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"Technical documentation is probably one of the worst usecases for GenAI, I'm not sure why so many companies are rushing to add it."

I am one of those people who think that it would help people summarize it, get better compliance with specs, etc.

However, I am limited in my knowledge when it comes to GenAI.

Why do you think it is one of the worst use cases?
I've been in a family with large dogs, my wife grew up with large dogs, and we put our large dog down this year after many wonderful years. (What constitutes large? IDK but ours was 70lbs).

I'd probably never get a big dog again unless I have a job for them to do.

She was an Australian shepherd / Great Pyrenees mix. A working dog, and for the first half of her life boy did we have to work her to get her happy. A mile a day is not enough for a big dog. Big dogs need regular activity, preferably throughout the day.

Failure to exercise a large dog properly leads to bad behavior, which is hard to correct because they _really want something to do_. So many people, not providing enough training nor enough job for their dog resort to using harnesses and other restraints when in public, and then when they have company over the dogs are reactive until they are put in the place where they can be out of the way.

Now, obviously this is anecdotal experience mixed with real world knowledge acquired through a dog trainer we have a long relationship with. But after all of this, I strongly feel most people with large dogs, especially in suburbs and cities, are doing those animals a disservice. Is your dog home alone for 8 hours a day? Woof…

Extending the life of an animal that is not performing the job it was literally bred to do is denying its nature. I'm not saying this to be convinced otherwise or that I'm 100% right, but now that I'm outside of the sphere of dog ownership I feel like I want to reflect in context of this otherwise incredible breakthrough.

Of course, keeping a dog alive longer with muscles and joints that have not been used properly throughout its life probably makes for a lucrative longterm pet care market opportunity…
We’ve had Lisp for 60 years, but instead of using that, we’re going to have LLMs write the boilerplate for us.

You will still have to read the boilerplate of course.
But it only works if you have already written all of the documentation manually, and kept that up to date. It's basically a chat bot that knows all of your documentation.
>>> Why? It seems like a novelty and crumple zones were added to cars for a reason - a feature stainless steel likely cannot replicate.

I think it's unlikely that a company that has launched 3 wildly successful, completely new cars already has gone this far with the cybertruck and hasn't thought of crumple zones.
Might be amazon sometimes called "*".
Piracy is immoral as it necessitates misrepresenting intention to abide by the implicit agreement that you enter into when you purchase a copy of a work. Piracy is immoral because it requires deception.

Additionally, it undermines capitalistic incentives to create intellectual works, but that's what drives creators of work to stipulate conditions when they sell copies of their work. But it's the deception, not the undermined capitalistic incentives, that make piracy immoral.

And thank you for your compliment! I'm fascinated by the idea that so many people fight so hard to find ways for piracy to be a moral act when, to me, it's infinitely easier to accept it as an immoral act and do it anyway. Do people really operate in life expecting to always do the morally correct thing? That's wild, to me.
While the cause of the initial depression may be something else, shutting off the TV may be the most viable cure for a long time depression where TV is the default activity. With enough entertainment there's not enough motivation to do less entertaining things that are ultimately less depressing because they are challenging.
sure it is. running vector search over a permissioned subset of all available data seems pretty safe. i don't see how that would translate into direct code execution
XFS was for media and big files. If you were on A/V production with huge recordings, XFS was the right choice over a network.
Trademarks already have trouble on the Internet. Who gets dove.com, the chocolate company or the soap company? If I create a new Dove birdseed company and I register dove.biz will I get to keep it?
That's the beauty of it.
I tried also dosbox on a phone. The keyboard was obscuring half the screen.
For me, it was enough.

P.S. There are some BASIC ports for Android. Tiny fonts, barely readdable. Saving files in Android is like memory addressing on x86: interesting. /s
Thinks? Everything is considerably more expensive than it was a few years ago. Of course it sucks.
You know it will happen. Some people only know how to cheat. Others will do it just to be jerks and push people who legitimately solve the puzzles down further on the list.
USB is like the most well known physical threat. Look up OMG Cables.
It's not just aliasing. gcc is quite bad at autovectorising in general, clang is much better.

