skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is very interesting.

As an expert, you can ask an intelligent layman to interrogate you about some idea you have, or some essay you've drafted. To answer their questions, you have to be clear, explicit, and avoid jargon. That in turn forces you to think about what you mean.

You can then ask your layman to play back to you what they think you said; they might play it back using a structure that is clearer than the one you started with. [Edit] So someone who doesn't know your subject-matter can still help improve both your phrasing and structure.

FWIW, I suspect you'd get better results from an intelligent (human) layman, than from a chatbot.

wrt. the examples: I didn't understand what I was seeing. Are those snippets of real ChatGPT exchanges? I think they were [sort of] promo material for iA Writer; which is not so much vapourware as an imaginative fiction, used to make a point. Is that right?
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I think the idea behind the "10-20 year" timeframe is that that's how long current technological changes will take to propagate into social & economic changes, like how HTTP was invented in 1989 but we didn't get e-commerce until 1995 or social networking until 2002.

LLMs dramatically reduce the price of bullshit. It follows that they'll likely reduce the value of bullshit too, but we don't know to what extent or how that'll affect the organization of the economy until entrepreneurs generate vast bullshit factories and counterparties start adjusting their behavior to adapt to it. A huge swath of the economy runs on bullshit, from media to PR to sales to venture capital to politics. How these industries are structured will likely change when writing vast quantities of truthy-enough-to-be-convincing text becomes insanely cheap.
Sorry but I don't think it's implausible at all.

Outside of medical usage I think most commercial use of "titanium" is actually titanium alloys.

I'm sure I read somewhere there's over 50 commercial grades so substituting one for another close but cheaper grade with forged paperwork is very plausible.
I work on dev tools at my company. Telemetry really helps a ton to figure out if you're prioritizing the right things and if changes that you made are really for the better
NASA had issues with falsified tests of aluminium not long ago[1], reportedly costing them $700 million in losses[2].

Though buying from a relatively little known Chinese vendor without thorough testing on your own seems a bit reckless.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/aluminum-extrusion-manufactur...

[2]: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nasa-metals-fraud-201...
Yep. Instagram has been so hostile up logged-out people that it drove me away, and I actively recommend businesses avoid. Prior to this, quite a few small businesses I ran across used Instagram as their website, but it's completely useless if people can't see anything.
Spreadsheets have this strange productivity curve where for quick and dirty stuff it’s very fast but go deeper and the spreadsheet turns into this unmanageable mess that greatly reduces productivity long term (vs say using code to do the analysis in a repeatable way).

The business world is full of the later. For example, some bonkers monstrosity of a spreadsheet that Bob from finance built 5 years ago. Bob is no longer with the company and said spreadsheet is the only way the TPS reports get done each month so the whole company is held together by this thing nobody really understands.
Dan's the man: Why Chinese women are looking to ChatGPT for love
ERP + everything else that would would call "business application software". Like, you wouldn't recreate twilio, or stripe, or build you own database or data warehouse or anything.

Seems like it could be done if it were done from the start.

Seems like a lot of the issues are understanding a good db schema. Screw that up and you are in all kinds of trouble.
Many US commuter-rail trains also have reversible seats. The train crew generally orient these to be forward-facing for the direction of travel, possibly excepting the first seat in a car.

(The trainsets reverse directions without being turned around themselves. Those using locomotives rather than electric traction operate in "pusher" mode for half their trips. There's an operator cab in the end car for such trips.)
My feet are capable of walking 100 miles. I’m still not going to do that.
I've gotten a lot of training on presentations while in grad school and my former advisor used to often quiz us during our practices.

One thing is to treat the first slide as a kinda holding place while you're not talking. Like the cover of a book, and nothing more.

One of the things he would do to "trick" us is introduce us in various ways. The two common ways would be

And our next speaker will discuss BlahBlah

To which you respond

Thanks SoAndSo. I'm Godelski and I'll be discussing *next slide* BlahBlah

The other is

And our next speaker is Godelski and he'll be presenting his work on BlahBlah

Which you respond with

Thanks SoAndSo. *next slide*

There's a few variations (including no introduction) and they're all formulated in this way that you don't repeat the information from the person introducing you and you move away from your T̶i̶t̶l̶e̶Placeholder Slide quickly. It is only there for saying who you are and what the talk is about. If any more information is to be conveyed to the audience, you should not be on that slide.

