skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You generally don't want to act on customer feedback directly.

Obviously not literally. What they want hasn't been invented yet, which means the words to accurately describe what they want also haven't been invented yet. But ultimately you do want to act on what they really, truly are trying to tell you. Indeed, figuring them out is a hard job all on its own.

> is a full time job.

Sure. That's the tradeoff. You can spend most of your time figuring them out, and then the small few remaining units of time you have for development will be on point. Or you can play telephone and have all kinds of time for development, but will more often than not go down the wrong path.

It's not really clear which is more productive at the end of the day. But we do know that Agile (of the Manifesto kind) pushes the former, while Agile (of the fake kind) pushes the latter. People seem to hate fake Agile more than they hate Manifesto Agile, so that does suggest that not playing telephone is more productive.

But, still, data?
Did they just re-invent Dreamweaver's editor?
Just say it's a game. Add some social widgets ("Get your non-back sleeping scores on the leaderboard!"). Maybe throw in a T&C forbidding using it for medical purposes.
> There is always more meat for the grinder. You either prefer the environment, or believe you have no better option.

Amazon is the only FAANG that regularly reaches out to me with recruiting spam, and I am not located in a sexy tech hub nor do I have an on-trend resume. I've never responded, but I imagine their recruiting pipline counts on a combination of prestige and ignorance.
Business saw how well this strategy worked for police in the 1960s: if you want our help, you must make us unaccountable. Never mind the fact that then the help is no longer worth anything.

By Gresham's Law of ideas, the concept of freedom has become a euphemism for unaccountability. The only freedom that anyone today understands is freedom from the rule of law.
My prediction: strong remote work advocates will claim this will be catastrophic for Amazon, many critical people will leave and only those not competent enough to get a job elsewhere will stay. Office advocates will claim it will reinvigorate the culture and lead Amazon to new heights. The actual outcome will be that mostly nothing changes about Amazon’s performance or product quality.
I have yet to see metrics cited by any of these announcements. Do people think that's because:

a). They don't have metrics, and all the cynics are right about this being vibes based

b). They actually do have the data, and it's very grim for how poorly people on average perform when WFH but don't want to share it due to sensitivity or something

Like, i'm actually pro Work From Office (don't yell at me, i joined a company with this culture in place already on purpose) so i tend to believe that it's more productive for myself and the population on average but if that's true why has nobody proved it? why aren't any of these companies able to show data?
Qt is amazing business. Somebody is buying. Double digit growth rate year after year.

- €200M net sales
- 1.5M developers,
- 3,500 commercial customers
= €150 per developer/year
= €60,000 per customer/year
- €2.2B market cap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakar_och_Demoner was pretty big in sweden.
Here’s the trailer for the documentary: https://youtu.be/I4TkkS7xePY?feature=shared
Seems a natural result of monopolist app stores treating software developers as a complement to be commoditized. That relationship was what held me back the most when I was tempted to write for iPod Touch.
I bet this game would be relying on a central server.
As far as I remember Fi is not an AI companion, she was put into the sword by Hylia. There is all the tech in the Lanayru desert though, that is most definitely tech from an ancient civilization.
Sorbitol is known to cause GI issues. Some chemicals are actually just bad, but most aren't.
Enfleshened One: "Do as thou wilt."
Jensen's Inequality – A Visual Intuition
OpenCore Legacy Patcher 2.0.1
Yeah, I totally agree in theory, it doesn't really matter what methodology you use, at the end of the day dev management is just a means to an end.

The real issue comes from middle management folks who conjure up buzzwords whenever they need to justify whatever they think the team should do. Don't know how to structure tasks but want to look like you're in control to the boss's boss? Just throw up a Kanban board with tiny tickets and a burndown chart trending down. Sprinkle in some Agile keywords in the management reports and call it a day. And let's not forget that by 'sprint' they often mean moving unfinished tickets from the last iteration to the current one, plus tacking on surprise urgent tasks that were not planned before because the product owner never shows up to share their vision and priorities.
X1: Using any LLMs to create o1-like reasoning chains (github.com/lout33/x1)
The cognitive dissonance from the CEO class is astonishing. From the article

'“We’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another,” Jassy said in the message.'

This, just a couple of years after they were falling over themselves touting the productivity of WFH.
It seems Intel was penny-wise but pound-foolish here:

> dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony, according to two of the sources. Instead, rival AMD landed the contract through a competitive bidding process

However, I also wonder if Intel couldn't guarantee backwards compatibility with PS5 games to Sony's satisfaction:

> Console chip designs typically try to ensure compatibility with earlier versions of the system, to allow users to run older games on the new hardware. Moving from AMD, which made the PlayStation 5 chip, to Intel would have risked backwards compatibility, which was a subject of discussion between Intel and Sony engineers and executives, the sources said

If you looked at Intel's recent history, would you trust that they could deliver on cross-platform compatibility?
I mean every UI software, even the ones built into the different OS's has bugs like these. So what is the alternative? Throw Chromium into the code and build the UI with HTML and C++ backend? JUCE or some other UI package?

