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then again ... this is just a "mystery" because someone announced it as such and wrote about it somewhere. the rest is people with too much time making memes about it. apart from that it's just some rather average song someone recorded. that may sound a bit negative, but this whole meme mindset / pseudo culture thing is kind of growing old on me.
I don't disagree. I just think Amazon's "reason" is essentially irrelevant.
> I call bullshit on that. There is no "maintenance" on that design, it was already done and paid for. It's a trashcan, it doesn't require specialized tooling to the cost of $50k. That's far above "make the tools to make it from scratch" price. There is no "economic investment" needed here to keep the tech of making trash cans alive.

To understand this you have to appreciate a few things. First, these are military-grade trashcans. That sounds ridiculous, but there are a whole range of MILSPEC standards that must be followed to deliver anything to the military. Certain materials cannot be used, certain vendors can't be.

Second, there's always design maintenance. C'mon, this is a site of programmers. People here understand the reason you'd maintain software: redoing your old, working C code in Rust; upgrading applications designed for XP to run on Windows 10, etc. TFA quotes the E-3 Sentry, a design based on the 707 from late 1960's. The trashcan design needs to be updated! Certainly material sizes and quality are substantially different, rivet part numbers have changed, coatings have changed. Dealing with changes means substantial time qualifying the new parts.

Third is the issue of scale. If you're making a million cell phones you can sell them at the low price of $1k each; but if you make just one it might cost $1B. Here, we're talking trashcans. If you build a thousand, you hire an engineer to oversee the design requirements and master machinist, and then a small army of machinists and assemblers to make the parts, and a quality guy to inspect them, and some other guy to do the documentation. How many of those guys do you need if you make just one or two? Well, not as many, just the most expensive ones.

Hand waving here: we're going to make 10 trashcans. I'll bid 40 hours of engineering time, 80 hours of machinist, and 40 hours of quality/paperwork guy time. Assuming realistic numbers for those guys, you're talking about maybe $30k (don't forget to include overhead costs, which are more than you think they are). I'd guess a couple $k of parts, but just realized I forgot machine time, paint shop time, incoming material quality inspection, etc., etc. Amazingly, though, if you only bought one trashcan, the price doesn't change all that much. Most of that machinist time is setting up.

So, gosh, I mean, there's a lot here. And Boeing is more expensive than I am, and has more processes and procedures. And they know how to make these trashcans in a way that fits the aircraft.

These aren't COTS parts, and they'll never be, because in general, COTS parts have short lifetimes. The B-52, for example, has been flying since forever and it's still being upgraded. There aren't a lot of mainstream items with service lives like that. You know where the military gets great prices? Where there's a substantial dual-use application: guns, bullets, computers, office desks, building HVAC units, etc. They can buy from the mass market. As long as they don't want excessive service lives out of them, they'll pay the same price as you. It's when they want something special that costs extra, same as you or me.
Did you try clicking into the article? If you would have, you would've seen the published date and saved us all this unneeded comment thread.
>Whatever reads in the TOS now, they can and will just reword it when they need it. There's no trust.

This is what is crazy to me. You can agree to terms, build infrastructure around terms you agreed to, then those terms can completely change. Don't like it? Click disagree and we'll close your account, no problem!

And, thanks to politics around social media censorship, we have way too people willing to say, "Don't like the terms, don't use the platform!" to the point of normalization. Sad.
That sort of business sounds like what we want in milsec and government suppliers, no?

Reliable even down to the bug behaviors...
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I mean, calcium silicate _is_ a salt. As is sodium ferrocyanate.

You want your anti-caking agent to absorb a lot of moisture and a salt is the way to do it.
I think there’s a place for WYSIWYG Markdown, and actually, Markdown’s simplicity actually seems like a good opportunity to simplify WYSIWYG and make it mobile-friendly (this tool does not seem to be, so I’ve yet to try it…). In fact, most of us use WYSIWYG Markdown daily in apps like Slack without even thinking about it. That said, I think any general, open solution needs to offer “manual/WYSIWYG” toggles the same way we see “manual/preview” toggles on DockerHub/GitHub, ideally also maintaining cursor position. Markdown’s benefit is definitely its simplicity, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it obviates the utility of WYSIWYG editing.
Randall Monroe in one of the footnotes of What If? 2 mentioned that one light-nanosecond is very close to one foot (11.8 in vs. 12 in), and "propose" that we should just redefine foot as the same as light-nanosecond.
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There is definitely tax breaks for business who are "anchor tenants" in cities. Texas attracted tons of bodies to places like Austin via big tax breaks, for example. The idea being that the loss of Corporate Tax is made up by all of the people living, eating, shopping, travelling, etc. nearby.
you say that the editor is a standalone app, but i'm not seeing a link to that anywhere, only to vrite itself. also no mention of how to get the editor separately (or that that's even a thing) on the vrite readme.
I have never used it but I've heard people talk about that as an essentially failed path. Admins apparently hated it, and the performance likely wasn't all that.

