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They may not cost more for us devs, but does it factor in the time our customers are not doing what they need to do because of that bug?

I mean I fixed a trivial-to-fix bug the other day that probably Rust would have caught. Between the time it took for them to report it, support doing their thing and a new build was out it took an hour. An hour that our customer couldn't do what they needed to do for their work.

So I'd say it's almost trivially true that a bug caught before release costs less to fix.
I don't think it's possible to determine provenance with 100% accuracy, but I think ChatGPT essentially "watermarks" itself with its RLHF, making it more polite and giving its output a very distinctive voice. ChatGPT also tends to use passive voice and generic adjectives much more often than real human writers.
The wording is certainly interesting. This article is written as if cloud was a holy grail, with companies still being stuck in the stone-age era of.... owning servers. They also pretend that the cloud is the future for everything, and that on-premise servers are legacy technology.

The following paragraph is the most illuminating:
"The decision to build or rent may depend on a user’s data intensity. Consider a firm in America with a medium-sized data centre which thinks its computing load will rise roughly four-fold over a decade. In that case, building its own breaks even in seven years or so, and ends up being 5% cheaper overall than leasing, according to data from Schneider Electric. If the load remains stable, renting is the less expensive option, by a similar amount (assuming a flat cost of capital)."

This assumes that cloud costs are stagnant and reliable. This is a very naive assumption - it can be seen that if the cloud providers think they can get away with cost increases, they will. On-premises works out cheaper in the majority of cases, even including the cost of a sysadmin team.
> Your claim seems to boil down to two things: First, people sometimes make very incorrect predictions, so you've stopped worrying about them.

Didn't say I stopped worrying about them: global warming worries me. Ubiquitous microplastics worry me. Heavy metals in our food supply & PFAS in our water worries me.

> Second, instead, you focus on "doing the right thing" based on your ethical criteria (which, as I say in sibling comment, seems to be aligned with deontological ethics -- i.e. the ends don't justify the means.)

To me, the means almost never justify the end. And I understand you see it differently.

> using poor logic

I'm not sure what you deem poor logic, but I would point out that most of human life is based on emotion, not logic. In any case, I enjoy our debate and would be glad to continue in email if you like. See my profile for my email - I did not find yours.
Indeed, not reparability but reusability. The cells are standard and can be readily reused in a variety of ways, unlike a badly bent frame / chassis that can only go to scrap metal.
In my opinion, the promised "simplicity" of the cloud never materialized. You've replaced physical hardware that's easy to reason about with opaque, unpleasant and eventually-consistent APIs along unnecessary complexity (VPCs, etc) only designed to vendor-lock you even more into the provider. The staff savings never materialized - every company I've been involved with had at least one "DevOps" engineer, but instead of fighting with hardware he's constantly messing with YAML/Terraform/CDK files.
That is a bogus economic argument. There’s plenty of room in the equation for cloud operators to be profitable offering a product that is cheaper than on-prem.
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Did you personally have a good result with it? What language? (Didn't retain much personally)
Probably using local Wi-Fi.
I still want an in house datacentre. Our move to cloud has a 5x cost increase. We need more staff to run it as well (!).
I think they get away with it here because the task they are asking it to do is not very difficult. Dalle3 is doing the actual generation, this is just doing some preprocessing.

>What happens if there are artists where it's not clear or sources differ etc.

I would imagine that if an artist was so niche that gpt-4 doesn't know if they died 100 years ago then it probably doesn't matter much if you copy them, and people won't ask for it much anyway.
We use Matomo and have been fairly happy with it.
No they're not. But if you're ok with parotting no-thought tropes, go for it.
HR and performance reviews should be able to handle that edge-case.
Definitely. The episode looks interesting, and the heads-up is useful.

But the announcement itself isn't food for "intellectual curiosity", HN's objective:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
For a non-profit that (already) runs a mass of volunteers? Surely you jest.
The CEO of the blender foundation makes around 100k. They develop one of the greatest open source success stories on 2 million a year. That's less (for the whole project) than Baker makes (2.4 million). There's no excuse for the shitshow that is Mozilla, none.
Because in this case, the _entire premise_ of the article was wrong. You're welcome to wonder all you like, but in this case the obvious answer is the correct one. The author (Megan Gray) wrote a bad piece because she misunderstood how a technology worked, leaving Wired no choice but to take it down. Read the article, come to your own conclusion.

https://archive.ph/3a0wY#selection-715.112-715.649

When I read that I was floored - not because I expected even remotely that it might be true, but because I couldn't believe just how far Wired's quality bar had fallen. It doesn't read like a piece written by someone who's familiar with how the internet works.
I got the impression the primary motivation to do this is so the BCM2712 (and future processors) can move to smaller process nodes (less power, more speed) but keep things like 5V tolerant IO, ADCs, analog features which work better on 40nm. Going forward they will be able to keep a consistent set of IO whilst iterating to new BCM variants without hitting constraints as a result of smaller process nodes.
Are you doing show/charge back for both on premise and cloud? Do different teams manage each environment?
Following rules is part of the reinforcement learning tuning process I believe.

