skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On-call X% (0<X<100), and if you're called: The full 100% and then all the applicable bonuses for night shift and weekend etc.
On prem requires a capital investment and a cast iron workload prediction.

If you have a stable business this works. But you may still want to go to cloud if IT is not your business. An on prem infrastructure requires capital and capital can be used to change your core business, which could bring you sufficient bottom line to make cloud costs irrelevant.

If you are trying for growth then a cloud infrastructure enables that.
Sure but it finds compile time errors a whole lot easier. And when modifying code i can say from experience it’s much smoother to modify large statically typed projects than large dynamically typed ones.

Actually anyone arguing against that i don’t even think it’s worth my breath since you likely just don’t have much experience and really like whatever your pet language is
My #1 answer is make sure they don't get called very often.
I should have mentioned this in readme and docs, but the point of this project is to inspire you to make your own neobrutalism components based on those I created. You can edit them however you like :)
Seems cool, has a lot of the Vibe of Lua but with bit-twiddling types
Ballmer didn't anticipate how the form factor of the iPhone and having the internet in your hand would fundamentally offer different ways to communicate beyond just email. He overlooked how capable the device would be for text messaging, social media, video calls and that the new device would shape how we communicate going forward. And not to mention the myriad of apps and other use cases the iPhone would have.
Your second link is an error 404, page not found.
Thanks for trying it out. It's in our roadmap to expand to technical writing (currently trained mostly on creative writing). Hopefully this will fix the wikipedia issue.
Business isn't just about managing costs.
Earth's claims of "intelligence" are dubious...
I disagree. Equal opportunity is a lie. Our options ebb and flow with the fickle sensibilities of our communities. Having the 'wrong' hair color can disqualify you from opportunity.
I have this: https://github.com/efrecon/pgbackup
I'm struggling to wrap my head around manufacturing so many parts to the needed tolerances and having them work under the temperature swings and forces seen in flight. Debugging these analog computers would involve a large number of engineering disciplines!

Impressive technology and excellent article.
" I think we have a first version of KDE Plasma
> (X11 onyl for now) in OpenBSD. I worked with it a few days and many
> already works out-of-box. I had no dramatic crashes to handle during my
> daily work."
>(and in fact didn’t work)

This review [1] cites 11 documented survival outcomes of the Milwaukee and related Recife protocols. Is there a basis to your claim?

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670764/
I was shocked how quickly "COVID went away" in German news and the public discourse when the war in Ukraine started.
I can generate by gpt4 and rewrite with another model. Asking gpt4 to write in another style also works.

For instance the following gives 0% on both of our tools; it’s gpt4;

"Well, sit tight folks, I'll tell you. It's like my mother always said, 'Ceilings are generally over our heads.' What I mean is, the material for my jokes come from what's above us, below us - essentially, what's around us. And let me tell you, there's plenty going on.

Just the other day, I was stuck in traffic behind a bloke in a convertible... in the rain... with the top down. Now if that doesn't scream 'commitment issues', I don't know what does.

Well, either that or he's got a very specific car washing technique. In which case, mate, you're doing it all wrong! My car gets a better wash in the British summer rain than that."
Terminal Unicode Core Specification
> pay for each minute one is on-call

Isn't that just overtime? I'd much prefer to bring a laptop with me a few weekends a year than be expected to fill a full workday with my family around the house on a weekend.
Thanks for letting me know, I didn't even notice that lol. I will fix it.
Which in practice doesn't seem to be happening though. The cloud marketing/misinformation machine is working well enough that there's no point actually becoming cheaper than on-prem since the marketing is successfully convincing people to overpay.
Do we really need to be sitting to do the jobs? One of my favorite conference rooms in my office has a desk that’s perfect height for standing but also comes with high chairs for those who don’t want to stand. Unless the meeting is > 1hr I usually prefer to stand the entire time.

I also find standing is better for collaborative meetings - I find im much more open to ideation while standing/moving.

If those kinds of meeting room were standard perhaps it would bring the numbers down.
I agree if on call is being triggered regularly.

I strongly disagree if events that would trigger on call happen rarely (e.g. once per year).

Many companies have stable infrastructure but just need the extremely occasional coverage for things that rarely, if ever, happen.

I’ve seen people overreact when on call has been introduced, probably from negative experiences at prior jobs. As long as the on call events happen once in a blue moon, I don’t see why anyone would have a major problem with it.
Such as? It's electric so power grid demand or treetop towing is all can think of?
Ask HN: GPT-4 has 1.7T parameters. What's a parameter?
Hi folks, AI newbie here.

