skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i personally dont use Copilot so im fairly unbiased here and will admit to some of the negative points you raised:

yes you can absolutely sink time and lose efficiency

i encounter it many times, i have it generate large amount of code that seemingly does what i asked it to do

but then it takes many revisions to finally arrive at edge-case-free state

I also end up having to read through the code generated to build a mental model of what the app is doing and to gate keep future revisions.

But what makes all this worthwhile is that it saves my employer a lot of money.

For example: We've generated a large enterprise react application for roughly $100 USD within a month using all the available code gen tools out there. I'm talking the entire stack: backend, frontend, documentation.

Trying to pull that off with a real team? it would cost 1000x minimum and roughly 3 quarters, maybe the entire year.

A business won't care about the "art" side of things. They just see they can generate software at almost 99% discount.

I'm very worried about our software engineering jobs beyond 2024. It's going to massively shrink and wages are going to reflect this new cost saving that code gen provides.
They provide benchmarks, before them was Radford. They’re just taking a tech-first approach of an age old product.
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Graphing calculators, with applications that you can black box pattern match and plug into, might be argued to have done so, since you don't need to understand the machinery, just pattern match on the problem type.
No, that's not how it works. The ride share drivers wait in a parking lot near the airport. Then when you hail one using the app they come pick you up in a designated zone. The app notifies you when your car arrives and you can check the license plate. It works fine most of the time, there's very little chaos. Have you ever even been to a US airport?
Ahh, the reddit thread is referring to edge TPU devices, will check it out.

Google also has Cloud TPUs, which are their server-side accelerators, and this is what we are initially trying to build for!
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AIUI the verbosity is by design to make scripts more clear, and users are expected to use aliases to make cmdlets easier to work with interactively. But I assume that few of those aliases are actually standardized...
Might you know whether Red Lobster's now-prior management had MBA's?
Because hospitals and clinics don't care or record the treatment they provide?
It's pretty simple to check yourself to be fair.
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> Well I know you can set any rate to your meter.

Do you mean meter manipulation? I think that's pretty hard at least in the places I've taken taxis in. What's much more common for taxis (and much harder to prove) is taking a circuitous/slower route on purpose.

>But what I need: easy way to order a car, know exactly how much I am going to pay

Same for me, and Uber has been hit and miss on both lately.

I've both had drivers cancel on me (or even ask me to cancel so they don't take the Whuffie hit) because they don't want to go to some place, and drivers taking detours for which Uber would later charge me (as "unexpected extra time").
> "let's go up this single track road with a 20% gradient to save 2 minutes"

Not sure this is a good example : elevation data should be good enough to avoid this kind of roads. See e.g. https://sonny.4lima.de for Europe.

For your general thought, see here : https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-101-how-we-map...

> It all starts with imagery

> Street View and satellite imagery have long been an important part of how we’re able to identify where places are in the world—it shows us where roadways, buildings, addresses and businesses are located in a region, in addition to other important details—such as the town’s speed limits or business names.

So I guess what you're proposing is already done for several years but in more subtle ways.

Remember that Google Maps doesn't have the power of OSM. Hence the need for automation.
Why Hammers Make Builders Worse at Building
So if i wanted to buy a good setup to contribute to this what should i buy? The faq andd doxumentation appear to be in french.
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I commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514547, but CommitGo was founded to ensure the longevity of the Gitea project. Due to the formation of the company more maintainers have been able to be paid for their time, and bounties/contracted work etc.. all go straight to the project.
Do you have any references/examples of this?
I build CRUD apps at BigCo and most of the LOC is pretty mindless but needs to be deployed yesterday. Copying over 100 different memberVariable = DATABASE_CONSTANT in different forms becomes much easier when copilot starts guessing the format.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I can see a lot of similar cases especially for sysadmin things (systemctl, ifconfig, etc.).

One thing that was nice about my adopting Powershell as my daily shell is that for the most part, I could just use the same shell utilities as usual:

getent passwd | cut -f6 -d':' | sort | uniq -c

Like, there's no problem running that in powershell. I know people have talked about "mixing" strings and objects but, I have to say that for me I've rarely run into a problem with it?

As you learn you can do a little more. Maybe you learn that group (group-object) can be used instead of the two commands at the end:

getent passwd | cut -f6 -d':' | group

And for me, the nice thing is that when you learn something like that, it's leverageable across all your cases. You learned something about your tool, not just about the passwd file.