There really is not a ton of other options.

I think for most companies, paying for QT and maybe a few extra for bug fixes as needed makes sense. And lets you tone down the hardware expenses that say Chromium would require.
It works well as a modifier, and makes it easy to search for projects that are named after other common concepts or objects. It's also easy and natural- sounding to say for English speakers. Compared to other modifiers, it's more like "-dot-com" than "-lang", or even worse "libre-".
> Some counterpoints:

Maybe all of these companies succeeded _despite_ these?
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying things, but I have personally always assumed that using "Medieval" to describe D&D was almost entirely a reflection of the (non-magical) level of technology, and not anything societal or cultural.
Is this game relying on a central server?
https://kernkonzept.com/ is a company developing the L4Re OS. The company is a spinoff from the TU Dresden Operating Systems group. Afaik their main customer is the automotive industry which uses their hypervisor. L4Re is also certified for all kinds of government secrecy levels, so I would assume they have some users in that area.
> Are there better tools for commercial users or something?

Some software components are only available via the commercial license (QtQuick3D is a big one, Qt3D is very barebones and you basically have to do everything via shaders). Also you get "support" which can be nice for new developers but doesn't get you very in-depth technical answers, at least from my experience. Booking support time/workshops directly via KDAB or Qt to adress specific issues is a better investment than paying the commercial license just for that.
I did something similar for finding which outlet a breaker went to. I connected my MacBook to the outlet, airplay to the TV so it was loud, then had it yell if the power was disconnected:

while ! pmset -g batt | grep 'discharging'; do; echo waiting; sleep 1; done; say disconnected
Have you seen Larry lately? How do you look like that at 80 years old? He must be a cyborg.
Same, which is why ya grow stuff like baby greens in your shed. Larger crops require you get more creative of course, but hiding away smaller ones is doable at least.
I worked in mobile gamedev a long time, and I remember the excitement around 2010, where it really seemed like we got a new, innovative platform which will allow for completely new types of gameplay and turn a lot of casuals into real gamers at the same time. But turned out, the mobile crowd (which is basically most of humanity at this point) really prefer spending their money in a very specific genres, and innovative gameplay just doesn't convert that well.

Marketing doesn't lead people. It just enhances the signal about what people choose. Marketing can only drive an install, but after that, it's the game quality and a person's preferences that decide the LTV.
Assuming it’s higher than the bot can post, yes.
Maybe the misalignment is one of misunderstanding - we don’t make it explicit that sharing something like this isn’t to celebrate it.

I don’t catch any major celebrations of abusive tactics on HN, but then again I tend to be late to the comments and those posts are buried by the time I arrive.
Iceland the country won its trademark case agains Iceland the supermarket chain so there is probably something to it.

EUIPO "[Iceland Supermarket] cannot reasonably trademark the name of a country that has been around since the 9th century".
ByteDance wants to design its own AI chips
When you browse Insta and find former Australian PM Tony Abbott's passport num (2020)
The author has a really fun talk about the experience as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWT6Y0YDJUo
It was ruled illegal when they did it with DVDs
Once, Apple had Sonic Finder.[1] It was kind of cute. Especially the part where the sound for dropping something in a move was deeper for a larger object.

[1] http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/gaver_the_son...
TikTok's Day in Court
Yes, but Tolkien knew from the outset (in approx 1938) that the Ring absolutely could not be used. This was the whole point of Frodo's mission, that the Ring must be destroyed, even though the details of the tale changed substantially as Tolkien wrote and rewrote.

By 1944, Tolkien was already writing about Frodo trudging through the dead marshes on the way to Mordor, bearing the hideous burden of the Ring. The bomb was still a year away.
If you think about it, those criticisms extend to human thinking too. We aren't infallible in all situations either.

It's only when we can interact with the environment to test our hypothesis that we then refine what we know and update our priors appropriately.

If we let LLMs do that as well, by allowing it to run code and interact with documentation/the internet and double-check things its not sure of, it's not out of the question LLMs won't eventually be able to more reliably understand its limitations.
Your statement is solid. But from What I have heard, Amazon is getting a lot of pressure from the GOV to bring in more people into the office to support local businesses which I think it is a bit vague. But yeah, they are going to lose some great talent. They are going to have a bunch of useless recruiters roaming the offices lol.
Yeah, the multi-lingual stuff isn't what I'm talking about. I'm referring to countries where English is spoken enough by this generation that it may just leak into a first language for their children or grandchildren.
AGI is something fairly specific, yes, but depending on what you mean by “understand”, I don’t think it necessarily needs to “understand”? To behave (for all practical purposes) as if it “understands” is good enough. For some senses of “understand” this may be the same thing as for it to “understand”, so for those senses of “understand”, yes it needs to “understand”.

