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> who hastily released Bing's LLM to muted ridicule.

Is it tho? I mean everyone is dying to try it. I’m beginning to feel like all this stuff was intentional to drum up free advertising.

Linus Tech Tips picked it up on the Wan show and were blown away to some extent.
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Anecdotally, big isn't really necessary, though it helps (especially when designing traps, since there are going to be a lot of the suckers). Look up either the H Trap or the Bug Ball.

I've always thought black works best, but that might just be for horse flies- a quick google search seems to confirm that blue does work better than black for deer fly traps.
The governmental strategy of cheap overbundant credit means that it is a profitable strategy to borrow a ton of money, but an asset, loot it and then declare a bankruptcy. This would be detrimental for a company if the credit was tight and expensive, because nobody would give them money again or if they do, the costs would be so high that the loot wouldn't be worth the effort. But since the credit is made cheap and virtually infinitely abundant, if somebody doesn't give them the credit, somebody else will.
In a 5-4 decision on party lines
Mmm I like interacting with people but hate being forced to every day. But I was remote long before COVID.
Appreciate hearing your story! This is why I refuse to get chickens, let alone actually farm! I’m not disagreeing that this is a great amount of time with the kids, as many people see theirs way less than they would like. Still I can’t imagine losing half of my precious weekend, and in fact want another day of weekend like the people in this article. But not enough to take a pay cut because I’d rather take the money now and retire earlier. Cheers!
My understanding is the Max/Ultra are mainly about increased GPU performance. Did you compare those against the M2 Pro beforehand?
Generalising such rules you either end up getting into tangled mess of argument similar to sibling thread or it'll be too generic to be of any use or worse.

So no, please don't do it by North/South India etc., You go state by state and learn about common upper class surnames. To pick a Maharashtra sized hole in your rule, how would you categorise Chitpavan brahmin's surnames? Godbole, Phadke, Godse etc., don't even trace their origin to Sanskrit.
That just seems like a problem ripe for a disruptive solution.
It was started by people doing a giant business consulting project, for Chrysler. The Agile Manifesto came out of (some of? all of? I forget) the signatories' experiences working on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System, using the Extreme Programming methodology. How well did that work out?

From the Wikipedia article:

"The one-year delivery target was nearly achieved..."

"A few months after this first launch, the project's customer representative—a key role in the Extreme Programming methodology—quit due to burnout and stress, and couldn't be replaced."

"The plan was to roll out the system to different payroll 'populations' in stages, but C3 never managed to make another release despite two more years' development."

"Frank Gerhardt, a manager at the company, announced to the XP conference in 2000 that DaimlerChrysler had de facto banned XP after shutting down C3..."
Please tell me they don't make anything life-critical.
No one said, "Lets do waterfall". What happened was people were just working, with weekly meetings which didn't pry too hard into what engineers did. Then there was a massive fuck-up. Something took too long, was too buggy, too slow, and some customer was pissed and left.

Then the finger pointing happened.

Ops said, "Our servers aren't slow or missconfigured, QA should have done load tests before approving it. "

QA said, "The code we got was shit and buggy, it was all we could do to get all the breaking changes found before ship date!"

Devs said, "Product kept changing the design!"

Product said, "Sales sold something ill-defined and over promised!"

Sales said, "Everything we do isn't sellable! We needed these specs to compete! The reason the customers left was that Devs took too long to develop! Product couldn't write requirements! QA didn't test!".

So a solution was drawn. Product would get sales to get their sales-engineers to pre-qualify opportunities and sign off on a pre-qualification spec. Product would accept that, and once accepting it they would own it.

Product would take the Pre-Qualification doc, and produce a detailed requirements doc. Including timing estimates for interactions. They would present that to eng, and eng would sign off on it. Once they sign off, they wouldn't allow any changes to it. Product and Eng would need to complete a change request for every change to the requirements.

Eng would take the requirements and produce a detailed design doc. Then they would setup a time estimate that they would be held to. They would produce a machine spec sheet they would give to Ops to get the hardware ready. Once they complete eng, they would present the completed code to QA.

QA would have a test plan based on requirements only after they would accept the code from Devs. Once QA accepted it, they had a timeline to complete testing. When they have reached a low bug count, (Having a high number of bugs initially should have been caught by the pre-QA Test plan), they would sign off on the quality doc and hand code to Ops.

Ops would deploy the code, if the product didn't perform, it would be assumed at this point its the hardware config and thus ops issue.

All of this would be designed that the team wouldn't be "at fault" if they got the next team to accept the code, and every team would make sure everything was perfect before they accepted it. To keep deadlines, minimum times for doc creation and acceptance would be created. The only variable would be dev/qa time.

