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> Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along.

How does the first sentence lead to the second one here? How are you gleaning anything about that from watching a video with no sound?

And why is it obvious that they're making it up as they go?
I'm just not sure if that's a helpful way to look at it though because we don't know the counterfactual. If we didn't generate new demand would we still have created more renewable energy and shut down non-renewable energy sources.

I suppose it's fair to say energy demand will always go up, and if all new energy creation is renewable then when you extrapolate to a limit the amount of energy from non-renewable sources is an infinitely small percentage of all energy production? I don't know if that is a fair way to model the future though.
> I'll point out that the agency system has ~100 years of efficacy behind it.

The agency system you are advocating for has only a few decades of history. Chevron was a 1984 decision, and didn’t really rise to prominence until the Obama administration.
I was also at Amazon. We used a slightly modified version of scrum in that at least my team wasn't afraid to push back on ceremonies we didn't think we needed. Sprint planning? virtually always. Sometimes without the planning poker deck. Daily standups? virtually always. Retrospectives? not as often as you might think.

But... was decision making authority devolved to the team, SDM or TAM? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Our code was nothing but a series of queries to config settings and simple math. And even then it took weeks to get a decision on how things should work so we could tweak the config settings used in code that was now difficult to understand. Refactoring? pish! Unit tests? who wants to test every class? (i.e. - management didn't understand what unit tests or TDD were.)

My experience with Amazon was we toed the line for the easy bits of Scrum (ceremonies, etc) but the stuff that seems to matter where wildly different between teams.

If someone asked me "Does Amazon use Scrum?" I would say "in theory, but not really in practice."

In 2016 when we all moved to the new issue tracking system, I sort of wished we could use Jira. For most of that year my team put Todos and Issues in the GIT repo along with the code because we were tired of losing days of info in the system as they kept reverting to known good versions and losing issue tracking data (because the format of the data was dependent on new code that was just reverted.)

Though I do know that parts of amazon (AWS, Studios, etc.) were able to avoid the majority of the problems. I had hoped when Andy took over the whole shebang, things would get better. But after poking my head in last month, things as the bit-A seem to have gotten a bit worse: interns and SDE II's still do all the coding (one of the reasons i left; i'm not an intern and i like coding), but no-one on the team I was called in to help still hadn't read any of the TDD books and just assumed a unit test was a test you wrote to test a single class, because a class is a unit.

But let me stop bitching about a company I don't work at anymore and say I don't disagree with you but it brings up a point I should have mentioned: "Scrum" probably means different things in different teams. Big companies have a lot of teams that might all say they're doing "Scrum", but they're doing it in a very different way. Some will ignore the intangible aspects of Scrum and Agile, and only use the tools (like Jira). Others will be adamant that every ceremony must be performed at exactly the right time. Most will try to do the best they can even though product management has their heads so far up... hold on... i should be nice... i have worked with product managers that are excellent, i just wish there were more of them.

Yeah. Amazon is a big place with a lot of teams. They're probably all doing a version of scrum. And they're not using Jira. So we have an existence proof that it happens with at least big companies.
I can see how that would confusing. I did submit with the original title "WA man set up fake free wifi at Australian airports ...", but I think edit by a moderator removed Australian part. In hindsight, the title should have been "Australian man ...", but I can't edit the submission now.
Microsoft a national security threat says ex-White House cyber policy director
The Story of the First Panenka
What is the function of the blackholes in a rational universe?
This seems like a slippery-slope argument.
2D might be more practical if you were trying to make architectural decisions, but I feel the author's whimsical embrace of the starship metaphor made his/her project more interesting and fun. I've already seen a bunch of 2D code graphs.
My dad learned Yiddish in his family home, both parents were immigrants and native speakers, though he never spoke it. But he loved to watch WWII movies, and would translate the German dialog for us and sometimes correct the subtitles.
Github would be substantially better off if they had not spent so much engineering talent on that arguably regressive client-side rendering refactor. I have PRs I still cannot review in their web UI due to the happy emergent properties of my browser being forced to incrementally fetch & render thousands of files as I scroll.

I can only imagine the current stability issues are an ongoing indication of similar technology choices.
As a visitor, the downside to ignoring anything that even smells of spam is very low. You might miss out on the occasional real post. If you're Craigslist, every false positive is a headache. User complaints, support costs, vetting, bad publicity.
> construction levels not seen since before 2007

Now plot post-War housing stock against population. We have more houses than ancient Egypt ergo supply and demand is fake isn’t an argument.
LLMs are nothing more than statistical token prediction engines, feed it bullcrap and it will statistically provide bullcrap. There is no novel thought behind them, and they're marginally more complicated than your phone's keyboard Next Word Predictor.

