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Could somebody explain how queue theory fits into agile processes? Where are these unmanageable queues, that need to be emptied coming from?

Queue theory only becomes a problem when (1) stories are being added to the active story queue at a furious rate; and (2) nothing gets shipped until the active story queue is emptied. I don't think think either of those things are supposed to be true in an agile process, especially the last.

It sounds suspiciously like a symptom of gamification to me (if new stories are being added by the development team). Or a broken process where field defects (which are supposed to go to the top of the queue) are so numerous that they completely overwhelm active development, which is an entirely different issue, requiring an entirely different response from management.

If story points are so wrong that it no longer fits in a sprint, it seems reasonable to split the story. In my experience, I don't think I've seen it happen more than a handful of times. How often is an initial story point estimate so wrong that it has to be revised upward to the point that it no longer fits in a sprint? If it's wrong, but still fits in a sprint, just do it. It makes me wonder whether there's gamification going on around using story points to evaluate developer performance.

(Assuming that stories are converted to tasks at the start-of-sprint meeting).
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The Transformer model, despite being one of the most successful in AI history, was still being published.
> but are not executable.

Fixed it for you.

Dude, if you say the flow in the diagram is not executable, blanket in any fashion, then are you saying all of the programming projects you've been in are either monolithic systems, or have all failed?
Along with this, the ISPs, phones and services online all have a close relationship with those requesting access from law enforcement. Rarely would most put up a fight for you or anyone else if your information was requested.

There are numerous ways for LE to view and manipulate your online experiences. Your phone can be viewed remotely like remote desktop over your cell connection without your knowledge. Defeating all end to end encryption in the process.

LE is given access to your application APIs and can control the results you get from job searches, your YouTube recommended videos and even the advertisements you are served.

Now you may think there are protections and they need a warrant. They do not in many cases. Most important to understand is that LE only has to follow the law and the rules if they want to use information they collect against you in court. Most requests do not go this far. So it is wide open for your information.

Even getting your phone and getting into it is easier than ever. However once you get here odds are it will face scrutiny in court.

I am hopeful a lot of this will continue coming out and being verified more officially. We live in a surveillance state and most people need to be educated about it.
> That heat was minimized; cards were clocked (and voltages tweaked) to optimize the ratio of crypto output to Watts input. For Ethereum, this meant undervolting and underclocking the GPU -- which are kind to it.

> Fan speeds were kept both moderate and tightly controlled; too fast, and it would cost more (the fans themselves cost money to run, and money to replace). Too slow, and potential output was left on the table.

In the ideal case, this is spot on. Annoyingly however, this hinges on the assumption of an awful lot of competence from top to bottom.

If I've learned anything in my considerable career, it's that reality is typically one of the first things tossed when situations and goals become complex.

The few successful crypto miners maybe did some of the optimizations you mention. The odds aren't good enough for me to want to purchase a Craigslist or FB marketplace card for only a 30% discount.

I do genuinely admire your idealism, though.
> The worldview characterized by an axiomatic belief in the time invariance of physical laws. It is contrasted by creationism, which posits non-differentiable physical behaviors.

LOL. You’re just cargo culting philosophy now, with a thin veneer of sciencey-sounding jargon.

1) An axiom is not an article of faith, it’s something on which we build a theory. Euclid’s axioms are invalid in quite a few situations and nobody loses any sleep about it.

2) The opposite of “the laws of physics never change” is “the laws of Physics can change”, not “god did it”. People would be very interested if you proved that Physics is not invariant with respect to time, because it would mean that energy is not conserved and it would open massive possibilities from a theoretical point of view. That would be much more impactful than most Nobel prizes in the last 60-odd years.

3) There is plenty of “non-differentiable physical behaviour” with invariant laws of Physics. No need for any creator.

> There’s a middle ground of accepting the possibility of differentiable but non-constant mechanisms that should technically be owned by the evolutionists

You fail to even allude to what this middle ground would be. Science itself would be fine with the time invariant being violated. A lot of laws we now know would be wrong, but science itself would not have any more problem than when we realised that the Galilean transformation of velocities was not actually true.

Also, “differentiable but non-constant mechanisms” is just meaningless babble.

> but this is a rarely embraced territory

For a simple reason: it is a straw man and nobody actually believes what you are attacking (mostly because it is meaningless).

> you get neither the warm fuzzies of belief in a God who specially designed you, nor the cool satisfaction of a belief in making observations about the universe now and scaling/time-inverting them to speak confidently about the distant past and future.

You seem to be assuming that everyone shares your philosophical system, just swapping “science” for “god”. It is not the case. We do not need warm fuzzies or cool satisfaction. And we do not get any particular pleasure from the fact that any god that is not simply a hands-off creator is exceedingly implausible.

