skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This focuses on communications after hours but there's an even more egregious thing that impacts many who work on computer systems.

The companies decide the computer system must be up 24/7. Ok, fine. In the past things that needed to be running 24/7 were run by three shifts of workers. Companies could decide if the cost of 3 shifts was worth whatever value the system provided.

However, somehow with computers it's different. If there's a problem with a computer after hours the companies just call whoever was working during the day and expect them to fix it. Or they set up "on call" where you're explicitly expected to work all day and also all night.

They get away with this in the US because the meager workers rights laws in there (FMLA) explicitly exclude salaried computer workers from getting overtime[0]. So if you're a salaried computer worker and work all night because some system went down you're working for free and the companies love that because they don't have to do the calculation of whether having the system available is worth paying someone to watch it.

So take the stress from receiving an after hours email and multiply it by 100x because now you're not only expected to reply to the email but to drop everything and fix the computer.

This is also why companies that depend on computers need so many foreign workers living locally on temporary visas. They can be abused this way but can't fight back without risking losing their jobs and being deported.

Either IT workers need to unionize or the US needs to rewrite labor law to prevent this kind of abuse.

0: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co...
You don't even notice the laziness most of the time. Even if you are benefiting from it.
A better cook will want sharper knives.

A better cook knows that if her knives are dull, she won’t perform as well.
>Damn, if the intent of electrifying the fleet is to be more ecologically friendly, allowing these older vehicles to be recirculated seems like a compelling thing to do

Why do you think that? These are terrible general purpose vehicles that have hundreds of thousands of miles on them already and have atrocious fuel efficiency even at what they are good at doing; start-stop driving.

Continuing to use these for another 50k miles is probably worse for the environment than buying a brand new hybrid or electric vehicle.
Well, if someone's going to go to the effort of counterfeiting them, they might as well put together a list of officers who have passed away and use those names. o_O
I'm someone, and that's one of the ways I define a moat.
mercury.com ?
I get that. And this coding use case becomes even more interesting with o1
They have so much inertia in the market, even if they stuck with i7 it would remain relevant for the next 2 decades.

Keen to see what the team that split off to do a RISC-V DSP chip end up producing. Even if they added dual RX/TX SDR front ends on a SoC, than it could open up a single-chip smartphone solution etc.

Intel is entrenched with process-people obsessed with features no market asked for like hardware RATs, and betting on imaginary AI economies.

There are paths to move forwards technologically, but Intel as a company has structured itself to be its own worst problem. =3
> A running average is useless for something like a weight-losing diet

I disagree, it worked fine for me, validating my ongoing calorie limits and estimates across several months and dozens of pounds.

> A running average could not guide efficiently your decisions for the current day, whether to eat more or less.

That's just using the wrong tool for the wrong job. You don't don't starve yourself today because you were constipated yesterday. (Or if you do, it's for issues of immediate discomfort rather than a dieting goal.)

Instead, you eat a consistent number of estimated calories, adjusting it to fit the observed trend in weight loss.

Paying too much attention to daily data points is also a psychological danger, people will put too much emphasis on noisy/singular data point and then use that as a rationale to give up or cheat.
I'm excited about this idea. I don't like using non-open source thing because I like to know that I'm investing in something which I can tweak and contribute to. Open source is all around a better idea.

I also like the idea of using on-prem models. As open source LLMs get better and hardware gets cheaper, I can see being able to use local models being the winning advantage.

Please give me early access!
I think people only started to really believe in global warming the last 10 years. So I don't think there has been much effort so far. (Except as you point out, effort in greenwashing.)
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Thanks, that's good info. It sounds like a really optimal outcome. :)
And a podcast episode: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2052742
Somebody should make this up as a handheld device. Something that you can use to inspect new items, and retailers can use to inspect what their suppliers are sending them.

Can a Flipper Zero be programmed for this? It connects to Micro SD cards and USB ports.
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I’m in the middle of a sci-fi book that explores this. The answer is that you won’t be the same person. Your mind will meld with the computer’s AI and you will go insane and try to exterminate the human race. I wouldn’t risk it.
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I'm not even sure if any human is still writing code in 10 years.
Why E61 though? Strictly the most annoying type of group especially for home use.
Insane? Physical manifestation of an NFT that has about $20k in usage value shouldn't be underestimated!
Maybe it'll be the people of HN. I wouldn't mind getting romanticized.
FFEI stock is weird, but probably going to be worthless in the future. An AI car is so gimicky it is painful.
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Of course they are competitive. Look at benchmarks for AMD on TSMC and Intel. They are pretty close, close enough to be worth consideration both for consumer and b2b even today in 2024.

