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Ask HN: Is there a standard set of non-functional requirements (NFRs)?
My architecture group wants to start tracking non-functional requirements so that they're visible actively accounted for throughout the project development lifecycle. The discussion then veered off to what are the non-functional requirements? We all have idea of course, but is there a standard set? If no, is there a set that are commonly used? What NFRs are you using?
You probably mean K.
J is also up there, but more educational and less "let's make some money".
Fair. But that one has a hand-drawn picture of an alligator eating characters and pooping tokens, so it's in about the same category of maturity. :)
What would happen in sufficiently heavy nuclei is spontaneous creation of an electron positron pair, with the electron remaining bound and the positron emitted. This would require the binding energy of the electron be great enough for this to be energetically possible.
Newton was famously not very easy to get along with. Same with Milton.
3 USD per 1M input tokens, so the same as 3.5 Sonnet but worse quality
I saw some waifu tech that is currently available in Japan that should be able to have the holographic part and a port for current ai

https://blog.dejapan.com/2018/08/life-in-japan/gatebox-ai-vi...
It's funny, I found the three body problem to be challenging and unrewarding to read, which is similar to some of those old Hugo winners. Might have worked better as a novella than a 3 part series.

If I were asked to pick winners from the last 15 years that will still be recommended reads in 2050, I'd pick Ancillary Justice and The Fifth Season. From nominees not winners, perhaps Seveneves or Too Like The Lighting would qualify. The most recent book I can say will definitely be on the to-read list is 2000's winner, Vernor Vince's A Deepness In the Sky
>Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me.

>Guess what? It’s not about reaching as many people as possible with your content. If you can do that, great, remember me when you’re famous. But chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you. If others benefit, that’s icing.

I feel like this is sorta counter to the "peacockers who write posts about mundane things", because it's very explicitly "these are my notes for me".

You might say "why in public, then?", and I think the value _does_ get to "if someone else benefits" -- but admittedly, that requires some straining out the obvious materials (but really, are you that likely to keep around a blog post about "today I learned what public static void main(String[] args) means" for your own reference later?)
Sometimes they are. Nuance is hard, right?
I wish I could frame this comment
Every election cycle, Allan Lichtman does the rounds on cable news and social media, touting his system for predicting the next President. Outlets tout his straightforward methods and 'perfect record'. The problem is that his system isn't simple and hasn't always been right. Worse, he's willing to change his own predictions after the fact to preserve his clout.
> LLMs and the rest of AI today are still not good enough to do any useful work, so it's all going down the same path as VR/AR

As a former AR/VR dev, this is a wild take to me. Have you used cursor? Have you ever had to write copyright for a website? Have you ever tried to learn something new or ideate with chatgpt?

When I was working on immersive apps, I would only ever pick up my device to do dev work. Very rarely would I pick it up outside of that (admittedly, I'm not really a gamer). But I use these new generation of AI tools many times a day.
It’s answers like this that may hacker News one of the best places ever
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Voice controlled radio + timers is more than worth the cost of an Alexa device. Why does it have to be more than that?
> It is also true that great things have been accomplished by well-functioning cohesive teams of people who respected each other. That, however, isn't seen as fodder for great storytelling (who wants to watch or read about a team getting along).

Why, Star Trek is basically that. Or at least used to be.
They seem to be in their second Pentium 4 era, pumping up the power to juice more performance when they can't quite compete.

Not sure there's gonna be a second Core to rescue them this time, but that doesn't mean they're dead though, far from it.
> If you're going to casually dismiss twenty years of funded research on the topic you asked about, then this is a self-regulating thread.

Again you misunderstand what I am asking for. There is no use in me asking for the color blue and you talking about the color red, then when I say, I am asking about blue, you tell me that there has been 20 years of research on red. That may be true but that is not what I am asking about.
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Gemini 1.5 Pro charges $0.35/million tokens up to the first million tokens or $0.70/million tokens for prompts longer than one million tokens, and it supports a multi-million token context window.

Substantially cheaper than $3/million, but I guess Anthropic’s prices are higher.
I do it by sharing many of my notes using Obsidian Publish: https://notes.dsebastien.net/
Hello Argentina :)

One thing that seems very hard to understand in other countries is the general trust of the government in Sweden. Over and over again during the pandemic, we had to explain that we don't lock people up, they will listen to the recommendations.

And it is probably the same thing here.

I am hoping (since my general intention is to be optimistically-naive) is that the reboot will get rid of a lot of the abuse. There sure was a heap of that in the 90s. Particularly for the odd women that choose to serve. Nothing tangible that i know of, but just the regular "locker room talk" as a self-proclaimed land-father-figure would call it.

