skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's insane how good Microsoft sales people are

Having seen Microsoft, Google and Amazon people 'pitch' their cloud solutions to a mid sized company I used to work for with quite 'normal' cloud needs, I can tell you it's not that MS sales people are great, but rather that Google and Amazon are terrible and can't be bothered to even make a serious effort for anything but the largest of deals.
How to overengineer with an LLM, don't state clearly the requirements, shove your pet patterns first, it is more important to follow the slice redux awareness hook than to have working solution, never trust your developers to make decisions, worry more how it is built than building a solution.

My way to work with an LLM is to have a good, clear requirement and make the LLM write a possible file organization and query the contents of each file, just the code no comments and assemble a working prototype fast, then you can iterate over the requirements and evolve from there.
Would you entrust a software you can’t audit to format a device with software you can’t audit?
As a side note on the state of phones; I am a bit disappointed by the current state of them. When I walk past the phone section in the electronic store it is nothing but boring black slabs. No real innovation, No real reason to buy one over the other. For me there is absolutely, zero, reason to buy a new phone to replace my current five year old black rectangle. Which is perfect against e-waste of course, but part of me also would like to get excited about quirky new innovations.
On a Unix-compatible system, ls(1) is the highest-level interface to get a directory listing. There is no good reason for Emacs to use scandir(3) (or even opendir(3)/readdir(3)).
I don’t think cities that gather the “I like money” folk have really ever attracted interesting people, or another way: money doesn’t make people interesting.
OpenAI is on the wrong side of that line. That doesn't mean this project has to also do that.
I was curious and looked it up on Google Maps[0] and that's definitely not a road; it's a six-lane stroad[1] optimized solely for traffic flow. Those are really good at killing pedestrians because people perceive them as being wide open, all but inviting drivers to speed up.

I'm guessing the diverging diamond replaced a bridge with two intersections? In which case, the oddity of the diverging diamond might at least serve as a traffic calming measure. Even when you get used to it, switching travel directions is uncomfortable for drivers which can force them to be a bit more cautious.

That said, the new sidewalks in the satellite photos are probably a big improvement over the old ones (if there were any). They at least have some small curbs and ~2-4 feet of separation from the cars traveling at high speeds along the stroad. If you look at the sidewalks to the west, where there's no separation from the stroad, they're...well, at least not that? But for the most part, sidewalks alongside stroads are just an afterthought.

0. https://goo.gl/maps/ZytZNN7TumnHqozU9

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad
You have two ears for a reason. What the MBA is informing you is marketing is a LOT MORE than promoting. I don't have an MBA, but I've learned that from decades of experience and listening to other people's expertise.
https://archive.md/fl3ZF
Having a perfect track record is a pretty high bar. Lots of entrepreneurs have failed with some of their businesses. We usually consider them successful if one works out really well, much less two.
Touche. I'd still lean to implementation. Something like stealing from SWF would drastically impact sovereign rating and sovereign's ability to borrow.
I have been a casual Linux user from back when I did installs from Ubuntu ISO CDs in the mail. Broadcom is in everything and has always a huge pain to work with, it remains a huge pain to this day.
GPTs as a drop in the fixed cost of prediction
Here's why GPTs are going to have a massive impact on business:

AI in the 2010s

- As described in the book Prediction Machines, deep learning enabled a significant drop in the cost of prediction, which enabled new technical capabilities (better object recognition, etc.) and therefore new applications (automatically identifying people in images, etc.)

- Business adoption lagged. Here's an article by McKinsey "AI Adoption Advances, but Foundational Barriers Remain" that describes some of the barriers such as lack of talent and lack of available data: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intell...

- The drop in the cost of prediction in the 2010s was primarily a drop in the MARGINAL cost of prediction.

- It still required a substantial investment (i.e. FIXED cost) to build these systems, which became a major barrier.

AI in the 2020s

- Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) have enabled a
significant drop in the FIXED cost of prediction.

