skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree in the sense that, in its current state, will not replace devs entirely. But it can make the workflow much easier for many devs, to the point where you'd possibly need less of them or can get more done with the same amount.

I commented about somewhere else in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38259425

But basically I have found that it is a really powerful general purpose assistant/brainstorming pall for a lot of the things that would normally eat up a lot of time.

To expand on that, it isn't even limited to code, but also surrounding tasks. I have used it to round out documentation in various ways. Either by giving it a lot of the rough information and asking to write coherent documentation for me, or by giving me feedback.

The other way around it has helped me onboard on new projects by giving it bits and pieces of written text where I had trouble understanding what the document said.

In the same sense when dealing with management bullshit I have used it to just presenting it with what was asked, telling it my view on it and then asking it to come up with responses based around certain perspectives. Which meant I had to spend less mental bandwidth on inane stuff there as well.

And yes, a lot of it can also be achieved in a team with other people. But, those people aren't always around and also have their own things to do. The advantage of tools like ChatGPT is that they don't get tired, so I can really channel my inner toddler and just keeping asking "why" until I am satisfied with the answer.
Even if there are other people available to turn to for help, ChatGPT can also help in refining the questions you want to ask.
It is especially sad that VC money is currently being spent on developing AI to eliminate good jobs rather than on developing robots to eliminate bad jobs.
Many designers despise AI generated images, because they love the process itself. I knew one who missed the slow loading of massive design documents, because he would use that time to get inspired by stuff.

There were probably a lot of loom weavers that felt the same about their tools. But the times, they are a-changing.
Organisations take EU's dangerous terrorist content regulation to court
It's convenient to raise prices whenever you are presented with an excuse.

Opportunistic price increase.
It's FB pages reposting the content
If an LLM gets good enough to come for our jobs it is likely to replace all the people who hire us, all the way up to the people who work at the VC funds that think any of our work had value in the first place (remember: the VC fund managers are yet more employees that work for capital, and are just as subject to being replaced as any low-level worker).
Instagram doesn’t have an algorithmic feed that introduce you to content - not that I know of.

You pretty much only see instagram content when you visit a specific person’s page and that’s all you will ever see.
But not make toast. That's a general task that very nearly any human (intelligent or otherwise) can do.

If we define "general" as tasks with text input and output we are severely restricting the domain.
The landings failed repeatedly before they perfected that process.
> But you didn't write it down, so how did the system get made?

We didn't write it down, but we did use natural language to specify it, albeit somewhat indirectly. Some of the specification came from meetings with leadership, PMs, other people in the org, customers, etc. Some of it came from getting drinks with the team and talking about what we wanted to build. Some of it came from conversations with ex-colleagues. Some was inspired by past experience. It was be extremely onerous to put all of that down as input to an LLM.
how will the other person ever find it
The US is #10 in the world in PPP-adjusted social spending per capita, at $9734. The Czech republic is #25, at $5799: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...

Edit: To compare further: By median PPP-adjusted income, the US is #2, at $46k, while the Czech Republic is #26, at $21k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

By homicide rate, the US is #53, at 6.8, while the Czech Republic is #184, at 0.4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Let this be a lesson on the importance of economy for a people's well-being.
I’m not the op—they explicitly stated programming is not a skill like reading or writing—but I’ll go down this rhetorical path for fun and say: sure, why not?

The utopian aim of technology is all about offloading burdensome work so we can focus more on the things we enjoy. If reading is a burden to someone, why not let them use a TTS? If long division is a burden, why not let them use a pocket calculator? They’ll probably learn enough to get by even if they never get to the point of reading Dostoevsky by sight.

Lest you say, “well but those skills are essential!”, humans needed food to survive before we needed mathematics or written language, yet we’ve been been OK outsourcing farming for at least a century because we’ve experienced how it frees us up to pursue other things. And, to that end, we’ll probably be facing some pretty extreme civilizational crisis if we get to the point that someone without basic maths skills can’t find a calculator.
To be fair, most cars salespeople don't know much about cars in general, including the ones they're selling. I've learned to take anything they say with a grain of salt.
Antiquated business model doesn’t want to get dragged kicking and screaming into the future? No surprise there. Seems like based on the article the salesmen don’t actually want to do any education or aid, and just want to make the sale. If that’s how they want to handle it, why do I need salespeople instead of just… an order kiosk or something?
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I am a founder on 2 startups and hired 2 tech developers for them. I have a huge tech background and able to manage those developers by giving tasks and checking their solutions.
But I'm not good at communication. I only give tasks and check their solutions, but can't give any motivation to developers. I am sure this is really bad for employers. Because personally I would also get bored by doing same tasks everyday. So what do you recommend to motivate developers and keeping their energy.
I remember getting robbed in SF on my 2nd time visiting and we waited for 4hrs for the police to show up and the bar owner being mad we called them, before we gave up. Never got a call back from the police either.
This is a badass article.
One line of code caused a $60M loss at AT&T
Just to be clear, on Arch ffmpeg is outdated (6.0 vs 6.1.) This means it has three security vulnerabilities.
Just curious: Have you ever visited a castle or a gothic cathedral or the pyramids or a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
That is a problematic request for multiple obvious reasons, and for those same reasons, ChatGPT resisted providing an implementation that didn't require indexing the file. By telling it "no indexing is allowed, provide a best effort solution" it relented and provided a best effort solution.