However, we are in a different era now. Virtualization and cloud infrastructure changes this whole situation quite a bit.
In our blog we discuss our data science work on how we built a system that optimizes Databricks clusters.
I loved these libraries when I used to freelance, clients were so happy to see things move and they are so easy to implement
Nice! If you have any feedback or feature requests afterwards definitely let me know on GitHub.
Thanks for sharing! Looks awesome!

If it’s Markdown however, in my personal opinion, it should show the Markdown syntax, too, and not hide it. E.g. the headlines should have the editable ### next to them. Too many editors that "support" Markdown get this wrong. Can’t find the link now, but John Gruber agrees.
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I want MarkDown & CSVs to just eat Microsoft's lunch at some point
> One can review teachers much like one reviews any other profession.

I'm not sure how you think this is relevant. One can, but they aren't reviewed in any meaningful way. And as anyone who has read through a few Amazon reviews would tell you, relying on "reviews" for anything important is just asking for grief.

> We don't need the NSA to tell us who the best and worst developers are, right?

Most companies would love nothing more than to be able to tell which is which. And we get fizzbuzz and other interview fads every 18 months. It's not even clear that bad developers are bad other than in specific environments... the guy who was shit at the shit job might turn around and be pretty good at another non-shit job, and those who are "good" often have other issues.

But even for developers, there are at least some (bad?) metrics to measure by other than "some percentage of these brats didn't flunk the standardized testing". If my code failed on 40% of computers for no other reason than that the owners of those computers lived in one zip code and not another zip code, I'd probably be a worst developer too.

> That's the thing, neither of those options are acceptable to me.

Which makes it great for me that what you find acceptable has nothing to do with how the world actually works.

> As Raymond Hettinger says (admittedly about easier problems to solve), there must be a better way.

You're a monkey with a Dunbar number of about 250. Maybe on up to 300. There is no utopia for you, not even a "better but not utopia" once you're up past that number locally. So unless the population falls under 3 or 4 million, you're just fucked. You'd have to become a new species, something wildly different than the primate you are.

That's not impossible I don't think. But most of us don't want to become the termite people with you. Not that that's stopping you... the number of sterile worker drones that read my comment here is ironically very high, I think, for me to be writing this. Hell, maybe you could speciate in a few hundred years if there were no other obstacles.

> but rather that they live in a society where those upper echelons aren't present in the first place.

That's easy. The Soviets figured it out decades ago. Have you tried Stalinism?
There are additional moderators (and I believe that's plural), though dang is the public voice.

sctb was previously on the mod team, but left YC a few years ago. He's recently reappeared in comments though.
Ah, that is an interesting theory: anarchy will always result in spontaneous organization of factions, usually repressive and holding power by pure force.
They're indistinguishable via naive measurement (prompting) if the LLM can sample from all possible data: there's a very large infinity of (Q, A, time) triples (ie., it's real-valued).

But it cannot, since most of those are in the future.
This shows very little hands on knowledge of how the US government actually works, how it pays for the contracts it writes, or the costs of making physical goods.

For example: as other more level headed folks with actual knowledge of contract fulfillment have mentioned, this might have been a T&M or cost plus procurement. In which case, there's very little opportunity for the profiteering that most of my replies have stridently claimed is obviously occurring - with zero evidence beyond "There's NO WAY it could be that expensive!!"

I get that I'm trying to argue with the emotions of a bunch of people with a lot of antipathy towards the US government, and that's ultimately a losing battle.

End of the day, you can be mad about this if you want, but this is the way it is, and it evolved that way for reasons, and some of those reasons are to encourage second order effects - beyond merely procuring plane trash cans.
No the underlying assumption is that (among the other items on the mile-long list of cut corners) prioritizing demographics over experience and training was a bad idea.
> a plane that's been built since the 1950s, the argument is now about economies of scale

There used to be economies of scale. It's a 707; they stopped being made in 1979. If you want 707 parts now, there's a good chance they're gonna be produced on a very small scale custom job for you.

(It's also a very special 707, inside and out. Cabin designs can vary significantly from airline to airline, let alone civilian to military.)
>Everything that was simple 20 years ago is now 100x more complicated

No, it's really not. Let's take just UI animations for example. I can create a fade-in transition with a custom timing function movement in 3 lines of CSS today. To do the same thing natively 20 years ago involved writing hundreds of lines of custom OpenGL code. I get that there's a lot of fatigue from framework churn, but the layers of abstraction are orders of magnitude higher today, to the point that most UI work has become an afterthought.
Let me know when this works on LibreOffice
On reddit, a mod can modify the permissions of someone further down on them on the list.

