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Hi HN! OP here - this is our first open source project and we are really looking for your feedback about this direction, because we haven't seen something like aiconfig in generative AI developer tools yet.

Our basic premise is that AI application development should be config-based, so you can track the prompts, models and model parameters being used more rigorously. Having this AI artifact then lets you iterate on it separately from your application code, and also set up evals that provide "test coverage" for the gen AI parts of your application.

We were also inspired by the ipynb format for Jupyter notebooks, and you'll see parallels to that in the aiconfig format.

Please ask any questions, and share your thoughts on config vs. code.
I don't think you're following the thread correctly. I guess re-read it, if you want to understand what is being said (probably a waste of time though).
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To make sure congress critters get paid by Defense Contractors and secure lucrative board seats.
I can pull down a gig/sec no problem. Dunno how well it handles congestion or anything but it is way more than adequate for home use.
I feel like all of this is very solvable with current generation AI.

I can ask chatGPT right now "What would you do if asked to make a stop at a gas station on the current navigation route" and it gives a sensible answer (in this case "i can't add a stop to your navigation"). So it's clearly possible for modern AI to work with this sort of context. They just need to integrate modern AI with voice assistants and add appropriate application hooks the AI can act upon everywhere asap.

This also makes layoffs in voice chat departments stupid. They are on the verge of a revolution. Everything stated here as a weakness of voice assistants is about to be solved.
A better question is whether the percentage of debt to GDP has ever decreased, and it has.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
I see nothing combative here, and nobody is forcing you to write replies you don’t want to. I disagree that simply making a naked claim is ‘reasoning’.

“The moon is made of cheese.” is a statement, but isn’t reasoning.

Here’s a link to a book you can’t read: https://www.amazon.com/Views-Moon-Reviews-Mineralogy-Geochem...

I think it’s fairly clear which is more valuable if you want to know about the composition of the moon.

Similarly, the linked book is clearly more valuable than your unsubstantiated statement about US manufacturing.
Contextual CLIs
I also vaguely recall a few of the puzzles used sound ques to note there was a hidden button.
You are poorly informed: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/great-news-about-american-weal...

The wealth and income gaps between Europe and the United States are growing: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-09/europe..., which strongly argues against great unionization.
> 32 trillion in debt seems insurmountable, has anything like this ever reversed course historically?

Never and it is insane that there are apologists for such a sad state of affairs.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

This is not going to end well. That's what happen when totally clueless, incompetent and senile people are pulling the levers, following the advices of visionaries like Paul "it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's" Krugman.

> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

What is insane on that graph is that it doubled in ten years and quadrupled in 15 years.

Anyone who thinks this is reasonable is simply out of his mind.
I remember playing Chrono Trigger on a emulator and it took me a while to realize that the fog in the future era was not suppose to be completely opaque.
If you're willing to put the work in you can use the coax drops and runs as pulling line for cat, new coax (if you want to keep it) and real pulling line (to leave tied at the top and bottom of each drop if you ever need to run something else). Same idea if you have POTS copper run throughout. Most of the time even the ancient drops and runs have enough space cut out for a number of cables since doing runs is generally easier when the holes are larger.
I just drove by a new giant highway overpass being built in Texas and I was wondering to myself "how many houses could have been built with all the money and resources sunk into this?"

All of Texas (30m) could live in a high density city the size of Tokyo. Which is huge, but not as huge as the rest of Texas.
I think you’re changing subjects. Isn’t the context of this thread the need for engineers to be able to communicate with their managers/leaders?

Them lacking context or not is a separate problem. But you should be able to make a case for your proposal without that much context. What are values, risks, known, unknowns, costs, etc.
Maybe we should change that law.
Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams
They do indeed:

monopoly | məˈnɒpəli |
noun (plural monopolies)
1 the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service: the state's monopoly of radio and television broadcasting.
• a company or group having exclusive control over a commodity or service: passenger services were largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies | France's electricity monopoly, EDF.

In case it's not clear from the definition, notice the first example's deliberate pluralisation; "largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies".

Your definition is both wrong, and I suspect made in bad faith anyway.
I dont think that is what the person you were replying to is saying.

> I think the fallacy in your argument is that you're blaming contributors for noticing that they aren't being compensated for the work they've done, rather than blaming others for using that work without giving anything in return.

Is anyone being forced to work on open source software? Unlike low wage jobs, where you could be forced in order to pay bills, eat, nobody is forcing anyone to work on open source ventures.

Just because you do something useful does not mean you are inherently entitled to compensation in the form you want.

If you are being forced to do something against your will that is bad. If it is some hobby you happen to like doing that is totally ok.

> The solution is to organize labor into a unified front so that exploitation can no longer happen.