The process would be fool-proof, guaranteed that nothing could be produced that would cause another fuckup. Typically the first major project to go through this process would be the last. Either the company died before it would be completed, or the process destroyed itself in such a massive flame/backstabbing fest that even the CEO would get fired.
Google blocks ads from their competitors. [1] In the article, they state it’s because those companies are not following their standard, and are using too many resources. (Which they claim negatively impact device performance through metrics like battery performance)

In comparison, Microsoft implied in their advertisement that their browser is safer than Google’s because it has the “trust of Microsoft.”

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/resource-heavy-ads-in-chro...
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> The metric system doesn't have a nice mil-like unit for those scales; the millimetre is way too crude, and micrometres are too fine.

This kind of absurd claim would be more compelling if you hadn't just used 3 decimal places and a quotation mark to define a distance in a format used by at most ~5% of all the people working in such scales:

> ... 0.046"

My point - metric can also use decimals. More adroitly, too, I'd argue, because of the consistency.
it answers prompts with responses

why would it ever do something more than that - obviously you could hook it up with SSH creds and prompt it to do something - but on its own- without prompts -what is it supposed to do by virtue of having access?
Sometimes it's not even the land, but a permission to build something sufficiently large on it.

Perverse tax incentives may also prevent development of perfectly good, prized land: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/5/whats-with-that...
Oh my god, that "Life360" app sounds absolutely horrific, Orwellian. I never would have tolerated it as a teenager. For us back in the days before smartphones, cars meant freedom.

Of course, we were massively irresponsible with that freedom. But you have to be. How can kids learn about life if they never live it? They'll just end up sheltered, ignorant, unprepared for adulthood and independence.
Why invent when you can just... "borrow" them? In all seriousness, though, LLMs are about data and computing which I'm pretty sure China has in droves. In fact, no walled-gardens exist in a regime where everything is under a central control, so it looks like China is uniquely positioned to manufacture its own LLMs. What it does with it though, would be pretty interesting to see.
> Each state and each region has its own traits

This is indeed the only way to go about the task. Go state by state and learn about names/surnames. You'll see a pattern emerging.
This is really cool! Are you using OpenAI API under the hood or have you trained your own model?
Can it handle in-coming websockets (I want to do similar things to Grafana with it - so a continuously updating spreadsheet)
I recently used Cairns city council's exhaustive tree map to match and identify a beautiful weed tree that had popped up in my front yard (to a tree in a nearby park). Turns out it's actually an edible fruit tree (a damson plum) so we've kept it. Tho it's already quite big and will start taking light from the mango tree soon enough, so decision is akin to an adoption!

By weed tree, I mean planted by a bird.

https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/community-and-environment/tree...
Meanwhile China is going to make us irrelevant with their 996 work week. I would prefer to stay ahead and build great products than lounging around for half the week.
extensions have to touch other websites to be useful
Higher ivermectin dose, longer duration still futile for Covid, trial finds
Look what happened when chatGTP was first released, every second reply on HN used it. How do we know that isn't still happening?
So showing ads in native apps in unethical because it deprives the user control of the device they bought? Android devs are gonna be big mad when they find out.

I don't know what the bright line is, no one in the comments has been able to come up with one that defines ads in browser as bad (especially because they're not the only browser to have ads -- *waves to Firefox and Brave*) but wouldn't affect other forms of advertising we already find acceptable that isn't "I just don't like it." And that's fair, I don't like it either but we've kinda painted ourselves in a corner with the whole, "software is the property and platform of the who make it" thing.

Transmitting me a piece of code I run on my machine or voluntarily install as part of the OS isn't really any different than what we do with browsers anyway. After reading everyone's comments I'm leaning toward, "these ads in particular make tech people uncomfortable because they're well targeted and it breaks the mental model they've mistakenly held that the browser is actually theirs and not serving the interests of corporate daddy."

Big Stallman was right energy.
So the real hourly rate is 12% higher than it was in 2012. Is that a correct reading of the chart? That seems not great because rent and food feel like they have doubled.
Great summary result for what I was looking for! I'll be using this!
Imagine spending a single second thinking about this fake problem.
In case anyone is wondering why different glyphs have the same unicode code point, and how an app is supposed to decide which one to render... Well I don't know the reason for the first question actually, though many people appear to have some choice comments.

But as for the second question: for HTML documents, many tags have a lang attribute that decide which version of the glyph to render within that tag. Hacker News has lang="en", so it'll use a user setting to decide. For example, in Firefox' about:config, there's a setting called cjk_pref_fallback_order. If e.g. ja comes first, the little square inside the top square in 骨 is rendered on the right side, if any zh thing comes first, it's rendered on the left side.
I divide them into three groups.