Here is the provided solution and some discussion of the problems with the problem itself: https://chat.openai.com/share/54807663-17ca-4e7d-bc76-cd3cf3...
The scoreboard of successful tons in orbit per year says the chaos monkey is doing just fine.
It’s been described as an entire country that Gucci belts.
How is launching a rocket with the hopes that we can go to Mars not exploration?

If he doesn't do it who is going to do that?

Surely NASA has has fifty years to do something like this (excepting the ISS which is).

> "billionaire’s mega yacht"

Billionaire hatred is a real thing. He will not be riding on this thing and likely never will be, so I'm not sure this is a great analogy.
The police are interested in doing their jobs. They are not allowed to by a local government that will harangue them for trying, and district attorneys that won't prosecute or push for meaningful jail time.
The fight to save old video games
The universe really doesn't cater to the howls of "but I just want to!"
Tell me, comrade, have we achieved it ? Is this full Communism yet?
I am not sure that GPT-4 is not better in a fundamental way than GPT-3.5. To me they seem like night and day. If GPT-5 is a similar jump, it will be impossible to compete without using it (or using a related / similar model). Yes they are both GPT models and trained as simple autoregressive LM, but there is a dramatic change you can experience at a personal level once GPT-4 can synthesize information correctly to address your specific requests in so many different contexts that GPT-3.5 was simply parroting like a toddler. All of LLM is just probabilistic inference on large bodies of text, however I do buy the idea that with enough compute and data a sufficiently large model will build the architecture it optimally needs to understand the data in the best possible way during training. And once the data becomes multimodal, the benefit to these probabilistic models can theoretically be multiplicative not just additive as each new modality will clarify and eliminate any previously wrong representations of the world. Yes, we will all laugh at how good GPT-10 trained with text, image, video, audio, and taste sensors will be, and yet GPT-4 was a major step forward, much bigger than any step taken by humanity so far.
I wonder how much US healthcare prices skew that figure.
> Say goodbye to all the time spent mentoring junior engineers, soon you won't have any

Yeah... no. Not with LLMs as they currently are. They are great as an assisted tool, but still need people to validate their output and then put that output to work. Which means you need people who can understand that output, which are developers. Which also means that you need to keep training developers in order to be able to validate that output.

The more nuanced approach would be saying that the work of developers will change. Which I agree with, but is also has been true over the past few decades. Developers these days are already working with a hugely different tool chain compared to developers a decade ago. It is an always evolving landscape and I don't think we are at a point yet where developers will be outright replaced.

We might get there at some point, but not with current LLMs.
I did mean the T480s, singular. The increased portability is valuable in my opinion, but I'll grant that it's a tradeoff. Replacing the built in battery is a 3 minute job if you know how to work a screwdriver. (Literally just a Phillips.) Unless the battery is completely shot I'd argue that you should perhaps leave the OEM one, unless you know how to identify a genuine replacement.
Would you rather work for Google developing cutting edge AI models, or for OpenAI?
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Stop posting straitstimes they're all syndicated/lifted news stories!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38256608
The police is mostly controlled by the city.

It's not very clear who controls the city.
yes, the article says that often times the hospitals just outright violate that law.
Oh no, so many houseplant entusiasts are about to get electrocuted
Spending is a very bad metric. You can spend all your money with nothing to show for it.
To me best part of AI is I can ask it a question and then a follow-up question, about how some code- or API construct works. THEN I can ask it a follow-up question. That was not possible before with Google.

I can ask exactly what I want in English, not by entering a search-term. A search-term is not a question, but a COMMAND: "Find me web-pages containing this search-term".

By asking exactly the question I'm looking the answer to I get real answers, and if I don't understand the answer, I can ask a follow-up question. Life is great and there's still an infinite amount of code to be written.
I would seriously expect anyone above mid level to not even consider the brute force solution.
I mean, it's potentially dangerous to most people on earth. That's why there's a range safety officer, and a flight termination system (explosives, rigged up to unzip the tanks) on board.