Is this better than bash? I don't think it's worse:

getent passwd | %{ ($_ -split ':')[5] } | group

But then you might notice that your data is a CSV (C for colon in this case) and you might leverage some of the CSV-handling which works well in Powershell:

getent passwd | convertfrom-csv -del ':' -h 'user','pwd','uid','gid','comment','home','shell' | group -prop 'shell'

Now you're cooking with structured data again. I think familiarity makes this kind of thing come naturally. And since these commands are pretty discoverable, because they're more consistent, and tab-completion and command-line editing are so much better than bash. It's easy to see how the above can be made terser by stashing it into utility function or a hashtable in your profile (e.g. so you could do "getent passwd | fields passwd" or something like that.

Now, I'm not going to tell someone it's worth the growing pains and adjustments to switch. It's like switching keyboard layouts. And matters of taste might turn you off, understandable. But for me there have been real benefits, and on its merits, I do think it makes a better shell. And it would be nice (from my perspective) if the community did some more work around these use cases and making them nicer for people.
Nvidia margin is like 70%. Using google TPU is certainly going to erase some of that.
Yeah, parsing XML is no small deal. Did it answer with a regexp or what?
> top-tier

my sample size is small, but I've found it far from top tier

(I would put Five Guys and Shake Shack as top tier fast food, and In-N-Out except for their fries).
The most helpful way I use GPT feels more like using a supercharged autocomplete than not writing the code myself. Often I do know what I want to write, and if I get a quarter of the way into a function there's a solid chance in my experience that the AI will suggest to the letter exactly what I was intending on typing anyways. This saves me a huge amount of time and feels no less satisfying.

I still read the docs and examples because it isn't reliable enough to tell me accurately how to use most packages. It's absolutely a mess of flaws and sharp edges so I get the hesitation in using it, and for sure it has allowed less than stellar coders to confidently present steaming trash heaps with a pretty bow on top, but I don't think it's always fair to assume using AI tools means being less involved with the code you produce.
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I'm wondering if there was some remapping of the fields used, otherwise library yes.
Treat Copilot (or any other AI system) as a TOOL. Each tool has its purpose and use. But remember YOU are the craftsman...
It keeps printing money because we have socialism for the rich, they are never allowed to lose now.
> Who said anything about America?

> better not focus on butting down the us.
I wonder what the human-caused "accident" rate would be if we subtracted out the mayhem caused by fleeing felons. From the sounds of the article, it could be a significant factor. On the other hand, I suppose it won't be long until someone tries a robbery get-away using a Waymo, (or maybe a Tesla in self-driving mode), which I guess is an improvement.
My regular dealership even has a card surcharge for service these days. Given the rebate I get it's pretty much a no-care for smallish bills. But when I bought the car from another dealer was a bit surprised I didn't need to run to the bank to get a certified check.
Indeed. Google is a crawler, not only of the digital world.

"Crawling the physical web".

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/cityblock/
Agreed. I had to learn a lot to build one. I had an application so unusual (driving antique teletype machines from a laptop) that I had to do a unique design. For most low-volume applications, it's not worth the trouble.
Kuwait Is Awash in Oil Money. But It Can't Keep the Power On.
Right now its a bit like Tesla's self driving. It mostly works but mostly works isn't a great standard and maintaining supervision to correct errors involves continually re-building state and trying to debug AI-code which can be more taxing than just doing the thing yourself.

This is case by case of course.. I used it the other day to generate fairly idiomatic table-driven tests. It took a few swings plus some manual tweaking but as I don't particularly enjoy writing tests I was pretty satisfied with the outcome and it had more coverage than I probably would've written. Well worth the 25 cents in API credits. On the other hand, there have been more than a few times I've given up trying to nudge the AI and just did it myself. In those cases it was just a net negative and just wasted time. So the trick is feeling out where that line is for each model so wasted time < saved time.
It’s still not useful.

I don’t think I know anyone in my life who solely communicates over SMS and carrier phone calls. I currently do less than 10% of my communication through SMS.

If they ever figure out how to add WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc, they’ll greatly increase the number of people who would be willing to try it.
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litestack: SQLite database, cache, job queue, message broker for Rails
Checking her wikipedia page I see that she went to university at 18 years of age and by age 34 she was already an editor, about what "scrubbing of the floors" are we talking about here? Doesn't look like she scrubbed any floors for a living in her adult life.

And as for the racist talk, I have people very close to me who also don't have an immaculate white skin, I'm talking about my mother and my mother's mother (my grandmother), does it make any difference? What skin color do your close-ones have?
It's a Jungle out there...

