skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The model is capable of generating many different responses to the same prompt. An ensemble of fact checking models can be used to reject paths that contain "facts" that are not present in the reference data (i.e. a fixed knowledge graph plus the context).

My guess is that the fact checking is actually easier, and the models can be smaller since they should not actually store the facts.
Parkinson's law, first written about in the 1950s, explains that work expands to fill the available time.

In his essay he noted that what that means is that managers work to expand the people they manage as that gives them more budget more prestige and more power.

He has an amusing anecdote about the British Navy in the early 1900s to illustrate his point.

They essay is very well written and I highly recommend it.

https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law
I'm with you on the support being sub-par, but the whole vetting brands (A2P) thing has nothing to do with Twilio at all. It's entirely forced by an industry group called The Campaign Registry. I don't know the last time you tried to create a brand in Twilio but they support the entire process in their UI these days, but the nightmarish API you're talking about is entirely an invention of TCR, not Twilio.
> ELI5 why the gov doesn’t just seize the servers.

Because “the government” is not a single unitary global institution.
That existed for a few years, it was called "Scroll" and then it got bought by Twitter and merged into Twitter Blue, which caused me to cancel my subscription. As far as I can tell nothing has really happened with it since then.
This response is exactly my point. It's a bunch of word salad either saying nothing, repeating what I said, and/or using poor reasoning to make vapid arguments.

This is probably helpful to someone, presumably someone with a great need for an automated bullshit generator, but it isn't helpful to me.

> I mean, think about all the time they can save us by handling repetitive tasks, like customer service or even generating news articles.

Something robots already do and people already hate them for it[0]. I doubt anyone will empower the robot to do anything meaningful, so while it can shape a word salad with a high degree of sounding like a human being, it only sounds like a useless human being (for the thing I care about). I'd be better off looking at whatever data it has that it is supposed to be using to help me.

> People make mistakes too, y'know? So let's use these models as tools to help us, instead of trying to replace us completely.

I'm perfectly capable of making mistakes on my own, thanks. And as anyone who's ever had to train anyone can tell you, looking over someone else's work constantly doesn't exactly help you get anything done. Give me a GPT I can train myself to eventual competency and maybe it'll pay dividends, but that doesn't realistically exist today.

[0] And of course another application is to use another GPT instance to summarize the bullshit news articles that were themselves generated from a summary, or interact with the usless customer service chatbot, thereby closing the cycle of waste that has become the cornerstone of modern civilization.
I physically suffer when I go back to systems like django, where there's no principled underpinnings, no 'protocol' and only a thin way to interact with the system live.

Curse of good languages.
No I just didn’t mention it. Mostly because I see companies like Google and Microsoft rolling anything remotely useful for businesses into their offerings.
You might find the short story 'When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth' interesting.

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...
In my city, there is a required setback of 4' on all sides for solar panels to be installed on flat roofs... all flat roofs. I have a flat roof garage that is 12' x 24' and this law, which is ostensibly for large commercial flat roofs, is preventing me from putting more than 2 panels on my roof. This is the fire code.
I love this article! well done Taro! +1
I did the same. Teams on my brand new (in 2019) laptop with 32 GB of RAM had vastly, vastly worse performance than even the web version of Excel. Slack, when I started using it more than ten years ago, was vastly more usable than Teams is today, or will likely be in five years.

> Surely they could afford to revamp this product and reap the rewards of people not hating using their tools?

It's not a business priority. Management is sold on Teams by integration with their existing services, as well as security, compartmentalization, and so on. They're not sold on "this is a polished product that people enjoy using".

And when you look at the spec sheet, Teams is an awesome piece of software. It can replace Zoom, phone calls, Slack, file sharing and collaboration, and so on. It can even replace e-mail to some extent, though if you're working at a company that's mandating Teams there's a good chance that your company has a strong e-mail culture and people are still going to e-mail you all the time for no good reason.

Anyway yeah, Teams is just the worst.
Even Bosnia was not risk-free. But I agree with your point that people shouldn't have to join out of desperation.
The AMA obviously has an agenda, but that doesn't that change the fact that non-physicians cost patients and taxpayers more money, hard to argue with the cms data.

Who cares if your doctor gets paid more if he is saving you and the taxpayers money. I guess it might make business sense from a hospital perspective, because physicians are more expensive to employee than NPs and hospitals don't have a business reason to save taxpayers or patients money.
I would love to know how much of ChatGPT is "special sauce" and how much of it is just resources thrown at the problem at a scale no one else currently wants to compete with.

I am not making any implicit claims here; I really have no idea.