Just because they are second place, doesn't mean they have lost the race.

You really have 3 cutting edge players in fabrication. TSMC who is the best by a significant margin, and Intel/Samsung. TSMC is certainly winning right now, but they have not "won."

If Intel doesn't choke on its debt payments or corporate culture in the next 3-5 years, they will have one shot at pulling the nose up out of their dive. Of course their altitude is low enough that if they fail to execute in even a small way they will hit the ground.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/bank-america-jpmorgan-ov...
A definite possibility. Having once worked for them I'm biased and likely too optimistic. They have an army of absolutely stellar engineers.
What is the Plackett-Luce model?
I know the fundamentals but I'm a noob when it comes to coding with React or NextJS. Code that comes out from Claude is often segregated and modularized properly so that even I can follow the logic of the code, even if not the language and its syntax. If there's an issue with the code, causing it to fail at runtime, I am still able to debug it appropriately with my minimal language of JS. If any codebase can let me do that, then in my books that's a great codebase.

Compare that to Gpt 4o which gives me a massive chunk of unsorted gibberish that I have to pore through and organize myself.

Besides, most IBD MDs don't know if they're getting correct numbers either :).
I still don't have a Mr. Fusion in my house, FYI.

We always overestimate the future.
I suppose there are multiple reasons why saving Intel might be important. Making chips used for defence seems the most persuasive one to me.

There's been a continual drive towards better semiconductor processes. That's really important for things like GPU compute. I think we're past diminishing returns for a lot of other things. There's probably a ~14nm arm chip in the keyboard I'm typing on that's only there because it was the cheapest option. Does the ECU in a car benefit from being sub 7nm? Maybe, probably not by much.
The incidence of corporate taxes on the average American is hotly debated but it’s definitely well above 0.

Confiscating 100% of the ultra wealthy’s wealth would—for any reasonable definition of “ultra wealthy”—perhaps fund the government for a year or two.
3. Focus very hard on staying conscious and you get to remember the process of falling asleep (do not recommend).
Scandalous. It's now up to the governor to act to stop this happening; let's hope common humanity prevails over politics.
You are entirely right.
If the same number was called "private credit" I believe no one would bat an eyelid about it.
Of all the non-issues to spend time on - this is the least worth anyone's time.
Do any of these things allow you to commit a crime or civil infraction?
Your sample size sounds much bigger than mine.
This reminds me of the hysteria over the idea that people will randomly start fucking with road signs to put self-driving cars and their occupants in danger, and that this would be widespread and something that will impede SDC adoption.
Are you disputing something he's saying in this video? It's all just statements of facts, he's not sharing opinions beyond "there's a debt problem" and "we should support veterans".
I think this is being taken as me saying “therefore you can write any programme in Haskell” which, while true, was not the point I was trying to make. Instead I was trying to reduce the possible interpretation that I was suggesting that Haskell can write more programmes than other languages, which I don’t think is true.

> computability and programming just aren’t that related

I … don’t think I understand
If the $35t were a problem US treasury bills would have to have high interest rates. As it is, investors around the world are happy to hold them.

Personally I think we should raise taxes, particularly close a lot of loopholes and raise corporate taxes as a first thing to do.
This was significantly more informative than the video.

It really depends how good the forecasts on a wealth tax will be. After all, that stuff is based on inflated asset values that are unusual compared to the rest of the world.

If you believe that our medical spending is unusual here, then you should also believe that our asset values are unusual. You can't pick and choose what is unusual, if all you're doing is comparing to the rest of the world.

Without that wealth tax, does it make sense to limit the mission of many of these programs? For example, the military has a constantly expanding mission, and much of that mission is domestic welfare, do we want to cap that?

Overall it is very enlightening. You will never be the CEO of a giant corporation, and you are basically never the beneficiary of its wealth. You don't need to give a big tax handout to Apple and Google. Seems easy to deal with.
I think it is like qualia in the sense that it can be something known experientially, but spatial and logical reasoning are things that transcend subjectivity.

No doubt LLMs do not have qualia as humans do, but I also think that the diversity of qualia present in humans is generally unqualified and underestimated at present.
Yes, I had this during an extremely stressful life crisis.

Basically woke up believing a bomb went off in my neighborhood. Absolutely real and startling and disorienting.
> The counter-point of "then all the companies will leave"

I don’t know why people don’t apply the same logic to people. The US is a highly competitive economy because of immigrants because it is a nice place to live. If that changes because of declines in living standards, it will be harder for those big companies to attract top talent in the US.
Yeah that's because the only thing changing is some random seed. It's like looking at f(0) = 1 and f(0.00001) = 1.00001 and saying that the function can't produce anything novel because the answer is always less than 2. Hint: try f(99999).