The last launch got them in trouble, because they rocket took too long to explode after the termination system was triggered.
That's what happens when police and their unions are politicized. They just go around blaming liberals instead.

Also, bit funny how the mayor of SF is London.
They do. 99% of what you think as human intelligence is social, and has been obtained by previous generations and passed to the person. In a sense, we are hugely overfitted on distilled knowledge, actual biological capabilities are much less impressive.
I think you may be misinterpreting it. Was there an option to log into another account after you clicked “Sign out and Remember”?

Being able to switch between two accounts seems useful in the context of:

1. A recruiter signing out in order to sign into the profile of their CEO/Eng Director to send recruiting messages on their behalf.

2. A marketing person signing out in order to sign in to the company account.
This simply isn't true. Looking at the IMF numbers in 2023, the US is number 7. Every country ahead of the US has something that is massively distorting their GDP per capita. Tax havens, nationalized oil, etc.
You Shouldn't Make Friends at Work
I think you're thinking of upgrading the 486sx which didn't have the on die coprocessor. That did disable the old chip as you basically replaced it with a 486dx
To me it’s the opposite, one mans dream to initiate and achieve space travel is much more romantic than a government space programs which is more about nation building.
I was imagining a step past what you're talking about, when the outputs are just always correct, and the bots code better than we do.
The old guard resisting the new wave. Is it not always this way? Especially for those who neither create the product, nor consume it, but profess to act as the middle-man, acting for the customer, reducing complexity but in truth getting revenue from the same customer, and ultimately working against, not for, their interest.

Car dealers being slimy is something of a cliche, but that cliche is well earned.

Of course change is scary for incumbents. Change leads to a disruption of the status quo, and opens the door to new players. Some will no doubt resist, others will embrace, invest, and grow.

I'm sure it's easy to find dinosaur dealers. I suspect there are also progressives working to take their place.
The plan has always been to build the robots together with the better AI. Robots ended up being much harder than early technologists imagined for a myriad different reasons. It turned out that AI is easier or at least that is the hope.
> Some of this is straight taken form Douyin (by content creators in those country who want to earn money on tiktok).

Having helped a Chinese friend taking down a couple of impersonating/infringing TikTok accounts, I believe the overwhelming majority of the content taken straight from Douyin is unauthorized, by people who think the original creators won’t notice and/or won’t do anything about it. It’s not like you can easily earn a meaningful amount from TikTok’s Creator Fund, so better focus on streaming or getting sponsorship deals for the Douyin market which is a lot larger and culturally aligned.
Cash transactions are also reversible if there is evidence they happened and a desire to take it to court.
> look like a huge dork with a dildo glued to your head.

What do you mean? I do get stares at the grocery store or on the street occasionally but no one ever mentioned anything.
This kid is alright. He’s going to do great. Keep doing what you’re doing kid.
My take is that the US is just very violent compared to the other rich countries.

It's by some margin, the richest of the "regular" rich countries.
I think the reason we've landed on the current LLM architecture (one kind of token) is actually the same reason we landed on the von Neumann architecture: it's really convenient and powerful if you can intermingle instructions and data. (Of course, this means the vN architecture has exactly the same vulnerabilities as LLM‘s!)

One issue is it's very hard to draw the distinction between instructions and data. Are a neural net’s weights instructions? (They're definitely data.) They are not literally executed by the CPU, but in a NN of sufficient complexity (say, in a self driving car, which both perceives and acts), they do control the NN’s actions. An analogous and far more thorny question would be whether our brain state is instruction or data. At any moment in time our brain state (the locations of neurons, nutrients, molecules, whatever) is entirely data, yet that data is realized, through the laws of physics/chemistry, as instructions that guide our bodies’ operation. Those laws are too granular to be instructions per se (they're equivalent to wiring in a CPU). So the data is the instruction.

I think LLMs are in a similar situation. The data in their weights, when it passes through some matrix multiplications, is instructions on what to emit. And there's the rub. The only way to have an LLM where data and instruction never meet, in my view, is one that doesn't update in response to prompts (and therefore can't carry on a multi prompt conversation). As long as your prompt can make even somewhat persistent changes to the model’s state — its data — it can also change the instructions.
Insta reels and YouTube shorts are clone of Tiktok with similar feed/algo and content.
I think most FAA things are like that. They need to be pretty terse/simple to be read on pretty old systems.
Yep, specifically serdes technology allows multi-gigahertz serial signaling instead of megahertz parallel signaling that was used in older standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerDes
It doesn't support straight lines (1D lines), like a single stroke right. According to the PDF you need to implement your own bounding box analysis for this.

I was reading about it this week because I needed a gesture recognition library but haven't found anything else.

