skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This works really well when the engineers themselves have all the knowledge+ability to tackle the problem."

This reminds me of a similar situation almost a decade ago where someone watched a talk on how GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub. The people who watched the talk all tried to convince me that we should adopt similar process that puts less emphasis on PMs. However, this worked for GitHub because their engineers had such a strong similarity to their customer base. For us that wasn't the case at all and we typically needed PMs to have lots of customer conversations and explain to us how customers used our product because we were building Enterprise software for people whose day-to-day we didn't understand easily.
Two questions:
- What do mean by "regular intervals"?
- Would it be hard to focus if they are too short, or conversely you miss events if its too long?

Would love to have a quick 5-min chat and brainstorm some ideas. I'm available from 4-6pm EST mondays, wednesdays, and thursdays. Drop me an email at winstonyeo99@yahoo.com with your availability, and I'll schedule a meet.
This is targetting technical post college cohort to man sophisticated modern weapon systems - aka very employable folks not covered under 18-24 youth unemployment stats. They're not looking for more jar heads to run private security, which is already filled with able bodies. They're looking for cyber/electronic warfare specialists etc, folks US mil has problems retaining or competing with private industry.
So they are happy with their iPads. Nice! But those aren't very "Pro" use cases and are perfectly covered with the cheapest model.
>> it does not use linked lists at its core

does Clojure?

I can implement a Scheme interpreter that passes most test suites using vectors instead of linked lists, would you not consider it a lisp?
Are you able to tell when a human is?
Breakthrough experiment proves light travels in both space and time
A Macbook Air's computing power is good enough for me. Will the new AMD chips be able to compete with M2's battery life while offering similar or more computing power is the big question. Does WSL drain the windows battery faster? I don't think most of the people using Macbooks care about Cinebench or gaming performance.
Yep, and I didn't opt in. Turns out I don't need to yell at my lights. Seems most people are in the same boat, which makes this a weird part of the market where the customer isn't treated very well.
I just watched a rerun of CSI that was clearly a homage to this. I remember thinking "What kind of crazy murder will they think up next?" Truth is stranger than fiction.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/csi_vegas/s02/e02
If documentation were adequate, there wouldn't have been a need for Stack Overflow in the first place. At least for now, it still takes (human) intelligence to consume documentation and synthesize knowledge through experience with new technologies, at which point it can be communicated to others. LLMs may get to that point, but they aren't there yet. Also, good documentation explains not only the what and the how of a codebase (which LLMs may be able to summarize from the code), but also the why and the when (e.g. when to use one method or another).
“Television, he always said, is inhuman to children because it gives them answers to questions they never asked. It did this for purposes of control.” From the article - Wow

If you don’t give them the answer they might have a moment where they discover something on their own.

“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” J. Robert Oppenheimer (I read this quote today in the book, the medium is the massage, by McLuhan.)
It was barely taught in my American world history class, except as a footnote to WWI.
Not right away, which is why I prefer bing over chatGPT (less tendency to get things subtly wrong and gaslight me). However I see no significant distinction between a hallucinating LLM and a person who made a mistake. It's something that the LLM engineers and the LLMs will work on every day. There are definitely some caveats but I maintain that less energy is required and I get faster and more tuned results than an SO post or trawl.
Maybe, however there seems to be a limit to that no? I’m not talking about errors that are fixed or factual information. More like discoveries, ex: the FairPlay issue wasn’t documented from Apple it was discovered by multiple users who found and solved the issue I had. How does something like that exist with an LLM? There wasn’t really an error message that told you what to look for. It was a community effort of trial and error. Stackoverflow is nice because of the collaboration that can go on.
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But are they really competing products?
You realise I wasn't talking about commercial or subsistence fishing.
Or... hear me out: variable length, ideally with support for ascii or other encodings allowing human readable addresses ( no dns!) and routing done using top level addresses.

"AAA.CA" becomes 4143.414141, routers will find the best route for 4143 and anycast ti 414141.<more specific address>, the apex AAA in this case would also be the ASN equivalent for bgp type routing and the TLD CA would also be the PKI certificate authority used to validate both routing updates and address ownership by the applications on either end. No port numbers either, the full address should describe the layer4+ addresses, so the full address user types instead of https://AAA.CA:8443, it becomes HTTPS.8443..AAA.CA (.. meaning anycast to the closest endpoint).

A good protocol is the easy part, the hard part is getting all the big networking companies and their engineers to agree on something.
> I hate everything about iPadOS: the fact that we can't have a normal browser with normal extensions, that none of my muscle memory shortcuts work, that none of the actually good software for my work is on the store, stage manager, etc.

