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by jhugo 4y ago
Your meetings must be much better than the average. It's been quite a while since I had meetings regularly, but I'd guess that on average I needed to see (or think about) maybe 20% of the meeting.
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by jhugo 4y ago
"Derailment" sounds dramatic but most of them are minor. It's unrealistic and unhelpful to pretend that all incidents are equally serious: the only way to achieve zero incidents of any severity is to not build the power plant
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by jhugo 4y ago
If they already have one, most are compatible with various kinds of barcode. But perhaps there is an integration problem there. The QR approach I described is how it's usually done here in Asia, and it works well. (I've never had
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by jhugo 4y ago
The driver currently has to tap something in their Uber Driver app to confirm that they picked up the order. Replace that action with scanning a QR (or other camera-readable) code printed on the receipt. Then even if they pick up the wrong
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by jhugo 4y ago
The failure mode seemed similar in all three languages. If you were doing toy things, or writing boilerplate stuff, it did perfectly fine. If you were writing something that wasn't a slightly-modified copy of some code that already exi
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by jhugo 4y ago
This may be highly dependent on problem domain or programming language (see the other article about GPT tending to hallucinate any time it is given problems that don't exist in its training set). My experience has mostly been that the
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by jhugo 4y ago
I've had similar experiences when testing it out with Rust, Java and Go. Once I got beyond basic stuff, very little of the output was of a quality that I would consider remotely acceptable, and the work to bring it up to standard was b
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Think of the amount of boilerplate and tests you write, and tedious API documentation lookups you do daily; that all goes away with GPT. At work we have really worked hard to minimise boilerplate and manually-written/repetitive te
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yeah, I have got it to the point that I often go several hours at home or work without even knowing where my phone is. Out and about, it rarely leaves my pocket. I catch up on things once in the morning and once in the evening, and other th
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by jhugo 4y ago
I thought I did too, but now I live somewhere where there are plenty of smoky bars, and the novelty wore off quickly. It's just a pain having to deal with clothes drenched in smoke after an evening out, when you have experienced not e
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by jhugo 4y ago
> The short position is fundamentally the belief a venture will fail and historically there is three ways for that to be a successful bet; 1) be lucky 2) do your research thoroughly and then be lucky or 3) cause that venture to fail. Thi
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by jhugo 4y ago
There is no fundamental reason to be upset with short sellers; they can be honest or dishonest about their motives just as holders of long positions can be. When they are honest and open, they provide a service to the community in the same
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by jhugo 4y ago
Both China and Russia have restrictions on taking paper money out of the country, which are much easier to enforce since there's a physical aspect.
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by jhugo 4y ago
How do these differ from shills who pump a stock price far above the net value of the company without any indicators backing that?
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Personally, I used to be quite antagonistic to shortsellers, but at least the ones holding onto the principles of journalistic integrity and good research provide good value to society. Just look at Wirecard. Which ones don't prov
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by jhugo 4y ago
And indeed the government forced a merger with UBS, reaffirming that they were too big to fail.
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by jhugo 4y ago
I got two different failure modes. First it displayed an error message (which appeared instantly, and was caused by some JS error in the page which caused it to not submit the form at all), and then a while later the same behaviour as you,
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by jhugo 4y ago
> What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat hist
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by jhugo 4y ago
> But where are my damn robots that I can assign task and do them reliably ( clean the garden, go get this list of groceries - or , just look in the damn fridge and go buy what is missing , and so on )? The amusing/terrifying thing
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by jhugo 4y ago
Here was me thinking that was just another way to say brogrammer.
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by jhugo 4y ago
That wouldn't drive installs of the Altstore app, though!
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by jhugo 4y ago
Rolling back protections, or implicitly suggesting that shareholders don't deserve much protection (by virtue of them being wealthy), serves to reinforce this though. If owning shares is made more risky, only those who can afford to ta
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by jhugo 4y ago
With increasing retail ownership of US company shares, why on earth wouldn't we think of the poor shareholders?
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by jhugo 4y ago
Zero lag on my M1 MacBook Air too.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> User: Please improve this sentence: "Many people want to learn languages because they like to travel" > ChatGPT: "Learning languages is a popular pursuit because it enables people to travel and explore different cultu
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by jhugo 4y ago
Many countries have aging populations, so the proportion of people who have a personal reason to care about issues like sight degeneration is going to increase significantly over time.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> most copy doesn't contain entities It doesn't need to contain entities. GP is not correct to refer to these characters as "HTML entities", which are just ways to conveniently express the characters in HTML. In fact
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by jhugo 4y ago
Its first suggestion is the worst possible way to line-break it, though. A hypothetical automated system that used ChatGPT to do this would need to somehow know to ignore the first suggestion…
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by jhugo 4y ago
> The thing is multicast is not anycast, you will not receive multicast traffic unless you specifically ask to join a group. Most likely a dumb cheap switch that doesn't snoop on IGMP (or a less dumb switch that wasn't configur
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by jhugo 4y ago
It doesn't seem like anywhere near enough data to need "big data" tools for moderation. A moderator for HN can simply skim-read what's posted, with a bias towards stuff that's on or near the front page (since there

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