You believe in whatever you tant to, and it’s fine. Do not assume that we are like you are.
At the beginning it was true, the longer the context, the more the LLM was lost, but now, the new models can retrieve information anywhere in the context

c.f.

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I'm surprised that Tesla is welcomed by Texas. They are, after all, reducing fossil fuels burnt with every car sold. I thought that supporting non-fossil energy was discouraged there.
I'm not the one who is downvoting you. I got rid of my Quest 3 because of VR sickness. Aside from causing severe sickness that took a couple of days to pass, it was too heavy and uncomfortable to wear.
Not if you view the interview as a process to expose reasons to not eg hire someone rather than to establish a list of facts or earnest perspectives. Literally just putting the candidate under stress. For this to apply in court you'd have to be suing them for not hiring out of discrimination over a protected class (i think, I am not a lawyer).

I mean maybe there are other civil suits you could file, but I suspect a lot of that would be signed away before the polygraph.
You just need to look at bipedalism to see that. Dynamic stability-based walking is bad at a lot of things, but it's great for conserving energy while moving long distances.
Instead of just downvoting me, how about doing some actual research:

Proof that Tesla demand is up in July 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiAIZsXT1Q
Some of Dyson models make an "aftertaste" vibration when the trigger is let go, and it clearly comes from an extraneous feedback device inside that serves no other purpose. Maybe I shouldn't see it as disingenuous as I feel.
And some others want to donate $45m/mo to accelerate this shit.
Nor to the construction trade, but it does seem really prevalent in South Texas for obvious reasons both recent and historical.
Wondering if there's an ongoing effort to do the same with MPS/Metal as a backend. If anything given how many developers are on macs I think it could get immense traction.
And then when we're given a nice long stretch of interruption-free time, we ruin it by hitting HN.
The purpose of polygraphs is to minimize the amount of bits of information one's adversaries can gain information OVERALL while maximizing the amount of bits of information one gains OVERALL—only (but not all bits are equally worthy which makes this partially an algorithmic problem).

Then they use the polygraph to obfuscate information (EG about the process of selection, knowledge gathering, and a considerable amount of other things); to have a highly spacious separate "stage" for the real sensors; and can NEVER retire it because that would reveal several bits of information.

Consequently they ALSO can never state this.
Thank-you. Was wondering about your thoughts on emotions. Are they merely byproducts of the chemical evolution of the brain, or are they emergent artifacts of intelligence?

A system cannot feel, but we can map neurochemistry as mechanistically as any other process. It would be interesting to discover whether a "pure brain" exists, or whether even its inputs, when considered in whole, colored its nature.
Why would you have more than one student per ai teacher?
eh, I disagree. It's not massive overhead, but it turns literally every integer operation into a branch. Sure the branch is going to get ~100% prediction accuracy if you aren't using bigints, but that's still a pretty big cost especially since the branches inserted make all sorts of compiler optimizations illegal.
Maybe. But test case reduction for compiler bugs is absolutely not a basic debugging skill for just "anyone".
Show of hands, who wants our already dopamine iPhone addicted kids learning from Her AI bot
You can definitely short circuit it a bit with fans and grounding techniques like standing pads but all the setup increases the annoyance factor of setup.

I do wonder though if shorter people feel it less so. It's always felt like I am skyscraper waving in the wind because it almost feels like my feet are in concrete blocks on a conveyor belt so my head feels disconnected as movement happens.
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The fact this exists is quite beautiful, and this makes me want to try out Hg on my next project. Thanks for the pointer!
> For higher education there is charade of education to get jobs. So for office manager job where grade 8 would be enough, we have MBAs now because we all need advanced education to survive in global economy blah..blah.

This would actually be a good business opportunity: hire such "grade 8 educated" people as office managers, but pay them much less than MBAs. If they are nearly as good as MBAs, you save a lot of money on this group of employees, and thus your company has a strong economic advantage.
"But something like $10 a month not only probably makes you more money, it also seems to be way more palatable by the general public."

I might be biased, but I think people are feeling pretty subscription fatigued at this point too, so I'm not confident you can win either way.

Also, I will say that there is at least some reason for AAA games costing a disproportionately larger amount of money considering that they usually have hundreds of people on staff versus an indie dev company which might have a few people and often is just a solopreneur.

The best you can hope for is something that makes a modest amount of money that doesn't require a tremendous amount of personal investment and risk.
There's a device called the Otolith [0] that supposedly can cure vertigo and supposedly prevented motion sickness in VR, but they're only chasing the market for solving vertigo.