I'm convinced that the original plan behind putting an M-processor into an iPad was to allow running macOS applications via virtualization.

There's no point otherwise, "serious computing" was the M1's whole brand, the whole point behind calling it that was signifying that it wasn't some limited iPhone chip. Otherwise they could've just kept calling it A14.
> This I 100% agree with. I've come to look at these frameworks (kanban, scrum etc) as I look at the Bible... no church gets it right and never will. It's not possible.

It's interesting that you use this analogy. I've always compared Scrum to Communism or faith healing: If it doesn't work for you, you either didn't implement it correctly or you didn't believe in it enough.
So your only argument why type c is inferior is that it is smaler and slides easier and you deliberately choose to ignore all it's advantages... I had used both and I don't really see a difference in connecting a cable to the phone, both are easy to manage. Corrosion is a problem for lightning, if you didn't get it, you are very lucky, but you can find a lot of complains with a google search. You want to preserve battery and that's fine, I want too, that's why I use ADAPTIVE CHARGING that decreases charging speed at the end for exactly that. The thing is, if manufacturer wants to add faster charging, it can. Wifi is not fast enough for transfering gb's of data, especially when dealing with proraw 4k footage. Magsafe is faster, but you see, they still left type c, because some people don't want to carry 3 charging cables with them to charge iphone, ipad and macbook. And tbh max speed for magsafe is what? 140w? They could have done this with usbc, but at least they gave consumers a choice, a choice that doesn't exist for lightning
The problem is even scrum doesn't give the predictability and observability better than kanban. It's extremely hard to predict what we need to do in next 2 weeks and what we can achieve in next 2 weeks. At my current company, half, if not more, of the tickets come in mid-sprint.

So even though the current company is using scrum, in my team I treat it as kanban with story point limited, meaning I start with a certain amount of story points, then add / remove as the sprint is going.
LLMs can already browse the web with the help of auxiliary systems, consuming current content. AFAIK GPT-4 has a browser plugin for that, as well as several other plugins for retrieving specific types of (current) information.

A well-trained language model only needs to be retrained when the language changes. New facts can be fed to the model by simply telling it about them, which is how those "plugins" work behind the scenes.
The likes of Popper for ILP are quite incredible in their own right although I would highlight to other readers that the article is about making reasoning explicit using Prolog as opposed to machine learning.
How? How is pulling 10 points of work into every two week sprint "more visible" or "granular" than pulling anything as it comes up at a velocity of 5 points per week? I'm not even being contrarian, I truly don't understand how sprints could be better than knocking down a work queue.
Extra credit if you wire up ChatGPT to the right tools so it can, as well as coming up with the initial response, construct the tests to validate the response, execute and evaluate the tests, and post to SO after validation.
What do you think of a subscription-based product and development team?
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I learned a big lesson: Paying team members can be really expensive startups.

That's the reason why we launched a new service. It's a subscription-based dedicated product and development team.

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The “why” is another great example too. When you document something you try to do so with some way of showing intent as well. While LLMs are so amazing (really). There is still a lot that I get curious about how it can be effectively used.
It depends what you are working on, how you ship and how three rest of the company works. I work on Enterprise software that's not SaaS. We ship every 9-12 months. If we do it more frequently it just annoys our slow-moving costumers and increases our support burden because there are now more versions in support that might need patches. Our sales and marketing teams need to know when we ship. Sometimes costumers mighy need to adjust their own release schedules to when our next release is out. If one team needs longer for a critical feature, we need to know as early as possible so that we can discuss cutting scope, pushing the release out, cutting the feature, etc.
If this is like DEP on macOS, it is more like a first use redirect until enrollment than a fully-blown MDM.
I like this guide

https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
Yep. But how does it compare to GPT-4 or Bing Chat? Then wonder how well GPT-5 will perform, and 6.
Also, did rubber-ducking your query have a benefit regardless of the correctness of chat's answer?
I've tried many different types of eye masks, and it has taken me a while, but I have finally found ones that are both comfortable and do not contact my eyes or eyelashes while sleeping. There are many companies who make similar eye masks, but the ones I like look like these: https://a.co/d/igoKTZR

My only problem now is that my CPAP mask is transparent, and so some light bleeds through there. If I could find an opaque CPAP mask, then I would be able to block out all outside light. As it is, I find that putting a pillow over my head over the CPAP mask blocks out most of the rest of the light that would otherwise get through the mask, and because of the CPAP mask I am still able to breathe underneath the pillow.