It probably also helps that we have not been at war for 200 years. And for our neighbors Norway and in particular, they fought a purely defensive war for survival during WWII, so their motivation is probably even higher.
I've never heard that Carmack was a jerk. Or were you just throwing out other people that some might consider smart at random?
enjoying it!
but can't figure out how to share dashboards (publicly)?
You could try the Stanford database moocs [0], they're on EdX as well. This will focus more on the relational model, SQL and database fundamentals. These are the fundamentals you need to understand so you can structure your tables and design a schema.

[0] https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases0005-datab...
Repression comes in many levels. It does not mean to be psychologically beat down until one is a shell of a person (and indeed, even typical schoolyard bullying can create such an effect in certain individuals).
I agree with everything, but can't help noticing that this kind of take becomes immediately invalid when the jerks in question are (or says they are) neurodivergent. How much does autism play into being a "genius jerk"? Should a special exception be made in that case?
I mean that PhD candidates would be the primary target, rather than undergraduates, although talented, advanced undergraduates would also be welcome (this being Caltech, I'd expected there to be plenty of juniors and seniors in the course).

I say this because it drops into diffeqs and fairly subtle/complex behavior quickly.
I believe that counterexample only works in the limit where the sample size goes to infinity. Every finite sample will have μ≠0 almost surely.(Of course μ will still tend to be very close to 0 for large samples, but still slightly off)

So this means the sequence of μₙ will perform a kind of random walk that can stray arbitrarily far from 0 and is almost sure to eventually do so.
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I love this bit here:

>The subheading under this rule would be: Try your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong. Repeatedly. If you feel uncomfortable, or like an impostor, good. You’re pushing yourself. Don’t assume you know everything, but try your best anyway, and let the internet correct you when you are inevitably wrong. Wear your noobyness on your sleeve.

It requires an ongoing practice of humility _and_ extending grace to yourself for your own mistakes or misunderstandings (on the basis of "everyone makes mistakes and has to learn"), which can be a good starting point for showing that same grace to others.
In theory, Google could pay for the TLD ".google" so that... anything .google is reserved by default for google domains.

But this isn't going to work in practice; people don't read URLs so it doesn't matter. Second, for years there was this idea that all porn sites should be forced to go to a .xxx TLD so that it's easy to block, but that's impossible to legislate and / or enforce.
I must be missing something. Training on the output of your system as if it were validated input seems like an obvious no-no. I'm not talking about using synthetic data (however that might be created in this situation), but rather using anything and everything found on the web as if it were "real", i.e. as if it were human-generated texts rather than the output of the LLM.

In this case of course there are multiple LLMs that are creating text which finds its way to the web, but to the extent that the output of the different LLMs have commonalities, this still seems problematic.

And afaik, there are no metrics or algorithms that reliably distinguish between human-generated and LLM-generated text, at least not for the current generations of LLMs.

What am I missing?
Still would rather deal with a smart jerk than a dumb jerk, the latter of which seems far more prevalent.
This is true, in fact I thought about that when writing this post! But I think the Roddenberry's "no conflict" has been out of favor in storytelling for quite a while now. Star Trek is the exception. And not all Star Trek followed it.
Looking for portfolio websites is probably a bad criteria. I don't know any experienced devs who have one. Designers do, but not devs. So you might have filtered out the people you really want to talk to.
You present it as if there’s only two options. What about the 75% of dumb nonfunctional teams?

It’s great that they get along, but they don’t accomplish much, if anything.
The difference between graduate and undergraduate level is that graduate is often easier (ie less work load) than undergrad…

This is because graduate students main focus is their research, and courses are a distant second.
> I wouldn't have asked you now, would've I?

That's what I said to it - "If I wanted to fill in the missing parts myself, why would I have upgraded to paid membership?"
Sadly, yes. And no "dream" disclaimer is needed.
The fact any modern computer chip works reliability is a pure miracle. The process variations are extreme, and you often end up with a lot of B-level engineers/technicians keeping things going. Having some experience in the semiconductor industry, it oftentimes felt like a lot of bubble gum and bailing wire was used to get the product out the door. Hats off to all the people keeping these systems alive and functioning.
You should read their biographies, both by Walter Isaacson, I don't know how you can read those books and not see that they are more than just marketers.

Isaacson also wrote the definitive biographies for Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, among many other historical figures.

Also "Masters of Doom" describes Carmack's career and idk about the word genius, but he is undeniably one of those engineers who's just 10x better than the average engineer.
If it doesn't speak my native language without gimmicks, it is trash.

