skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's comments like these that make me wish I could stand behind the chair of the people who get these results because I feel like there's something lost in translation. I don't know if I'm taking your comment too literally but this part confuses me:

> It writes lots of code before I even think about what I was going to do in that file.

If you haven't even thought of what you want to do in the file, how are you prompting Copilot to write the code you need? Am I understanding correctly that Copilot not only generates the correct code, but it's also able to deduce what code you meant to ask for without any input from you? I don't see how this is possible except in the uncommon case where you are bringing a file to be more in line with other files in your code base that have a similar structure.

I do think Copilot can be useful, but I'm confused at how different my experience is from what others are getting out of the tool.
In other words, these businesses want forced customers, at the expense of those customers. Let's not even mention all of the extra greenhouse gas emissions and wasted time from commuting. So much for the "free" market.

When they went into business, they took a risk. It shouldn't be up to ordinary workers to save them.

I'd like to see a backlash here. If you are forced to go into the office anywhere near these businesses, don't give them your business.
Have lived in several hot places (and some cold ones).

You can acclimatise. 40C+ heat is harsh at first, but it's very survivable and you do get used to it. Worst I had was working in a furniture factory which was just a big tin shed with no A/C in a 45c+ heatwave in Australia. It was pretty brutal, I've never sweated so much in my life, but no harm done.

The cold, however, is worse. Living in cold countries with no (or bad) heating is horrible, and much more dangerous. People sleep outdoors in SE Asia with no problem. People die in their homes by the thousands every winter in Europe.
>You’re implying 100% reliability is actually attainable. If that were the case, wouldn’t that mean the halting problem would have been solved by AI? I’m not an expert but I’ve heard that’s like one of those fundamental laws of information theory that really can’t be broken.

Nah even 100% reliability isn't attainable by a human. 100% obviously doesn't imply solving the halting problem.

100% as in 100% as reliable as a human. Even surpassing a human. Sort of in the same way as a computer now beats humans at chess.

>I think applying the sociology of hipster band fans to LLMs is a mistake

Why would it be a mistake? Human psychology is similar across all spectrums. What happens in one area is likely possible in another area. If it happens among hipster bands it can happen among hipster technology fads.

>I think there’s a temptation to apply the analogy of something like the early internet or smartphone to LLMs but those are networked products. LLMs don’t really improve with the various applications built on top of them if the LLM is itself fundamentally broken or faulty to the point that it is unsafe to use in practice.

This is a valid speculation. But it's speculation. Basically your saying that LLMs are fundamentally broken and stuck at 38% forever because of fundamental and permanent flaws. The jury on that one is still out. And your point is highly, highly speculative.

We see quantitative improvements on LLMs constantly AND this is a nascent technology we don't completely understand yet. The most probably and logical conclusion is to follow the technological trendline. That trendline is pointing up.

To speculate on fundamental flaws of the LLM when people don't even fully understand what's going on with the LLM is illogical because you can't derive conclusions from something you don't understand. We can only generalize the trendline and constant improvements we've seen in AI for the past decade. Again that trendline is pointing to further break throughs in the future.

>Obviously, I, like probably everyone else on this website would love LLMs to be reliable to a high degree.

No this is not obvious to me. I disagree. I think some people are like you but other people, for example Geoffrey Hinton are in the apocalyptic camp. Personally I'm in the middle, I think it could go either way. It will definitely harm a segment of our society by taking over work, but whether the benefits of AGI outweighs the harm remains to be seen.
I have seen an article about how home heating uses significantly more energy than cooling, though heat pumps should help that some. There is also a lot of money and rhetoric going into insulation and air sealing to make home heating more efficient.

Different techniques are needed for hot climates, but I sure as heck don’t see a disproportionate attention on AC vs heating. It all falls under building energy usage, which is a substantial consumer of primary energy worldwide.
the market conditions are that we got some suckers out here
IIRC people actually tried to get rid of that. Thankfully it failed.
Sorry! Sometimes web is hard.
> US bond yield collapsing due to deficit spending

That makes no sense, yields go up with higher supply of bonds (i.e. more borrowing).

> PRC economy is doing fine, it has enough head room to do difficult economic rebalancing and maintain reasonable growth

PRC economy is seeing deflation right now which is typically a death knell for an economy.

China is still a middle-income country. It's trying to avoid the middle income trap. People expect it to grow 7-10% annually, but now it's dropping closer to the growth rates of developed countries - which if sustained, means it won't ever escape the middle income trap. Add on top the demographic challenges and it's a very serious problem for China.
> if you're only going to use a portion of a server

only if your data usage decreases over time.