Can those of you that are well versed in AI please help me understand what exactly constitutes a parameter?

I often see LLMs being compared / ranked based on their number of parameters, so I'm hoping to better understand this metric.

I have a rudimentary understanding of artificial neural networks (in terms of inputs -> functions -> outputs), and by extension, a very basic understanding of deep learning.

But when it comes to defining a parameter, my google searches thus far have led me to concepts such as 'AI model behaviour' and 'adjustable settings' which, whilst interesting, are still too complex for me to distil into simple terms.

If I were to explain what a parameter is to my child, what might I say?

Thanks!
Years ago when I worked second-level support, I was the on-call guy for Thanksgiving. Our customers were specialty retailers, so I thought nothing of it. I figured they'd be closed. Turns out, we had an "Urban Clothing Store" as a customer, and on that day — what?! — someone couldn't ring up an 8-ball jacket? I was with my family, enjoying a cocktail when I got the call. I have seldom been more pissed off. In the end, from what I could remember, after wasting almost an hour, we tabled the whole incident.

I'm with you. On-call is never worth it. If a company needs 24/7 coverage, they should hire round the clock.
> The cloud is cost-effective when you start, because you can start using a cheap or even a free plan

Is it? The marginal cost of setting up a old computer as a server is essentially zero.

I think the main benefit is that devs can spend $$$ on AWS without doing a procurement. I.e. AWS solves a beurocracy problem not a technical one.
The utility of a scarce token that can have ownership changed, permissionless (without a third party) to anyone, anywhere in the world, basically instantaneously. Some might call that "money".
A lot of small companies have very stable workloads for years. Unless you meant startups?
I think in this case it's probably true for run of the mill bugs, but not for architecture and system design.

But I just want to object to "we don't have any good evidence". This is the sort of thing that it's really hard to get scientific evidence for, but that doesn't mean we can't learn about it.
Hi, can you tell me which device you're using as well as the browser version, ty.
You might want Recoll[1]. Similar if less powerful capabilities, cross-platform, open source, has Windows and macOS installers.

Still an overly complex FOSS user interface for a tech-unsavvy target with lots of digging around to configure it (OCR setup, for instance[2]), but at least you don't need to know what Docker is to install it.

1: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

2: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/webhelp/doc...
what does it mean to be an “efficient creative”?
I was as shocked as you, but then I remember, the paleo-conservative right doesn’t like big tech as they are seeing them as censors.
Google regrets publishing this paper!
Depending on what your company does even if it starts out and gets free credits through the AWS startup program it still might not be cheaper.

But it's more flexible and a lot of startups often pivot a view times.

Through if you have high compute and somewhat longer term predictable levels of compute then e.g. renting a rack in a server center and placing your hardware in can be notifiable cheaper (when your book keeping splits the initial buying costs across the years you run the hardware)

And then there is one huge lie about cloud, that it's way less work. It's not. It's a mess. I mean seriously we have a few docent years now of experience about what is user friendly and what is not when it comes to API/interface design and I would argue ~90% of cloud design from AWS is just plain terrible. That costs time, and time is money.
Yeah. I had a Devonthink-based setup but after one too many database corruptions I threw in the towel. Now I just OCR scan everything into a few MacOS folders and search using Houdahspot (Spotlight, I found, was not suitable for fine-grained search). I’m very happy with the setup.
Amazon's Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen
'Happens to be' is doing alot of work in that sentence
If this is anything like stable diffusion, this will help dramatically in 99% of cases without interfering.

Some of these rules are protecting OpenAI from liability (don’t do X,y,X).

Things like clarifying gender are going to be helpful in most cases. That can likely still be easily overcome with some prompt hacking.

Ultimately, this is targeted at getting good results for the masses without having to spend a bunch of time tweaking positive and negative prompts.
Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
The people you have will quit and the people you hire want to be compensated just as the others. So firing really isn't an option, unless you think you're overpaying your current staff and can get the same quality cheaper.
Thoughts on a Freemium Product
I will fix it, thanks.
Just a side note to this and the other replies: You can also keep the original documents and add scans to paperless for indexing, etc. Since I switched to paperless I keep my originals in binders just ordered by the paperless id, so I can retrieve the original when required.
It needs to be be 150% minimum, otherwise they're just paying the same for >40h.
Wired has been a dumpster for quite some time. A low quality article like this getting published is entirely on brand.
Where I work, the on-call deal is that it is opt-in, you're on one week and then have six weeks or so during which you will not be put back on call no matter what.