I can tell you, it makes a huge difference for me to be able to block out the light. Almost as much of a life-changing event for me as getting the CPAP in the first place.
I think the focus of the article is the introduction of Prolog as a general tool for data science. The examples are just incidental.
IPv4 today is a totally different paradigm than what IPv4 was in the 1980's and early 1990's.

IPng (IPv6) was designed when the original paradigm existed, not what we have now-a-days.

So, if we actually had been on track to do IPv6 in the decade it was defined, we could have gone a totally different way. Instead due to the rapid growth of the Internet in the mid 90's, IPv4 was morphed into something different and IPv6 had its own model until we started to need it again.
It depends on the work. A lot of people just do web development where either they are fiddling around with APIs or interacting with some VM over SSH or are just creating presentations and reports. Even if you are working with a massive codebase, there are tools to just selectively run the tests that are relevant to the changes you made before pushing it all off to a CI/CD pipeline.

Even if fanless is a luxury, a lot of professional developers can just make do with something with the power of a 2016 Macbook Air. Then the nice-to-use screen, keyboard, trackpad etc are extras worth having, much more than a buzzing fan.
That still doesn’t answer my question on human to human discovery. Say a site like SO disappears because it’s not viable economically to keep it running. Then having something that scrapes the internet doesn’t seem to help does it? Like a quirk in hardware that a human notices, documents, fixes. Something low level.
The only thing that could cause this to become a problem is if they're forced to sell which only happens during a bank run. The government explicitly protects these large banks from runs. Thus I think your fear mongering is unwarranted. And while the tone of your comment is conspiratorial, as if no one else has noticed the htm losses, the stock is not valued at a level that indicates much risk of failure. So wall street has collectively spoken and the consensus is that bofa profits may be challenged but that there is little risk of receivership or anything like that.

I swear, the negative nancies on the internet never seem to get tired of finding new reasons the sky is falling.
In my experience, if the business has a higher level decision that depends on the progress of a lower level team, the only working approach is for the manager in charge of that decision to sit down with a person in the lower level team and discuss the state of things.

A metric compresses a very rich and nuanced opportunity into a false dichotomy.
Externalizing responsibility is the cornerstone of postindustrial capitalism. To deny that privilege would collapse the entire system.
No SEO effects. If anything there could be a slight advantage to using Plausible over GA because the JS tracker is much smaller, though in practice I would not expect any SEO impact.

Plausible is much simpler than UA, all the reporting is on one page and it has much more limited config options. It also can import your UA data. If you're looking for a simplified GA alternative it's a very good choice. (Full disclosure, I recently published an article on their blog about UA vs GA4: https://plausible.io/blog/ua-vs-ga4)
I assume you still have planning meetings though only that you don't do commitments, right? Is this in any way different than the planning part of XP?
It is also not possible for consumers to signal that they would prefer a Google Pixel with a Lightning port instead of USB C. Doesn't mean government should force Google to offer their phone with Lightning port. It is never possible to signal exactly what you want, down to the minutest details. The signal is always for the overall product as it exists. And that works fine. If people really cared about USB C they would stop buying phones without it.
If the car is still a wire would be cheaper and more effective I think.
I find it best to use it with it framed as an untrustworthy black box, even with the increasingly correct answers. Its a rubber duck that can spitball with you.
What happens in 5 years when Google gets tired of running the server?
Elizabeth Holmes, left to her own devices
Buffet explained why that is, while talking about how they sold all other bank shares over the last six months. That is actually the scariest part of this --- if the fear around small banks were unfounded, Buffet would be snapping them up.
Of course fixing time and quality requires the ability to create accurate estimates.
Ah yes, the "people become better the worse you treat them" early-20th-century political pseudoscience trope.
It would be much nicer if it defaulted to allowing unlocking through. You can boot up a DEP enrolled Mac and use it even if your internet connection doesn't work, including disabling SIP and the bootloader. Though your MDM attestation may fail if you then enroll it. That need to explain yourself to the IT department should be enough incentive to an employee to not unlock your work device bootloader.
It was very weird to see germany's president in the thumbnail.
Always an ongoing project, but had ChatGPT build this... and then I just wrote more code on top of it... AI image generation tool: https://artsy.sh
carrier locking is a separate thing from bootloader locking
If it is a community effort yes. Yes we are. That’s the idea of SO. It’s a community effort. Highly flawed and elitist yes, but the theory is it is community policed.
Do we see violence on the national stage? I don't think we've seen a fist fight in the US senate or house in quite a while, using flimsy recording in this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence#United_St... it's been 6 years.