The first group is those who live a dual life. Different moral compass for West and a different for back home. They put on a good facade and are often reserved when expressing their views about caste and stuff. They are the “no politics” version of your friend circle.

The second group is of those people who accept it (the values) completely and practice it and even try to bring this topic back home and get ousted socially because of the brutal backlash they get. These people are usually not very vocal and try to keep it to themselves and often have Western friends more than the friends from their own community. They are also lambasted by other two groups for trivial reasons like their wives dressing in shorts or posting beach pictures on facebook or for their “accent” for sounding too American/Aussie/Canadian. This group suffers a lot. They are not Western enough for Westerns and they are not authentic enough for the other two groups. They are always a minority everywhere they go.

And there’s this last group, the Western values messes up their whole thought process. They cry discrimination when it’s them at the receiving end but otherwise, West is a money making machine. Accept the monetary benefits but reject the social values of equality and individualism. They are also very vocal and supportive of the regressive values back home and often invent various arguments to support them somehow.

Disclaimer: this is my anecdotal theory based on my interaction with different Indian communities.
It's kind of hilarious you chose automating McDonald's as your benchmark, seeing as a proof of concept literally just went live.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-automated-restaurant-...
As someone who also managed, fair enough. I always measured by consistency. The engineers would commit and if they met their commitments they were usually good. Sometimes I’d have to nudge them one way or the other, but rarely did I see an issue.

For me personally, I enjoy committing to stretch myself. Leave it all on the field so-to-speak. I love my / our trade so it’s easy for me. I don’t expect it from others at that level.
There are 8 remaining children who still use Facebook and Mark has a dedicated team of a dozen PMs intensively following each one trying to crack the code.
Totally agree. Data is a problem when you need millions of labels, but when your training corpus is just "all the text I can find on the internet" and the training objective is self-supervised, it's not what's stopping people. But as you say, actually training a model of this size is really, really tricky. You can't just grab a few ML engineers off the street, write a check to AWS for some compute and have your own GPT-3.
> In the U.S., where I am, regular liver enzyme tests are a requirement for a Truvada prescription.

Incorrect. A one-time test of liver function was previously sometimes suggested before starting PrEP specifically... but not for the reason you think. And it was never required.

Ongoing liver enzyme tests are neither required nor recommended. In fact, Truvada and Descovy were shown to be so safe during clinical trials that routine liver function tests are explicitly contraindicated for patients with no other comorbidities.

> It's an ad hominem.

Even if I were accusing you of intentionally spreading fear and misinformation, that still would not be an ad hominem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> That's how it's used, but the units don't measure the same thing.

I'm having some real trouble parsing this sentence right here. You're saying that the two DIFFERENT UNITS "fluid ounce" and "ounce (weight)" measure DIFFERENT things? Yes, different units measure different things. Or maybe I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

If I said "kilogram force", you'd know exactly what that is.

You are also not confused when I say that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade, and a right angle is 90 degrees.

And don't even get me started on the number of people who argue that 1024 bytes is called a "kilobyte".
Until the 1960s people worked on Saturday in my country.

Economically giving people more time to spend money was a great idea.
Youtube has a lot of them.

Here's one about a derailment in Nashville. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZT7TTQqb4

Here's the one I mentioned about a derailment in middle of nowhere Iowa that dumped tar into the creek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpL0Xk9jTI

Here's one of those local news reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_pKVdv-Y6Y
> on a Mac that has scroll bars that are invisible until you scroll

this has got to be one of the worst UX decisions of the past 10 years, come at me. You can just hear the meeting discussion:

A: make the scrollbars invisible until you scroll, that nets us 4% more width!

B: but it reduces discoverability by 50%, and its also an attack vector...

C: ship it!
>Walmart does well no matter what: high inflation due to strong economy means higher prices. Economic weakness means people shop at Walmart to save money.

Welcome to the consumer staples sector. You do relatively well during recessions because people have to eat, but during boom times they're not going to buy 2x more because their wallets are fatter. Your growth prospects are also heavily limited, in contrast to "growth" companies like Amazon.
> Just under a million of that was on storing 8 petabytes of files in S3, fully replicated across several regions

Hol' up. They're replicating data across regions -- across /several/ regions -- on top of a service (S3) which already has 99.999999999% data durability in a single region? ...Why?
Now's where one needs the Wikipedia article titled something like "Engineering Failures Caused By American/Metric Confusion".

There's at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter and TBH I was hoping there'd be a link to such a list on that one.

I seriously hope I'm Poe's Law-ing your post too, and there's an implied /s on there, because if you could see the level of communication effort I see at work … yeah, I'd absolutely believe that someone would use it in a confusable context.
> If Mary knows everything about red then she also knows what seeing it is like.