In reference to the Three Laws, see also GATO framework: https://github.com/daveshap/GATO_Framework
All source code should be documented as this.
Of course, I'm very aware of that fact. But it is designed to minimize system calls exactly because they can add significant overhead.
They’re not going to move Gen Z to a care facility, read the article theyre falling for most of these scams, not the elderly.

Maybe per capita would show something different, based on population in each demographic, but incident wise its the suckers actually recently born
You can't pay me a decent* salary for on-call. This is true of many people. One developer I worked with took medication at night which rendered him completely useless, and skipping the medication resulted in several very bad days. For me, it's simply a work/life balance thing, and I can find work that doesn't need it.

The "easy" answer is to put it in the job ad, and hire people who agree to it. Because forcing that requirement on an existing employee just isn't going to happen.

* by all means, pay me an indecent wage, enough that I can retire after a year!
The opioid epidemic isn’t making a dent in the lower life expectancy. Lower life expectancy is almost entirely due to heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer, and those are being driven primarily by bad diets, poor sleep, and sedentary lifestyles. Ironically, FAANG and many tech companies are probably more to blame in this respect than Pharma.
I run a WP extension and haven't had things break in the three years I've maintained it. Is this really a thing? This seems like a good boring tech choice.
I agree with you. What I'm trying to differentiate is between the way you obtain a book and whether training an LLM on a book that you own the rights to read should be considered copyright infringement.
Honestly, it just seems like something where somebody looked at it too quickly, got excited, and then didn’t look a second time. They are probably an experienced writer so everyone approving it went “sounds great.“ Honest mistake, but a bad one, and very unprofessional.

They retracted it so shrug
I know, but you are the one proposing that "major damage" is always written off.
It seems like an odd place for a socialist like Doctorow to publish. I wonder how that happened?
>I, and most other people using the Internet on a crappy mobile keyboard wouldn't.

Sounds like your problem is crappy UI enforced through attempts to minimize production cost at the expense of enabling the use of the human processing medium to effectively integrate with an electronic device.

My error rate typing on mobile skyrocketed with the loss of haptic feedback.
This is not only not possible to build in any reliable and maintainable way, but "[w]e are the most accurate AI text detector that exists" is an outlandish claim.
Put yourself into the oncall rotation for starters.

For a US exempt employee it would be fairly straightforward to push oncall expectations into a role. But in other countries with robust labor protections it might be more challenging. Ultimately the solution is money.

But doing it yourself goes a long way to convincing your team it’s necessary. I personally do this as a manager and I find it helps a lot. If you get paged a few times at 3am it really helps align your priorities with your team.
> What really killed 68k was the thing no one here is qualified to talk about: Motorola simply fell off the cutting edge as a semiconductor manufacturer.

Great answer but the root cause is Motorola failed to find enough customers to drive volume. Increased volume => increased profitability => money to invest in solving scaling problems. Intel otoh gained the customers and was able to scale.
Prepare yourself for a constructive dismissal settlement.
I work as an IT Infrastructure Architect for VMware and Windows Based Enterprise workloads and a lot of the time it's just more cost effective to have the servers in house for many of the workloads. It isn't the case for ALL workloads, for example we move almost all exchange email services to office 365, in combination with Azure AD for active directory service. As far as datacenter space and power usage, a lot of the time the server room is located in the utility room / closets, they already have the space and the building and the power infrastructure. Typically they have vendors that require VM's because the vendor software is not cloud based, many of these enterprise software can consume quite a lot of CPU/RAM/DISK and are very latency sensitive. Having a couple of powerful vmware hosts and an all NVMe SSD SAN is really really nice for performance and speeding up these applications and not paying 4K+$ a month for equivalent hardware in the cloud. You can even argue against the capital investment cost because a lot of this gear you can lease directly from DELL, and have full service contract for 7 years 24x7 4 hour SLA on hardware.
They also need to renew infrastructure on a continual basis
Nice to hear of someone else trying this. Did you find any good ways to reliably trick these?