There's also a lot more to what goes into the slides and how to organize them but that's less general. Other than I think it is quite helpful to have outline slides even if they're only seen for <1 second (often more important because slides get posted online. I like to use slides for talking so they don't post well online and I wish when they were it was easy to include slide notes. This works fine for Google slides but not PDFs. Maybe someone can push for a new paradigm here. I feel like we could likely do this with beamer, if it is not already done).
While I can appreciate your skepticism on marketing, it is not irrelevant that historically Apple usually delivers what it has marketed.
Here's the code with keypresses being sent:

https://editor.p5js.org/robss2020/sketches/46cRgGQtX
> "Let's avoid becoming like IBM, which seems to be surviving primarily due to its entrenched market position and legacy systems," this Adobe employee added.

Hasn’t this already accurately described Adobe for years now?
They did improve their story, with SAL exactly introduced for XP SP2, and having for many years having one of the few C++ standard libraries with bounds checking enabled by default in debug builds.

However that was it, WinDev fought against Longhorn, Office folks redid the .NET ideas in COM for Vista, and so on.
I'd kill for AOT compiled Python. 3.13 ships with a basic JIT compiler.
> Screen recording is trivial

Well yeah, but doing it by default and saving the results in a searchable way for each and every one of your users is not.
I do mixed-signal, which is mostly transistor-level design (analog), but also a lot of digital - both transistor-/gate-level and RTL.

I've mainly worked on RF transceivers for cellular, but eventually focused on ADC (analog to digital converters) IP that went into a variety of applications.

Pay depends on a lot of things - experience, type of circuit design, company, geography, etc. I've found that hardware engineer salaries on levels.fyi seem pretty accurate. IEEE also does a salary survey that you can pay to access for really detailed searches. You're definitely looking at starting salaries in 6 figures, and it's competitive with, but still below software engineers.

At small scales, I don't think it's profitable to do your own chip design. Many companies who start are just looking to get acquired rather than really sell their own chips.

Not really familiar with FPGA offerings sorry! It's a growing hobbyist area, though, so I'm sure you can find a lot of information on social media, youtube, etc.
"...and were sized to fit on a single DGX H100 with 8 GPUs when deployed in FP8 precision"

OK I see the goal is to sell more H100s, they made it big enough so it's not compatible with a cheaper GPU
> If the AI is cheap enough, everyone will be able to speak to a "representative" without waiting on hold or navigating a menu.

Sometimes people want to "speak to a representative" because they're too lazy to navigate a menu or search, and would prefer to use a natural language interface. AI will definitely help with that.

But for most people - especially younger people - our interface desires are not the issue. We prefer navigating a menu interface to having a conversation with anyone - AI or human!

We want to "speak to a representative" because the automated interfaces are deliberately designed not to let us do the thing we need to do. The customer service representative is not our servant, they're a guard who holds the keys to the door we need to enter.

Will companies give those keys to an LLM? I doubt it. It's certainly possible to trick CSRs, but it's easier (and more automatable) to trick LLMs. Instead, we'll get LLMs which claim to be CSRs but don't actually have any keys, bringing us back to the time-honored demand "I want to speak to a human!"
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I guess I should clarify - the maintainers didn't poke me to follow any guides. They had a wall of GitHub actions yelling at me in their stead.
The article mentions that the CoC may have been falsified, but I also wonder if part of this is they had falsified coupon testing/inspection documentation (or likely pulled a "good" coupon test and said it was for that batch). They definitely did not test any coupons after receipt though since the testing by Spirit after the fact confirmed that "the material passed some of the materials testing performed on it but failed others"

I cannot imagine (I say hopefully) that there is not some level of testing here, but I wonder if they were relying on supplier testing and the authenticity of that. But in that case I would also assume that there would be some source inspection of the supplier. These might all be bad assumptions, unfortunately, but this is coming from my experience working in aerospace on the space side of things.
Seattle tumbles to No. 20 in global ranking of startup ecosystems
If someone isn't technically literate enough to install Linux, they have three options:

1. Become technically literate enough to install Linux. Distros like Fedora are very easy to set up imo.

2. Ask someone else (relatives, local computer store, etc.) to set it up for you.

3. Continue using Windows.
Look into Nebula (or Tailscale if you trust third parties). I have all my workstations and servers on a mesh network that appears as a single /24 that is end to end encrypted, mutually authenticated and works through/behind NAT. I can spawn a vhost on any server that reverse proxies an API to any port on any machine.

It’s been an absolute gamechanger.
What's interesting to me is that AI hype accidentally got non technical people thinking and talking more about their privacy and security concerns relating to software.

There's nothing sinister about LLMs relative to the kind of data collection big tech has been up to for years and years. It's just that all the AGI spin has triggered a defensive response in people.