- Whereas AI in the 2010s required massive datasets and large highly specialized (machine learning) teams, AI in the 2020s requires very minimal (or no) data and minimal technical capabilities (basic software development and even non-technical folks can build).

Implications

- This will enable many new classes of applications and a drastically greater adoption of AI.

- Workflows -- Dropping the fixed cost of prediction to near-zero means that the "glue" tasks completed by humans to stitch together workflows can easily be automated, enabling 100% automation of many workflows.

- Systems -- As these 100% workflow automations arise, those who can drastically rethink the design of systems will be the ones who benefit most.
Wisdom is sure lacking, this is what scares me about generative AI, it doesn’t grant wisdom, it allows us to do stupid shit at 10x.
I remember at some point (as an introvert) my mental model of extroverts flipped and I suddenly began to see them not as super humans but almost like disabled people. Unable to function independently because of a severe deficit in their mental makeup that makes them unable to sustain happiness without supplementary support from presence of other individuals. I still envy them in certain ways but now I have a much more balanced view of it than when I was younger and I really felt like something was wrong with me.
You forgot the end of that story:

"Go forth and sin no more."

All I ask is that you try to do the right thing. That's it. I can understand, accept, and forgive failure as long as you try.
$92 billion? Kinda reminds me of another country with a real estate bubble a short while ago. Wonder what will happen to all these Ponzi schemes all over the world in the coming depressed climate.
Is anyone else tired of hearing about "earning the trust of the CEO"? Where's the chatter about CEOs earning the trust of their staff?
Hopefully. It's unclear what value commercial property landlords bring to the table. They don't finance the development - that is done by banks. They don't do repairs - at the commercial property I'm involved in the tenant has to do that. They don't fit out the shop - we had to do that, and we have to remove the fittings at the end of the tenancy. They aren't flexible - it's a virtually unbreakable 10 year lease, to move you have to find a replacement tenant.
> how code either works or doesn't.

That's all "correct" is trying to mean here. As a synonym for "working". Can you share a bit more on the negative connotations of "correct"? Nothing comes to mind for me.
> proven clean tech

It's still horribly expensive and slow to build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_... : approval in 2012, 50% cost overrun, projected completion in 2027.

People will counter that with various other reactor designs, but if it's a new design, it no longer counts as "proven", does it? Not until the first one is running.

Then there are two other risks:

- the "black swan" disaster, where a Chernobyl cloud takes out European agricultural production for months and in a few places years. Very low probability, but things can go wrong; the shelling near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, for example.

- nuclear proliferation. Everyone's forgotten about this since we're fine with the existing nuclear powers, but does that apply to every country?
This is the fraud website mimicking BharatGPT, this has not been launched for the consumers as per the developer of BharatGPT, i.e. CoRover.ai

Ref: https://corover.ai/bharatgpt/
I wonder how much methane you could capture from a domestic-sized greenhouse, fertalised with manure? I'm really not sure what paths there are for manure which don't release methane and other emissions, at least here the effect is useful
That's interesting, because you've identified the reason I asked the question - on my TP-Link router wired connections just flood out wireless connections, and make them unusable as long as I'm doing anything heavy (like downloading ISOs).

The solution's not going to be found in the firmware, is it?
Concerning medical software, there is the general problem of having to regulate "tampering" (making unauthorized alterations) of medical equipment.
I think most of the bad reputation they have in Europe is there mostly due to people who never lived in Morocco.

Or maybe it's the same effect as with the Schengen expansion: all the troublemakers moved west.
What I want is a prompt that continuously copies whatever I'm doing, so I can ask to complete the task.

For example, say I'm converting all identifiers in a file from lowercase to CamelCase. Then after doing like 3 of them, I can ask the LLM to take over and do the remainder.
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In Chicago, there are efforts to convert office buildings into residential units.

https://www.costar.com/article/1334232190/chicagos-plans-for...
Maybe they also have a Telegram channel in response to constantly having their content removed on Facebook /s
> It's an issue of forcing teachers to do things they know won't work or aren't working.