I'm also not counting input selection as "special sauce"; while that is certainly labor-intensive, it's not what I mean. I mean more like, are the publicly-available papers on this architecture sufficient, or is there some more math not published being deployed?
Last time I listed my resume I added "prolog or apl please"
Smaller, family-owned companies can be loyal to a fault.

Long-time employees can be hard to get rid of. One good deed, closing one big deal, sticking with the company during tough times, being buddies with the right people...

A lot of owners can be sympathetic to certain people as well. Keeping employees that miss work for any excuse, moochers that get raises for no reason, bad performers, it can be tough for other employers that won't realize that there isn't anything they can do themselves about this, and to just focus on their own work.

On the other hand, I've seen people go through family crisis, health issues, etc and still receive a paycheck for months at a time when missing lots of work.

That's a loyal company.
Yep, it seems like a well thought out proposal. If only it wasn't:

a) Backed by Google

b) Intended to be enabled by default

... then it might be worth considering. Unfortunately, either one of those is a show stopper all by itself.
What tanks? T62? T34?..
Same here. Work for MSFT, use a Mac Pro for work. They did give me the option between surface and mac, and recommended me use the mac because we were working on unix OSes with some ability to build/test on Darwin directly.

This was before M1 though, since we're building for x86-64 arch exclusively I likely will never move to an M1 device.
Wildly popular, too.

I'd love to hear somebody from India explain it: my guess is that religious politics and political religion have been India's problem from before the partition, and it's a fissure that Congress typically tried to ignore, while, rather awkwardly, it's been sticking its elephantine trunk in everybody's drinks while taking up eight tenths of the room.

Modi drives straight at the problem, takes a position, then relies on the demographics to carry him through. There are more Hindus, so in a democracy, taking a Hindu-first perspective is sound electoral strategy.
English is a bit of a special case, being the modern lingua franca (LOL), having two top-tier media producing countries behind it (plus several smaller but not-insignificant ones), and representing an incredible proportion of the world's wealth and economic power. It's telling that a lot of successful creators of foreign-language film, in particular, end up switching to English—it's where the money is, which brings a lot of other benefits to speakers of the language (native or otherwise).

I remember at one point, when I was a still trying to keep up my French, I spent a fair amount of time trying to track down some equivalent to what Friends has been (so I gather, anyway) for English-language learners—every option seemed much worse (far shorter, lower quality—which, Friends isn't even that high a bar) and even those were nearly impossible to get ahold of, because the rights holders just didn't care about foreign markets (since no-one who can speak English well is going to care much about a mediocre French sitcom, unless they're like me and trying to learn the language). Music's a little easier, but hell, even there half the time they sing in English. Maybe it's improved since about a decade ago, but at the time, there was just nothing.

Meanwhile there are dozens of shows with many, many episodes that could help provide daily exposure to colloquial, conversational English, that are relatively easy to come by (just don't pick The Wire—even Americans have trouble with that, between the authentic Baltimore accents and slang and the pervasive cop-talk).

I actually think another language that's got a huge advantage here, for foreign learners, is Japanese. It was hard not to be envious of the Japanese resources and media readily available, even back in the '00s (let alone now), compared with even a language as important and heavily-studied as French. Which is really surprising and impressive when you consider that Japanese is probably the most insular of the major world languages—one might expect French, German, and Spanish, at least, to do at least as well on that front, given that they're read and spoken widely on multiple continents by far more people than live in Japan, but no. I think it's in part because they've been able to resist the shift to preferring English media that other countries have experienced—you look at French TV schedules and there's a lot of translated English media on there, for instance, while I don't think the same is so broadly true in Japan, with the result that they have a stronger domestic media market than many other states.
Who Killed Velocity?
> playground bullies who will push you for no reason and then tattle on you when you push back.

The way they are responding to their balloon being shot down is a prime example of this.

They broke basic international law by violating US sovereign airspace. The US had every right to shoot down the intruding object and after doing so, the Chinese government has the gall to say the US is the one breaking laws.

My hope is this and similar incidents wake up the American public, the current administration and the rest of the free world to the severity of threat that China represents.
As a rule, it is better to have developers learn one way to work, rather than N.

A problem with time travel debugging is that you generally can't use it in production [of course, there are people who think devs should have direct access to prod, for them there is no help], and you 100% cannot use it for anything deployed at a customer (so for embedded, devices, actual non-SAAS software etc. etc.).

