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ArenaSource··on The contagion of fear
Right now, two psychos have the power to annihilate the world, literally at their fingertips, and people are worried that AI might kill us all in the future.
ArenaSource··on Bitcoin is over $100k
Why all this negativity against Bitcoin?

It is one of the best instruments for speculating on the extent of human idiocy.

ArenaSource··on Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
They are really good at writing your print/console.log statements...
ArenaSource··on Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant
If you feel brave and have credits to burn https://github.com/jla/gpt-shell (shameless auto-promotion)

Nah, seriously don't use it, is just a small experiment, curious thing is that half of the code is the GPT prompts..

ArenaSource··on Command line functions around OpenAI
One subtle bug in your code is all it takes to go from 1000x to 0.01x
ArenaSource··on Retrieval in LangChain
> It seems to get distracted pretty easily though.

That’s true, gpt-4 is way more easy to guide with the system messages and it doesn’t forget the instructions as the conversation goes on.

ArenaSource··on Retrieval in LangChain
If you put GPT-4 on a loop with access to the shell it manages to do whatever is needed to finish the job

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jla/gpt-shell/assets/examp...

ArenaSource··on Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices
A High-IQ Software developer:

- Calculates the sum on the first picture

- Reads the instructions

- Reads the instructions again

- Stares at the six pictures for one second

- Closes the page

ArenaSource··on Best Practices for Securing SSH
SSH over Tor hidden service
ArenaSource··on I Violated a Code of Conduct
The NumFOCUS COC committee had “made at least two thousand people feel uncomfortable”.
ArenaSource··on The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
I would like to see a Bugs vs Age study
ArenaSource··on The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
So, this is science too:

Inmate Gender - Male: 93.3% Female: 6.7% [1]

"In view of these overwhelming results measures must be taken to remove men from jobs where their predisposition to crime may have negative repercussions on society."

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...

ArenaSource··on A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
where did I put my old Nokia 8210...
ArenaSource··on If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
Change the law. In Spain not helping someone that is found helpless and in danger, when you can do so without risk to yourself or others, is a criminal offence.
ArenaSource··on Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
Last Macbook Pro generation is from 2012... this is really sad, it really is.
ArenaSource··on Python Is Not C
It's not Python, you face the same problems with Matlab, unless you vectorize your code to remove loops it's quite unusable for anything but small arrays
ArenaSource··on How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS
UK's healthcare system has real serious issues, sorry but the Victorian era is over, stop underrating all the protocols, procedures and recommendations from your American and European counterparts.

And don't say it's because UK population has different needs, one example, two hospitals at London same medical specialty, they recommend different medication doses for exactly the same treatment in their protocols.

No specialty chiefs, no teams, no supervisors, only solo consultants.

ArenaSource··on Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'
Why not redistribution of work?
ArenaSource··on Spanish government limits crowdfunding to € 1M, donations capped at € 3000.
that's for parents safety
ArenaSource··on Spanish government limits crowdfunding to € 1M, donations capped at € 3000.
For a spaniard it's going to be much more easy to create a company in UK and launch the crowdfunding project with the UK company, and then, move the money by the traditional ways (dividends, getting services from a spanish based company, ...). You are not going to avoid taxed but get rid of those stupid limits and obligations.
ArenaSource··on Spanish government limits crowdfunding to € 1M, donations capped at € 3000.
To protect the interests of traditional and powerful companies: Banks
ArenaSource··on How I Fired Myself
I can't believe this history, but if it's true, don't worry, you just did what they deserve