There's a break even point, and that break even point is closer than you think. But by then, you're locked in. It is also the same reason why they are able to charge you more money than a self-setup storage system, since once you're locked in, the cost of switching is almost always just slightly higher than staying.
You cannot claim 3rd party tools that aren't a part of the IDE as a victory for the IDE. That's absurd. If you find editing code with Vim to be indecipherable, that suggests you don't understand it, and that your opinion is likely not well informed.

I don't blame you or anyone else for not understanding vim because it's an obtuse dinosaur of a program that fails to meet the preconceived notions of modern users. Just understand that you don't know what you're talking about. If you get vim, you'd understand that IDEs are nothing but a bundle of cheap gimmicks.
I feel like the story was implied that refrigerants are consumed in the course of operation. I think that point could have been more artfully stated.

Did you happen to notice whether HCFCs had worse greenhouse gas effects than CFCs?
But if he needed to have ads, what are the chances that analytics were added to “measure engagement”?
Part of it is definitely acclimation. I think part of it is we're all much fatter than 40 years also and fat is insulation that keeps you hotter.
Glucagon-like peptide 1 in the pathophysiology of clinical obesity
>I think the argument that the benefits of remote work outweigh the reduced fidelity of live collaboration is a strong one, but does still have this weakness.

to be frank, I don't think many people on the worker side of the argument even care about reduced company throughput. Be it because the pay is unsatisfactory, the project is uninteresting, or they are entirely numb to the company's interest and simply want to get out of the workforce ASAP.

>I am just patiently waiting for some technology or innovation breakthrough (or series of breakthroughs) that closes this collaboration gap and effectively ends this argument. I've tried dozens of remote collaboration tools, and it's basically all shit compared to sitting in physical proximity to other people. Maybe it'll never happen, but I'm hopeful (though it still may be a ways off).

in the far, far future, I can see some VR/AR environment doing this. But the level of fidelity and processing power needed to project the subtleties of body language and the fine point precision of our hands means that we won't see this for decades. I'm sure it will happen in our (Millenial/Gen Z) lifetime, but probably not while we are still working.

But for maybe 70=80% efficiency, I can see VR coming far enough in a decade to start closing the gap between current conference tools and in-person interaction. I don't know if any but VR dedicated companies like Meta (and I guess Apple now) will really invest, but it will be interesting to see.
> it's still more ethical to do it and then bring it up to warn others of it, than to just do it.

ala, i was gonna murder you, but at least you were warned!
Doesn’t sound like it would be hard to boycott the businesses who are demanding RTO so they have more footfall. If you kill their business, they won’t keep advocating for it.

Would you support a business that actively causes you harm for their own benefit? Probably shouldn’t encourage bad behavior.
The problem with real life implementations of scrum is: managers apply it in order to get poor performing teams to deliver.

This does not really work as it does not address the root cause of poor performance, which can vary greatly.

It’s never worked.
I think there was a blog post by the site owner about how it's ran (also linked in dang's comment)

https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
Only places near the equator will be parallel with the sun. Anywhere else, because the curve of the earth, there will always be an angle, and thus even at high noon on the summer solstice, there are still shadows in Alexandria. So I don’t understand your analogy. It doesn’t apply because the earth isn’t flat.
Back in university I took a course in legacy programming. We did a project in each of Fortran, COBOL and Ada. I enjoyed Ada very much. The module system made a lot of sense to me and the compiler found a lot of mistakes (compared to C). Thanks for sharing this article. It brought me back and makes me want to give Ada another go now that I have 10 years of real world experience.
>You assume that getting from “48% as good” as a human programmer (on an undoubtedly biased sample) to “100% as good” is about equally hard as getting from 0% to 48%. That seems a pretty big assumption.

I meant 38% aka 40% made a mistake on my math.

It's not a big assumption. It's the most reasonable assumption. When you drive 50% of 10 miles the next 50% takes the same amount of time. It's the default assumption.

I understand where you're coming from though. Many products made by entrepreneurs follow that model where the remaining percentage is always harder than the beginning green fielded tech that was built. But can we honestly say that this is what AGI will be like? The LLM was an unexpected jump forward by an unprecedented amount. It could be we fill the gap to 100% with another such jump.
The young teenagers who frequented internet cafes are now working and have disposable income. They no longer need to rent a gaming pc when they can buy it for themselves. Gaming also became a common lexicon when they started creating a family. Also communicating with friends online has become much easier compared to the high days of the internet cafe.
Dry bulb over 40C tempretures in dry desert parts of Australia are very very different to over 40C tempretures in pre monsoon north Queensland.