Lol. What type of leverage do you think open source devs have to form a union? Open source in many ways is designed to remove all economic leverage from source code. Its not a bug its a feature.
My eyes popped at that salary for a notary in Spain given most eng positions seem to pay under 60K euro.

It looks like they need a law degree, too, so I'm sure they offer legal services other than property transactions?

https://www.notariado.org/portal/en/how-to-be-a-notary
Yeah — but when I hear people talking about how EVs are heavier, I assume that people are making a like-for-like model comparison.

In a similar body size, EVs tend to weigh more, due to all the extra battery.
People like to use the household analogy when it comes to government spending and debt. Some cynically do it to justify cutting social programs. Some (and I include you here) are genuinely confused.

First, literally nobody in government cares about the debt. Of the $32T debt in our entire history, $8T comes from the 4 years of the Trump presidency. Remember that when the next fiscal hawk starts chirping about the need to cut spending.

Second, debt doesn’t matter when you can print money in the currency the debt is denominated in. We borrow US dollars. We print US dollars. So if we’rea household who has to pay out build you can’t ignore it fact that we have a money printer in the next room.

There have been sovereign currency devaluations in the past too, famously by FDR who changed the gold standard.

I would suggest looking up videos on Modern Monetary Theory.
Then don't commute in bad weather and in unsafe conditions. Working from home and improving road infrastructure is totally an option.
> Why do I need to go to the doctor to have them tell me "you can only focus on interesting things"? Isn't that everyone to some degree?

Sure, but ADHD has a couple of others features that break from the norm:

* what you find "interesting" is seemingly completely arbitrary, can change in an instant, and is totally outside your control

* when you try to do something "uninteresting", the harder you try to focus on it the more difficult it is to do so.
I can't carry four other people on my ebike, along with stuffing a minimum of one duffle bag per person, and usually being able to squeeze two in, along with a cooler for drinks, snacks, and sandwiches.

My Telluride can do that though.

Even if I could somehow fit all that shit onto an ebike, I wonder how long it and I would be able to make it before we give trying to go the 125 miles from Fort Worth to Possum Kingdom Lake...

This site infuriates me sometimes at the complete and utter lack of understanding of most of the United States.
You should check the definition of urban that's being used there - it's not what you'd call "cities".
At most they admit to spending million dollars/day not that they are doing to catchup. If news say Apple spending multi million dollars / day on chip design which is not admitting they are doing to catchup.
There was a HN commentator who believed that. In his case, the output of a RNG. Poor guy was brilliant. Wrote a whole OS around his idea. He had a tragic life.
I thought for sure realtors would get the gig-economy treatment during the rise of Uber and AirBnb; just a person to handle showings while the mega-corp drops prices slightly and collects huge profits. Not sure if I'm happy or sad that they persist.

But to me the craziest part of it, is that in my experience 90% of people don't comparison shop for a realtor, they just go with that person their friend used. Those social referrals are the vast majority of realtors' deal flow. Consider also that when realtors' make referrals among themselves, the receiving agent will typical give a 30% commission split back to the referrer. So what I'm getting at is, there's basically $10k+ value decisions being thrown around essentially at random, and without any metrics or qualifications.
It is not a user’s expectation of responsibility - they aren’t going to track that an extension’s automatic update turned it from a coupon clipper to a surveillance engine. If we make this the user’s responsibility, there would be immense harm.
> There used to be a sign posted in a parking lot near me that said "METER'S TAKES QUARTER'S ONLY" that used to drive me nuts.

Right, a meter's coin slot takes a quarter's unit of value. :)
1st point will never happen in democracies

2nd point is also debatable in western democracies.

What you proscribe is only possible (currently) in dictatorships. It may be possible in 20 years after many more weather and climate disasters
> They tend to be rather heavy

That's my problem - I need an e-bike because my knee is shattered but there's nowhere to store one safely outside and we live on the 3rd floor. Even my previous 10kg normal bike (with working knees!) was a faff getting up the stairs. A 20-25kg e-bike is an absolute no-no.
I found it very not worth watching. It seemed just Deepmind PR. Very little substance, it was just soap opera grade material.

If a person likes soap operas, they could enjoy the movie.
Starship lunar lander missions to require nearly 20 launches, NASA says
I would like to point out that the people in those pictures are wearing short sleeves and it is sunny (and presumably warm).

As someone who had to scrape ice off of my windscreen this morning while the temperature inside the passenger compartment was creeping up from 1 degree above freezing, the inevitable suggestion that bikes are a better solution than cars is going to fall on my deaf ears. You're not going to get me to drive my very-young kids around in near-zero freezing rainy conditions in an open cargo bike with no heating. Sorry.

