skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're saying it's a symptom of a dying democracy, not that democracy is associated with Machiavellianism.

Edit: Also, a republic is a type of democracy.
I think the point is that IBM is ostensibly a "tech" company and most people in tech (young and old) have never dealt with them nor do they know any of their products. We vaguely remember seeing IBM-branded desktops decades 30+ years ago, but that's about it.

Ask people about any large company in their own industry and they would know at least one of their products or services, and that includes Goldman Sachs, Dow, or Cisco.
Having to iterate on the prompt to get good, consistent results on a variety of inputs definitely feels like an engineering task
I wonder what the mice daydream of? Endless mazes filled with cheese? Miniature adventures exploring cozy nests? Maybe a world where cats are mere figments of their imagination?
You must be thinking of a different game - Falcon 3.0 came out in 1991 when a 486 would've been top-of-the-line. I played this fine on a 486SX and it was fine.
The killer of email, like with every method of communication that has gone mainstream and then declined, is spam.

Not just spam as in fraudulent scams, though those are pretty bad.

Not just spam from companies you've done business with and neglected to opt out of legal spam from, though it's exhausting.

Once a communication protocol gets a reputation as a consistent way to reach someone, with some level of urgency, a certain subset of the population lowers their threshold for what constitutes urgency until the signal gets lost in the noise.

Not sure how to fix it.
The relationship you're describing is balanced, as opposed to non-unionized employment, where management can threaten employment and healthcare as negotiation leverage and employees can't threaten anything.
Ah, that makes sense. All the Google hits in English are a demon or a World of Warcraft enemy. Obviously I should have been looking in Catalan!
can you share some resources which helped you to write such nested prompts?
Write clear instructions
Provide reference text
Use external tools
Split complex tasks into simpler subtasks
Give the model time to "think"
Test changes systematically

As these best practices solidify, why are they not being built into the UI or product itself for these tools? Seems trivially straightforward besides the last one. For the first one, add an optional persona field and allow query construction in pieces before sending over the wire. Permanently pre-prompt the model to always ask itself how long to "think" before answering, and ask itself intermediate questions if it's nontrivial.
From painful personal experience there are about 3 people in all of IBM who understand PKI well enough to configure a server.
Maybe you should then question your parenting. I would be so distressed if my kid was incapable of creating original play without the support of a franchised movie.

Also, no my son is not lying to me.
If you're interested in getting organized with your coworkers like this, there are a lot of other tech workers who can provide training and advice.

https://code-cwa.org/upcoming-trainings
https://collectiveaction.tech/
Small discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649113
Indeed, I really need to improve my reading comprehension.
Like humans, it takes time to learn how to communicate with an LLM. Also like humans, each LLM needs something a little different
>Linting in essence should be orthogonal to development

I guess that's what I disagree with. Yes, it adds complexity of its own, just like types do. And I still favor solutions that are based on types for most things, but more and more I try to go this route. They are surprisingly easy to write.
Oatmeal: Terminal UI to chat with large language models
This is wrong.
This is like saying that the whole relationship of employer/employee is inherently hostile because the employer can threaten wages/livelihood as negotiation leverage.
Unions are kind of like HR that serves the employees
What about Netflix's practice of using an employee until they aren't of any use then disposing them? A practice that applied to an employee that helped draft it?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/inside-netflixs-n...

Or how, when the pandemic hit, people realized even with all the perks a Google/Apple campus gives you it was still preferable to stay at home, or even move to a more preferable place, and avoid the tour bus commute? Not to mention the lack of transparency in pay which will stagger individual negotiation efforts when employers apply, or attempt to apply, a WFH tax.
The case of the missing Vega AVUM propellant tanks
Also a Fastmail customer and prounion. I'll be watching this closely.

I have been ecstatic about the quality of service. Fingers crossed management does the right thing and retains their customers and employees.
It's not specific and personal. Obviously it doesn't apply 100% but there is definitely a trend towards rote memorization and single language focus.
While I will appreciate the Proton Mail Linux app when it is eventually released, I refuse to pay for a Proton Unlimited, Proton Family, or Proton Business subscription until Proton Drive has a free and open source client for Linux.

There are currently 3,609 people on your user feedback forum requesting a Linux client for Proton Drive: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/...

Linux support is essential for cross-platform privacy-oriented services. I hope your company is able to provide a specific timeline for when Linux will be supported in Proton Drive, instead of ignoring Linux completely like your company is doing in your product roadmap (https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-roadmap).
> People might not want to contradict an assertion because of language like "The term’s in wide use, talk to anyone involved with cloud-anything and they’ll be familiar with it. [...] I’m not sure what else needs to be translated? Nothing, I think?"