It seems clear to me that, if we could programmatically sample from a satisfactory conditional probability distribution, that this would be sufficient for it to, for all practical purposes, behave as if it “understands”, and moreover for it to count as AGI. (For it to do so at a fast enough rate would make it both AGI and practically relevant.)

So, the question as I see it, is whether the developments with ANNs trained as they have been, is progress towards producing something that can sample from a conditional probability distribution in a way that would be satisfactory for AGI.

I don’t see much reason to conclude that they are not?

I suppose your claim is that the conditional probability distributions are not getting closer to being such that they are practically as if they exhibit understanding?

I guess this might be true…

It does seem like some things would be better served by having variables with a fixed identity but a changing value, rather than just producing more variables? I guess that’s kind of like the “pure functional programming vs not-that” distinction, and of course as pure functional programming shows, one can still compute whatever one wants while only using immutable values, but one still usually uses something that is as if a value is changing.

And of course, for transformer models, tasks that take more than O(N^2) or whatever (… maybe O(N^3) because on N tokens, each is processed in ways depending on each pair of the results of processing previous ones?) can’t be done in producing a single output token, so that’s a limitation there..

I suppose that the thing that is supposed to make transformers faster to train, by making it so that the predictions for each of the tokens in a sequence can be done in parallel, kinda only makes sense if you have a ground truth sequence of tokens… though there is the RLHF (and similar) where the fine-tuning is done based on estimation of a score on the final output… which I suppose possibly neither is great at getting behavior sufficiently similar to reasoning?

(Note: when I say “satisfactory probability distribution” I don’t mean to imply that we have a nice specification of a conditional probability distribution which we merely need to produce a method that can sample from it. But there should exist (in the abstract (non-constructive) mathematical sense) probability distributions which would be satisfactory.)
Told by whom? Gravity works against you when you sleep on your back: your jaw falls in on itself, your tongue relaxes down into the back of your throat, stomach acid can flow up into your esophagus with relative ease. AFAIK the left side is generally the "recommended" position. It addresses all of those issues.

In some cases sleeping on the stomach might be preferred, as that helps the lungs take in more oxygen, which is why patients on respirators are often kept on their stomachs in hospital.

That being said: if you don't have sleep apnea or reflux, any position that's comfortable is probably fine. No one stays in one position the whole night anyway.
This won’t tell you that you have sleep apnea, it will tell you you might. From there you’d probably need a real sleep study.

However how many people will this catch that had no idea they should get checked? Not unlike some of the people who found out they have afib after their watches suggested they get checked? I agree this is great.

It’d be interesting if we find out that a very different percentage of the population have sleep apnea than we thought simply because so many more get checked as a result of this.
Yeah, I get that people in established positions feel attacked from many angles these days, so defining things like intention become very important to justifying the belief in why they've chosen their perspective. Also, it's easier than ever for truly bat-shit crazy ideas to catch people's imaginations. But how, then, are we to recognize paradigm shifts?

Herodotus was accused of just making shit up and accepting legend as fact by his near-contemporaries. Now a lot of what he wrote is accepted as being closer to the truth than what almost anyone else wrote down then.
Oops, what am I thinking, you’re right
Sorry for the long delay...

Sometime when I'm working, I see items in a circle [1] and I just say "Let's apply the Fourier transform." And I have a few similar rules and gut reactions. You can call it brainstorming, brilliant mathematical intuition, stupid pattern matching or lot of years of experience. I'm not sure and I don't care.

Sometimes I fix my idea intermediately because I realize it's wrong. Sometimes some of my coworkers note the error. Sometimes I have to send an email the next day with a retraction. Sometimes the conclusion is wrong but the main idea is correct and I (or someone else) has to fix it [2].

I make a lot of mistakes, but many of my ideas are good enough to get more questions the next week.

Is my reasoning better than LLM? I hope so (for now). I sometimes take more time before replying and shut up. It's an important feature. Perhaps LLM can get a feature to write a paragraph in a buffer, something like

fake LLM> I have a brilliant idea. Let's try to combine X and Y to solve Z. We first try A and then B and the conclusions is C so ... Wait a minute! Oh! It doesn't work :(. Nevermind. Let's delete this paragraph.

And that paragraph is never shown to the user. Is that implemented? Is that a good idea? Perhaps the LLM must tell the idea to another LLM and in both agree show the result to the user.

Is there a Stroop Effect in math https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect ? Perhaps to be as good as a human the LLM must run a few parallel instance and then join the results.