Here's a trivial algorithm that gcc borks over because 'bool' is used instead of 'int', even fixing that the codegen isn't great:

https://godbolt.org/z/hf7szo78E
> Yes! Sweden has laws around labour disputes

But these things haven't been pitted against each other in court. The state has to provide these services according to law, but workers can strike according to law. So what happens when these two things oppose each other? That is what these lawsuits are supposed to figure out.

So it makes perfect sense to sue in this case. Clearing these things up is a really good thing.
So how exactly do you want dogs to continue? Just wild dogs mating? Would that not just over time result in losing the traits that make dogs desirable companions.
Matching and navigation were the biggest issues. I also had problems on every client where I had to change settings per client whereas Plex “just works” on every device (phones, tablets, tv, shield, and many others)

JF is a great free solution and I’m not trashing it let’s just not pretend it is as good or better than Plex. It’s just not.
I’m not 100% sure what problem we’re trying to solve. If it is having authentic discussions with real humans… I don’t think there’s any alternative to just meeting with them in real life. Maybe we can exchange hand-written letters.

If the goal is to use the internet to produce interesting discussions and arguments, IMO it would be neat to try embracing the fact that bots are going to exist and get in the dataset. If bots produce outputs, and we pick the “good” output, that output can be smarter than the model, and go back to train the model, right?
Code is a tool used in companies to satisfy a business requirement. It has always been like this.
One thing I love about block_on is that it has a dedicated threadpool with a ton of threads. For async code, you want around as many threads as cores so the thread can run at full speed and have the scheduler handle switching, but for block_on, most of the time is sleeping, so the core can just switch between them all and take care of any that are done sleeping. Just don't use it for CPU intensive tasks.
The "wow, finally some good technology" to "wait no, it's the Torment Nexus again" pipeline.
does quinn want companies to run large, expensive servers to do inference with no compensation? half the reason you're using services is because the hardware to do it locally isn't cheap. idk why he's kvetching about this when you also have to pay to host a web site, run a compute workload, whatever. but "muh bigcorp bad" ig
Shutting off the TV is likely a cure to all kinds of mental conditions
I wish I could tape this to the forehead of everyone who says nuclear is too expensive and not competitive
My first programming job, 1984, I had a two-floppy PC clone. The source code was in drive B. I put the editor floppy in drive A, wrote code, then put the compiler floppy in drive A, compiled code, if no errors then I put the linker floppy in drive A to link into an executable.
That's an interesting prior. Can you expand on it?

If it's because of managing latex's complexity indicating some kind of ability, I can guarantee you that most people just copy paste and tweak stuff till it works.
But then what about tests?

https://github.com/4dsolutions/python_camp/pull/4/files :

class TestCalculatorREPL(unittest.TestCase):

from unittest.mock import patch

@patch("sys.stdin", StringIO("1"))
@patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=StringIO)
def test__():
pass
and then all of the people that don't cheat will get tired of the contests always being won by cheats and just stop. if these are paying users that stop paying, then you have to decide if the cost to slowing down the cheating costs more than the money from the users.

we'll just go back to old school raffle ticket contests.
You know, I was wrong on this. I had forgotten how many games were available around that time. Plenty of competition was available in that space around when Half-Life was released.
1. The feed looks fun and well done. I’m going to add one and see if I like it.

2. Feed validation gives a recommendation.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww...

Also, it gave some sort of redirect error for several minutes after feed creation. It disappeared on refresh, so I can’t give details.

3. Would be nice to have a (probably not ai, sorry) filter for only front page articles, or only articles over a certain number of votes or comments.

4. Your blog has no rss feed.

5. There is no `<link rel="alternate" ...` for the rss feed in the preview page.

Anyway, I like it. The scraper day-job looks neat, too.
No I should have said string
Uh? The person's brain was already dead. There's no coming back from that state.

It's not murder.
The actual act of coding has always been such a small part of the job anyway.
Yes, I also became somewhat obsessed with ScriptBots when it first came out. I remember re-compiling it from source using the Intel C++ compiler and getting a pretty massive speedup on my machine. It was the first time I really dug into a fairly complex program. Even now I think it's probably too heavy to work well in JS.
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Purchase price isn't public, but founders/owners did well.