I think I'd put some money in for some fights. Maybe some pay per view ones like AOC vs MTG, attack of the acronyms.
What about it is head and shoulders above other lisps?

The ecosystem? The lack of first class continuations? All the things that can be portably implemented in any language?
Let slime moulds do the thinking (2010)
> Should we hold developers at uber criminally liable if the company fails?

Apparently not even if they design a system for thwarting regulators from doing their job.
Poll finds the public doesn't favor affirmative action
Possibly (non) related - Wilfred Bion's work on group dynamics.
Nationality is not a geographical position. It’s more like saying that someone is a “millenial” instead of listing their actual date of birth.

But unlike which generation you are born in, nationality is not a simple, fixed, unique thing that everyone has.
Probably once / twice a day. I like that Microsoft TODO can give you a view of stuff you planned to do today, while in the background you have that data of due dates/planned dates for other tasks. It is a nice way to reduce the stress of having much to do.

I might be up for the chat (feeling a bit sick right now) will let you know.
3000 ppm is directly breathing at the meter - at least with mine it is.
Go ahead and buy an el-cheapo webcam and test the facial recognition software that is built-in. I challenge you to be able to reliably use that to recognize a face from a block of cheese.

Sure, the high quality algorithms are out there. But no one actually sells the hardware with that stuff built into it, at least not at a price that any sleazy landlord is going to be paying.
>> Neither of you have said anything about how you spend your time on the laptop itself, which makes both numbers equally useless.

I'm mostly doing web dev in VS Code and Chrome, with a language server plugin doing background work.

One difference with the M1 Pro is that I have the Slack app installed on it, and it's always shown in the "using significant battery" list.
How is that situation different from how it was before AI? If a human documents something and then the document becomes inaccessible, the information is gone, regardless of whether the "researcher" is an LLM or a human.
Pretty much spot on. To summarise, I would say Scotese drew these maps based off ~vibes~, especially when it comes to the paleogeography.

You can see much more cutting edge research here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add2541, which is done within the group that built GPlates.
(video of the outputs here: https://youtu.be/QaDt1VQ9WlY )
Yeah. Common Lisp has quirks and you need to adapt your abstractions to those. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's rewarding, sometimes it's just annoying.

This week I'm scaling back some abstractions, writing more Fortran-like code on specialized arrays than individual objects, for the sake of zero cost.

I appreciate a little bit of a headwind against inventing new abstractions too casually. But it does remind me of programming in C or Forth. That's not everyone's cup of tea.
I wonder if the very nature of LLM emergent correctness and intelligence itself will identify weakness, fallacies and illusion? I would expect a well-read person to be similarly immune.
It is because of a set of contributing factors: talent, org disfunction, high bar for exacting product expression of a refined brand, and more.

This article is paywalled, but put to rest the “why is Siri so bad still?” question for me. [1]

One of the details reported I found most compelling was that internal dissatisfaction w Siri’s ability is so great that the headset team seriously considered using an entirely new / different voice system for its product.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-siri-chief-st...
There is a deeper story. The realistic technical details are the bones; the flesh is the relationships between two human civilizations and a less-advanced alien race that doesn't know humans exist.
Lol, lightning is proprietary so can't be used by other companies.
If people really cared about USB C they would stop buying phones without it - that's false, there are a lot of people that care about usbc but they buy because of other reasons like cameras and default walled garden for less trouble
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If that is good enough, you can replace the "community" with a cohort of different LLMs, which should work analogously.
I wonder how this will work for Google. I can only speak for the Danish market, but when we (both private and public Enterprise) buy devices for business we tend to want the supplier to roll them for us. Apple and many Android manufactures does this. At one point we had a bunch of iPads stolen, likely from someone on the inside since they were delivered and then promptly “lifted” from where they had been delivered by someone who had a key and knew where the cameras were. But since Apple has enrolled them for us, they are essentially dead devices. It’s been some time since I worked for the organisation, but when I was still there we frequently got calls from people who had bought the iPad “legitimately” calling us to get it unlocked.

Google might not care, since it’s not likely to consider the EU it’s primary market for these things, but I think they risk finding out that their being “lazy” is going to bite them in the ass.

Or maybe I don’t understand the bootlicking enough, and what I described above of having a Pixel turn on as “owned by organisation” is entirely possible with it.
And perfectly describes a problem that I see all too often with language and people trying desperately to sound smart/clever.
As an enhancement to the website it’ll be cool to see how earth might look in future based on the movements so far.
Yeah proper battery controllers, and modern chemistries (see eneloops on the consumer end - they're also a bit of a game changer)
That’s fascinating!

Where can I read more?