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle>

(Meant to promote awareness of worker safety rather than food hygiene. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" -- Sinclair. Still, its impact and legacy are profound.)
How does it mitigate the issues outlined in the article?
Cool, but how do you create your own patterns? I was hoping for an editor that let me create my own.
> It always amazed me how Uber was able to quickly force itself into the most criminal markets

We had a horrendous taxi market in Ukraine, before Uber. We knew Uber is coming for about a couple years prior to the first ride, so the market decided to prepare.

Cut to Uber opening in Kiev: they have managed not only to get the worst drivers (drug addicts, drunk people, outright fake accounts, etc), but they have pushed the bar far lower. There weren't a taxi service as bad as Uber ever before.

OTOH, one of the previously worst services decided to preemptively compete with Uber and became one of the best I have ever used. Perfect cars, excellent drivers, top-notch service and support, incredibly, unbelievably good.

So there's that.
>Totally free markets are self destructive. Well regulated free markets are the greatest driving force for human quality of life we've found.

Pretty sure limited liability exists in every 'totally free market' you are pointing to. That isnt really a free market, that's a government giving an enormous generous power to owners that is kind of a legal oddity.

Why does the owner of a corporation not have to pay for damages? Why is it limited to the assets of the corporation?

I wonder how careful companies would be if the owners and stockholders could lose their entire fortune and go into personal debt when they are caught poisoning the air that affects 500,000 people.
Hi HN! I'm building a discovery platform for open source ecosystems at https://ecosystems.gitwallet.co.

Right now this is a way to get a better understanding of open source ecosystems, see what's popular, up and coming, and browse related projects. There is a LOT of work to be done but I thought I'd share the work in progress here.

What kinds of other features do you think you'd like to see in a discovery platform around open source? What is highly fragmented or hard to find?
Apple Makes iPhone 16 Batteries Easier to Replace to Comply with EU Law
While I feel the need of a nation-wide (EU-wide) digital identity because it's damn absurd to have eIDs and being not able to use them for all public services as mere keys, I do reject full strength the wallet concept.

IDs are serious business, smartphones are surveillance devices, out of the government and the citizen controls and connected 24/7/365, they MUST NOT be used for anything serious. I do want to have a simple NFC reader for public authority and activities needed some data from the citizens (like a bank to open an account, or just a major-age verification to sell alcohol at a supermarket, being just able to to se age) but FROM MY eID card, not from a mobile app.

The system could be pretty simple, a grocery store authenticate as itself to a public service, the public service get the citizen ID, and know the grocery store can only get a "major age or not", no privacy issue in the process, no needs to flash Qr and so on. Similarly a police officer can read ANY eID document (let's say driving license, national ID card, passport, even a public school card) and from it accessing other docs depending on the activity he/she declare, again no privacy issue. But again no damn need of mobile stuff.

Oh, and aside, public money, public code, so all IDs MUST be open hardware and open-source, the chip, the middlewire and the service as well. So the "no privacy issue" is a thing any citizen can acknowledge or not.
If you blindly assume malice every time it's theoretically possible with corporations, you're going to be left angry, frustrated, and wrong an awful lot of the time. They're really just not competent enough to be doing most of this stuff deliberately.
This paper is much clearer and succinct than the original papers from the field.

Trying to build a protein diffusion model from scratch right now.

The math explainer is quite helpful
Artemis is a program that has international meaning for the US and it's co-signing partners.

I'm sure you've heard of "here to stay" wrt to the moon.

I'm sure you remember the victory lap with the moon landing. Here it's China rather than Russia.

The US has won in commercial launch and LEO communications. The next step is the moon. All this has been in planning before SpaceX existed.

Someone else has answered you too.
Also receives an homage by Eminem in the video for Rap God

https://youtu.be/XbGs_qK2PQA
Thats true. Along with the fact likely no one will be reading it unless I post it somewhere myself anyways, maybe the Private/Public setup was overkill haha.
> Wall Street’s uncertainty may explain why the courthouse was packed on Monday morning — with crowds spilling into multiple overflow rooms — from which investors listened to arguments in-person.

> In the first overflow room on the 20th floor, a man in the front row yawned repeatedly. Behind him, in two more rows of men, another man — in the archetypal fleece vest of a “finance bro” — was listening intently.

> Across the room, there appeared to be more such vests than handbags: only about a quarter of the audience were women, a ratio seemingly mirrored in the video cast of the main courtroom. Another audience member with a tan, leather-looking handbag shared, “It’s just Kitayama, it’s not —” and gestured at the video-cast of the better-known brands rolled into the main courtroom.

> In the first overflow courtroom, the audio cut out minutes into the FTC’s opening statement. The audience groaned. Several rushed to the second overflow room, on the 23rd floor.