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About hallucinations: I teach Algebra to first year students in the university. We have to explicitly say that with matrices AB is not equal to BA, and in the "hard" course say that det(A+B) is not equal to det(A)+det(B). Are the students hallucinating math properties? (While looking at the draft of some multiple choice midterms, many times I get distracted and use det(2A)=2det(A) :( .)

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[1] It's more complicated. The system must have a circular symmetry, not just items in a circle for a nice drawing. Also sometimes the system has more symmetry and the Fourier Transform is only the easy first step.

[2] Sometimes I say "It's obviously true for A, B and C." And when one of my coworkers notice an error in a sign I say. "Then , it's obviously false for A, B and C." Sometimes the A, B and C part is better than my sign calculation.
Monolith as the final goal is probably a good way to think about the issue.

Janky modular stuff first, full of inefficiencies, few formalities, designed to move fast and _not be in production_. Once it's up and running (in a test setup), you can "see the shape of it" and make it into a more cohesive thing (a "monolith").

This is consistent with how many other crafts older than programming have coalesced over centuries. I suspect there's a reason behind it.

You don't start with an injection-molded solid piece of metal with carefully designed edges that can be broken later (or shaven off) in different ways. You machine something that you don't understand yet using several different tools and practices, then once the piece does what you want (you got a prototype!), you move the production line to injection molding. The resulting mold is way less flexible than the machining process, but much more cohesive and easy to manage.

Of course, programming is different. The "production lines" are not the same as in doing plane parts. In programming you "fly the plane" as soon as it is "air worthy" and does improvements and maintenance in mid-flight. It's often a single plane, no need to make lots of the same model.

So, with that in mind, there's an appeal for carefully planning context boundaries. It's easier to ditch the old radar system for a new one, or replace the seats, or something like that, all during flight.

If the plane breaks down mid-flight, the whole thing is disastrous. So we do stuff like unit testing on the parts, and quality assurance on a "copy of the plane" with no passengers (no real users). Wait, aren't those approaches similar to old traditional production lines? Rigs to test component parts individually, fixtures (that comes from the machining world), quality assurance seals of approval, stress tests.

So, why the hell are we flying the plane as soon as it is barely air worthy in the first place? It creates all those weird requirements.

> When you begin a new application, how sure are you that it will be useful to your users?

Well, I don't have any clue. But _almost all_ applications I ever built were under serious pressure to be useful real fast. Barely flying was often enough to stop the design process, it got passengers at that point so no need to go back to the drawing board. What it often required by the stakeholders is not a better production process, it's just making the barely flying plane bigger.

I know, I know. Borrowing experience from other industries is full of drawbacks. It's not the same thing. But I can't just explain the absurdities of this industry (which are mostly non-related to engineering) in any other way.

All of this reminds me of that "If Microsoft made cars..." joke, but it's not funny anymore.
Tangent, but in Poland these are called "Iceskaterollers" (łyżworolki). Now I wonder how my mother tongue compares to, say, English in terms of gzip compression efficiency.
I've been enjoying https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable on iPhone
I think there should be a automatic overtime law. Every minute beyond 40 hours should be automatically billed to the company.

Use the laptop spy software that companies have been conveniently using anyway to enforce this.
The mobile gaming market is overwhelmed with cheap trash. It's what you see when you open a mobile game store. (I just opened the iOS App Store games section and, apart from Minecraft and Roblox -- which I'm not interested in -- everything on the main screen pretty much looks terrible.)

It's a marked contrast to the major consoles and other game store platforms which, for whatever reason, do a much better job of not just promoting stuff that will be profitable -- but of promoting stuff that's not trash so when you think of a Nintendo Switch you think of amazing Mario games; when you think of a Playstation you think of The Last of Us or Elden Ring or whatever. You know if you crack open Steam that you'll see interesting stuff.

The difference may be the norms set on pricing. Console games are still $30-$70. People complained about the horrible race-to-the-bottom on mobile game pricing in the early days. And they complained about the total switch over to micro-transactions. Those complaints were ignored. So the marketplace was overwhelmed by companies who could execute cheap, micro-transaction-addictive games the best. And so I think the market generally treats mobile games like garbage. Which they by-and-large seem to be. (With notable exceptions!)
I’m sticking with Bitwarden cause it’s more cross platform and is not part of apple’s garden.
Hard to say, I was always contacted directly by the team/ had other role and later it turned out I can do a fair bit of programming too ;-)
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554
Are you suggesting that flood prevention only happens in higher income neighbourhoods? Flood prevention tends to lie on the county engineers. Not so much private individuals to dictate. Doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't just dig up a road to put in proper flood prevention measures like drainage and grade.
Reflection 70B is a scam. The creator was just routing requests to Claude.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1fc98fu/confirm...