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by jstx1 4y ago
I disagree with the implication that it’s either AGI or nothing. What we currently have is useful and that’s a big deal; the time and effort spent on transformers wasn’t wasted. I personally don’t care if/when we have AGI and whether t
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I will not be surprised to see an exodus of skilled workers over the next decade. I personally have set a 5 year target for leaving the country personally, which is sad. What better options do you have realistically?
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Am I missing something? What you're missing is how dead this horse is.
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by jstx1 4y ago
There are only so many high paying jobs. When someone on HN says that they have a £100k+ job in the UK, that means that it's possible for some number of people to get those jobs but not everyone who's on £40k can double or triple
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by jstx1 4y ago
Your numbers are way off. It's: Basic rate of 20% on earnings between £12,571 and £50,270. Higher Rate of 40% on earnings between £50,271 and £125,139. Additional Rate of 45% on earnings from £125,140. (this is from the t
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by jstx1 4y ago
Any evidence for this, or are you just assuming that it's the case?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Anti-recommend Murphy's book as a place for anyone to begin with. I can barely understand what it's trying to say about the topics I already know.
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by jstx1 4y ago
No, I made a thread about this when ChatGPT came out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891538
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by jstx1 4y ago
This is really naive. It's a very arbitrary threshold and since most of that wealth is in equity, you're essentially asking for the government to appropriate and run all large companies. Maybe you actually think this should happen
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by jstx1 4y ago
> And what path would you recommend to young people who want to become programmers. Machine learning? Prompt engineering? Become a software engineer and use the best tools available to you to learn and do your job. This means LLMs and ev
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by jstx1 4y ago
Restricting calories. How you do this is a continuous negotiation process with yourself - remove certain foods, skip meals (i.e. intermittent fasting / time-restricted feeding), don't eat carbohydrates, eat whatever you want as lo
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by jstx1 4y ago
There's something about "prompt engineer" that I really dislike. It's not like right now we're "google and stackoverflow engineers". Titles should be about the same in the future, who cares what tool you u
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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe. It currently can't do everything so the comparison isn't person vs LLM, it's person who uses LLM vs person who doesn't. And the people who do are much more productive. So by giving up, you're making yoursel
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's not meant to be a place for computer enthusiasts - it's a career subreddit and people want to get good jobs.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> What would be different about 2023? Why would it be the same? Think about it from first principles instead of assuming that what happened in the past will keep happening in the future. If there's a ceiling to the demand for progra
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by jstx1 4y ago
They're bad because the goal isn't to convey information in an efficient way. Think of it as a conversation that you can listen in on if you want to.
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by jstx1 4y ago
He seems to think the world can absorb higher programmer productivity without destroying jobs. It's still one person's opinion but it was nice to hear.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You don't know that it would be better. Keep in mind that the same company whose support didn't help you with your phone will be in charge of what the chatbot is allowed to say and do. If AT&T sucks, I don't know if you&#
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by jstx1 4y ago
No. It can't pick your priorities for you.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Customer service chatbots are a revolution? Sounds like the most underwhelming thing ever.
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by jstx1 4y ago
This is a very limited view of the things people use search for. You still need links and a way to browse through the results. And for many queries you need factual up to date information. LLMs don’t do “local supermarket opening times” and
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by jstx1 4y ago
You're focusing on whether it's the phone owner's fault or the thief's fault, my point is that it isn't the app's fault.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't think you have anyone to blame if you give your phone with a logged in money app to a stranger who is begging for money.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Doing whatever you want isn't enough. If on a team of 10 people 9 are remote, the 10th person who goes to the office is remote too, they're just doing it from a different location. And vice versa, many people who like remote would
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by jstx1 4y ago
> The best I have is that this is some kind of power play but I'm not convinced. Am I missing something? You can consider that not everyone has the same preferences as you. Many people are more productive and happier working from a
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I guess we need first a definition of "coder". Is this the same as a Software Engineer?. For the sake of the argument yes, it's the same thing. The people who are writing functions based on a specification also need to c
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by jstx1 4y ago
In general demand for programmers has been growing over the long term. So if the baseline is an upward trend, these tools can have a demand-reducing effect and the overall demand can still be going up just at a lesser rate. Or it could be f
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by jstx1 4y ago
ChatGPT is surprisingly bad at Wordle - ask for 5 letter words with some constraints and it regularly returns 6+ letter words.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> without the interviewer ever knowing So not really allowed then. This will mostly be used for cheating regarldess of what the authors say should be allowed in interviews.
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by jstx1 4y ago
The big difference is that beta gmail could communicate with email from other providers. So it was exclusive but not really closed - you had a rare domain name, a huge inbox and the ability to send other people invites - that was pretty coo

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