Not necessarily.
And if you assert it is true, then it can be true only in a limited sense.

Can you "know everything" about playing guitar if you've never actually done it yourself? I think you'll agree with me when I say the answer varies:

It's "Yes", if you mean "know everything" to stand for something like "know everything objective that can be passed along to another person without any loss whatever." (I'm thinking of things like how guitars are made, how they're tuned, how you play them, etc.)

But it's "No" if you mean "know everything" to also include your subjective first person experience of actually playing a real guitar (and why wouldn't you include that as part of your "know everything"?) If the subjective feeling is something to be known, then it ought to be included as part of your "know everything" list, right? (If not, why not?)
It is good... but still not as fast as even a laptop 3060. You are kinda stuck with Nvidia unless AI on battery is an absolute top priority.
Ah WTG! How many soccer fields is the office now?
Agree with the Stadia. I think the calculus was around cost vs. potential for a moat. Streaming PC ports is not a moatable platform. They wanted to do unique things for games that no other platform could do. Unless the game industry latched onto that the moat just isn’t there. Might as well run a commodity GPU PC streaming service and sell the utility to others. This is exactly what they are doing with Stadia in the cloud.
> The US customary units are pretty logical, they're just not powers of 10.

It somewhat slides off the cliff when you take into account the existences of the imperial ounce and the US food labelling ounce, though.
Inflation is how the government raises taxes without raising taxes.

1. Even if wages kept pace with inflation (and they often don't), the wage increases happen after the fact. They're at least a year behind.

2. The government defines how inflation is calculated. It's in the government's best interests to have the calculated figure be as low as they can get away with. The actual rate of inflation is likely considerably more than the official rate.

3. Inflation pushes you into a higher tax bracket. Not everything is indexed to inflation.

4. Inflation causes illusory capital "gains", and is taxed.

5. Anyone holding bonds that pays a fixed interest rate gets a haircut.

6. Most people, including the WSJ, neglect to adjust figures for inflation.
Some of us actually like our jobs and find joy in what we work on. If you want single case it's me. I can look back at previous jobs and wish that I spent more time working making something even better, improving other people's lives more.
The problem is making people who can't do the actual work into managers.

It's really a class problem. Rich people don't want to associate with those filthy poors unless they get to be above them, so they created MBA programs and a managerial class.
> That you know of. The 747 laser may not be a thing, but a military warplane with the next gen version of that laser may very well be

There is no reason to keep laser aircraft secret since they are only for limited use. The whole YAL-1 aircraft and the follow on program have been announced but we haven't seen the prototype. If was secretly working, wouldn’t have Congress complaining about budgets being cut. Laser research has been focused on short-range air defense.

You missed the part about deployment. Boost phase lasers need to be close to target, we would have noticed ones flying from Japan or South Korea around North Korea. If there was working laser system, they wouldn't be spending tons of money of missile-based defense.

> That you know of. Putting a rack of tungsten rods with basic guidance's system on a payload isn't really that complicated. They don't really need to be that big for localized destruction either. A 20x1 foot one has destructive power of an ICBM. A smaller one could take out a silo easily as it would penetrate quite far.

Hypersonic guidance is hard, ICBMs aren't guided. China has anti-ship missile but that is on slower IRBM. Unguided ballistic projectiles may not be accurate enough to hit silos.

That much tungsten weighs 34 tons. You also need to send up the rocket to drop it out of orbit. Falcon 9 can only put 22 ton into LEO, Falcon Heavy is 50 tons. Basically means either need smaller (there is a limit to size) or wait for Starship. SpaceX has dropped the price but it is also projectile per launch.

That size projectile would do 850 ton TNT at 10 km/s. Not as destructive as an warhead which are 100x more powerful. Other problem is that there isn't much use for 1 kT strike, it is too big for conventional warfare that prefers lots of precision strikes. Strategic attacks can be done with cruise missiles against non-peers and not at all against peers.

Final problem with kinetic bombardment is proliferation. There is no way to know if it is kinetic or nuclear payload and nuclear is much better option. Opponent would have to assume that any launch could be nuclear attack. Or if conventional then your proposed first strike. It is the same problem that scrapped conventional ICBM.

> If they use gps for guidance, they can definitely be jammed/misdirected with a strong enough fake gps signal. And setting off an emp that creates magnetic fields strong enough to cause high current in circuitry is not that farfetched - the guidance computer may be fairly shielded, but you still have servos and other parts exposed that would be affected.

They don't use GPS, they are inertially guided. Once they launch there is no outside output. The military hardens all of its electronics. Warheads are designed to have nuclear explosion go off next to them, both for nearby siblings and nuclear-armed SAMs.