Base compensation which you receive regardless of whether there are any incidents during the week or not, plus hourly compensation (50-100% overtime + another 40% for the inconvenience)

Also, those who have opted in are quite flexible when it comes to covering for each other for a few hours - so you can still go to the movies or host a birthday party for a kid without fear of the phone suddenly buzzing.

Result? People are doing their best to get in on the roster, as the compensation feels worth it.

Try that.
I'll provide a slightly different argument.

I talked to FB people (recruiters, managers) in the site integrity team back in 2018. Admittedly I had some reservations up front, but during the on-site day I made up my mind to never even consider FB as a potential employer again. During a chat session between interviews, I asked about the prospect of doing proactive education - essentially, detecting users who had been caught in the influence operations and then surfacing them a note that they had been targeted by such activities, so that they could themselves make educated decisions.

The senior manager I was talking with at the time was visibly taken aback by the very idea. "We don't do that!"

From that experience I drew the inference that FB are fundamentally, as an organisation, incapable of doing the right thing. I suspect it's less about the cost, and more about the prospect of openly accepting accountability for what their platform is really used for.
> I don't get my amount of downvotes for a genuine question based on curiosity.

It doesn't come across this way. It comes across as "this isn't legitimate because they aren't looking at studies that do double-blind experimentation."
Right!?

I came here to ask the same question and Cmd-F-ed to this comment.

I had to google it to see the photos of the building.
Including this one?

We don’t know, but it does seem like a reasonable suspicion?

Little DDG would necessarily have to do with it either.
Any complex combination or arrangement of fleurons or other type ornament is not really possible with any contemporary word processor for one good reason: type is not set by hand anymore. Precise but free placement of glyphs is tedious if not impossible. It would require a whole new paradigm of setting type, one that would be based on modularity and strict typographic measurement system. A digital letterpress system if you will. The closest we've had that digitally was probably textmode and ASCII art.
f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c

a, b and c are parameters. So this is a model with 3 parameters. Keep adding parameters and chaining various operations on large inputs f(g(h(...) until 1.7T.
I dunno, a thousand terrorists coordinating land, sea, and air (paraglider and drone) over WhatsApp with videographers posting professionally editing footage to Telegram in real-time is actually pretty interesting.
You left out all of the other costs of running a datacenter. Cooling, fire suppression, electricity, DR site, etc.
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That's the same assumption. Why would Target not report theft as a matter of course?
Now that DuckDB has S3 support, i guess a linux box, DuckDB and some light SQL'ing is all you need?
This is also helpful when an author publishes multiple works under the same name. I’ve seen this happen before where a paper was published with a name and then the author followed it up with a book by the same name. The information from the first work is probably in the second work, but that’s not necessarily the case.
That's a sales line. Or do you work exclusively for small companies that are selling high demand online services that're trying really hard to go viral?

The only other time I can imagine is if a company isn't going to exist in six months, such as movie productions, or companies that have so little going on that they don't need more than a $10 a month plan.

Otherwise, on premises or colocation are invariably cheaper when there's any kind of real usage.
> So, Facebook used interoperable tools to let ex-MySpace users eat their cake and have it too. Facebook provided those MySpace users with a “bot,” an automated program that used the user’s login and password to impersonate that user to MySpace, scraping the user’s waiting messages and putting them in their Facebook inbox.

I had completely forgotten about this!

It's unthinkable today. As the piece says, if the tech giants feel the least bit threatened by a competitor they will just buy them up without any sort of regulatory hassle.
Seriously! Like I said, I get it’s a very contentious issue and I’m sure people have varied feelings on this, but to walk into a conversation literally knowing nothing about the topic at hand and then hand waving it away so quickly…I mean there’s no point in even continuing the conversation at that point.
And we know about sculptures 24000 years old, but still it is seen as exceptions by many.
I suspected the same, but I don’t know enough about controls for extremely small test groups.
This seems like a trial that doesn't need a placebo group. We have a lot of data on people being infected with rabies and it's exceedingly rare for them to spontaneously recover. Basically, you could say the placebo trials have been carried out already.
I'll point out that reverse engineering the CADC is not as easy as you might expect.