Of course it's all meaningless because most of the input and output is virtually identical. Vary the input heavily and then you will approach 50%. Of course this is assuming the token vector is truly random in terms of subject matter.
> dramatically reduces the size of the state space that must be reasoned about

True

> This makes programming significantly easier (especially over the long term)

Not true. (As in, the implication is not true.)

There are many many factors that affect ease of programming and the structure of the stage space is just one of them.
this was my approach when i lived in oregon. i played the state lottery which was something like 20x better odds, granted the jackpot was usually like $6 million after cash out, but that was still totally good in my book. it cost a buck and i got to have fun with the idea of it for a few days.

one time i get like 20 weeks in a row up front (a post-dated ticket) and i won $56 dollars or something one week. i did the odds of that happened and it was something that would happen like once every 30 years if i played weekly. i stopped after that, haha.
I think it's more that you will have no economic growth. The 1% already pay nearly 50% of taxes, while making around 25% of the income, and raising the corporation tax lowers the income tax by a lesser amount since they often tax the same money.

> We haven't really tried fixing the wealth gap since the Great Depression, so maybe it's time to give it another go.

If you look at a graph of the percent of wealth held by the 1%, most of them start in 1979 to show an ever increasing trend. But if you look at a longer graph, you will see a larger U shape over the last century, with a higher peak pre-great depression than today.
> TFA says companies have an incentive for intel to succeed so they're not all reliant on TSMC.

Kind of. If Intel keep making shit, it doesn't help anyone if they succeed doing it. They are nothing making products that are a viable alternative to TSMC, so it makes no difference if they vanish.
I think this is definitely for a different target market, as super automatics are generally not preferred by folks who I think would appreciate this machine.
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The photo comparison is disingenuous. Light and colour information can be disorganised to a large extent and yet you still perceive the same from an image. You can grab a photo and apply to it a red filter or make it black and white and still understand what’s in there, what it means, and how it compares to reality.

In comparison, with text a single word can change the entire meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or idea. The same word in different parts of a text can make all the difference between clarity and ambiguity.

It makes no difference how good your prompting is, some things are simply unknowable by an LLM. I repeatedly asked GPT-4o how many Magic: The Gathering cards based on Monty Python exist. It said there are none (wrong) because they didn’t exist yet at the cut off date of its training. No amount of prompting changes that, unless you steer it by giving it the answer (at which point there would have been no point in asking).

Furthermore, there’s no seed that guarantees truth in all answers or the best images in all cases. Seeds matter for reproducibility, they are unrelated to accuracy.
If your country's debt-to-GDP gets too out of control, markets might doubt that you'll be able to pay on your obligations, and then you've got problems. The debt is made up of many tiny obligations (treasury bills, bonds, and notes) that get paid on a regular basis every day, and the US government has always paid every one of them. When these individual obligations are due, they need to be paid, and investors need to be very confident they will be. The point at which this becomes a problem is not a hard and fast rule, but it depends on a lot of situational factors that go even beyond the realm of math and into geopolitics.
Ah, I see it there now. Thanks.
Yeah but the lock-in wrt email is absolutely huge compared to chatting with an LLM. I can (and have) easily ended my subscription to ChatGPT and switched to Claude, because it provides much more value to me at roughly the same cost. Switching email providers will, in general, not provide that much value to me and cause a large headache for me to switch.

Switching LLMs right now can be compared to switching electricity providers or mobile carriers - generally it's pretty low friction and provides immediate benefit (in the case of electricity and mobile, the benefit is cost).

You simply cannot compare it to an email provider.
I'd like to have a temperature boost (e.g 50C) somehow at the absolute very least to even consider it an option.
Some of the queries run for multiple minutes. 40 tokens/sec is too slow for CoT.

I hope OpenAI is investing in low-latency like Groq's tech that can reach 1k tokens/sec.
Nice! I built something similar, but in the browser with drag-and-drop at https://files2prompt.com

It doesn’t have all the fancy LLM integration though.
It may take a bit to appear in your account (and by a bit I mean I had to fiddle around a while, try logging out/in, etc for a bit) but it appears for me and many others as normal Plus users in the web.
Nvidia and Apple are international megacorporations, not national champions. Companies that do business and have shareholders all around the world tend to detach themselves from national concerns, as those are not in their interests. And they always keep the option to move their headquarters open, in case something goes wrong in their home country.

This effect is more obvious in small countries, but large ones are not immune to it either, especially if their fortunes turn.
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If a household can keep on borrowing money basically indefinitely to pay for expenditures that exceed revenue, that's basically what the US's (and many others' like Japan's) national budget is.