Additionally, I already have a radio and alarm clock.
I'd pay a monthly/yearly fee to be able to run Alexa's that can function as a smart home voice controller that does not try to sell me stuff.
There's a meme-style picture of Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO) with the caption: "Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high" that I've seen shared and re-shared on my LinkedIn feed for years.

Every time I've seen it shared, it was shared by a plain-old, regular jerk.
tbh I’ve had more trouble with managers who think they’re software architects than any developer “genius”

That’s abuse of authority AND dunning-kruger
Or, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
Differential equation are usually introduced to undergrads by year 2 or 3. So I expect this to be upper undergraduate course.
I did, it said the Javascript interpreter is slow. Check and mate.
That's the part that stood out to me as the most fantastic.

So many persons displaying enviable teamwork and professionalism. Science fiction!
I don’t Sony Electronics can blame the music side of the house for Memory Stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick
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IIRC, GPT-2 was primarily trained on Reddit[0]

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/133xgb5/gpt2_was_p...
I still cannot believe Amazon convinced people to install 1984 surveillance in their homes, much less pay for it, for whatever trivial conveniences the stupid thing offers. It's not Amazon's fault but it's just strange to me how sideways our culture is that it's considered normal to let a corporation have unfettered access to your private space and pay them for being there.

I get the tradeoff with smartphones...at least they have utility, and at least some weak guarantee of privacy (for whatever that's worth). What does Alexa really bring to the table? It can flip a light switch for me? I have a finger for that. It can tell me the weather? I can open the curtains and look outside. It can deliver counterfeit garbage to my house? No thanks.

Who is enticed by this thing, and why?
It does seem important for the ecosystem. I'm on Google Music because Spotify & Amazon Music didn't work well with android auto & Google Home.
that sounds very interesting!

I tried to look for some overview, and ... found this study .. and even more interestingly in the Netherlands obesity seems to be cheaper than the alternative (probably because living longer leads to having more cancers, and those are fucking expensive)

https://dom-pubs.pericles-prod.literatumonline.com/doi/10.11...

This one is much easier to interpret as the result is just "In per capita terms, costs of obesity in 2019 ranged from US$17 in India to US$940 in Australia." ... and yeah a thousands bucks could have been spent on something nice. Drugs for example!

https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/10/e006351
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Yes, I understand. Serotonergic psychedelics are typically not big sources of addiction, and they typically only cause great harm if taken incorrectly or by someone with a genetic predisposition towards schizophrenia or psychosis; though even then, the harm is only really psychological (but it can be permanent).

Please do note, however, that there are psychedelics which are not serotonergic psychedelics, such as psychedelic amphetamines. These are not typically nearly as safe, just as amphetamines in general typically are not particularly safe when used incorrectly.
This is also my experience. Previously it got good at giving me only relevant code which, as an experienced coder, is what i want. my favorites were the one line responses.

Now it often falls back to generating full examples, explanations, restating the question and its approach. I suspect this is by design as (presumably) less experienced folks want or need all that. For me, i wish i could consistently turn it into one of those way too terse devs that replies with the bare minimum example, and expects you to infer the rest. Usually that is all i want or need, and i can ask for elaboration when not the case. I havent found the best prompts to retrigger this persona from it yet.
If most interactions leave you feeling emotionally exhausted, dismissed, belittled, or angry, you may be dealing with toxic behavior on your team.

Or you’re that kind of person who’s hiding its stupidity behind being nice with others and doesn’t produce anything of value. You are often responsible for the feelings you have.

A well-functioning, cohesive, happy team can come up with novel solutions, better implementations, and well-reviewed code.

That would deserve another myth-busting article… No team is happy and productive

The fact that they are inconsiderate of others does not make them more logical.

One doesn’t always know what triggers others. It could be anything. A better solution is to strengthen yourself mentally, to be less impacted emotionally by others.
> Training on the output of your system as if it were validated input seems like an obvious no-no.

Imagine a scientist inventing theories without testing anything, and then continuing to build on top. Crazy. Not even humans can create absent some kind of feedback or validation from outside. That's why we invented the scientific method.
I think this axis is also why I prefer Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds to Enterprise, Discovery, and Picard.

The former, even when they have conflicts, it's something they're sad about; the latter, it feels like they enjoy jabbing each other.
Intel is looking really skeevy on this. Won't them lying and downlplaying bite them harder? How is this level of misrepresenting and covering up not criminal?

EDIT - Why the downvotes? I seriously don't understand why they are doing it this way.

