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Ah yes dyslexseea

Well, this looks like the equivalent of GPTs to me. Meaning some user, in this case the user “sluttypuffin”, has chosen the prompt directives that instruct the model about how it should respond. So the hyperbolized nature of this is (and I’m guessing to be clear) is likely something that sluttypuffin specifically constructed with their prompt engineering.

Kind of like humans in that regard

It’s a bit of chicken and egg to know if you built it robust enough without meticulous testing of your robustness

Only 15 people enrolled in the cited study

Surely you appreciate the irony of making an overly generalized claim that Americans overly generalize the rest of the world?

This is where prompt engineering becomes more important. Next time consider pre-pending some kind of plain English set of expectations before pasting your code. Something like, “I want you to write tests for this code. Here are the expected behaviors <expected behaviors list>, and here are unexpected behaviors <unexpected behaviors list>. Tests should pass if they adhere to the expected behaviors and fail if they have unexpected behaviors. Here is the code: <code>”.

Like most LLM generation though, it’s not a deterministic thing and like you mentioned originally it takes some verification of the output. I still think with the extra steps it saves time when applied to the right scenarios. The longer the input the higher the hallucinations count in my experience though, so I always keep the code provided in the smallest chunk possible which still has enough context.

Never? Really?

>cultural adoption reproducing itself … what? You’ve gone to great lengths here to fabricate a phrase that is semantically equivalent to “influence” in the most obfuscated way possible.

>cultural hegemony See previous … what?

Let’s get down to brass tax.

A does foo. B notices A has done foo. B decides it will also do foo. A has influenced B.

There are other aspects about the original comment which were better targets than attacking the meaning of “influence”, such as America’s status as a melting pot whose traditions are in great part just the collection of influences from the multitude of ethnicities which can be represented by the single term “American”. Thinking America has such dramatic unique influence while ignoring its composition of influences from other cultures is not giving honest context. That’s the part I would have gone after.

I mean, they probably would if public services paid their engineers Google salaries. Do you think someone who can make 150k at Google is going to take a public services eng job for at minimum 50% less pay? Of course to have public service jobs like that we’d have to pay more taxes… and thus you end up with overworked engineers who are probably ok at their job but not on the same level as the big private companies

A dramatic take

Angery

The things you seem to be worried about are configurable in the tsconfig. You can stay as polyfill free as you would like by instructing the Typescript compiler to error out instead of making the glue for you. Aside from the inescapable quirks of runtime JavaScript, Typescript felt pretty intuitive to me when transitioning to a new job from C# previously. Typescript with ESLint is about as solid as you’re going to get with JavaScript. I know that ideally there’d be something better, but in the real world right now this is the best it gets. At some point reality and business constraints are going to slam into ideations and things are going to get a bit dirty.

Aside from that, no matter what you pick, standard Typescript configs are absolutely compiling to JavaScript, not any other step in the interpreting process. It doesn’t matter if it’s taking your async/await and polyfilling it to run on an older browser engine… it’s still producing 100% JavaScript.

It goes Typescript -> JavaScript during the build, and the JS is what gets distributed to clients.

The JavaScript produced by TS is sent to the browser which performs the same JavaScript -> abstract syntax tree -> byte code -> execution, as usual

It’s also possible this commenter is seeing a fallback default font if Atpos is not available / didn’t download correctly on their system configuration

Thanks for posting an actual test rather than perpetuating tradition without verification

Yikes this thread has so much anger in it

It’s semantics, but thinking of QA as refinements rather than criticisms goes a long way. Everyone is reasonable until their mental defenses are activated I believe. I think it’s worth making even great efforts to communicate improvements or requirements without using phrases which make someone feel bad. If the goal is to actually persuade and make a positive impact rather than just point fingers to feel superior, finding the way to say things without assigning shame is almost always the way to get things done.

Good QA will be sensitive to this when creating feedback, and good Devs will understand that tunnel vision from submerged in the product full time every day will typically lead to a built experience that isn’t amenable to large portions of their users.

Providing QA feedback tactfully is an impressive and appreciated skill, as is receiving feedback gracefully. Everyone should aspire to do both.

This quote is always mildly irritating. Einstein was the mental equivalent of an Olympic athlete with multiple gold medals. That man was so far disconnected from the mental limitations of average people that some quotes don’t hold much value because they’re created in context of his experience. I work in a creatively challenging job, and I’m mentally wasted after a full day sometimes, to the point that anything I create is hot garbage until I rest and change my focus. I’ll read my books and play my games thank you kindly.

Interesting. I don’t like the name at all because it makes me think of people who take horoscopes seriously. You’re impression seems to be untainted by that which is nice

Genuine question, how do you find a trusted mechanic? I know close to nothing about cars. Just the basic things I need to do to maintain it really. I find the space intimidating because I don’t have the ability to sus out the people I’m interacting with, and my impression of the field is that it’s kinda “get all you can” out of a customer. Ultimately I end up leasing so I get the two years free maintenance and oil changes and never have a vehicle long enough to have to deal with real issues. I have good credit so I don’t feel too bad about the trade off just for the sake of not having to worry about cars. I basically have the feeling I imagine tech illiterate people get when they talk to Best Buy geek squad employees but for me it’s with cars.