What do you mean "it won't work long term"? My opinion is RLHF and fine tuning outputs for safety and politeness ends up watermarking output in a way that's pretty reliably detectable. I don't see these going away any time soon, at least for mass-market AI products.
Buying fake products is an unwise decision, in your belief system it is wrong to stop people from making unwise decisions after all it is their money and they should be allowed to use it for whatever reason.
I had mine the other day when I bought an audiobook and noticed the price was way cheaper and sure enough, it was a very robotic voice with uncanny pauses reading it. Refunded instantly
Absolutely, if you know there's something to check. A lot of people who don't use phones on Sabbath/holidays just didn't know what was happening, or at least not the scale of it.
You are thinking of Amazon 3 years so. New Amazon mostly gets you real items but not always and now forces you to chat with a bot
It would suck to be included in the trial and then be randomly selected into the placebo group.
Also when people hear "cast" they think "cast iron" or cheap appliance broken piece (mostly zinc). They're brittle because of material choice, not because of casting. (Though casting does influence the choice of materials)
There are plenty of cars with adaptive cruise control. And autopilot is not half-baked, it works just as well as any of them.
"You will not look at pictures from your childhood and realize that three out of five people sold you out to get ahead in the queue to acquire a car."

Right... You will just look at your LinkedIn network and ponder which one of your co-workers sold you out to get ahead. But they call it "competition" now. Even though its augmented with all this data that is available.
>I assume many vendors also offer parts libs/files in EDA formats, but are those proprietary or is there any de-facto standard like Gerber files?

It would be great if part manufacturers would just make the footprint files and 3D files available for the parts, because I have no doubt that in 99% of cases the manufacturer has those files somewhere. I've tried to social engineer this out of some companies with very little success. I don't care what format they come in, I'll get it sorted out. I have collected an arsenal of file format conversion tools.

>Maybe it's this kind of thing we'll automate using LLMs/models

I have no doubt that at some point in the future you'll just give the AI the PDF and it will spit out a PCB footprint in any file format you want. We're not close to that though.
ChatGPT4

ask it for a 12-week curriculum and have it go through it with you

It can do languages and you can get google to pronounce things, and ChatGPT again to explain unexpected nuances

when multimodal is rolled out to your profile, you can practice handwriting too
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That is actually the perfect analogy. It is exactly like rent vs buy housing discourse, in that many people harbor irrational preferences for buying even when renting is demonstrably cheaper.
How did you verify this? That isn’t the issue being reported, the header is attached to your inbound mail.
Had a discussion about Assange the other day (contentious I know but bear with me). I brought up how he had a show on RT, the Russian state media channel, mentioning that it’s pretty bad optics regardless of what one thinks of the dude. They immediately went “no they didn’t that’s got to be a CIA myth.” Hand to god that’s what they said.

I showed him the IMDb and Wikipedia pages for it and a clip. Without missing a beat - remember they literally had never heard this before and have already decided it’s misinformation planted by the CIA - he said “Well it’s an independent show he put on that happened to be shown on RT.”

I mean what can you say to that?
That would be showing too much respect for or deference to conspiracy theorists, who aren’t really worth the trouble. Copies probably exist in the Internet Archive, archive.is and in PDFs people could have saved when the article was up so it’s not like it truly disappeared. WIRED just took down a bad article that shouldn’t have been published.
I agree. IP theft is a bold claim, that is why I was asking for more citations.

Not only are the patent expired, but there are three projects that generate FPGA fabrics programmatically. FPGAs are extremely easy to construct as they are a repeating lattice.
I feel like HN is on a kick right now with this concept of “small games”.

But folks are tripping over the definition of small. There’s the small as defined in the link you have, small as in low mechanic and low content like “Gone Home”, small as in asset flips, small as in just not AAA, small as in really intricate but not large, small as in procedurally huge but limited visuals and simple mechanics, small as in just a dating sim or porn, and then small as in old school “small games” like Doom Guy’s Commander Keen which is cute and good at the time but laughably unpolished for todays standards.
The legislative branch of government passes laws, not the executive.

Why would Biden being in office change anything unless he signed an executive order specifically about this?
Thanks.

Input fields move and lose shadow while they are in focus.

"Whereas the option button group doesn't press." I guess you are thinking about tabs. Idk honestly why I didn't make them press.
To be honest, I share your aesthetic principles, but other than the other nerds in my life nobody else does shrug. I remember the '90s pop-up hell and hated that too. I just spend my time on the net in places that I enjoy.
No-moving-parts is probably not realistic - the core would be much hotter than the radiating surface due to the thermal resistance of the shielding. More likely, you would have a working fluid to transfer the heat. Most nuclear reactors operate at much lower temperatures where TPV wouldn't be efficient or cost-effective. It's certainly possible to go much higher. Nuclear-thermal rocket propulsion tests ran with exhaust temperatures up to ~2200 C [0]. Whatever fluid is used, you would need to avoid radioactivity in it, b/c that would probably degrade the TPV. Also you would probably want to avoid having heat exchangers because each one incurs a temperature drop. So helium would fit that bill. That's what the "high temperature gas reactors" use [1]. IDK if helium-compatible plumbing/pumping could be made to work at >2000 C though.