It's better to shore up your tools so that the workflow is very straightforward and leave stuff like time travel for people doing work on a very narrow subset of very hard to understand bugs.
Cover - layoffs make the company look bad. Laying off when you are the only company doing so makes you look even worse both to the public and investors.
Autopilot only works on highways and decent weather and visibility — i.e. the least accident-prone scenarios possible. AFAIK, AAA’s stats count accidents in all situations
The same reason you'd expect "full self driving" to be full self driving.
Happy Lago customers here at Mono, we we're able to "hack"our way to billing connecting a Kafka listener to n8n and orchestrate all the billing from n8n, rather than expending lots of time integrating. We did all the integrations in 1 week in a "low-code" environment without requiring any developer to work on in.
How to Run a Private Nostr Relay
To be fair, other operating systems took a while to get unicode right.
Engineering requirements for buildings in America come in two forms: code-conforming buildings that can be built by anyone, and whatever you want as long as a qualified engineer has signed off on it. When looked at from that perspective, it's clear that the code exists to make the construction business cheaper and more efficient. Nothing about the code will prevent you from building anything you really want. You just need engineers.
The number of times I've had to hold a conversation via Teams on my phone instead of on the desktop because the chat on the desktop just refused to update... ugh, geez.
I remember thinking when i read it that Ted Chiang's 'Understand' did a good job (although have not re-read it to verify this):

https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...
> became otherworldly and revolutionary at doing what it does well

also, it is yet to be proven that ChatGPT will do well in any job requiring significant reasoning skills.
The Uber model can be profitable - we know this because of Bolt’s cash flow generation capabilities.

Unfortunately for Uber and Lyft, they massively over-hire and over-compensate (except for drivers) relative to the more financially healthy rideshare firms globally.
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

—Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying (1889)
> My experience with deps.edn is that every time I start a project and make a deps.edn file, I immediately draw a blank and don’t know how to structure it, so I open ones from other projects to start lifting stuff out of them.

My new project deps file is always literally "{}". I love that that's all I need to do to start doing stuff. I add a couple libraries as needed. Maybe at some point an alias or two.
My grandfather owned rice plantations as a young man... up until the bank which held the mortgages on the properties decided that it wanted to sell the land to a refinery. He then went to work for Shell for the next 25 years. My godfather worked for Shell for 30 years. So did my father. And when my dad ended his career there, they were about to start dismantling the global data warehousing implementation team, so he offered up his own job to receive severance. He received 2 years of pay, all 16 weeks of accrued vacation time, and of course got to keep his pension and his 401K.

I think that one of the reasons that the area is so patriarchal and right-wing is because that's the career experience of a lot of people over there. They work forever at one place, maybe survive a few layoffs, and are generally well taken care of. This deludes people into believing that it's how it is for everyone: that you can simply roll out of bed after high school and get a life-long career which will afford you a middle class lifestyle.
The Web is rife with content by hallucinating humans, so in that sense AI is becoming more like us.
Adventures in compatibility: The case of the display control panel crash on exit
https://everythingcozumel.com/chichen-itza-a-story-of-mass-d...
ChatGPT certainly lowers the bar to generating intelligible content that sounds convincing and authoritative to non-experts. In some cases it even generates correct and insightful information.

The danger of ChatGPT is that it requires little effort to generate massive amounts of content, but much more effort to debunk and fact check. It will become increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise as the internet and other places are flooded with auto-generated content.

Personally I'm not concerned about ChatGPT becoming some sort of "intelligent overlord". However I am concerned about how other humans will wield this increasingly powerful tool.
You have to know where something is to seize it. Operations over international lines are hard to do. They likely have a series of bouncers/reverse proxies before the "main" back infrastructure. It is also likely that they rotate their bouncers regularly, different datacenters, countries, etc
Really? I subscribe to maybe 10 services in my place. Energy, Internet, Mobile, VPS, and a couple of websites and patreons. No TV or streaming. And spotify I do on and off (when they have an offer for 3 months for 10 bucks).

As soon as a paid service goes subscription-only I drop it generally unless I really really need it.

I know not everyone is as anti-subscription as I am, but really, 100? Anything that pays "automatically" and auto-renews is something I have less control and visibility over so I'll do anything to avoid it.
Sounds like author just promotes their YouTube channel.
Read fiction books. I actually read comic books, and there's at least 1 new word (mostly adjectives!) every single issue I read. The nice thing about comic books is that it allows you to constantly change authors, and new authors often introduce new words. I basically learn 0 new words per day at work and doing normal "life" stuff such as reading news, but for some reason fiction literature is always teaching me new words. I also read for my kids and often have to lookup words from their books in the dictionary.

I watch "Rachel's English" on youtube and was able to learn a ton of stuff that was never taught me anywhere else. There's a ton of stuff that I thought I knew until I found her videos.
I tried it. The url I got looked like guid.domain.net. At first I was thinking that the guid part must be unique for every user, but then the domain.net part is still susceptible to being seized. So… without being able to compare the url I got with other people, I’m left wondering how this actually works.
> And since Java Security Sandbox doesn't work on Java 18 without an additional console flag - it executes code without any sandboxing on your host machine.