Don't get me wrong ebikes are great, but suggesting that we should all have bikes doesn't work if you don't live in California.or somewhere else where it is also mild and never very cold or very hot.
I don't deny that bootstrapping in current systems is ridiculous, but I don't see why it can't be improved. It's not like EROS is a typical OS either. In any case, I'll read up on those OSes.
Control her finances. Take away her passwords
I presume their data source is MLS. Perhaps the homes you are finding are not listed in MLS?
Make sure your splitter is rated for like 1.8ghz so you don’t dramatically attenuate your signal. Cheap splitters will probably cause trouble.
Yep that's a fair point. Government intervention can muddy the waters similar to unions, with regards to markets deciding on prices and value.

There is still some level of market sentiment though, both in that we don't collectively prioritize politically pushing through higher wages and individuals are still willing to do the jobs for the current salary rates.

Nursing may actually get the triple wammy - unions, governments, and insurance monopolies all weigh heavily into hourly rates and salaries for medical professionals.
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Yep that's a fair point. Government intervention can muddy the waters similar to unions, with regards to markets deciding on prices and value.

There is still some level of market sentiment though, both in that we don't collectively prioritize politically pushing through higher wages and individuals are still willing to do the jobs for the current salary rates.

Nursing may actually get the triple whammy - unions, governments, and insurance monopolies all weigh heavily into hourly rates and salaries for medical professionals.
This is what it was intended for. They were pushing it at around the same time as they were pushing Amazon Dash, the buttons for ordering specific consumable products [0].

I agree fully, though: Alexa never became reliable enough for me (or many others) to trust it with a credit card. A voice assistant that constantly mishears things in the small domain in which I do trust it can't be trusted to pick the right thing out of Amazon's entire catalog.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash
> They released a language model to the one community well equipped to handle the limitations of such models. It was advertised as experimental. [...] Then there are the well documented Twitter clashes between Yann Lecun and opponents, which I believe made Galactica the perfect target when it was advertised on Twitter by Lecun.

This is how it was advertised on Twitter by Lecun: "Type a text and http://galactica.ai will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everything."

If he wanted to advertise it as experimental and make clear its limitations he could have written something like "Type a text and http://galactica.ai will generate something that looks like a paper with made up references, incorrect formulas, and anything."
I assume you mean heat pumps? "Air conditioning" usually refers to cooling, not heating (even though the words don't actually need to mean that).
with things like chatgpt all of these assistant techs were immediately outdated.. I wouldn't have expected anything less that dumping whole old departments and starting over.
This type of comment has become such a cliche.

As a parent to young children I did not reach this conclusion and would love for my son to play this masterpiece. None of the parents I know are like this either.

I actually feel like this mindset was much more prevalent in the 90s than it is nowadays.
To start with, individuals do not print their own currencies. People always jump in immediately to say you can't inflate your way out of debt/look at Argentina/etc., but that's missing the point, I'm not saying that.

The point is a sovereign currency issuer has a fundamentally different relationship to money than mere people. They can certainly still get themselves in trouble through mismanagement, no doubt, but there are a lot of levers they have that are unavailable to normal folks.

Like some other major differences: not too many people have massive standing armies or hundreds of millions of tax payers, or control over a substantial fraction of global financial flows.

Again, not saying eleventy-trillion in debt is not a problem, or that all's well, or anything else like that. I am saying that comparing private finance to sovereign finance is a category error, and things will make much more sense to you if you understand why.
I have an almost, but not quite, completely unrelated anecdote about this.

I got on the internet in the early 2000s as a teenager, and would often be in various online chatrooms. Tricking people into visiting "shock sites" (most famously goatse.cx) seemed to be a common habit of certain denizens of these communities, either to people they didn't like or just because they thought it was funny.

Somehow I managed to avoid ever falling victim to this, but there was one exception I recall, in which I was linked to a website purporting to be website of the "Apostrophe Protection Society". After only a moment some kind of JavaScript kicked in to instead change the contents of the page to some goatse.cx-style shock image which I don't recall. In other words,
the "Apostrophe Protection Society" page just existed as a kind of bait-and-switch cover.

I quickly closed the page, and ironically what I ended up remembering is not anything about the shock image but the notion of the "Apostrophe Protection Society". I think at the time I assumed that the notion of the "Apostrophe Protection Society" was intended to be part of the joke - that nobody would ever actually make such an organisation.

I never bumped into that site again, but for heaven knows why (my memory is scary sometimes) I still remember the existence of this site pretending to be about an "Apostrophe Protection Society" (or some similar title).