Curiously, what games are you playing? I find that games that involve real world motion didn't match virtual world motion (ie, any racing or flying game), I feel sick within seconds, but games where the two worlds always match (ie, Beat Saber, Pokerstars VR, Superhot VR, Space Pirate Trainer), I could play for literally HOURS and feel fine.

[0] https://otolithlabs.com/nvrt-technology/
Hmm..took my brain several orders of magnitude longer to warm up than a 6L6 power tube.

AI suggested that I was being generous with my 0 dB S/N for social media, it should be -∞ dB. Good catch.

It also didn't like my unit compatibility (reminding me of the utility of unit analysis), but remember that my '+' is overloaded--most programmers would probably write:

int plus_ungood(int bytes, double SNR);

dropping the units. Of course we programmers also add geometric points together without dividing, which is mathematical no-no too.

I guess I'll put this on my TODO list for a fun project--"Relativistic Shannon: A Critique of Pure Reason on Social Media":

Einstein wasn't afraid of arguing across time with Newton, nor should we be afraid of arguing with Shannon. Arguing on social media, well that's a different thing altogether....[continues for 7000 pages]

I did learn what semantic density was without AI's help, postulating that it would be involved (viz Graham above) using my alarmingly down-trending cognitive abilities.
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Passing Acid3 is a nice milestone, but realistically that's a 16-year-old test without modern performance requirements. $1 million is wild for an open-source hobby project, but sadly it doesn't buy many person-years at competitive salaries.

For Google and Apple browsers are loss leaders for their bigger business, so they have infinitely deep pockets to play Fire and Motion[1] with each other by adding more and more stuff to the platform, and setting higher and higher performance and security/privacy goals. Once you implement the first 90%, there's the harder second 90% to implement, and the goal keeps moving. And that's before you even have to waste time fighting bug-compatibility caused by the Chromium monoculture and Google's "oopses" serving non-broken code only to Chrome.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Sure, it's easy: use movement based on actual body motions, like Gorilla Tag does. The nausea rate for arm-swing movement is negligibly low.

But, this takes actually designing for VR, rather than designing the same way as a PC game and then slapping on "but in VR" to it.
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In what specific ways is the calculator flawed?
Until VR motion sickness is fixed it is a non-starter for a non-negligible part of the consumer public.
> a regular person, with no special education, and only a tiny bit of patience, can just sit down and read all of Shakespeare, and understand it. Right now!

This just is not my experience. Today, I spent about 20 minutes trying to understand the first sentence of "Romeo and Juliet". When I get to "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," I cannot reconcile any dictionary definition of "mutiny" with anything this fragment might reasonably mean.

There are a few definitions of "mutiny", but generally, it's "rebellion against any authority". Who is the authority? Is it the heads of the dignified households? Like the staff of the house is trying to seize power? Or younger members of the family? What's civil blood? If I spent eight hours pondering this prologue, I strongly doubt that I would make any more headway than this.
> It did. You didn't pay attention.

It didn't. I specifically remember the hole where my class should've explained what a court case actually determines, how the process runs, because I noticed things were missing / being swept under the carpet (we did some mock jury stuff but without the right context for it to teach us anything).

> You want school to teach media literacy? It did, but you complained the whole time "when are we going to use this?"

Nope. I specifically remember watching movie "making of" videos and my teacher saying "write this down!" about irrelevant technical details that distracted from the more important stuff the director was saying.

> But people will swear up and down "school doesn't teach anything important"

> because they didn't pay attention to what was taught!

Nope. I was an engaged, attentive student (indeed a kind of star pupil). I still learnt more in spite of school than because of it. Indeed some of the stuff that's most important for my education and career is stuff I was actively punished for doing at school (poking at the computers to see how they worked). Schools, at least the standard-ish state school that I went to (which had good official ratings) teach the wrong things and teach them badly.
That's great, but an announcement of a new, empty, open source repository isn't exactly a good fit for HN. I recommend making some progress on the project and then submitting a "Show HN" post.
Can DDG make more Mistral AI models available um ddg AI?
Well, they already use a smaller model of the mistral, is there any chance they will make the Mixtral 8x22B, Codestral 22B or even Mixtral Large for free use on your website?
I mean, They already run Llama 3 is already good enough, but I wish I could see how far this goes; And the operating cost of the 8X22B is lower than that of the Llama, right?
Was working in Seismic Data Processing at the time and, a Cray being way too expensive, the Convex machine looked like the next Big Thing in our business, which was dominated by VAX 11/780 machines running attached array processors. We had some test code that I believe we ran on the third or sixth machine they built. Met Steve Wallach, I still have a signed copy of "The Soul of a New Machine" from him. Made a few trips to Convex, first in their rented space in a strip mall, then later to their bespoke factory. They really were something at the time.
I think one of the big problems with VR (and also AR) is that the large companies lack focus and have been trying to make generic do-everything devices to cover many applications. It may make sense from a business point of view since it would ensure the largest user base. However for such a new technology that has a wide variety of potential applications, this means that no one application is given the resources and attention it really needs. Hardware upgrades have negligible impact, software and ux design is not focused on a specific need, and many fundamental issues are left unsolved.