They have actively blamed other companies, like NVidia (not that I like them either, but they simply didn't cause this issue).

There are multiple teams claiming denied RMAs during the period Intel knew about the oxidation.

They didn't announce this until multiple outlets started talking about it.

They did 2 different announcements with different explanations and the more mild one first.

Their statements are contradictory at least in part.

This just isn't how people acting in good faith behave. Using intel's past behavior as an example they have previously handled problems. With spectre they were way more transparent and just published findinds on problems without hiding them for years.
For some advocates, sure. I was there, too — although at the beginning of my career and not deeply involved in most licensing discussions until the founding of Mozilla (where I argued against the GNU GPL and was generally pleased with the result of the MPL). However, from ~1990, I remember sharing some code where I "more or less" made my code public domain but recommended people consider the GNU GPL as part of the README (I don't have the source code available, so I don't recall).

Your characterization is quit easily refutable, because at the time that OSI was founded, there was already an explosion of possible licenses and RMS and other GNUnatics were making lots of noise about GNU/Linux and trying to be as maximalist as possible while presenting any choice other than the GNU GPL as "against freedom".

This certainly would not have held well with people who were using the MIT Licence or BSD licences (created around the same time as the GNU GPL v1), who believed (and continue to believe) that there were options other than a restrictive viral licence‡. Yes, some of the people involved vilified the "free software principles", but there were also GNU "advocates" who were making RMS look tame with their wording (I recall someone telling me to enjoy "software slavery" because I preferred licences other than the GNU GPL).

The "Free Software" advocates were pretending that the goals of their licence were the only goals that should matter for all authors and consumers of software. That is not and never has been the case, so it is unsurprising that there was a bit of reaction to such extremism.

OSI and the open source label were a move to make things easier for corporations to accept and understand by providing (a) a clear unifying definition, and (b) a set of licences and guidelines for knowing what licenses did what and the risks and obligations they presented to people who used software under those licences.

‡ Don't @ me on this, because both the virality and restrictiveness are features of the GNU GPL. If it weren't for the nonsense in the preamble, it would be a good licence. As it is, it is an effective if rampantly misrepresented licence.
Read Masters of Doom, which details the story of Carmack's career. He is not described as easy to get along with.
The main product of AMEX is access to its cardholders.

Because they are picky about who receives their card, an amex cardholder is likely to spend more than a cardholder of another network.

This is why businesses accept amex despite the much higher merchant fees; the higher spending by the cardholders means that businesses accepting amex tend to come out ahead anyway, by virtue of selling more to amex cardholders.
devops agile etc are huge scams

design is way more important

I don't take seriously any palce that uses ORM or so called code first, java, diet java, or go, rust

also places not using cachyos.org
Quite sure they are also enforcing these with some technical measures to limit scraping.
I had an oldtimer boss that fired assholes without hesitation. The reason was that once upon time he had a fantastic one-of-a-kind worker, but he was real shithead that brought the whole team down. It got so bad he was left with the one asshole and a bunch of incompetent workers who would only put up with him because they couldn't get a job anywhere else. Everybody else who was worth half a shit walked off (several mid-shift) because of this guy dragging everyone down. Boss realized what he'd let happen one day, fired the asshole, got most of his old workers back, and he ended up getting a lot more work done with them than he ever had.

I've always kept that lesson in mind since and it's never led me astray. Companies that put up with those personalities just aren't worth it.
In the post I referenced that I wasn't trying to say that communication differences mean someone is a jerk. Intentional, obnoxious, aggressive and choosing not to change even though they are aware of it is how I define a 'jerk' here.

If someone has a challenge in awareness or their communication style is related to neurodivergence, then I think it becomes a determination of the team as far as what guardrails, training, awareness, tolerance, etc. are needed.
Not sure if this is your point, but Google does have the .google TLD which it reserves for google domains.
This is something that is definitionally true in a finite universe, but doesn't carry a lot of useful predictive value in practice unless you can identify when the flattening will occur.

If you have a machine that converts mass into energy and then uses that energy to increase the rate at which it operates, you could rightfully say that it will level off well before consuming all of the mass in the universe. You just can't say that next week after it has consumed all of the mass of Earth.
The question (which I raised in a top-level comment before reading your post) is whether there is any such thing as "discriminate" use of web data. Synthetic data created in the same lab as the LLM is discriminate, but what the authors of the paper are saying (if I read it correctly) is that scraping the web is not currently done in a discriminate way. And it's not at all clear to me that there is a discriminate way to use web scraping, because you can't know for sure what's human-generated and what's LLM-generated.