BetterTouchTool uses this library.
That makes no difference, you don't factor in management pay above a certain amount at all. I don't believe in the whole "ceo gets paid X, that's bad" thing, it's never bad for someone else to get paid whatever they can get paid.
Code generating LLMs are simply a form of higher-level language. The commercial practice of software development (C++, Java, etc) is very far from the frontier of higher-level languages (Haskell, Lisp, etc).

Perhaps "prompt engineering" will be the higher-level language that sticks, or perhaps it will fail to find purchase in industry for the same reasons.
These junior engineers still will need to validate that whatever the LLM implemented works and fits the requirements. If it doesn't work they need to figure out why it doesn't work.

It might not be in the same way of current day developers, but I don't foresee a near future where developers don't learn to understand code to some degree.

For example, I know a lot of people who work in the low-code development sphere of things. A lot of the developers there barely see any code if any. Yet, when you talk with them they talk about a lot of the same issues and problem-solving but in slightly different terms and from a slightly different perspective. But, the similarities are very much there as the problems are fundamentally the same.

With generated code I feel like this will also be similarly true.
chatbot which checks wikipedia and arxiv to answer your questions.
Salespeople in general tend to not know much about what they're selling. Which is good in a way -- the idyllic psyco-product the salesperson is hawking will almost certainly be perceived as more valuable than the real thing. And any discrepancies can be handled by Engineering later on, after their commission check clears.
You mean the two programs that simply re-used pre-existing well-tested launch vehicles and had zero LOV incidents in the crewed missions?
It sounds like you need to discover something bigger than yourself.
sure, but perhaps they share our viewpoint.

also i think "torture" is a real stretch. torture is a state we can have triggered by various methods; we can just remove that state as a possibility for digital intelligence (probably?).
> Nix still hasn't completed the Flakes transition, and it's not immediately clear at first glance what's declarative and what's not.

Everything should be declarative, just not pinned (plus the other nice features that flakes provides).
AI might help programmers become more rigorous by lowering the cost of formal methods. Imagine an advanced language where simply writing a function contract, in some kind of Hoare logic or using a dependently-typed signature, yields provably correct code. These kinds of ideas are already worked on, and I believe are the future.
Kroger and Walgreens have a new way to fight theft by tracking thieves
https://archive.is/1zCO7
- "The camera equipment was valued at US$18,000 (S$24,500) and San Francisco Mayor London Breed has promised the city will help replace it, according to the newspaper."

Through what legal mechanism is this a thing a SF mayor can legitimately do? To make a discretionary gift of city money to a favored crime victim?
Turns out he and his companies are still doing interesting things.
That makes me think of residential HVAC companies and Heat Pumps: Folks like Technology Connections report that residential HVAC companies either don't want to sell heat-pump systems, or include a large markup, or include things that aren't needed (like an emergency gas furnace, or an overkill amount of electrical resistive emergency heating).
I'd be surprised if they haven't tested at least one engine in vacuum. You can build a test apparatus for that. Only learned how when I saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrLyzpTV7GU
Only if the other people that the LLM did replace cannot cross train into your space. Price is set at the margins. People imagine it’ll be AI taking the jobs but mostly it’ll be people competing with other people for the space that’s left after AI has taken its slice.
While Chinese methods may seem draconian. I think they are only what will work. A mandatef OS+app level limit on time spent on social media, particularly for children. Parents are unable to regulate it and self-regulation of addictions is impractical.
> That is a problematic request for multiple obvious reasons

I'd prefer to think it's more like a real engineering problem, and less like a simple interview question :-)

And it definitely shows the limits of GPT here: it pointed out that the ends of the file might be tricky, but ignored the very conceptually simple solution of considering the file as circular (if you go past either end you simply wrap around).

And it misses the real problem with its implementation: the probability of sampling each line is now directly proportional to the length of the line before it (because it seeks into that line first and then skips it!)

So the word after "begins" is twice as likely to come up as the word after "and".

PS in the case of dictionary words with a length limit of say 30 letters, there is still an O(k) general solution using rejection sampling.
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That's nothing. Knight Capital lost $440 Million in a single day because of code that should have been deleted but wasn't.
GPT-4, copilot, etc are absolutely worthless for firmware. Copilot shows no meaningful capacity for understanding the context of a firmware codebase, and forget generating anything coherent based on your instructions. I don't need help writing function declarations, but that's the only thing it's useful for (and even that is heavily limited).
I parsed as though there was a semicolon after goodwill - (disrupting …) and (flow of indecent materials) rather than disrupting flow of indecent materials
Most of these people are the best in the world at what they do. Like literally, the best out of tens of thousands of other smart people doing the same thing. If you think that you will become the worlds foremost expert in something if you "go back to school for a bit", then I don't know, maybe you should just go for it.
"Wanting to get paid for your work" is a reason.