Whoever changed Java 18 to indirectly cause sandboxes to stop working - do they bear some responsibility here? Don't know the details of this particular case but have been burnt before by defaults changing to insecure before.
The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries
> While diagnosing and treating patients was once doctors' domain, they are increasingly being replaced by nurse practitioners and physician assistants, collectively known as "midlevel practitioners," who can perform many of the same duties and generate much of the same revenue for less than half the pay. [...] In a statement to KHN, American Physician Partners said this strategy is a way to ensure all ERs remain fully staffed, calling it a "blended model" that allows doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants "to provide care to their fullest potential."

This seems like you're expecting your ER docs to handle the worst of the worst for days on end, rather than a good blend of patients. Seeing a "routine" ER patient may offer a mental break between a more critical patient. It truly seems like an actively shitty work environment to always walk into have the worst of the worst cases—because going to the ER is already a worst case.

This is not the right way to keep humans running well, for both the sick and the docs.
There's no way you're getting a new box, meter, and service wire for $2k anywhere in the US. Certainly not California.

Plus, lots of places require these to be buried. So you've got trenching costs and that's a pain too. $20k is definitely within the ballpark of a cost.
That was a bit hyperbolic tbh, but it's not far fetched to expect about 1% opt-ins from your user base (also considering beta channels are generally opt-out).

A more reasonable way to go about this would be to launch this as opt-in first, and only bring forward the opt-out proposal if enough people don't opt-in. It doesn't have to go with opt-out on day one. This kind of requirement validation in not uncommon and I would be very surprised if the idea didn't cross them already. It would have been the far easier choice to make especially in the face of strong feedback, but the fact that they just chose to close the discussion instead of trying to move forward on the proposal doesn't bode well.
Excellent doc references, and FWIW I share your perspective on the tools.
> I brought it up with my manager and was told I would be rewarded, it was a miniscule improvement. I got enough to would cover a few extra coffees.

Get a new job. There's no solution here because management does not respect your effort.
it hepled me write code using a C library , which otherwise is very poorly documented!
Well if it quacks and it swims, it is a duck!
The article quotes Republican adviser George Callas arguing that this would be bad economics because it won't eliminate costs, just shift them to the primary price of the services in question.

I disagree. Shifting the costs to the primary price is good economics because it enables consumers to comparison-shop based on price and leads to a more competitive market. That's what companies are trying to hack with hidden fees.
Stopped paying for Slack, still use the free version. Had free integrations, don't use any more.

The WTF of Huddles and threads, and the complete lack of working notifications mean we can't trust integrations or complicated features to work or stay working.
Yeah, I read this sentiment all the time and here's what I always say – just don't use it. Leave it to the rest of us if it's so wrong / off / bad.

BTW, have you considered maybe you aren't so good at using it? A friend has had very little luck with it, even said he's been 'arguing with it', which made me laugh. I've noticed that it's not obvious to most people that it's mostly about knowing the domain well enough to ask the right question(s). It's not magic, it won't think for you.

Here's the thing… my experience is the opposite… but maybe I'm asking it the right questions. Maybe it's more about using it to reason through your problem in a dialog, and not just ask it something you can google/duckduckgo. It seems like a LOT of people think it's a replacement for Google/search engines – it's not, it's another tool to be used correctly.

Here are some examples of successful uses for me:

I carefully explained a complex work issue that involves multiple overlapping systems and our need to get off of one of them in the middle of this mess. My team has struggle for 8 months to come up with a plan. While in a meeting the other day I got into a conversation with ChatGPT about it, carefully explained all the details and then asked it to create a plan for us to get off the system while keeping everything up / running. It spit out a 2 page, 8 point plan that is nearly 100% correct. I showed it to my team, and we made a few minor changes, and then it was anointed 'the plan' and we're actually moving forward.

THEN last night I got stuck on a funny syntax issue that googling could never find the answer. I got into a conversation with ChatGPT about it, and after it first gave me the wrong answer, I told it that I need this solution for the latest dontet library that follows the 'core' language syntax. It apologized! And then gave me the correct answer…

My hunch is the people that are truly irked by this are too deep / close to the subject and because it doesn't match up with what they've worked on, studied, invested time, mental energy into, well then of course it's hot garbage and 'bad'.
As first line manager, I don't know shit, because when I know it my team knows it too. We are all in the same boat.
If only Slack hadn't completely dropped the ball on the "Huddle" experience. I can't tell you what's worse, Teams or Slack anymore.