positive creation and views.

And most people are practical enough to know that the ethical side will take a lot of work to maintain those boundaries. Ethics require work anywhere people socialize.

I don’t see how psychopathy is somehow a necessity for a porn related business.
Yea, I had a thought early on that programmers might start poisoning the well with these LLM by uploading a lot of broken code. But I think people have been unintentionally doing so for years.
No one etched the actual password into anything for them, they bought a product[1] that includes a bunch of steel disks or tiles with letters engraved on them. You then assemble the pieces - either by sliding the tiles into the grooves of a card-like thing, or by putting the disks onto a spindle that you put into a tube (depending on the version you get).

It seems cool, but the site spends a lot of time talking about how difficult to destroy they are, which makes me wonder how much of a PITA it would be to destroy the left over tiles/disks (so no one going through your trash could figure out which letters you used).

[1]https://cryptosteel.com/
This comic reminded me to get out my swamp/evaporative cooler.

If you live in a low-humidity climate (looking at you, intermountain west) an evaporative cooler is like magic! It cools down the room noticeably with very little power.

And it adds some MUCH needed humidity into the air during the dry summer months.
The article fails to mention that although these megachurches are “nondenominational” they mostly line up with a combination of Baptist (specially baptism only for professing believers by immersion) and Presbyterian (a board of elders run the church instead of congregational style) theological and ecclesiastical slants maybe with some Pentacostal practices.
Writing tips in OP seem great for certain types of nonfiction writing. Are the most prominent works of Hemingway and Nabokov (and Carver) fiction or nonfiction? Why are we treating fiction and nonfiction writing styles as having similar goals or needing similar advice?
I had this occur with my 2004 PowerBook back in the day, it was pretty bad. At the time I had found a company that made adhesive transparent stickers that you could place on either side of the trackpad that would protect the aluminium from being eaten away by the sweat on your palms.

I bought this when I upgraded from my PB to my Core 2 Duo MBP in 2007, fearing that this newer machine would suffer the same fate as my PowerBook, but all is well and that machine didn't experience pitting.

Having said that, the pictures in the link are pretty bad, I've never seen pitting that bad before, that looks horrendous!
The alternative is doing what Newfoundland is doing. They're "buying out" whole communities. Residents get a substantial amount of money and all public services are permanently withdrawn. It's basically like living in the woods.
Perhaps this might also have something to do with the way a ln aluminium Apple laptop is always electrically charged while plugged in and not connected to a grounded socket. It's a bit annoying to me because I feel this, it causes the surface to feel rougher to me. But it could also cause chemical effects.
How is bringing back the Mammoth going to do any of that?
This is the answer. There were some alternatives that weren’t bad, but ultimately this will be the best thing.
I've done 3 remote internships in total, to be clear, and I've enjoyed all of them.
US bond yield collapsing due to deficit spending, PRC bond outperforming US treasuries. Which is huge and not reported in western media. Queue western media pretending PRC economy bad to drive treasury purchase in US. Reality, PRC growing at target 4-5% while PROACTIVELY deleveraging / unwinding bad economic sectors like real estate - PRC economy is doing fine, it has enough head room to do difficult economic rebalancing and maintain reasonable growth - it's not responding to exogenous economic calamity like GFC or SVB bank collapses. It's deliberately managing the economy. This is the difference between a household that decided to pay off loans and tightening belt while finances are fine vs one taking out more loans to plug bad household finances. The latter wants people to think the former is collapse, when fundamentals in former is better.
Jane Street started as and remains a proprietary trading firm. They added consulting services as some point as well, but that was after they proved their competence.
Seems to be already surpassing humans.
From wave phase velocity to signal phase velocity
> What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:

Create a natural flow by opening windows and doors, so at least you get a breeze. Cool lots of ice during the night and use it for cold drinks during the day. If you have any outdoor space, have a little temporary pool that is always in shadow.
I believe he meant try making your own NES emulator
It’s a question of time investment, fact checking is slower you than actually learning the material directly. So if you need to fact check every single thing you’re better off just leaning it in the first place.
The only truly helpful use-case I’ve found is in generating some well defined text in a different form. Say - here’s a JSON object , please write a MD file describing it or turn it to X language struct/object.
This is how I use it as well. I don’t trust it, but find it more useful than Google these days for zeroing in on a topic.
You can acclimatize.

I lived in Vietnam and most people there don't have A/C. Temperatures are often 33C-35C during the day and with the humidity it feels like 38C-40C.

Hell, there are construction workers in heavy clothing working outside all day in those temperatures.
You will notice that its a pre-existing CIPM standard, ratified by the ISO. This is a normal practice: it doesn't proscriptively define ahead what it should be it defines retrospectively what it should be, based on what is observed to be viable and functional.

On the whole, I think I find retrospective standardisation easier to understand but the huge risk is that it enshrines first-adopter advantage. Thats why I think we get pressure to e.g. NOT just standardize QUIC as it emerges from google, but to work it into something which reflects that experience, but is also more neutral to competitive advantage (within limits)
No mention of ESGs? Want to know why corporations participate in this idiotic charade, as well as other weirdly ubiquitous theatrics? It’s because paying lip service to this kind of stuff is a requirement for certain funds to be able to hold their stock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_c...

So corporations have a big financial incentive to do the bare minimum to satisfy ESG requirements, and carbon offsets are an unregulated sham. No surprise, the market finds a way and delivers impossibly cheap “offsets” so that such environmental stewards as Chevron, and soon Phillips Morris, can be considered to be environmentally friendly and socially benevolent enough to be included in ESG funds.
See also the last two panels of this xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/792/
Ok but everyone here is defining "community" and "social aspect" differently.

Do people here mean "community" in a very narrow sense of "attending a religious service for one hour a week standing in a huge room beside a thousand others who are essentially strangers"? Not like "group of friends and neighbors"? Or "not just a church focused on extracting tithes and acquiring new members", but "is genuinely concerned with its members' wellbeing, has programs and events, pastors/mentors know who their members are"? Or a more hands-off "members get a sense that they could call them if they ever needed help"?

> If you're a strange face in a small church, everyone is going to start a conversation to welcome you.

Umm, ok, how is that bad? I'd just chat with them, limit any excessively personal disclosures or nosiness. I think the glass is half full if they simply want to get to know you without any ulterior motive [e.g. converting your entire family], that's pretty rare.
I don't relate, I'm currently designing a lower level data structure based on some papers and its been a pretty valuable rubber duck. I've only had one real instance of it being incorrect that wasted my time, higher ranked trait bounds in Rust can only be applied over lifetimes and instead it was suggesting I try to use them for non lifetime generics as well.

That said I'm not asking ChatGPT to write code that I use directly, I'm basically asking clarifying questions about the papers and other implementations I have on hand, and that's similar to how I use it in most cases.

For code generation I rely on co-pilot, which actually has the context of my codebase.

Edit: I will say this because someone else made me think of it: I find this tech all super useful on my like 20k loc and smaller side projects which are all self contained where as when I tried co pilot at work on a fragmented big corp code base I found it comparatively lackluster.
China had a multi-deacde long run of very strong growth (7-9%) which is ending. That's big news.
I see the as problem actually just the opposite - the public sector unions are unaccountable and have already figured out how to extract overly generous benefits at the expense of the populace.
There are also differences in the handling of `SIGTRAP`. For a serious use, this can implement `breakpoint()` function.