Positive, in my opinion. People should be approaching tech privacy concerns with fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Different plane crashes are different.

When a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash landed in Moscow, a fire broke out and fewer than half of the 78 occupants managed to escape the plane on time.

> Aeroflot claimed the evacuation took 55 seconds, though video evidence shows the slides still in use 70 seconds after their deployment. Passengers were seen carrying hand luggage out of the aircraft.

And you think that you're competent to determine whether there is sufficient time or not after the plane just crashed? If I were sitting in the row behind you, I'd much prefer you didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492
Why did this only occur to me recently? You can selfhost a k8s cluster and expose the services using a $5 digital ocean droplet. The droplet and k8s services are point-to-point connected using tailscale. Performance is perfectly fine, keeps your skillset sharp, and you’re self-hosting!
He was booted out of his university, he has never published an astrophysical paper in a peer-reviewed journal, he buys ad space in newspapers to publicize his "theories", his ideas either make no testable predictions or make incorrect predictions. He says the cosmic microwave background is caused by ocean waves. He thinks blackbody radiation stops working in outer space.
A variant that occurred to me the other day:

You are a Roman citizen at the Colosseum. Godzilla is in the ring. Five gladiators are released to go fight and die. But you can pull a lever to swing the cage door, so that only one person is sent to die instead.

Most likely answer: five gladiators dying is more entertaining than one.

I think there's even more cultural factors to the trolley problem than we usually consider.
Let me guess. You are a white guy in South East Asia.
While I don't think we live inside a simulation or that there is an outside,
you might enjoy the book Simulacron-3 [0] or its movie adaptation Welt am Draht [1]. It is about the protagonist realizing that they are an agent in an economic computer simulation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire
You solve this by implementing the LVT as a small tax rebate on top of traditional property taxes. Something along the lines of an "Improvements Rebate" or whatever polls best. This is much more politically palatable, you can pair it with a small increase in tax to some currently unpopular sector. Very slowly over time you can increase the property tax, while increasing the LVT rebate. Now those who might want to kill LVT now have a more complicated job of negotiating simultaneously to remove a popular benefit while adjusting overall tax rates, a much more complicated proposal.

LVT also has the drawback of being more complicated to calculate than property taxes, and therefore makes convincing constituents that it is being implemented fairly harder. When it is a negative (cost), this complexity makes it easy to attack, while a positive is more defendable (sure it's a tricky calculation, but it gives me money back in my pocket).
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> The Nemotron-4 340B family includes base, instruct and reward models that form a pipeline to generate synthetic data used for training and refining LLMs.

I feel like everyone is missing this from the announcement. They explicitly are releasing this to help generate synthetic training data. Most big models and APIs have clauses that ban its use to improve other models. Sure it maybe can compete with other big commercial models at normal tasks, but this would be a huge opportunity for ML labs and startups to expand training data of smaller models.

Nvidia must see a limit to the growth of new models (and new demand for training with their GPUs) based on the availability of training data, so they're seeking to provide a tool to bypass those restrictions.

All for the low price of 2x A100s...
Yeah, it's the primary reason we used it. If OpenTelemetry's raison d'être was simply to give Datadog a reason to not bullshit their customers on pricing, it would fulfill a major need in platform services.
Recording is trivial.

monitoring at scale, in real time? getting a concise "what did bob do on his computer all day" those are hard.
England was mostly clear cut long before the Industrial Revolution. That was possibly one of the main reasons it happened, there was huge demand for coal because there was little available firewood.

e.g. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/144BD/productio...
ZorinOS is catching up FAST and QUICK with out-of-the-box gaming support, many thanks to Valve's bankroll into the problem with Proton (primarily) and Wine (secondarily) for the Steam Deck.

I look forward to see where developments can go from here, but Zorin is pretty good for a solid amount of games... Maybe not most.
Maybe. I just think of all the other things that my eyes want to be doing. I figure that would interfere too much in the usefulness. But i agree. We should just test out all the wacky ideas and see what works best.
If it weren't for the rest of the world using spreadsheets, especially the clients we're supposed to impress, you know, the people with the $$$ that can make or break one's business, I wouldn't even bother with those spreadsheets. I'd just use Python, Numpy and Pandas for everything involving 2 dimensional data.

And of course ... I'd have less grey hairs ... :(
tmux has a server containing sessions containing windows containing panes. Screen has sessions, windows, and panes (which it calls regions).