To put it another way: America can afford to spend more than its revenue because people (Americans and otherwise, see the bond market) and countries (see prior) are (still) willing to lend more and more money. So what happens when that gravy train finally stops?

Note that it is easy to default on our debts, most prominently by just not passing a budget to pay our debts. How we are going to pay all this debt off is a very real question that needs an answer eventually. Brushing it off as "we aren't a household budget" is peak denialism.
Laughing at the comparison to "4o" as if that model even holds a candle to GPT-4. 4o is _cheaper_—it's nowhere near as powerful as GPT-4, as much as OpenAI would like it to be.
The funny thing is that if the US actually reduced its debt by that much it would be a big problem for financial markets because investors like to hold US securities. The interest rate would go down because supply would be less then demand. The US has too much debt but cutting the debt drastically would have knock on effects on our financial system. Maybe create an asset bubble? I don't know.
100%.

When performing performance optimization on CPUs, I was impressed with Intel's suite of tools (like VTUNE). NVIDIA has some unbelievable tools, like Nsys and, of course, its container registry (NGC), which I think surpasses even Intel's software support.
I'm not entirely sure where it uses GitHub and where Hackage, but there are a few GitHub issues on the Stack repo about it:

- Binary upgrade of Stack fails due to GitHub API request limit #4979 (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/4979)

- GitHub rate limiting can affect Stack CI #6034 (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/6034)

And a few more. The "fix" is having Stack impersonate the user (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/6036) and authenticate to the API. This unblocks progress, but this is really a design bug and not something I think people should emulate.

Every other language I've used allows you to build code without authenticating to a remote service.
No configuration is key for me. After more than 10 years with zsh I realized that configuration is technical debt. If I can have a reasonably modern shell without needing to configure it, that is worth a lot more to me than having things precisely the way I want them.
Feels like the challenge here is to somehow convey to the end user, how the quality of output is so much better.
we do have self driving car but since it directly affects people's life it needs to be close to 100% accurate and no margin of errors. Not necessarily the case for LLMs.
I really do not know, there's reporting of Broadcom working with Intel to eventually produce on 18A this of course was spinned as if Broadcom was disappointed 18A is not yet production ready because clicks are a must. It wasn't supposed to kick into high volume until 2025. https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-manufacturing-busin...

> The tests conducted by Broadcom involved sending silicon wafers - the foot-wide discs on which chips are printed - through Intel's most advanced manufacturing process known as 18A, the sources said. Broadcom received the wafers back from Intel last month. After its engineers and executives studied the results, the company concluded the manufacturing process is not yet viable to move to high-volume production.

and

> A Broadcom spokesperson said the company is "evaluating the product and service offerings of Intel Foundry and have not concluded that evaluation."

The make or break is not this summer. It's next. Gelsinger himself said he bet the company on 18A. If it doesn't work out then yeah, Intel is in very deep trouble but until then, Intel still has 29B cash on hand which is not chump change.

It's not that I stan for Intel, the heck do I care, I dislike the reporting that goes around this topic.
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Did OpenAI ever even claim that they would be an open source company?

It seems like their driving mission has always been to create AI that is the "most beneficial to society".. which might come in many different flavors.. including closed source.
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"Microsoft's stock stagnated for more than a decade after Ballmer got appointed CEO."

Unfair thing to measure him by in my opinion. Steve Ballmer inherited Microsoft when the stock traded at a P/E of 60. When he left it was 14, in line with many other tech stocks during that time. (Even Apple was lower)

He took earnings per share went from $0.70 to $2.63 during his tenure. A CAGR of 10.5% across 13 years in one of the world's biggest companies. He couldn't control multiple compression following the dotcom bust.

Also his huge bet on cloud revolutioned everything and turned Microsoft into a powerhouse.

Also I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the video. He is basically stating indisputable math and government stats. The only thing to disagree with would be that you want a bigger deficit.
> Basically I do the standard graphical Debian installer and then run a bootstrap script that registers each system as a client.

Great approach. Might try that.

> The next thing I’d like to do is figure out cloud-init with Proxmox so that I don’t have to do that manual installation process anymore.

Yeah. cloud-init...

The only advice I have there is: use only core cloud-init capabilities -- the stuff that's been around for years, works everywhere and is unlikely to change in subtle ways -- and factor everything else into a shell script that does the rest, which you invoke from cloud-init.
Following Nespresso's own recommendations, the shortest program is still pulling 25 ml through <6g of coffee.

A far cry from a proper 1:2 espresso, let alone ristretto.
First mover advantage is not a great moat.
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The tip will get nasty sitting there at max temps for extended periods.