> > LinkedIn was having a hard time taking advantage of the cloud provider's software. Sources told CNBC that issues arose when LinkedIn attempted to lift and shift its existing software tools to Azure rather than refactor them to run on the cloud provider's ready made tools.

The only other terms I can see that are jargon are "cloud provider" and "refactor", and those are already technical (more or less) so don't need to be translated into technical language.

As for the other bit, I just meant that it's a widely-used term so one may continue to encounter it in these contexts. It truly is ubiquitous in discussion of and around "enterprise transformations" to the cloud, and among cloud practitioners more generally, so anyone connected to that space will know what it means. It's also kinda already a technical term, in that developer/devops and SRE sorts throw it around and do mean a specific thing by it, which doesn't need to be translated for other technical folks in that area.
According a toot posted today, they have 50 employees: https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/111585249083411392
It's amazing how many people see no contradiction between

"having more employees will stop shoplifting" and "lol of course employees won't do anything about shoplifters, are you risking your life for minimum wage?",

or between

"obviously criminals don't reply to increased punishment" and "of course they won't escalate to assault, that would massively increase their punishment".
Prompt engineering won't be around forever. I think of LLMs as being like early computing systems, where you had to work around the limitations imposed by the CPUs, memory and other hardware. Back then they had to implement workarounds like binary math tricks, etc. It was a pain, but that's what you had to do. Eventually the hardware got better, the amount of low level effort was reduced and programming languages got easier to use. No one needs to write assembly any more.

LLMs are on a similar path. Right now, we have to work with the limitations imposed by the current state of LLM functionality. As the technology matures, we won't need to worry about wording input as much.
Skimming this I did not really understand the programming model difference from glommio or tokio-uring. Aside from striving to be cross-platform, how is this significantly different?
I think it is intuitive once you spend the time to read the docs. I think folks expect they can pick it up and hack at it like many other languages. It's one that is worth spending the time to work through the pills, understand what it is doing, why and how. A lot of the confusion and frustration I've seen people have with nix the language could have been avoided if they spent a little time to pick up at least the fundamentals.
There is also a time aspect to the equation.

The goal is to improve wages and conditions for workers in a sustainable way so that the improvements are guaranteed to persist over time and not be a one time thing.

Basically it's important to not lose the war by winning one battle.
Beyond ludicrously small systems, refactoring of live 24/7 production systems is never easy.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail, and any non-trivial, customer-facing system will have accumulated weird code paths to account for obscure but nonetheless expensive edge cases. A codebase built across >20 years, scaled to support millions of concurrent users is going to be absolutely filled to the brim with weird things.

When you add the need for live migrations with zero downtime, done every few years to account for next order of magnitude loads, you end up with a proper Frankenstein's monster. It's not called "rebuilding an airplane while flying" for a lark.

Every round includes a long, complex engineering effort of incremental live migration. With parallel read/write patterns between old and new systems, and all their annoying semantic differences. And then, to add insult to injury, while your core team was going through the months-long process of migrating one essential service, half a dozen upstream teams have independently realised they can depend on some weird side effects of the intermediate state and embedded its assumptions to a Critical Business Process[tm] responsible for a decent fraction of your company's monthly revenue. Breaking their implicit workflow will make your entire company go from black to red, so your core team is now saddled with supporting the known-broken assumptions.

Then you get to add wildly differing latency profiles to the mix. While you were running on your own hardware, the worst-case latency was rack-to-rack. Implicit assumptions on massive but essential workloads may depend, unknowingly, on call-to-call latencies that only rarely exceed 100 microseconds. In a cross-AZ cloud setting you may suddenly have a p90 floor of 0.2ms. A lot of software can break in unexpected ways when things are consistently just a little bit too slow.

Welcome to the wonderful world of distributed systems and cloud migrations. At some point the scars will heal. Allegedly.
Slightly off topic, but could someone explain why employees in the US keep having to form their own union at each company, rather than the employees just joining an existing union? If I wanted to join a union where live, I'd just pick a relevant union, go to their home page, and click 'join'.
Or have elected officials. If the union isn't fighting for you...elect someone who will.

To me, unions are a lot like democracies. They can function very well, but need constant oversight by their constituents to ensure that they are working towards the interests of all members.

Not coincidentally, the strongest democracies are the ones with many laws regarding transparency to eliminate corruption.
>and is why over 1000 VW workers in Tennessee indicated their intent to join the UAW

out of how many workers total?
wow, so sharp and insightful...

except that that's not really what the article is about. it's more about how hard it is for the maker' political opinions to be loaded in the show:

> This plot arc aired in the mid-1990s, when abortion wasn’t really an option for characters on television shows. If a series even openly discussed abortion, it risked the ire of highly organized media watchdogs on the religious right who would lead boycotts and threaten skittish advertisers.

and it's about how the "makers" of the show didn't know it was happening:

> Outside of a select few insiders, no one—including Aaron Spelling, Melrose’s legendary executive producer—knew what it was doing.
I used to call a flying taxi and fly to a vertical farm for fresh strawberries.

