skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it funny that whenever theres an article lambasting capital-A Agile (which, is usually scrum), people are quick to say “you’re doing it wrong”. Its the best no true scotsman fallacy I’ve ever seen.

Yet, here I am, to say we are all doing it wrong.

The daily standup should have no managers at all in it, its for the team, and its for understanding blockers and progress.

Another issue that pervades is that of organisation: One of the hardest parts of leadership for me has been trying to understand the distinction between team and task/project, because projects require more collaboration than single discipline teams do: but we conduct capital-A Agile across single discipline team boundaries. I’m too shy to break everyones mental model of how they should work because…

It’s always this way in every company I ever worked, as it is with managers/leads in standups.

I have no idea why, we prescribe scrum instead of using our brains, and we don’t listen to the core instructions given even then- of course it doesn’t work.
Honestly, I don't understand why it isn't hourly. That would fit in quite nicely with the pomodoro gobbledygook.
Still no 14/30b parameter models since llama 2. Seriously killing real usability for power users/diy.

The 7/8B models are great for poc and moving to edge for minor use cases … but there’s a big and empty gap till 70b that most people can’t run.

The tin foil hat in me is saying this is the compromise the powers that be have agreed too. Basically being “open” but practically gimped for average joe techie. Basically arms control
Well, that tells us something...
I'm not sure how to answer your question, but can say with authority that you're free to extract as much or as little value out of it as you'd like.
I do scrums twice a week. That's more than enough and if somebody has problems in between they are required to get in touch either with me or the person who can help. I think there is not enough going on to justify required daily standups.
Design Insights for Industrial CO2 Capture, Transport, and Storage Systems
I feel like this misses the point so much that it might as well be nonsense.

A better way to put my argument is: could an average mom build Linux on specialized hardware in space? If the answer is "yes", then you may have a point.

I don't think the answer is yes.
Sounds like you have an organisational issue outside of that 15 minute window.

In fact, likely, its because people are forcing your lead into meetings that are largely irrelevant (because otherwise if they permit that block to open they feel that wont be able to get time with them) that causes the lack of time in the first place.
My blog is honestly one of the best things I’ve done for my career. Writing skills are super valuable but no programmers are taught how to write. It’s not a skill we explicitly develop. Learning how to express ideas for various audiences is super useful. I’ve gotten, imho, pretty good at both writing and presenting and I attribute a lot of that to 10+ years of blog writing.
If there is no life, why not plant it?
Still looks ugly. The Ray Band was a success due to the aesthetic appeal of sunglass users (aviators, beach jocks look cool).

Pushing normal glasses without making the subject look like dorks (nerds are unattractive) or "glassholes" (Google glass tech bros) will be a challenge.
Is he busy because of your workplace's meetings culture?
llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0 is performing better than 3.1 8b-q4 on my macbookpro M1. It's faster and the results are better. It answered a few riddles and thought experiments better despite being 3b vs 8b.

I just removed my install of 3.1-8b.

my ollama list is currently:

$ ollama list

NAME ID SIZE MODIFIED

llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0 e410b836fe61 3.4 GB 2 hours ago

gemma2:9b-instruct-q4_1 5bfc4cf059e2 6.0 GB 3 days ago

phi3.5:3.8b-mini-instruct-q8_0 8b50e8e1e216 4.1 GB 3 days ago

mxbai-embed-large:latest 468836162de7 669 MB 3 months ago
I’ve heard of status updates every 15 minutes. Huge contractor.
Just because you cannot access the model doesn't mean all of Puerto Rico is blocked.
For two-lanes-or-less-each-way streets, buses don't offer much benefit if the streets are busy since the chance of being able to get enough space for a very heavy, long bus to switch lanes is low/impossible.