They already started up a competitor.
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It's infuriating. Some literally have a single sentence between. And some are actually misquoted!

Who is this possibly for?
This seems like a neat idea. But it looks like it also adds an extra pivot point and length. Are most commercial drivers trained to handle these and would they normally have the proper endorsements for such trailers?
They should just add a config option that says, "i use ai" which filters you off of leaderboards so you can still compete on your own personal boards without worrying about the global one
I wonder if it would be OK to use Copilot. I use it all the time, and I think it's just a vastly superior autocomplete that should always be allowed.
No bones?!?
In our recent hiring, we had a code component that was: "Here is the output from chatgpt for writing some code, let's go take a look at the code and identify the problems with what it generated."
AoC has always been easy to cheat at. After the first 100 correct answers have been submitted, the solutions thread on the subreddit is opened and anyone can copy and paste a solution.
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You can check the "excess death" stats to get a good idea. Unsurprisingly, they are pretty similar to the covid death stats.
That is not kernel panic, just an app crash that was caught and handled by OS.
Electric car prices will plummet soon hopefully, and especially as iron based chemistries for batteries become more common
I think your proposal makes it worse.

If they're voting on 5000 page monstrosities drafted by lobbyists, or blanks pieces of paper... the solution can never be to make it easier to vote on those things. Because we want them to stop doing that, not do it even more.
I understand the desire to restrict your consumption to human generated content. But I don't understand what is meant by "human verified".
Indeed. The point of FORTRAN was that you just typed your FORmulas in and the compiler TRANslated them to machine code. It was a simple alternative to programming!

So I guess there have been no programmers since the 1950s.
I dont think it is really that clear. Tesla has willing workers. IF Metall's position is that Tesla has to work with and through them.
oh interesting, thanks! I'll look into this
If this was known prior to you taking the job, I can hardly see anything to be mad about...I think this is what compromise might look like for some organizations. What you are looking for is "remote only" not "remote first".
Celebration is unnecessary.
I will get out. Application development using C++ and Python. Maybe C#.
sorry, can't edit this: but that's my (quite bad) insurance. not all insurance :)
Maybe change the leaderboard to be "most elegant" solution, instead of just "fastest solution". You can use GPT as a judge.
You ever play an arcade game called Wack-A-Mole?

If so, this should seem familiar.

I have the same level of compassion as the media companies that have made a business model out of shitting on the talent, the writers, the authors, the customers, etc.
>It is however completely necessary to do this.

No its not. How about we first just get rid of the coal power plants and replace them with nuclear/renewables? Then we can just have electric cars. Why is it that climate activists so often ignore the biggest polluters, while putting most of their energy into making the common man make sacrifices? "Get rid of cars, eat bugs, etc." Its almost as if its controlled opposition from the fossil fuel industry itself.
Dang, this is getting so good! Still got a ways to go, with the weird edges, but at this point, that feels like 'iteration details' rather than an algorithmic or otherwise complex problem.

It's really going to speed up my pipeline to not have to pipe all of my meshes into a procgen library with a million little mesh modifiers hooked up to drivers. Instead, I can just pop all of my meshes into a folder, train the network on them, and then start asking it for other stuff in that style, knowing that I won't have to re-topo or otherwise screw with the stuff it makes, unless I'm looking for more creative influence.

Of course, until it's all the way to that point, I'm still better served by the procgen; but I'm very excited by how quickly this is coming together! Hopefully by next year's Unreal showcase, they'll be talking about their new "Asset Generator" feature.
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According to the DEA in 2020, domestically-produced raw product gets shipped to Mexico to be turned into pills, and then sent back to the US. That pretty much always uses the southern border, while Chinese imports came in via the Pacific and the Southern border:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...