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But you'd be just as upset as his employer if you'd come across a binary release built from one commit ahead the GitHub repo. The absurdity is in the amount of overhead, not the fact that there are overheads at all.
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I dont understand what your point is. My point was clearly the government isnt optimizing their spend correctly. If the DOD spent $100 on the trash cans instead of $52K, there would be less "overspend" and taxes wouldnt need to go up as much.
ARC is good overall, but we find that when evaluating on such a large dataset (over 5000 traces), the adaptive algorithm in ARC is not robust, sometimes the recency queue is small, while sometimes it is too large. If we think closely, why
does "moving one space from recency queue to frequency queue upon a hit on the
frequency ghost" make sense? Should we distinguish the hit on the beginning of ghost LRU and the tail of LRU? The implicit parameters may not be reasonable in some cases. But overall, ARC is a good algorithm, just not perfect yet. :)
The giveaway for me was the sentence "While not excusing Amazon's actions, he questions whether enough vetting was done before canceling his account." It makes no sense - why would questioning whether enough vetting was done be interpretable by anyone as "excusing Amazon's actions"? It obviously goes in the other direction; the sentence might have read "While not directly condemning Amazon's actions, he questions whether enough vetting was done before canceling his account."
Yes, the one with reflections was found months ago, and got a lot of coverage and discussion here. Then the one without reflections was found more recently (and also had a few discussions here). This article is about the first of these, so rather old-hat now, not even old-turtle.
Yeah, my bad. Already mentioned it in one of the other comments and it's also noted in the docs. I had to tap a lot into PM to implement more advanced features so it definitely should have been included.
Nice list; I am not a primarily front-end dev so I can't say I've lived this but I've been around long enough to remember all of these; sometimes painfully.
Maybe given the history of things the concept of “Silicon Valley money,” in terms of margin, was set by very generous terms from the Cold War era military procurement.

The first initial public offering from Silicon Valley was in 1956 for a company called Varian, that sold microwave tubes for military applications.

https://diginomica.com/who-are-we-kidding-silicon-valley-was...
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Alternatively the doorbell AI might notice subtle differences in how people of different races, on average, engage him.
Axis cameras is a strong recommendation from me. They make a huge range from tiny "server room" cameras through to spy-agency grade dome-CCTV cameras, industrial, weather proof etc etc.

Their basic range all have a web GUI, RTSP and ethernet/wifi. Have a look at the M11 range, or the M30 for a cheap dome camera.
Sir, this a discussion about popcorn.
It's a little different, Microsoft doesn't care about consumers as they stopped being relevant to Microsoft's financials in the Ballmer era. Even consumer Office spending makes less than LinkedIn for companies to put into perspective how little they care.

However, enterprise/commercial? The same group you're trying to sandwich between a 365 subscription and azure/github? These are the people in which when they do have evidence that they are being negatively affected, will cause a massive dent in Microsoft's bottom line.
>but you can't really gloss over a days-long trip by horse in the same way.

Isn't your interpretation backwards?

The length of time is shorter now, meaning 250 words describes a shorter duration/less happening. They were glossing over more, historically.
While popcorn itself is low calorie and filling most microwave popcorn includes loads of oil which is fairly energy dense.
UniFi Protect cameras can all be set up in standalone mode by visiting the camera's IP address in a web browser — they will obtain an address from DHCP by default. From there you can set up the RTSP streams which become accessible from the camera IP directly. You do not need to use a UniFi Protect app or console in this configuration.
How much do you think it costs to restart the production line for a component of an aircraft last made in 1979?
This is just the first tile we've found with this property. There might be a tile with the same property and a smaller number of sides. Perhaps the such tile with the smallest number of sides will be especially elegant.
Do you mind sharing more details on the time length of workloads in your benchmark? Are you using LRU with no aging? Drop me an email if you would like to chat more juncheny@cs.cmu.edu
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Is it not the opposite? Rather than moving faster, more words are devoted to shorter increments of time.

> The average length of time represented in 250 words of fiction had been getting steadily shorter since the early eighteenth century.

Time passed per word has been decreasing. A page used to mean a week, now it means a day. In your horse vs plane example, this makes sense if they both gloss over it. EG "we rode 3 days to Rivendell" vs "I landed in Tokyo after a long flight".
You say this as if you think most people have a choice...I've pushed hard in the past for my employer to move off Github but have been met with nothing but blind resistance.
> … which is kind of the rub with current LLMs to begin with, right?