VR companies are trying to make the iPhone of VR without considering that the iPhones success was built on decades of computing fundamentals. Before its possible to make good hardware and XR experiences, we'll need basic research in optics, display panels, tracking, multiview eye tracked foveated rendering, gaze correction, vari-focal, lossless wireless... the list can go on and on. Very few want to invest in solving these problems and simply wants to build a huge ecosystem with a large user base. Even Facebook/Meta, who have invested the most, have failed to tackle any of the major problems even after 10 years of being in the field. Since 2016 when 6-DoF tracked controllers became the norm, there hasn't been any major advancements other than slightly better visuals.

Looking at XR technology that has been successful, its usually because of a very clear focus on a specific application. VR flight and racing simulations with professional headsets like the Varjo appear seem far more developed. With a motion rig, these are good enough for training professionals. VR has solidified its place its this niche market at least. Microsoft's success often gets overlooked, but they have a $20B defense contract to supply IVAS AR headsets to the US military. If more companies focused on solving one of fundamental problems, it should eventually be possible to create a mainstream mass-market device that everyone will want to use.
> Is there any technological solution to VR motion sickness?

A fan facing you so you can orient yourself in the room along with starting on a standing pad. Both help you ground back into the world but like you stated, it's largely getting used to it by building up longer sessions.

I am not a neuroscientist or the like but I imagine there are visual tricks that you could employ to improve it. I think things like blacking out vision when turning quickly is one method. I can't speak for sure, but it almost feels like VR games haven't adapted to screens being 2" from your eyeballs.

I'd imagine anything that can help / trick our brains into processing like we are in the world would help. It looks like foveated depth-of-field helps reduce sickness by 66%, I'd imagine because it mimics how our vision works so our eyes are trying to process less at one time.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/12/4006
Love this idea! Made by people who quit their job, built for people who quit their job. :)
> > cool and part of the future, but not a big part of the future.

Like 3D printing.
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... with 16bit bus.

Which is why we call the machines 16bit; they're built around 16bit buses.
Anyone calling that a "murderous coup" is just repeating narratives without thinking and/or just haven't lived enough to know what a real "murderous coup" is.

For context this is what a coup attempt look like and this isn't what I would call murderous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUzc2Ilw_O8
AR will be as big as smartphones; imagine wait staff seeing people’s orders above their heads, convention attendees seeing virtual name tags, mechanics seeing the engine details overlaid, phone repair personnel seeing the step by step instructions, me seeing arrows pointing to where I left my keys, and so forth. But it has to be on a comfort level of “wearing glasses”, I think.
> hire such "grade 8 educated" people as office managers, but pay them much less than MBAs.

The trouble is it's performance all the way up and down. In the first place you're only going to get the weirdos / extreme gamblers, and then you'll struggle to attract investors, your clients/suppliers will wonder why your business development folks missed their classical references...
Honestly, no idea.

I could imagine a Darwin Machine being a "pure brain", as you put it. While we have emotions because our brains built a pure brain atop an existing and messy infrastructure.

Or, emotions could just be the subjective experience of thoughts competing.

Calvin goes deeper into things like this in the book, but I suspect emotions help intelligence to some extent insofar as they provide environmental change. It's good for the long term health of an ecosystem to shake things up so that nothing gets too stagnant.
When Wright first claimed to be the creator of Bitcoin, I didn't believe him only because the creator of Bitcoin was a very elusive person(s), and Wright is loud; I didn't need to look in to it further.

Welp, the courts did.

My best guess is Bitcoin was created by an Australian guy living in Japan and he no longer with us.
yes, and? Two of the worlds largest companies consume more resources than small countries. If they didn't, I'd be suspicious.
> The problem with VR and AR is that you can't sit around the living room and enjoy the same entertainment. You isolate yourself away from others in the room in a strange way.

Speaking on this, I wish more games integrated the role of the God-mode / PC player like some do through things like dev consoles.

It creates instant entertainment for the outside players to be able to see and affect the game world. Some games are explicitly designed for PC vs VR while others, like Blade & Sorcery, give you the ability to drop in enemies for the VR player.

Anything that can keep a party lively and entertained while waiting their turn. I think I have more fun watching my friends scream & flail as I drop in more enemies than I do actually playing.