> “It’s not ready,” said the security guard outside.
The recommanded setup is a GoPro Max.

Indeed the guide is only in French for now... https://panoramax.fr/comment-participer-a-panoramax/guide-co...
When I tested right now, for parsing XML it did use libraries or native tools depending on the language, but it converted the nodes provided by that library to JSON as written code.
But without progressive fines, the rich can basically buy themselves out of the law, which is worse than having no proportionality to the offense.
I'm not sure what you mean with this "Wir schaffen das" reference. By attempting to be host refugees, one is committing the fault of being self-righteous?
> The observations made by this article are self-evident to those working in industries that have adopted copilot

I work in such an industry and it's certainly not "self-evident". Clearly it's also not self-evident to many other people commenting on this post.

> However, in this case there is empirical evidence copilot makes code quality worse: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot...

One study does not prove anything, although at least it is _some_ evidence. But other studies linked in that very article show opposite results.

To be clear I don't know if LLMs are better or not for developer productivity. I think it's too early to tell. But given that people, in general, are prone to conservatism, combined with the fact that past developer tooling enhancements have not caused the negative outcomes that many people at the time predicted they would cause, leads me to believe LLMs will probably be a positive change.
I will happily argue that Copilot, used thoughtfully and responsibly, can make programmers better at programming.

The very, very short version is that it lets programmers move faster and try more things, which helps them learn quicker.

The rate at which I learn new libraries, frameworks and languages has accelerated dramatically over the past two years as I learned to effectively use Copilot and other LLM tools.

I have 20+ years of experience already, so a reasonable question to ask is if that effect is limited to experienced developers.

I can't speak for developers with less experience than myself. My hunch is that they can benefit too, if they deliberately use these tools to help and accelerate their learning instead of just outsourcing to them. But you'd have to ask them, not me.
Who goes to work for Elon cannot really be so-called abused - already knew what is coming when applied
The first diffusion model for text generation was published less than a year ago. Should add something about that
Just to add some heads up, CommitGo was on the roadmap, but establishing a company in the US takes time, so the initial org was created so that something could exist while the primary one was established. Hopefully more entities that are localized to specific geographic regions can be created as funding maintainers cross borders is a headache.

edit: we (the project and the company) are also receiving advice from several major open-source foundations on what establishing a foundation for the project would look like.
What other things?

For decades, restaurants have paid their labor with dynamic “algorithmic” wages: work during peak shifts, get more tips.

Why haven’t people been up in arms about how bar tenders working a Friday night near more than bartenders working a Monday afternoon?
I felt the need to get in addition to (shall we say) foo-bar.nl the foobar.nl the foo-bar.com and foobar.com because I dont want a competitor picking up those and customers might type it like that.
Please go back and read the wealth of nations.
I wonder if it depends on the programming style, because I always feel like I have this massive amount of things that I need to "vomit" out, so Copilot is always helpful for me. Like I already know what the whole system should be like, so it's just about laying it out.

It's mostly full stack web applications, with React frontend and APIs with databases, so it's not exactly something groundbreaking.
I wonder if it's undiagnosed gallbladder issues too.
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Does it? I have newest iPad (m4 pro 13inch) and afaik it’s Wifi6E.

The just announced iPhone16 does seem to have WiFi 7 though. I’m also on UniFi gear and also why I’ve been deferring upgrading to any of the wifi7 APs since none of my devices have it yet.
I disagree, the article is not about Waymo cars. 99% of the article is about some Amazon-owned robotaxi company. Waymo is mentioned in two sentences. One saying they didn't comment on the story, and the other the one you quoted.

Waymo has used this kind of limited remote operation for years and talked about it publicly [0]. The article provides literally no evidence for its assertion that something changed (let alone making a falsifiable claim about what changed). So it's pretty clear that this paragraph claiming that something changed isn't actually about Waymo either. It's pretty sad that the journalist feels the need to just blatantly lie like that, but I guess it made the article look a little bit more relevant.

I can't help notice that you didn't explain why you think this is in any way related to the crash data from the submitted article. The remote operation is not used in realtime, and would neither help avoid crashes nor cause them. I guess it's my fault for phrasing that as a statement rather than a question. Any chance you could answer that?

[0] Random example from a few years back, found with 5 seconds of searching, just to show that this isn't new: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/secret...
I thought so too - it seems like this is more about "who is being preempted by who" (although maybe noisy neighbor in the sense of "hogging up CPU time" does often imply "polluting hardware resources" to some degree, especially considering these machines probably have SMT)