When the humidty is high your sweat has no cooling effect and your body heats up to the point of collapse.
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Si!
wanting people to RTO is a valid preference. It doesn't mean they also don't have a stronger preference to not pay employees more money. We see what wins out here.
Yes, the compression is on-device, and it's not a fixed rate, it's a peak. Efficiently-stored data like video compresses less well or not at all.
Change zoning and a bunch of other regs to promote Netherlands style building and transport, rather than the ugly arse parking lot carbonized death culture we have now, invest heavily in developing cost effective nuclear (get that regulator out of the way of change), invest in fusion and reprocessing nuclear fuel research for medium to long term, start pumping out small nuclear plants from factories that can be put on the grid at strategic places to limit transmission build out need and limit losses of one of nuclear design we have now by going mass produced, not worry so much about our co2 outout for the next 3 decades it takes us to build all this, then start capping carbon out put hard
I get "Runno crashed: ReferenceError: SharedArrayBuffer is not defined" in every component.
> I started coding professionally in the age of AI.

What does this mean?

Copilot was released in March of this year. ChatGPT 4, which the community considers to be the only version of ChatGPT to be competent enough at coding tasks, was also released in March.

My guess is that you didn't mean that statement to be a fancy way of saying "I've been coding professionally for around 6 months", but I don't know what else you mean by the "age of AI".
organ systems are interdependent, and failure or pathology can cause nonlocal effects.

cardiac hepatocirrhosis is one example.

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/151792-overview

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221317791...

in such a case isolated treatment of pathos may help but would not be a complete treatment, and would result in chasing subsequent sequelae, over a protracted therepeutic effort.
LTO drives include compression and manufactures quota both the guaranteed/native capacity/speed as well as the "compressed" capacity/speed. In they case of IBM they always use a 3:1 ratio in their specs.

Of course in reality it depends on the data you feed it so the ratio has always seemed odd to me but it is what it is.
Phoenix with air conditioning is a pleasant enough place that millions of people want to live there. Phoenix without air conditioning - well, it’s a much smaller number.
There was a link to an "explanation" of the costs, but I got a 404. Does anyone have an explanation of why anyone would value hats this much? Are they a collector's item, just rare, some kind of American Psycho style "my hat is embossed with singed ryegrass" status thing?
Unfortunately FASM is written in 32bit assembly, which means it won't run on recent macOS versions.

Not an issue for NASM, since it's written in C.
Not just tax and elder care. If you have fewer young people than old then when those young people take the place of their older colleagues in their various professions you wind up losing a lot of tacit knowledge. If there are 1.5 olds for every young then that young one needs to learn 150% of the skills and knowledge that they did before. In such cases the extra information often gets lost. This is how population collapse leads to civilizational collapse.
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Her voice is replicable to the point that your average NYT best sellers list etc. fiction reader will not be able to tell the difference. Her mind is a separate matter I think because there's stochasticisty in the brain, to some degree. I'd love to do a proper study on this, but that's my view currently. I base it on the way the other cells in the body normally behave.
I always thought the bird sounds were more of a guide for blind people, to give them a reference point for where the platform is, because I've heard them on above ground stations too.
I pay more than enough indirectly to Google (via buying products from companies that buy Google ads)
That is an interesting idea! The space of possible next characters expands polynomially, so as you say, the display might be better used with a polar grid compared to cartesian.
There isn't a hard threshold of genetic diversity you need to cross to build a successful population. It's entirely possible to succeed from bottlenecks of as few as two individuals. This has been demonstrated several times with invasive species that went on to produce tens of thousands of descendants. The feral pigs of the gulf coast and Caribbean are a good example as many of their original populations were in the double or single digits.

There's no true "minimum viable population size" as far as we know, just a continuum of increasing extinction risk as the effective population size decreases.
> That's very easy to say until it's your partner, mother/father, or child on the other side of that assertion.

The idea isn't that poor people will get life extension, it's that families of billionaires will get it. And no it won't "trickle down" life expectancy is actually decreasing in USA despite tech gains.

EDIT: downvote me if you want, you know it's true
This is incorrect.

If the app is a valid PWA, it's displayed like any other app on your device. There is no browser UI, it gets its own entry in your app switcher, etc.
You do understand that not every developer is backed by billions of dollars of venture capital, right?

That there are people who have to target multiple operating systems, and don't have 100+ people working on their team, right?

I mean...it doesn't take a genius to figure out that there's a benefit to being able to write code once and deploy to ALL users/customers without having to dedicate entire teams of developers with expertise in various platforms.

I'm an Android developer with 10+ years of experience. I take pride in my native apps that I code for the company I work for. They are far superior to any web app or "multiplatform framework solution".