Well, what to do now?
why "lol"

Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) is the primary or core implementation for LLMs
>There are no 2 sides.
>Go on to break everything down into two sided relationships.

Remember poster:
Despite the Romulan's insistence,
There...are...four...lights!
The show‘s plot does not make sense after the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 which eliminated benefit maximums and implemented out of pocket maximums.

After 2010, Walter’s treatment would have been fully paid for.
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Really just a decade of technical writing and learning how to be extremely precise and unambiguous with language (half of that decade being in software QA, which helps even moreso)
A year ago I would have said it's impossible for ads companies to listen to everything you say and then base ads on it, because the sheer amount of data and compute necessary wouldn't be worth it, since 99% of what you say is useless garbage to them.

But today there are some pretty good local speech recognition models. I don't know if it's happening today, but I wouldn't be surprised if ad companies start figuring out ways to do local speech processing and only send the most relevant bits for full processing in the near future.

We'll have to depend on Apple and Google to protect us.
Behold in all their glory: https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/space/ice-plan...

And: https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/space/space-po...
Fortunately, the "shareholders" are a couple of the grandchildren of the founder; it is entirely family owned, not publicly traded.
Congratulations on your DIY project, posting the commercial version was not at all intended to throw shade on it. I've reverse engineered plenty of commercial products, both for fun and for profit and know the challenges.

HoHoHoH20 has been ok but not perfect. I had to 3D print a secure mount for the probe to fit my tree stand. They don't really include any kind of mount, the probe kind of hangs on hope and prayers.

The pump doesn't develop enough head pressure to lift water more than 8" or so, which it needs to in order to get over the rim of my tree stand. So when the reservoir is getting low, but not empty enough to trigger the low water level alarm, the pump just runs continuously but water does not flow. Found this out because my cat was curious about the pump noise. The easy solution was to put it on an 8" pedestal.

Anecdotally - we have found that Nordsman Fir trees consume a lot less water, drop a lot fewer needles, and have strong branches that can withstand heavy ornaments and cats. Worth seeking out.
> fiduciary duty to do so

Is that actually so?
this could be wrong and i've missed some of the timeline, but from what i've seen "prompt engineering" started out as a sarcastic joke on twitter about how software engineering roles were going to be reduced to prompt engineering. and then people took the term and started using it seriously.
Communication between humans, I guess?
Exactly. Moving vertically against gravity gradually squashes the bits down.
Evgeny Morozov: We Need a Nonmarket Modernist Project
While I'm pro-union in general, not all unions are equal. Some are powerful. Some are weak. Back in the 1990s I worked part-time for a unionized grocery store chain and was a member of the UFCW. There were four contract negotiations while I was there, and each time the union rolled over and approved pay cuts, decreasing the top pay rate and slashing insurance benefits. Long-time workers saw their pay cut from $11.11 an hour to $7.50 an hour over the course of a few years. Many left or took an offered buyout during the last pay cut. The last cut finally affected me as well and I took that same buyout.

No one at my store liked the union, and I have to admit that it turned me off of unions for a while. The UFCW was weak and had little bargaining power over a company that was losing money and, as we later learned, was being embezzled dry by its president.
The log scale charts make it seem like the performance is all the same. It would be nice to see relative performance in a table or chart.
It's a disadvantage of current SOTA models: they are easy to train, but they must be large wasting lots of weights in order to generalize well. Maybe another architecture, transformer's successor will be more economical - having less weights with more skills and knowledge.
To maintain the level of throughput we expect and need, trains have to run to a rigid schedule. If things were re-jigged so that trains could leave a bit late for some reason or other, the resulting reduction in throughput and corresponding passenger miles would outweigh your inconvenience. After all, trains drove the mass adoption of accurate timekeeping.
In that "worst system" result it actually scored full marks on Adaptive Cruise Control Performance and got dinged points on subjective points such as "Driving Collaboration". The conclusion states that it excels at driving but the design may cause over-reliance. Since the 2020 test, Tesla has added a lot of new features such as driver monitoring via in-cabin camera which is extremely good at detecting whether I am focused on the road or looking at my phone.