Streets cars/trams weakness include breakdowns - trailing streetcars/trams are blocked if a streetcar breaks down on the track. But, they can also carry more passengers than buses. I think many modern versions are about 3-4 bus-lengths long.
I also find it a bit strange that a parent is calling an 11 year old kid “they”, instead of son or daughter, but in the current era we’re living we have to take into account the different pronouns and how someone identifies.

https://pronouns.org/how
Composite-core cables are lighter. The core is carbon and fiberglas fiber, rather than steel.[1]

[1] https://compow.com/blog/midal-accc
Having discussed this same question with the more experienced members of my team, the only conclusion I can draw is that the customer (US Government) is incredibly risk averse. Any unexpected entry into safemode would require a report, multiple meetings with the customer, and them being pretty angry. Their line of reasoning seems to be "Safemode->Something is wrong->Why is something wrong? We're not paying you to be wrong". I'm personally of the opinion that safemode isn't that bad. It's fully recoverable and shows the system is working properly.

We normally have a Functional Test Assembly (real computer and some other hardware for testing) to run our tests against, but we only have one setup and it is consistently unreliable. This particular CLT was unable to get a clean run in the lab but it was decided that the issues were related to the lab setup rather than the actual test, so we moved forward to run on the satellite (against our team's protests).

This to me is the real crux of the issue: if we can't even trust our own testing environment, what's the point of having it at all? If the customer is so risk averse, why would we take this chance? Needless to say, I don't think we'll be running anything on the satellite without full FTA vetting anytime in the near future.
> What I can say for certain is no executive in her position ever willingly resigns to pursue different passions/spend more time with their family/enjoy retirement or whatever else.

Do you think that's because executives are so exceedingly ambitious, or because pursuing different passions is for some reason less attractive?
Maybe I'm just a rotten person, but I always find these overly gracious exit letters by higher-ups to be pretty nauseating.
I wonder, would publishing a diff be against the license?
>Bull. You can't lie to me about ordinary Internet in the 2000s, because I was there.

So was I, sites were filled with racist shit it took a lot of work to filter out. You’re just getting hung up on the idea of a Twitter front page. If Facebook had a front page of virally shared stuff, it would have been filled with racism, conspiracies, and whatnot.

Companies usually curated their front page to avoid that kind of stuff, but nobody looks at the front page so it doesn’t really matter. The content you were exposed to as a user was filled with racism.

I take it you didn’t play video games because online gaming was also absolutely packed with people yelling and typing racist and homophobic shit. It wasn’t until many years into Xbox live that they figured out to put the people with each other based on shit talking. It wasn’t until Rocket League brought in the other platforms that they enforced people personally attacking each other.

>Convincing the average American that ordinary moderation of content like the above is 'extreme censorship' is how you get Americans who decide they're actually OK with that.

You’re trying to rewrite history. What you’re calling “ordinary” is very new. Setting aside what the “right amount” is for moderation, it’s indisputable that moderation at scale is a very recent invention. The job of “internet moderator” in 2005 didn’t exist. Now Facebook employs thousands of them and uses AI and crowdsourcing to do it at immense scale.
Haven't had a chance to use capstone yet, but a project I really like happens to use it.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
WP Engine hasn't acknowledged this yet, so I hope it's a bug or a mistake.
How is that good? An arms race increases the pressure to go fast and disregard alignment safety, non proliferation is essential.
The NIH is strong in this once.
Show HN: Public Domain Torrent Site
I have been working on this site for 10 years. It is a BitTorrent Indexer that uses WebTorrent to make public domain educational media freely available on the Internet.
A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'
Agreed. It’s like fast food, but for your brain.
Personally speaking, above 10 thousand I'd switch to saying "a few tens of thousands".

But the mere fact you say 15 is arguable does indeed broaden the range, just as me saying 1 broadens it in the opposite extent.
Senseless babble. You’re not even expressing a basic premise of why a company would spend extra money to go out of business.