But if I had to create my own personal app, there's no way in hell I'd spend years learning everything it would take to create a native iOS, Windows, Linux, MacOS version.

I'd be an absolute idiot if I didn't just choose a solution, like a web app, or framework that was able to output for more systems, etc.
AC isn’t bad but it encourages inappropriate construction techniques.

If you’re in the southeast us, traditionally buildings would have awnings, good airflow, etc. Now, cookie cutter commercial construction is a sealed box that relies on HVAC for temperature and moisture control.

Ditto in the north - until energy prices started climbing buildings like hotels were built as large footprint 1-2 story buildings to save capital costs. (Less structural costs, no elevator) Those buildings are impossible to afford heat nowadays, so you’re seeing more multi-story hotels and apartments.
> An internship is just a glorified interview process. They found a good future employee

Why are you assuming that? The OP said nothing about the intern become an employee, much less a good employee. You'd think that would be mentioned if it were the case.
A dehumidifier and an air conditioner are almost the same machine. For hot regions, it makes little sense to buy a dehumidifier and not an air conditioner.
You can always use a PC if you want upgradeable RAM.
This is not correct. The house is worth zero, but the land has value. This will generate tax revenue.
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> you can't really dismiss concerns about company culture, team cohesion with new employees, mentoring new grads, etc. as the product of evil executives trying to prop up their commercial real estate portfolio or whatever.

Many people do dismiss the concerns because their goals pre-pandemic did not reflect these values. So they see it as a wolf in sheep's clothing.
It depends where in Sydney you are - if you live near the coast it is quite livable. The outer suburbs can be absolute hell. Parts of Western Sydney etc can be quite bad in the summer. I remember hearing at one point a year or so ago Penrith was the hottest place on earth I think it hit 48C or something like that.

I grew up in Canberra (which is inland and sits in a valley) it was like living in a giant clay bowl all the heat settles in and is absolutely stagnant not much of a breeze to speak about at all. Summer there was pretty miserable (and winter as well).

I now live on the South Coast of NSW - I can get away with a ceiling fan and opening my windows, we get a regular afternoon sea breeze which cools everything down.
> Our working conditions are not perfect (know any software engineers with wrist problems, back problems, or sleep apnea?). Our benefits are not perfect (love being forced to take a mandatory vacation every year paid out of my personal vacation balance).

Are these not things you would expect to be able to negotiate on your own? Who are you working for that would rather lose you as an employee than provide you with an ergonomic keyboard?

> And, we have pretty much zero sway among the government. (Do you think that if attorneys were paid in illiquid shares that every time you received them, you'd have to send a hand-signed letter to the IRS?)

This is the most significant thing that unions actually do, but it seems weird to bring them in for the things they're "supposed to do" (negotiating with employers), when you don't really want that (they protect bad team members), because what you really want is something else.

And in that role a union doesn't really fit here, because you have interests shared with people who wouldn't be in it. Even if you have the same legislative goals as every other software developer, what sense does it make to unionize your own tiny startup or small business, or some entity which is already majority-owned by the employees?

Maybe what software developers need is not a union, but a PAC?
Glad the regulators in Vietnam don’t think like you. Otherwise, the people who couldn’t afford A/C would be homeless now and die from both the heat and homelessness.
PRC stopped releasing all sorts of data like AIS and cracked down on western compliance work to make it difficult for to enforce sanctions/export controls during cold war. Which doesn't change the fact that trade volumes are you know, bilateral data. It's easy to confirm with 3rd parties that PRC has undergone the largest pulse in globalization in human history the last 4 years. Same with PRC exports moving up value chain. Or PRC scitech moving up western science and innnovation indexes. Or rmb/yuan better performance vs other currencies inresponse to US deficit spending. Plenty of non PRC oblique indicators to suggest things are trending fine. Western news just like to focus on the few bad ones. Like retards who think 20% youth unemployment rate is end of the world when broad unemployment is 5%, i.e. people find work eventually. Or even if PRC has 50% youth unemployment (likely with this summer graduating largest tertiary cohort of 12m), with PRCs 60% tertiary rate and 5M STEM per year, that's still net 4-5x more talent being integrated into an increasingly high end economy vs west whose fundmental ability to integrate new talent is fraction of PRC even with immigration. If PRC is collapsing right now, everyone else is basically already stone dead.
CGP Grey doesn't explore what happens after death is defeated. I can't imagine how it can lead to anything but a stagnated society, with prejudices and inequalities enshrined forever.
That's not true though, people are not living in smaller and smaller apartments, they're just building taller apartment buildings.
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