So, TIL it actually is real - and actually a legitimate organisation. Presumably whoever made the above website must have picked the website at random and copied its contents. Well, I hope this random anecdote about what the web used to be like is of interest to someone...
If you live in a suburban house, with a yard, and drive a car, its likely poster is part of the problem.

Its easy to externalize blame and point fingers to something/someone else, when the reality is that people need to look inward.

The uncomfortable truth is these macro policy desires, are very much a case of "Do as I say, not as I do"

I speak this as someone that does not own a car, or have a yard, and drive a moped everywhere.

Yet, I don't want to restrict anyone in the future from owning a car (gas, if cost is an issue for the poor), or living in the suburbs.
Why superconductor research is in a 'golden age' – despite controversy
So far,

Reminder that Amazon and Salesforce took multiple decades to make a profit
I’ve driven a $3k car for almost 15 years. It has needed 3 sets of tires, 2 sets of front struts, a brake job, new power steering lines and a timing belt. I did all of that work, less the tires, myself. I spend about $1000 a year on insurance and registration.

The utility I get out of the car, in absolute terms, is incomparable to my ~$1500 bicycle(that I purchased for utility and even commuted on for several years). I have slept in my car many times. My car has snacks, spare clothes and shoes, a blanket, a pillow, towels, pen and paper, bags for groceries, kick scooters, folding chairs, spare chargers and cables, amongst other things.

Regular people need to bring things they own with them and take them back home. Bikes are trash for that. When I’m on my bike, my credit card serves the function of space.
I think the general pattern is that someone releases something for free, then people start using it, and start depending on it, and then start opening PRs and issues, and then the person who did it for free in their spare time is expected to respond to those issues, etc. Now other people are making money from your work, but demanding that you work on it for free.

Mostly this is the point where people start thinking about how to monetize it -- and they should! Your time is valuable, you should get paid for it. If you don't figure out how to get in the middle of the cash flows that are happening _because of your work_, someone else will do it.
> It is significantly less impressive when you ask something you don't already know and can't Google easily.

What's more, you absolutely cannot trust it with that kind of query.

Its insane to me that LLMs are primarily being pitched as fact givers. That is such a bad fit... They are so much better at writing poetry and fiction in chunks, or maybe analyzing stuff from the context.
I largely agree, but it would still be a good problem to solve because it would make electric buses and the cars that can’t be replaced lighter.
> The BS is minimized by the simple fact that you can easily and literally just walk to the competition next door.

I've only purchased two new cars in my life, but both times I managed to minimize the time involved by doing the test drives and chatting on one day, but showing up shortly before the dealership closed on a weeknight to actually do the deal. Yes, the did try to sell me on the all the extras, but they didn't push things either since it seemed like 3 people had to stick around for the whole process (dealer, business paper person, and manager).
What obvious astroturfing.

The Lite version is worse than the original in every way.
LLM's hallucinate so often when I ask them about software development issues that I don't even bother to ask them about areas I'm unfamiliar with.

I think the major difference that makes in not just "elite preference" is that the LLM output is just confidently wrong. If I read a report from an elite institution I'm at least reasonably confident that they're not going to base their entire argument on the premise that 2+2=5. Someone is going to call them on it, there may be reputational damage, there may even be legal repercussions in certain cases.

LLMs have no such protections. GPT recently, when asked to "write a function using the ELixir programming language that..." wrote a function in Elixir syntax using Python libraries and function names. That's a class of error that makes it actually dangerous if you're asking it about anything you can't fully check on your own, and there's no checks-and-balances for the content it generates that's only ever visible to a single user.

I agree with you that "official" sources can't be trusted and there are inaccuracies everywhere, but you have to admit that the craziest sources who say the craziest things (flat-earthers and such for example) get pretty easily dismissed and everything else they say becomes suspect. LLM's bypass that and can say the most outrageous things without ever getting caught or being forced to make a retraction/correction. That feels like a problem worth worrying about.
I've ridden my normal bike in weather where it was around 95F and humid as heck in northern Italy. That is certainly a sweaty endeavor, but an eBike with the assist cranked up is like... negative exertion. You can get a breeze without working much or at all.
> Now we just need an agency to safeguard us against misusing "less" when "fewer" would be correct

Genuinely curious, is this for pedantry, or does the word choice matter? Since the opposite of both is "more", why is there a need for a distinction in one direction and not the other?
I dont think theyre that important.
In "tell me you're American without telling me you're American" we have "building urban sprawl and car dependency is great because you might lose your job to at-will employment and your home to medical bills and have no social safety nets and resort to living in your car and /then/ wouldn't it be shitty if you didn't have one?". Like, maybe there's a different ... way things could be?

It can go with the thread on Signal where $338k/year was not much money, but the cost of SMS messages and cellular phonecalls was outrageously expensive.