For what it's worth, I have lots of experience with both Autopilot (both legacy and FSD) and various cruise control implementations. Tesla is honestly just vastly better.
Which Sonoma bug?
NASA images show solar flare that caused radio interference on Earth
TBH, Often I asked chatGPT to suggest a prompt for a domain I am not good at. For instance, I asked chatGPT to give me a prompt that can help me to give a market(stock) overview at day end with all key insights. chatGPT came up with a good prompt which I then used on Google Bard(I do not have gpt4 subscription hence no access to the latest data). Bard came up with a good 5-7 lines paragraph of text having all key insights of NASDAQ. I later asked Bard to return the key points in JSON format and it obeyed me.
What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? (2015)
(Context: I'm pretty thick into Nix, and have been for about four years. Most of this post is focussed on the NixOS desktop experience, so DevOps nerds, ymmv.)

Unpopular opinion: Nix is not that hard.

What's "hard" from a nix-promotion strategy is motivating people to understand why they would want the benefits it offers. Mostly because Nix, especially with home-manager, dramatically worsens UX for several day-to-day tasks, simply by violating the Law of Least Surprise every couple of hours in normal use.

I want a fully idempotent, version-locked, rewindable user environment, with a version-controlled central config, because I have half a dozen devices that, for reasons, I need to keep perfectly interchangeable with one another. Most users do not want this, for the simple fact that mutating their configs and differentiating them locally on specific machines is not a bug, but a feature.

Even more than that, it's an expectation that most software developers share as well.

Case in point: I filed a bug against the GitHub CLI last week. If any org has the scope and motivation to build software that's compatible with NixOS, an OS most of whose users are developers, it should be GitHub, which is, at least notionally, all about developers, developers, developers. A change in GH required a config format migration, which was sensibly done by opening the config .yml and rewriting it.

Of course, this breaks NixOS not just in practice but in principle. NixOS/home-manager makes config files read-only. Surprise! https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/8462

The response from GitHub was basically, "yeah, we knew this was going to happen, we mentioned it to the packagers at NixOS, but we did it anyway, because it was still the best way to proceed for us." (And they weren't wrong.)

Now, once a month is an annoyance, but I run into these problems daily. I can't imagine any sane person -- which I am not -- would persist with using it.

Why do I keep using NixOS, then? Because I am terribly and disproprotionately annoyed by small changes in my user experience, which I find disruptive to my workflow and hence threaten my success. For me, forbidding apps from mutating the config files I established for them is a selling point. Being able to version-control an idempotent declarative config for all of them at once is heaven.

Unless you're like me, you'll hate NixOS. But some were meant for Nix.
Literally everything. The list of thing that are not some type of convolution is really short. Name 5 concepts and I'll try to connect it to convolution.
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That sounds like a total zero-sum perspective on life itself.
Qt Widgets was a pleasure to work with. It's very well documented, well structured, and easy to extend with your own Widget classes.
I think the first Treos came out in 2002, though?

I thought I had my T68 camera phone on 9/11, but it turns out I didn't get it until 3 months later.

I watched 9/11 unfold on an 8" LCD hooked to PC my friend and I had installed in his car. I remember most news sites on the Internet were totally hugged to death that day.
yep this is a bug that they say they are trying to fix. For now use gpt-4-32k on Azure
I am a native Android developer and decided to focus only on this platform for now, as I had no desire to mess with Electron and other web frameworks.
It's also interesting to note that they work differently in different countries. For example:

> I was recently talking with someone where the Union negotiated pay/benefits they got was less (before and after union dues) than the surrounding non-union competition.

As far as I know this wouldn't happen in the Netherlands - unions have the legal backing to negotiate on behalf of all employees, member or not.
Yes and no. Fundamentally, I agree with you. Nix is hard because it solves an inherently complex problem. But it's also hard because it has some usability flaws.

For example, I recently wrote a bunch of Nix and got an error that boiled to me forgetting to add a "name" to a derivation. That is absolutely my bad. However, Nix didn't tell me which file this derivation was in (it said 'unknown file' iirc), the stack trace also wasn't any help . And so I went hunting through the hundreds of lines of Nix I just added to find where I might be missing a "name".

Should I have tested my code incrementely? Absolutely, yes! But Nix should also be able to tell me which file I am missing the attribute in.

I say all of this as a huge Nix advocate and fan. It's wonderful, it solves so many problems I previously had and I intend to keep using it, but it's far from perfect.
Yeah that spec of machine should have easily played 3.0. Unless it was running too fast?
And then what other than paying the fees? I'm not pro union, but without organizing with your peers in the same company I even see less point. The main aspect that I could see in unionizing is representing the voice of the workers of the company together. If you're alone working with an external entity or if your colleagues all join different ones I can't see any way of it working.
Are you thinking of 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' which plays ASCII Star Wars in the terminal? There's a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbiay2zUKL0
Note, this is false. Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38655026