So, yeah, they'd fit in place of an McKinsey alumni sitting in a C-Suite transparently.
I've been in infosec for the past 14+ years and hiring these types are pretty nuanced and complex. On one hand, you have a person who shows their ethics are questionable at best. Do you want those folks having the proverbial "keys to the kingdom"?

On the other hand - people make mistakes and learn. And these types of folks are decently effective at what they do - although I will say the fact they got caught demonstrates they're not THAT good.

I'd probably pass on this specific person for the latter reasons.
> Plaintiffs insist the Court should extend Robinson to prohibit the enforcement of laws that proscribe certain acts that are in some sense “involuntary,” because some homeless individuals cannot help but do what the law forbids. The Ninth Circuit pursued this line of thinking below and in Martin, but this Court already rejected it in Powell v. Texas. In Powell, the Court confronted a defendant who had been convicted under a Texas statute making it a crime to “get drunk or be found in a state of intoxication in any public place.” Like the plaintiffs here, Powell argued that his drunkenness was an “involuntary” byproduct of his status as an alcoholic. The Court did not agree that Texas’s law effectively criminalized Powell’s status as an alcoholic... This case is no different.

If you told me this quote was from an Onion article, I'd say "well obviously."
I think you mean that’s the point of overturning Chevron.
Chairwoman Rosenworcel Asks Telecom Companies to Describe Steps They're [pdf]
You got some good answers below, but in addition to those, also thinner air = less felt turbulence, so it’s more comfortable (provided your cabin pressurization is good).
> the US spends trillions of dollars a year supporting homeless and otherwise

No it doesn't
If they don't have compassion and understanding for someone who is at the lowest point of their life because it's "unfair" then I'm not particularly interested in talking to them.
> It would be political suicide for either side to do that.

Used to be, in my opinion. Now I'm not so sure if parties that pursue power uber alles would face any consequences.
Good thing Boeing hasn't already been doing that /s
To be fair only a handful of US metros are large enough to see a good amount of gridlock. A lot of american cities outside that top few are pretty much "mile a minute" metros where you can expect most trips you have the bulk of it done at 60mph from the ample highway access and lack of congestion on that network in general.
This goes the other way too.

I stopped selling on Craiglist b/c EVERY SINGLE TIME I posted something I immediately started getting the "hi! I'm moving so I'm going to send the movers with a check that includes their pay and the balance to pick up your item" scam.

At least on Facebook Marketplace, I can see who the person is, do they have a rating, do they know anyone I know etc etc.

As a side note:

For the Twitter folks, I've written a bunch of funny threads about selling things on FB and Craigslist that you can find here: https://twitter.com/alexpotato/status/1305311410579214336
No, because they neither make laws nor execute them.
I appreciate your efforts to uphold quality, though I'm not sure I follow in this case. What do you take issue with?
For car sales, they started charging to post. It's worked wonderfully and now most ads are from serious sellers with fully fleshed out posts and who are responsive.
The executive is supposed to represent the public interest, opposed to the interests wealthy enough to bring a lawsuit. We seem to have given up on that.
It absolutely is.

"is a legal test for when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a law or statute."

The idea Congress could pass a law "you can't pollute", and then a all of the legal details behind it aren't actually a part of the law, but rather "administrative decisions" by unelected state apparatus is a run-around of the system.

Congress can still pass such laws, and bureaucrats can create rules. The only difference is now the courts can overturn their interpretation.

How is that not a good thing?
Hardly limited to any one magazine; it's common across all forms of media that has found its market dramatically changed and has to transition to advertising thinly veiled as content. Even daytime news/talk shows (GMA, The View, Today Show, etc) have segment where they're pushing products that you can "buy" from their site (affiliate links)
> towards solidifying the executive branch

The ruling is literally the opposite.

The power is put in the hands of the courts and it is take away from the executive appointed agencies.
Ask HN: Founders, how do you track your core SaaS metrics?
By core SaaS metrics, I mean metrics across product usage (daily active users, clicks), sales and marketing (pipeline, churn), and finance (ARR, LTV, CAC).

Do you use individual tools to track each of those metrics or do you bring all the data together in a central database and track things from there?
Of course, eventually that will lead to a growing number of people just giving up and either accumulating tickets they will never be able to pay or actively draining city money by spending every other day in jail (which also happens to be temperature-controlled and have free food).
Aren't they essentially the same language (unlike Yiddish vs. German)?
> When anyone can consistently build/test/run anything in your codebase it becomes a lot easier to build a whole host of potential tools like code search.