So many teachers at this point have been falsely taught that phonics doesn't work, that many skip thinking they are doing the right thing. We need them to try to teach phonics. Yes, there are some students it won't work for, such as those with hearing problems. However, those students should be in specialized programs already. For everyone without hearing problems, we need them to try.
You think parks are "almost absent" in North America?
Thanks a lot for the info. Am an electronics hobbyist and still trying to understand this better. Lot of new terms in your explanation. :)
A factor of four is a good rule of thumb for a CTO receiving a time estimate from an engineer.

- How long will the upgrade take ?

- Two weeks at most.

- Ok, talk to you two weeks from now. (CTO proceeds to jot down in his report to the CEO: "Upgrade: 8 weeks").
It's pretty annoying: Cars have to yield to pedestrians while exiting the roundabout, they don't yield while entering. (Though luckily, many are nice enough to do anyhow.)

In order to have any chance of crossing the roundabout in rush-hour traffic, I have to accept cars yielding and cross onto the middle island between exit and entry. The alternative to not crossing for yielding cars would be to wait until the roundabout is empty, which essentially never happens.

However, the island is tiny. My son's bike just about fits, mine does not even fit remotely. Thus I now have to teach him to stop exactly on that island (Which, admittedly, he does very well. I don't have the confidence, though, that he'll be able to 100 % of the time. Driving past once while a car also goes by has a significant chance of causing an accident, as there is no space to evade for anybody.)

This whole ordeal we have to do twice every day. It's not totally unmanagable, but a crossing with traffic lights is so much safer than these maneuvers, that include communicating and trusting cars that they know the rules as well and understand what you're about to do.
Quanta Magazine's 3D Standard Model of Particle Physics (2020)
The sources of information are the limit though - to make a better world using this sort of 'consumption vote'[0], businesses and their relationships need to be way more transparent, with possibly a regulated transparency.

I wonder whether there could be FOSS business intelligence to a degree that the most likely business relationships of entities will be estimated and published, automatically. And then companies that actually supply data about their supply chains etc. will have a marketing advantage.

[0] you cannot organize this vote, since there are anti-boycott laws
Heh fascinating. I thought you guys were purely colo hosters, my employer has a ton of rackspace at one of your DCs.
So? Lots of systems are made of multiple components.
The value they bring is unlike other vultures they’ve trained themselves to quietly take your money without incessant screeching. Otherwise, they’re rather pointless middlemen.
I don’t know why you would say it’s impossible. 10k people do it a year, it’s a well documented process. The biggest hurdle is probably the language? Since most people can exist in Japan without a full grasp of the language in more ways than other countries
The biggest thing I would do differently is remind myself that my child's life is not my life.

In the end, my child's interests were not mine even though at age seven or eight, it was easy to mistake their interests in being with me for interests in my adult interests.

Practically speaking what I would do differently is to give everything time. At seven a child is only half way to fourteen and fourteen is an early start on programming. Seven is only a third of the way to twenty-one and learning programming at twenty one is just fine...I mean seventy isn't too late to start.

Don't expect Scratch to captivate a seven year old. iPads are easier to use and endlessly more fascinating. And infinitely of greater utility. These days, it's a whatever. These days, spending time with you is what matters.

Good luck.
You might enjoy the book Happy City, by Charles Montgomery.
Podman Desktop 0.14
So if physiological wholeness is a criterion, that gives license to both abort before physiological wholeness occurs (so no issue with Plan b and similar treatments) and to abort right up to the moment of birth for any fetus with imperfections past a certain criteria (to be clarified later), right?
The simulations are really cool. I'm trying to think of a real-world situation where you'd have differently-sized backends though. I guess it might help if your server runs hourly cron jobs that take away system resources from requests.
Is there any book/textbook course out there that goes through how to write a database or dbms from scratch up to something useful, think something like nand to tetris style? I have been looking but there is not much on this topic out there I feel like.
Rare T-Rex skeleton to go under the hammer in Switzerland
I wish I had more context for Uncle Bab.