Per GPT4:

“”” The death of Jeffrey Epstein, a financier arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors, occurred on August 10, 2019, in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City. Epstein's death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York City Medical Examiner's office. However, the circumstances surrounding his death have led to widespread speculation and theories suggesting foul play or negligence. Here are the most pertinent facts, including those that have fueled skepticism about the official suicide ruling:

1. *High-profile Connections*: Epstein had connections to powerful figures internationally, including politicians, celebrities, and royalty. This raised questions about potential motives for wanting him silenced.

2. *Previous Suicide Attempt or Assault*: Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after being found injured in his cell in July 2019, weeks before his death. However, he was taken off suicide watch at the end of July, under circumstances that have been questioned.

3. *Violations of Jail Protocol*: On the night of his death, several standard jail protocols were reportedly violated. For example: - Epstein's cellmate had been transferred, leaving him alone. - Guards failed to check on him every 30 minutes, as required. - Two guards who were supposed to monitor him fell asleep and later falsified records to cover up their negligence.

4. *Malfunctioning Surveillance Cameras*: It was reported that surveillance cameras in the area of Epstein's cell were not functioning properly at the time of his death, leading to a lack of video evidence.

5. *Autopsy Controversies*: The autopsy findings were a focal point of contention. Notably, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein's brother to observe the autopsy challenged the official suicide ruling, citing injuries that were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicide.

6. *Expert Opinions*: Some medical experts have pointed to the broken hyoid bone in Epstein's neck as more typical in cases of strangulation than hanging, though it can occur in both.

7. *Inadequate Staffing and Facility Issues*: Reports highlighted that the MCC was suffering from staffing shortages and other logistical challenges, contributing to a failure in maintaining appropriate surveillance and safety measures.

8. *Legal and Financial Matters*: At the time of his death, Epstein was awaiting trial, and significant attention was on his vast wealth and the potential revelation of more individuals involved in his crimes. His death prevented any possibility of him testifying or cooperating with authorities.

These facts have led to a multitude of theories and calls for further investigation, with critics arguing that the negligence and irregularities point to a possible cover-up or failure to prevent Epstein's death, whether it was suicide or foul play. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI launched investigations into the circumstances of Epstein's death, reflecting the high level of public and official concern surrounding the case. “””

I mean, I work full time remotely at home (company is in a different state, family is here where I live). If you watch the FaceTime section of MKBHD’s review, that would be a phenomenal improvement over Teams chat with web cams.

While I wouldn’t move back just to go into the office, I absolutely miss the ability to look at a specific person while talking in meetings, and for other to have the context about who you’re looking at with head turning or gestures etc…

In a Teams group chat, I’m always talking to the whole wall of faces essentially. Only by context of the conversation can you figure out who someone is talking to, and even then their webcam might be off center or on a separate monitor from where they’re looking and you don’t even pretend to make eye contact. There is no way to break out into an isolated side conversation or select your gaze and there’s a lot of value there.

There’s also the concept of sharing a virtual room with a person I’m collaborating with. Drawing on a whiteboard, walking around pointing at things on the monitor and such. The feeling of a shared physical space is powerful for collaboration.

Anyways, what I’m trying to say is this: The thought of replacing all human interaction with tech is of course depressing, but I don’t view this like that. This is technology that can meet people where they are and improve an existing experience. I’m not moving away from my family, esp. as my parents get older, and I will remain working remotely for the company because I very much enjoy what I work on, my team, and the way the company treats me.

This tech is a step towards making the shortcomings of remote work less impactful. It’s stupid expensive and the first iteration so it’ll have problems, but I’m much more excited by Apple’s approach to this than Facebook’s nonsense. Excited to see where it develops and how it’s adopted as it becomes cheaper.

Typically, people who’ve had a good time with a product don’t write about it as much as people who’ve had a bad time. Anger motivates venting whereas being satisfied with the product doesn’t create emotions that compel people as strongly to share. For this reason, I believe samples of feedback such as this online forum are often poor indicators of the general experience, as is true with many forms of feedback. In fact, I have a generally positive impression of Teams, and I wasn’t planning to write anything until I saw your comment.

This is the same train of thought as saying we shouldn’t use debuggers because programmers will get lazy and stop thinking through the code, or that we shouldn’t have any programming layers higher than assembly because they’re less efficient and everyone should just write everything in assembly.

Keeping something more difficult just for the sake of “smarter people” will never be a compelling argument to me. Consider those same smart people could be doing something meaningfully challenging in the new time they’ve saved by having a brute force problem automated.

This is obviously not as time consuming, but the criticism is not based on an effective ideology.

Why disparage a useful feature by saying people should just settle for an inconvenient solution and search pages of HN titles?

A more intelligent solution would be providing the information which was deemed important enough to make the effort in the first place.

This is a news site. Why would you expect the people arriving to already know the news they came to learn?

Sigh

What?

Academic and research departments. PHDs researching in the private sector aren’t colloquially called SWE where I work.

Why not just comment this link originally instead of “False” with no context

I hate going to the gas station