I recently finally switched from screen to tmux and I found that it's pretty seamless (especially because I use vi keybinds in tmux still). Some machines at work don't have screen anymore.
I recall back a few years reading some articles speaking about the sun entering in a Grand Solar Minimum cycle similar to the Maunder minimum, and that the result could be global cooling, etc.

Not sure if there's been additional research or conjecture since then.
Put DevDiv’s bosses in charge of WinDev.
> Could just do null -> none, nonnull -> some, optional doesn't introduce anything new here. Either you null check or you optional check

I am not sure what you mean by the first point but what I am saying is that the compiler doesn't stop you from having a basic runtime null pointer exception because of "simplicity" and "yagni".
Oh I didn't really get that from what you had been saying.

Sure, I'd agree it feels like a whoopsie, I dislike nil values because they are a common source of faults.
The reason they found it is because it had suspicious physical properties.
I think they see them as different for historical reasons. The Mac is a computer and the iPhone is an appliance, so the differences makes sense to them.

Also they tried to retrofit the App Store onto the Mac, it’s a joke compared to what they seem to have thought it would become. Yeah there is software, and I use it, but for many reasons it’s far less successful than it should have been if done well.

> It frankly doesn't matter how Apple feels about it at the end of the day, there's only compliance and noncompliance.

I agree. Some people see the CTF and can’t imagine why they’d create it. I’m just trying to explain what I (and others) have suggested was the reason. It makes sense and is just given their seeming point of view.

Problem for them is no one else, even huge fans, seems to agree.
If you’re comfortable with k8s there is no cheaper deal in town than Rackspace Spot.
you say one thing and do another.

look, politics is stupid. but sales people understand it and play the game. Microsoft et all are eating all your tax dollars because they play in that bullshit and deliver nada.

if a few people want to take on the hobby of selling open source under the governance, dei, green, whatever flag... it's their hobby as you put it, that you're criticizing. and they might actually (even if 0.00001%) deliver. vs zero percent for Microsoft et al, who still sell under that flags, mind you.

so that hobby might do more concrete good to your tax dollars (more likely euros) than your latest lego star war set or collection of groot figurines or whatever is your apolitical hobby.
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dude,that's awesome!
Cheers, appreciate it!
The other answers you’ve gotten are right, and this is mostly just expanding on their points. But speaking for a me, this is how I view the value proposition:

With Effect (and ideas like it), you can treat error conditions as normal expressions, without special control flow. You can reason about the error conditions the same way you reason about the successful data flow. You can treat your own Error subclasses just like any other value type, with the same kind of conditional logic in the same flow. And you can do that without looking deeper into the call stack to understand where errors come from, because errors flow exactly where values flow.

Because errors and values are in the same flow, you can compose things in ways you couldn’t (or at least wouldn’t typically) with separate error control flow. You can build complex logic by composing simpler fundamentals, in a way that’s more declarative and self-documenting. Your error instanceof checks can be combined with map/filter/whatever else just like you might use with success values, and they can be mixed so that recoverable error conditions are expressed even more like success conditions.

If you’re into types, all of the same benefits apply at the type system level. You don’t have to care about types to enjoy these benefits. If you don’t care now but embrace types in the future, you’ll just get more of the same benefits in that hypothetical future.
The counter-point here is that 10 years passes and processes have changed and needs have evolved and everyone's still stuck using that old internal app that was built by people who are no longer at the company and no one wants to update it because it's toil and there's no budget, and so processes are cumbersome and artificially complicated because everything has to go through that app.

Case in point at my company there's an internally-built ITSM app that requires a user to select "Approved" no less than 8 times across 4 screens to approve an internal request.

My point here is that there will always be edge cases that disprove the rule, so yes you're right, but are you right most of the time? I doubt it.

In my 30 years working in this field (and 10 of those years were spent helping companies deal with poor internally built apps), the majority of internally-built applications at companies that aren't modern software companies (i.e. most companies) age very poorly, have poor internal support and little to no technical health budget, have terrible user experiences, and are generally disliked by most employees who have to use them.

Particularly in these times when everyone can compare the tools they work with to the stuff on their phones or laptops that they use every day. It's an unfair comparison but it's still there. The expectations for interfaces and software usability have increased faster than most companies can manage for their internal products.
This is a good way to do math. But honestly, how many products actually have 100% utilisation. I did some math a few months ago but mostly on the basis of active users, on what would be the % difference if you have 1k to 10K users/mo. You can run this as low as $0.3K/mo on Serverless GPUs and $0.7K/mo on EC2.

The pricing is outdated now.

Here is the piece -https://www.inferless.com/learn/unraveling-gpu-inference-cos...
It had one? lol