The Báb (born ʿAlí Muḥammad; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was the messianic founder of Bábism, and one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. He was a merchant from Shiraz in Qajar Iran who, in 1844 at the age of 25, claimed to be a messenger of God. He took the title Báb (/bɑːb/; Arabic: باب; meaning "Gate" or "Door"), a reference to the deputy of the Hidden Imam, while instigating a religious revolution that proposed the abrogation of Islamic laws and traditions, and the establishment of a new religion.[1] Though he was popular among the lower classes, he faced opposition from the orthodox clergy and government, which eventually executed him and thousands of his followers, known as Bábís.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1b
we are so stuck with this push request load balancing its crazy, if we just switch to pull instead of push things get much smoother, and resources get better utilized

you cant reliably guess if the instance where you will push your request actually has capacity to handle it, even using ML to guess it will still have thrashing properties

but if you just let instances pull work, things work out for themselves

sadly, the whole industry is stuck on http push

i was playing with it few years ago making a simple queue and wrote my ideas here: https://punkjazz.org/jack/we-got-it-all-wrong.txt and some basic benchmarks https://punkjazz.org/jack/we-got-it-all-wrong-2.txt

in the same time, there is so much tooling for http, and its so natural to use it, that it is actually hard to switch to another transport layer, so now the best we have is some naive bayesian classifiers in the LB and some exponential backoff

here is the difference i had in timings using synchronous io queue vs http for 2 endpoints, one fast and one slow (endpoints had the same code, just transport was different)

2019/02/19 22:26:27 synchronous QUEUE ... 20000 messages, took: 29.95s, speed: 667.74 per second
- 0+10=9711 48.55% ******************************
- 10+ 5= 276 49.94%
- 15+ 8= 20 50.03%
- 23+12= 16 50.11%
- 35+18=3398 67.11% **********
- 53+27=6549 99.85% ********************
- 80+40= 30 100.00%
- 120+60= 0 100.00%
- 180+90= 0 100.00%
- 270+ 0= 0 100.00%

2019/02/19 22:26:56 http ... 20000 messages, took: 29.55s, speed: 676.91 per second
- 0+10=3274 16.37% ********************
- 10+ 5=1523 23.98% *********
- 15+ 8=4439 46.18% ****************************
- 23+12=4756 69.96% ******************************
- 35+18=3318 86.55% ********************
- 53+27=2037 96.73% ************
- 80+40= 581 99.64% ***
- 120+60= 70 99.99%
- 180+90= 2 100.00%
- 270+ 0= 0 100.00%

you can see how the fast endpoint is always fast with the queue transport, but with classic push load balancing it spills latency a lot, because the instance is sometime busy servicing the slow request

PS: this post is absolutely amazing! and the animations are brilliant! thanks a lot for making it
Is Japan in the 1980's the short while ago?

The whole office building kind of thing is indeed looking a little more dated with every passing year but I guess I'm missing the Ponzi scheme aspect of it.
Fully agreed. Plus at a fundamental level this new anti intellectual trend feels wrong.

Do we truly want to become the Eloi to our new GPT Morlocks?

Every time we wrote fiction about this it was in very dystopic terms. Have we suddenly decided it's OK to simply give up and have a chatbot understand the world for us?
https://cucumber.io/

That "did they actually mean that or was it autowrong?" feeling is going to get worse I fear.
when people are buying with their own money -- they're preferring Macs 2-to-1 over PC's now.