Presumably, if it was effective, that would mean their crackdown either moved pill packaging jobs from Mexico to the US or it off-shored production to China.
Their comparison against PolyGen looks like it's a big improvement. What are the limitations that this has in common with PolyGen that make it still not useful?
color me surprised.
Isn't the easy solution to get rid of the leaderboard? Ungamify it.
Is there any product that you can just plug a monitor and keyboard into and have a dumb terminal? Something much more dedicated and less than a RaspberryPi which is overkill for something so simple.
> https://dalle.party/?party=1lSMniUP

It's very interesting to observe how the relationship between the wolf and Redhood evolved from dark and menacing to serene and friendly.
> Why not propel a platform you don't have to fight against?

That does not exist and fundamentally can't exist. A platform is by definition a thing I have no control over. Somebody else runs the thing and they can do with it as they please. And even if a platform is nice to use today, it sooner or later will get enshittified.

The only actual solution is to move as much data to the client and let them decide how to handle it. Especially when it comes to metadata, that shouldn't be that difficult. There is no reason why something like channel subscription can't be handled locally.
Agree. Just create a leaderboard division that includes AI. Don't fight it. Embrace it
Obviously, it'd be up front. And also, it'd be expected that you were in the same geographic region as the rest of your team. Hell, even the same time zone.

Springing that on unsuspecting people is slimy, anyways.
Similar experience here. But writing down the problem and extracting relevant parts still helps me to think about it even when GPT-4 doesn’t come up with a good answer.
My impression is that the web died in the 2010s and now it is fashionable to notice now that A.I. seems to be a thing. (e.g. Google was skimming off the all the money in the web ecosystem for a long time for instance and now all of a sudden people are mad that A.I. is going to write bullshit articles that thoroughly scramble everything they've written) I would point to this guy's blog

http://www.seobook.com/blog

where he was at about the same level of despair you are at 10 years ago. Recent posts reveal a lot of information about ranking factors in modern search engines, just how bad the problem is from a technical perspective (like link age being useful but pernicious in its own way) and a social perspective (if Google's results were good, why would you ever click on an ad?)

To harp on link age there is a tough balance between two factors:

1) Content that has stood the test of time is likely to be good, and

2) Content that is fresh is likely to be up to date

If we really privilege old sites decisively then we entrench a set of old sites whose owners don't have a reason to keep them up to date. Even if this policy is good in the long term, it would be disaster in the long term because it means there is no reason to start new sites, old sites don't have competition, and the web gets worse.
Thanks for your comment, it's interesting to hear what you guys have tried out.

Absolutely, long-lived credentials are worse. The only advantage to long-lived/file-sourced creds right now is granularity. Being able to lock them down to specific processes/UIDs and have a role per service. I guess what we want is the best of both worlds - short-lived per-service creds.

It appears to be a difficult problem to solve. I was wondering if something could be done with kernel modules.

Are you still working on this? Would really like to hear about future developments.
To be fair, seeing the big "DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION" every time you view the docs doesn't inspire confidence, lol
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I agree, and my least favorite - so it's weird that the majority of interviews for DevOps/SRE positions typically involve a large amount of programming tests.
Yes, it makes no sense to have a speed based leaderboard on adventofcode because the tasks are so easy anyway.

Of course, in the future presumably AI will be able to solve even hard top-coder contests.
I'm confused; are you saying that

(1) since there are some moral justifications to break a contract,

(c) therefore all justifications for breaking contracts are moral

I don't think you believe that, and I don't think you believe I believe that, either.
another good point -- what's the cybertruck gonna look like in 10 years?

patina as a sign of virtue and long ownership?
That doesn't stop people from using AI to get on the "non-AI" division of leaderboard.
I dont think what you are describing is a large dog. I believe this is more geared towards great danes and the like which are more around 150ish or more pounds. Those dogs require much less exercise and are actually great apartment
dogs.
Its rare to find a company like IKEA that are only releasing home automation where you DONT have to worry about being spied on.
But games are fun when people play by the rules
Another week, another article lauding how simple Golang is, and everyone nodding in agreement.
> Hospitals had additional bonuses for writing COVID into reason of death

This is an absurd conspiracy theory that has been proven untrue time and time again.

I find your propagation of such debunked nonsense offensive.