Well, there goes that illusion. :)

An amazing piece of work as usual, Ken. Thanks for sharing your hard-won insights on this gadget. The linear-endpoint wraparound hack was worth learning about all by itself. I'm surprised it took until 1954 before someone got around to patenting that, as it seems like a valuable general-purpose control technique. I can imagine a CORDIC-like algorithm that takes advantage of something similar to avoid clamping.

You have to find a way to power this thing up as a static demonstration piece.
Are data privacy and security really nowhere in the list of considerations?
I find it hard to believe that cloud providers aren't mining data and pulling every possible metric they can from usage. AWS alone has been responsible* for countless breeches and data leaks. Wanting to keep your data out of the hands of third parties for the protection of your own data or that of your users seems like it ought to be a factor in there somewhere when deciding to keep your data in house.

* You can argue that it's mostly been the customers who fail to configure the service correctly at fault, and you wouldn't be wrong, but any time that many people are "doing it wrong" the problem isn't just them, its the service they're using (bad defaults, hidden footguns, unclear documentation, etc).
I’d go a bit further: I use dynamically typed languages for small things all the time, like shell scripts or build system glue. But I would absolutely, 100% use a statically typed glue language instead, if one were available for me to use.
So blinding is pretty much impossible for something like typing. The programmer can't be ignorant to whether the language is typed, it's central aspect of using the language.

The reason blinding works so well in medicine is because you don't consciously interact with the medicine's mechanism. Your body does. If you had to understand the shape of the molecules in a pill, say, for it to work, you wouldn't be able to blind.
Problem with getting rehired in a few weeks (technically -2 weeks) is that you may have chosen, for comp reasons, to go into consultancy. Which means temporary contracts ...
> You're assuming something. Maybe something like "a world with water has high probability of life emerging". That is a massive assumption.

With what else I added: a rocky planet with water, an active molten metal core, and in the habitable zone. It is indeed my understanding that life on such a planet is quite probable. Life is described as "not hard" given such conditions. And Mars was such a planet.

It is also my understanding that Mars absolutely had large bodies of water. Basins, waterfalls, etc. have been discovered that could have only been formed via large, flowing bodies of water. And this would have been during a time where Mars' core was still active and the Sun was hotter, making Mars warmer than it is now.
Suspect the author is way more confused than that. The 5G distance comment, if it means anything, presumably refers to the distance between the "field-deployed" servers and the 5G tower. That does have to be quite close typically. But the mention of 5G is probably paid content because as you note, anyone with a real purpose would just deploy a fixed wireless p2p link themselves.
I have a team of six people, I don't want two members working opposite hours for a week at a time. If anything that will produce more incidents...

The problem with every on-call article is that the best practice for a single team, a company with multiple teams, and a company with multiple continents are totally different.
That doesn't matter at all to the base rate. Bottom line is that you don't know when that once-in-a-blue-moon page is going to happen, so you still have to curtail your leisure activities in order to be ready. Want to go see a movie? Want to go for a long drive? Want to go on a hike? Want to take your kids (who are young enough to need constant supervision) out somewhere? Want to go anywhere where you don't have cell service? Nope, can't do it. If the company wants me to change how I would otherwise spend my leisure time, they need to pay me for it.

So sure, a company fitting your description would only rarely pay out the elevated rate for someone actively handling an incident, but since an employee still has to do the exact same things when not handling an incident (regardless of how often incidents arise), the base rate needs to be there.
Tbh, since the introduction of .NET 7 WebAssembly, Blazor isn't my preferred way of writing .NET apps in the browser.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/use-net-7-from-any-jav...

Blazor is 2 things bundled together - a way of running .NET apps in the browser, via WebAssembly, and an SPA framework. Since .NET 7, it has become possible to use just the WebAssembly part. I prefer bundling .NET WASM, with a more traditional frontend framework, like React, since it doesn't suffer from all those issues others have mentioned in the thread. In addition, it's a battle-tested solution that most fronted devs are already familiar - the pool of devs writing kickass Blazor/ASP.NET Razor sites is comparatively tiny.
I will fix it. Nice blog post btw.
Came to say the same. For those thinking that his works were "too far out there", they were merely ahead of our time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

> Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct.
Another unspoken red flag is that this app is having so many bugs in production that it requires constant attention from its developers. How are all these bugs getting past QA? Is there a legit development process in place? Who is signing off on such buggy software?
People will often be willing to take a look on the refer.me and Neetcode Discords, I think