I suspect that most people actually spending their own money are spending less than $1000, which more or less puts Apple out of the running.
> Tesla GigaBier [is] a “limited edition pilsner-style beer brewed in Berlin with our exclusive strain of Cyberhops and notes of citrus, bergamot, and sweet fruit.” [...] GigaBier is sold in packs of three 330-ml bottles for 89 euros (close to $100—or about $30 a beer)

Fuck off Elon fuck off together with all those dimwits who find it stylish or funny to shell out 30€ for a can of beer. Please take all your buddies with you too, and you can take those politicians with you who bypassed democratic institutions to secretly strike a deal with Tesla to build a factory near Berlin, then went to TV to brag about it. When you came around for opening day and got asked by the public about groundwater concerns and you broke out into inane laughter I finally understood what a dangerous and mad person you are. Go to hell and stay there.
Not a typo.[0]

In the 00s/early 10s, software went through a fad phase where people earnestly thought that by implementing Gherkin frameworks like Cucumber, you'd be able to hand off writing tests to "business people" in "plain English." It went about as well as you'd expect.

[0] https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/
I don't think that would make sense. If Google is struggling with search, a one man Google clone isn't going to do it better.

I also think that having "a google", one central search engine, is inherently a bad thing for the health of the Internet. It drives a lot of this search engine spam epidemic we're seeing.

A broader and (IMO) more interesting problem is Internet discovery.
I will never trust the FDE implementation shipped on an SSD.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/crucial-samsung-ssd-encryp...
Stemming would get you 95% of the way there in coalescing tags. Would sentence embedding outperform that significantly?
No, what the person with a MBA said was that marketing also included product development.

The person with this MBA's had no rebuttal to my reply pointing out that product development is not a marketing responsibility what they should build but how to get their solution in front of people who have that pain. It's marketing's responsibility for product placement to explain how the product solves their pain. To make the product understandable and relatable.

And no matter how many ears I have the fact they couldn't come up with a rebuttal to what I wrote and instead just talked about their MBA as a reason why they are right is very telling. And for someone who says they've learned from decades of experience and listening to people, you've also failed to rebut what I wrote. Since, there has been zero rebuttals to what I've written a smart person can only assume they have no rebuttals. So maybe you should learn from my experience and expertise and realise that product development does not belong to marketing and finding a problem to solve is not a marketing issue but a product development issue.
There is no downside.
The line would be overly broad and blurry, to be sure. But I think Voltaire's maxim has some sense to it- "History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below." The rise and fall of great societies frequently parallel this general difference in temperament- The prosperous fruits of stoic labor create a lavish environment for their successors, in which they languish in indolence and allow the foundations built by their ancestors to crumble for want of diligence and prudence.
Close, but the link is on Page 13, and it points here: https://github.com/mwillsey/egg-smol

Unfortunately the naming is all a bit confusing, isn't it....
Yes, woe betide the brainwashing that tells our young people that... They can do whatever they want that is not harmful to others.

Definitely not a message we should be inculcating the next generation with, right?
They're not really subtle about it, no.
On top of that they are choosing to default on loans to force negotiations on better terms for them. After they agreed to these loans with floating-rate with complete knowledge of the risks it entails.

It's just vulturing and rent-seeking to the extreme, if markets are efficient then they should just go under, they've bet on their risks vs rewards and lost.
I still find BS2000 to be the coolest name of any OS out there. Siemens being a German company, and the system going back to the 1970s, I'm almost certain it stood for "Betriebssystem 2000" originally (Betriebssystem being German for operating system), which is so quaint. And of course, in English speaking countries the acronym BS has another meaning that makes it even more delicious. ;-)
Time and physics are just things you experience. They're parts of the universe, they're within the universe. The mathematical universe itself can quite easily be infinite in both space and time, you just can't experience all of it.
There is a reasonable argument that companies who employ a lot of people per unit of profit/revenue should pay a lower rate of tax on those profits.

If you create a fleet of robo-semi trucks and take over the American logistics business by cutting 80% of the transportation workforce, you are creating significant social harm in the pursuit of profit. Increased taxation could either act as a disincentive to the labour-pocalypse or provide revenue to help society smooth the career transition for those workers.

This of course will never happen in the US.
Full List of China's Unofficial Police Stations Around the World
genuine question: Is Vax simulation broken on SIMH?

https://github.com/open-simh/simh/tree/master/VAX
https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/overview/