As someone who hasn't worked for Google, how does Google's implementation of this differ from e.g. Guix/nixpkgs? Being able to easily build/test any available package is a big reason I like using tools like those.
That's the beauty of C++, an absurdly slow build is just an include away.
That’s PGRX - not PostgreSQL
As I said, I don't like coding in C.
Maybe im missing something but what is so strange about that? Once you stopped training them and thanked you, what else are they supposed to thank you for everyday?
Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO. If Poland were attacked, then there’d be something to discuss. As an American taxpayer, Ukraine is none of my business. Was Ukraine sending troops to help find Bin Laden when the U.S. was attacked? What strategic value does Ukraine have for the U.S.? Very little. It wasn’t like they were letting us put airbases or missile defense systems in their country. If Russia attacked Finland, Ukraine wouldn’t have done anything.
Absolutely. It's surprising that not everyone does this.

I have two bank accounts, each with a card and Apple pay. My "backup bank" costs about 3 euros / month for a simple payments account, savings and a creditcard.

My main creditcard is a separate Amex, but having a backup Visa card is useful also because Amex acceptance is still not great in Europe.

For less than 50 euros per year that's a lot of redundancy.
This basically flips the judicial review logic from "did the regulator act within the scope of the law?" to "are there other ways the regulator could have acted that would also be within the scope of the law? If so, the judge decides which set of actions the regulator must take"

I.e., anything Congress does not explicitly state in a law is now determined by federal judges. At the extreme, this is aggrandizing a very wide scope of power to low-level federal judges to essentially ignore congressional intent.
Or you're just used to it. We get quickly used to e.g. our own body odor or halitosis so well that we can't smell it at all.
They are exactly the same... Expect for the massive use case of storing human text, which contains tons of commas and zero ASCII separators.

So if you decide not to support "strings", just "text", then those separators Just Work.
Nice to see it didn't go the Macbook way of losing main ports over "sleekness". It still has less ports than I would prefer though (there's only one USB-A port and no HDMI ports), but not bad considering its size.
We need an official exchange rate for the Gaza aid. For example for each 1000 pound bomb we should also drop 10000 pounds of rice. I'm sad that nobody has come up with this sort of a figure yet.

/s
This is your last chance, somebody stop them please. /s
Thanks for this reply. Yep, as an engineer, this is awesome, the docs look simple and I’ll give it a whirl. As a product guy, it seems like it would be dead simple to start a company on this tech by just putting up a web page that lets people pick a couple choices and gives them a custom domain. Very cool!
Show HN: Taking an accuracy-first approach to LLM Development
TLDR

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Improving accuracy requires running hundreds of experiments with different combinations of prompts, models, business logic, RAG content, and more. We are an LLM Development Framework that structures your application development for rapid experimentation so you can reach production-level accuracy faster.

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Motivation

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Let me know if this sounds familiar:

We spend three months setting up our LLM application backend and integrating it into our frontend, but it ended up not being accurate enough to be useful in production.

We, engineers, tend to approach LLM development as an engineering problem, as we do with most traditional software applications. This means we focus on wiring up a bunch of components together such as the OpenAI API, Vector DB, backend, frontend, auth, security, scalability, etc., and expect the application will just work. However with LLM development, there’s a second piece of the puzzle that comes after the engineering — making the application accurate. This part is often glossed over and not explored until after initial development is complete. As a result, teams end up spending 3-6 months on LLM development, just to realize what they’ve built is not useful for production. This is typically when they begin trial and erroring through accuracy improvements, using “vibe-checks” with little success.

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Solution

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Accuracy is the most important part of LLM development -- without an accurate application, the product is useless. The best way to improve accuracy is to systematically run numerous experiments, testing the impact of changes to your LLM stack on your output. For example, how does adding a new paragraph to my prompt affect the overall accuracy of my application? We are working on an LLM Development Framework that takes an accuracy-first approach from the beginning of your LLM Development journey. We do this by structuring your LLM development for rapid experimentation, providing you with all the tools needed to manage and evaluate experiments at scale, and helping you deploy your application to production.

Checkout us out at: https://palico.ai/

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- Typical dev team journey working on an LLM application: https://docs.palico.ai/#motivation

- How do we compare to eval frameworks or libraries like langchain: https://docs.palico.ai/#how-does-palico-compare-to-evaluatio...

- Our goal for this framework: https://docs.palico.ai/#our-goal-for-development-teams

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- Contribute, Create Issues, Star it on GitHub: https://github.com/palico-ai/palico-main

- Share Your Thoughts
- Ask questions
That was an expensive way to deliver a few hundred trucks. What was it? $1mil - $500,000 per truck? (just for the passage)

And this:

> More than 6,000 pallets of aid delivered via the pier are stacked and awaiting pickup onshore, US military officials said, as the World Food Program has suspended aid collections due to security concerns.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/middleeast/us-military-pi...

So most of the aid did not get to anyone, yet.
> I’m discussing tech, while you’re discussing anthropology

I’m discussing career advice. Something junior developers look to senior developers for. If your advice to your juniors results in them having fewer employment opportunities then you’re not doing a good job as a mentor.