No, the bigger problem with current LLMs is that even with high quality factual training data, they often generate seemingly plausible nonsense (e.g. cite nonexistent websites/papers as their sources.)

This is by design imo; they’re trained to generate ‘likely’ text, and they do that extremely well. There’s no guarantee for faithful retrieval from a corpus.
> There are an infinite number of sentences which describe what "being red" is, most of them have never been written.

Which is exactly how the set of sentences actually written encodes in it the idea of "Redness". It's the "actually written" part that carries information about the real world.

> And there will always be an infinity of sentences which are True but cannot be infered by an LLM -- but can be so, trivially, by a person acquainted with redness.

That's cheating, because "a person acquainted with redness" presumably learned it by sight, which LLMs can't do just yet (at least the widely accessible ones can't). Would you also say that a person born blind also cannot infer those True sentences about redness? Because if they can, that means the concept of redness is capable of being taught through language, and so there's no reason LLMs couldn't pick up on it too.
OK but the banks were punished. Their shareholders got their equity zero'd out. I'm not sure what more you want. The question was whether to punish the account holders at the bank.

By your analogy, that's saying the apartment renters needed to have handymen oncall in case the landlord couldn't manage it!
Don't play genres, a genre is inherently about something that sold well enough to spawn lots of clones. Like a lot of software, the need for commercial success compromises many good ideas.
It's been interesting to read the acoup.blog post series on deconstructing military logistics in fantasy stories. I don't know how much was just obsessive attention to detail, how much was having served himself, but Tolkein was extremely exacting about how long a trip would take and a realistic size of army that could be sustained. Then you get to A Song of Ice and Fire and George Martin has all but said he doesn't care and nobody should try to figure out a timeline or distances between locations because they won't work if you scrutinize it closely.

I don't know if that generalizes to all writers, but it gives the impression that many don't really care about realism like they used to.

But yeah, it could be the mismatch between history and current travel methods. Writers of the past, even when they wrote about the past, largely would have still been limited to traveling at the same speeds as distant ancestors via sail and horse. Writers of today who write about the past have no personal experience when they've only ever traveled by plane and automobile.
Try the stovetop method with preferred oil and then drizzle honey before heating. Higher risk of burning, more shaking is needed. When popped, lightly salt. Make sure to rinse the pot with water while still hot to not allow sticky burnt sugars to get solidified for an easier cleanup.
If you decide to sign up for Vrite, it provides a JSON output accessible through the API. You can then process it to any format you want using JS SDK and Transformers.

MDX doesn't make a lot of sense though as, with the supported features, it's basically the same as pure MD. That said, custom content blocks are in the pipeline and once that's added, MDX, MarkDoc and other formats will work really nicely with Vrite.
You do realize that paying people to do nothing in order to take home more profit as a corporation, and charging both the worthless employee time and the extra profit for the corp that allows to the taxpayers is the definition of corruption, right?
> Redness is not in the structure of those sentences.

Sure; it's in the spectrum of reflected light. (Or perhaps, the retina's trichromal responsivity). But that physical concept can be meaningfully described by sentences. It doesn't require an infinite number of them to create a coherent world-model, which can do things like predicting that a blue object will become red if it moves away from you at a high enough speed. Which is something a human might be surprised by even after many years of visual experience with red objects -- unless they've read sentences about the Doppler effect in a physics textbook.

If you can manage to trick GPT-4 into revealing that it doesn't have a world-model of the concept of 'red', please show us!

> At a quick glance of your article it feels like you havent formulated Hyp1 correctly -- P(CorrectSort | f(HistoricalCases)) is perhaps arbitrarily high if some statistical f() can be chosen well.

Keep in mind, the LLM's structure was not hand-crafted to do well on this mathematical task. It was built to be good at language modelling, and initialized with essentially a uniform prior over all token sequences. Even if a dataset is efficiently compressible, that's no guarantee that the LLM will be able to compress it efficiently. In fact, many people would probably be surprised to learn that it can do this problem at all, let alone so well with so little training. But do think about the statistics of sorting a bit more. I think it's not as easily compressible as you think it is, except by an actual sorting algorithm. Again, you can compress it a bit with monotonicity and so on, but nowhere near the amount you'd need to sort a long list without errors, using so few parameters. I compute the number of sorted and unsorted lists in the footnotes.

One of the things that makes sorting tricky for an LLM is you always need to look at every item in the input list. Even if the previous output token was '99', you can't be sure you're now at the end of the list; you still need to count how many '99's were output already and how many are needed.

(The dataset itself, of course, does not contain the notion of sorting, a description of sorting, a test for sortedness, or any algorithm for sorting. It only contains a large but finite number of examples of sorted and unsorted lists. It's up to the LLM, and its training process, to discover the mechanism that generated these results.)