Edit: BTW, there are radioisotope thermoelectric generators used for space applications primarily, but they are not true nuclear reactors - they produce short-range radiation that doesn't require much shielding. Nuclear reactors produce neutrons and gammas that require thick shielding.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rover#Kiwi_A

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_gas_reactor
The main reason is a whole generation of IT executives who don’t want to look superfluous.
> Maybe gravity makes things fall down, sure, but maybe there are tiny kobolds in the spaces between all particles with little clipboards that calculate the correct motion and cast spells to move them. I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I honestly tried and could not find bedrock. Can you name (or even just think) something that doesn't rest on something else or an assumption? I honestly can't.

I'm not sure how a "bedrock" relates to the question whether an intelligence can ever fully describe what an intelligence is. When answering this question, we don't need to find a "natural" bedrock, since the assumptions we choose are the bedrock we build on. As long as those assumptions align with reality to the best of our knowledge and the end result passes all tests we can think of, what does it matter whether there might be more to know? Of course it doesn't mean we should stop searching, but it also doesn't mean we should not even try. There are many such unfalsifiable statements, but that doesn't mean they stop us from answering other questions.

> "only"? I'd say those axioms are a superset of the sloppy stuff we throw around in our day to day, like "this is a chair"; if we drilled down on our informal speech and thoughts, we'd at best arrive at such axioms, which ultimately rest on things we simply posited (because otherwise there would be nothing to think about, and no way to think about it -- I'm not knocking it per se, just the idea that the quest for truth could possibly ever be complete, which makes it no less noble IMO).

I don't think this is true, and if you can prove it, you might earn a Nobel prize. "Formal axiomatic theories" are well-defined - as Wikipedia states, they are "formal systems that are of sufficient complexity to express the basic arithmetic of the natural numbers and which are consistent and effectively axiomatized. [...] In general, a formal system is a deductive apparatus that consists of a particular set of axioms along with rules of symbolic manipulation (or rules of inference) that allow for the derivation of new theorems from the axioms."

Can you try to describe how you'd "drill down" on informal speech to transform it into such a system? There are many, many examples for systems that are absolutely not based on formal axiomatic systems.
The glass was very transparent/untinted so I'd guess they did. Inside the atriums between sections don't have any tint from the glass or at least it's not noticeable.

When my group first moved in the glass was ridiculously hard to see between the sections. It was made more confusing because the doorways had four panes of glass but only the center two panes were doors. It was easy early on to think the outermost lanes were also doors. IIRC (it's been a few years) one of the walkway runs didn't require badge access in the first few days so people could walk full speed into the doors without diverting to the badge reader on the wall.

I'm sure all of Apple Park looked amazing in AutoCAD fly-thrus or whatever but the experience in the building was kind of shitty. Some aspects were improvements over the building over off Infinite Loop but then a lot of aspects were hilariously form over function.
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The alternative isn't that different however. A company running its own centre may choose to go OpenStack/k8s. It still requires lots of messing about with awful files. The 'cost' then shifts elsewhere, and merely satisfies bean counters.

IMO the simplicity promised does exist, it's up to the company how it gets implemented. Like either toolstack, if it's misused, it will cost more than they thought (and then they'll blame the toolstack)
Unless the store takes the items from the cart for you and scans them this isn't true. You still have to move every time. So it's just an extra wait time. I'd rather go home faster for my "productive" phone time.
And a rebuttal to that criticism is "putting your money where your mouth is".
It's paywalled but...

if someone says it's "unlikely" it either is a stylistic method to goat people or they don't understand much about the technology, because there is nothing unlikely about it
LOL. Yes, started as a joke.
Pay them for the value they provide.
Many buildings are deliberately designed with mirrored glass on the first floor and lots of trees so that they can "blend in" with the urban landscape and look more "natural", less "artificial".

What's interesting is that what we as humans consider more natural is actually antithetical to nature, because when the birds see the reflected trees, they can't parse that it's a reflection and fly straight into it -- leading to bird deaths.
I know you're joking but I still want to say you don't need a placebo group for a disease with 100% fatality rate.
> I've tried to social engineer this out of some companies with very little success.

Maybe part of the inertia is that it pays too many people's meals, since you can buy this as a service ...

https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/technology-overview-p...
A lot of managers or CxO think they own the employees and when suddenly they change mindset, they expect it for free, there’s nothing more pity than a C level who’s more of business guy than technical and understands everything comes with a price, and yet wanted it free of charge, pay him for the extra services you require, each contract is a unique case, just because other engineers do or agreed to do so, doesn’t mean he should if the contract says otherwise.