> Do I recommend someone learn React to develop a web app nowadays? No, it's not worth it.

In what way is it not worth it? The majority of front end dev is done in React. Of course it’s worth it, even if it’s shitty.
Trump was found not guilty in the impeachment trial. Effectively he was “indicted,” but not convicted. So according to the Constitution, he did not do what he was accused of.
This appears like a subjective definition to me considering 8.3 million seem alright with what nyc has to offer
Had to work through a weirdness in kubernetes many years ago when using it on prem for a project (not at google). It stands out as the best code base I have had to go through to figure stuff out.
So the development experience Github is marching towards doesn't compare?

E.g., Codespaces, CoPilot, Actions, etc?

(genuinely curious, not trolling)
Chris Foss seemed to think along similar lines when he made Gillan's album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Air_Turbulence_(album)
I just want to add something about how sensitive LIGO is. The gravity waves it is detecting are equivalent to measuring the distance from Earth to Alpha Centauri with a variation the width of a human hair.

Anyway, these techniques are aimed at detecting different types of gravitational waves, not necessarily about simply increasing sensitivity. I don't know what dictates the frequency of a gravitational wave.

Truth be told, I still don't get what expanding space or gravitational waves really are but then again I'm just an idiot who doesn't understand tractor calculus [1].

[1]: https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/mathwiki/images/c/cf/Staffor...
I must be missing something: isn’t this just describing a queue? The fact that the workload is a LLM seems irrelevant, it’s just async processing of jobs?
Plenty of physicists are still "resistant" to the idea of black holes having a real singularity. The recent Kerr paper [0] only adds fuel to this resistance with its hilarious statement "Faith, not science!" about singularity proponents.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841
It's a game of whack-a-mole.

For every "common sense" spam filter rule you develop, the spammers will quickly find a way around it.

Maybe AI could be trained on spam and do a better job spotting it.
The players that compete in each of the majors does not vary that widely. The most points come from the higher tiered tournaments and to get into the higher tiered tournaments, a player has to have a higher amount of points, which grants the player direct entry, which is how most players get into tournaments. The only alternatives to get into tournaments are entry by wildcard or qualification via a qualification tournament, each of which only grants entry to a small minority of players in any given tournament. For the US Open, the top 101 ATP ranking spots are given direct entry. As I mentioned, ranking spots are largely self-reinforcing, so the entries do not vary considerably. Also, players outside the top 100 are not spending $20k per month to tour. That is a wildly inaccurate even for most players inside the top 100.
What's that story where they solved the problem of poor people stepping on the property of landowners, by giving them helium balloon grants?
If you've ever sailed, a more apt analogy would be heeling over extensively (and potentially capsizing) due to a gale. You could be sailing along just fine and then all of a sudden you're overpowered. A sail, after all (at least when sailing towards the wind) acts just like a wing of a plane.
So… you can use other markups seamlessly like SVG and MathML… just like XHTML. Walk like a duck, talk like a duck.
How MFA is falling short
Because easy scams to detect prevent false negatives for the scammer.

If you get a response to a badly written scam, chances are the respondent will be a sucker and the scam will be successful.

If you get a response to a hard to detect scam, chances are you will spend more time for a less likely payout.

Microsoft wrote a paper on this. The same reason email scams are so bad.
I do not understand taking so long to arrive at these conclusions. Each of them smacks you in the face pretty quickly if they bother you, so it's strange to invest so much time before deciding they are rant-worthy.
We used to have a job called computer, and people were employed as computers in living memory. When we say that a job does not exist, we speak about how we wish to walk going forward.
> states likely won't hesitate to do just that

Especially those that have for-profit prison system - which in some cases have state legislators as investors/stakeholders.
This is an idiotic take for 2024. A CEO has to hold an enormous amount of information in-brain and make decisions based on all of it, and handle interpersonal relationships, and manage people, etc. LLM’s can barely handle the information in the context windows they have now.
The media's coverage of this as a "conservative win" is extremely misleading. This case is simply about whether agencies or judges should interpret what federal regulatory statutes mean. Chevron itself was written by five conservatives (and one democrat--with three other justices not participating) and overruled a decision authored by then D.C. Circuit Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She had sided with an environmental advocacy organization in finding that the EPA's interpretation of a Clean Air Act amendment was incorrect.

Chevron has always been a double-edged sword for both conservatives and progressives. In many cases, public interest advocacy organizations would much rather have judges deciding what laws mean than bureaucrats, because agencies tend to be staffed with industry people who are--while well meaning and operating in good faith--often veterans of industry and very sympathetic to it.
It's crazy to me to do this pier scheme to give aid to Gazans while Israel blocks aid to Gaza while dropping bombs on it...