PPP is gone and has been gone. If a small business is viable where those businesses have closed, someone would open one. It’s that simple.
Anyone here know how it is in the UK? My kid will be starting school soon, and this terrifies me.
For a civil case, probably. But for a criminal case, the threshold is 'beyond reasonable doubt'. Plenty of reasonable doubt in there.
If you lack the confidence and the comfort to report "no interesting progress" once a day, I either pity your emotional state or your team dynamic. Daily standups should not be overwhelming, and abolishing them is an avoidance strategy, not a solution.
* I take calls on them all the time when I'm outside, it works so well I don't even take my earbuds anymore if I know I won't be listening to music

* If I don't have my earbuds, I'll use them to listen to a podcast or even some songs while outside

* I use the AI assistant ALL THE TIME, it's soooo practical to have it always on, I don't need to pick up my phone it's like someone is always next to me ready to answer any questions I have

* I record videos and take pictures with it all the time, it's so much faster than taking out my phone if I need to quickly catch something, also as people don't realize your filming I have super authentic videos with my friends and family where people aren't acting weird because they realize they're being filmed (I think this is going to go away as soon as these become more mainstream, so this is THE moment to catch some memories with it IMO!)

* Mine are prescription sunglasses, so I use them by design when I'm outside during sunny days, so all of that is just additional bonus I get for free just by wearing my sunglasses
Thanks for putting the effort in! Glad the garden metaphor clicked. I've expanded more on the microbiology analogy here.

I don't think we're talking about the same thing, but I liked your thoughts!

Youtube response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Kq4N2-OEM
Oh. That's sad indeed. What might be the reason for excluding Europe?
This overplayed knee jerk response is so dull.
This reads like a two graf article somebody asked ChatGPT to turn into a dialogue between a boomer and zoomer.
On the No True Scrummaster point, it's fair to say that this comment actually suggests a fundamentally different alternative. The No True Scrummaster arguments I see typically zoom in to specific details instead of zooming out to examine the whole process.
Lost in translation, the Commandment is not to murder. Legal killing of the guilty (of murder), and in self defense for example, is not murder. Just as it isn't in the secular legal system. Therefore, there is no conflict.

That's not to say that there isn't room for mercy when called for. Also, prudence should be exercised to the highest possible standard and then some.

No one has broken a Commandment by executing Ted Bundy for example, by defending from a hostile Army, nor by defending their own life from imminent murder by a criminal aggressor.
I mean if it doesn't fit the team's or the project's stage, don't do them daily. Simple! I just solved it for you. Not sure why we need tons of articles on scrum to state the obvious :-). Are the engineering teams so dumb that they're following scrum to the letter? Come on!
Because their insurance, and anybody else that's going to insure a convenience store after what happened, requires them to do so
I don’t always agree but I’ll join you on this particular hill!
But I thought the daily scrum is to give an opportunity to communicate and realign.

I'm not a developer (I'm a scientist working in R&D that then needs to be implemented by developers), but I've participated to plenty of daily scrum. I can say that they are sometimes very useful, without them, the devs would just go into whatever useless direction or would spend days trying to solve non-problem.

I never had any problem to say "nothing to report on my side, working on X like yesterday". Maybe the pressure is self-inflicted by a culture that idolized unicorns and 10x coders.
Must put the crabs in the bucket for the clawing to begin
How so?

I once spent three days trying to figure out an issue, stepping line by line through hadoop (after figuring out the issue was in hadoop and not my own code). Yay, I proved the issue was actually in Java itself. Guess what happened next? We avoided the bug. Why?

- We couldn't update Java.

- We couldn't change hadoop because we were using a packaged solution. So, we just filed a bug with them.

Had the source not been available, we would have just skipped all of that, and it would have been our vendor's problem 3 days earlier.
An Introvert's Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on Candid Connection
Exactly this! Not only Visa, now we have Google Pay or Apple Pay for NFC on our phones. Banks e ded up using these instead of implementing their own NFC apps. All my data is at Visa, Mastercard and Google..
Two great starting points are level creation in Fall Guys and custom maps in Starcraft 2.
Constance Garnett's Preface to Crime and Punishment
Nile Pricing – Unlimited databases, Pay for queries, Limitless vector embeddings
The Namespace JSX Project
Interesting idea and curious - because when I look at that visualization, the first thing it reminds me of is gource.
You don't need an F-15 to play at least, a decent sniper rifle will do. You can still practise even with a pellet gun. I'm running 70b models on my M2 max with 96 ram. Even larger models sort of work, although I haven't really put much time into anything above 70b.
Glibly, Europe has the gall to even consider writing regulations without asking the regulated parties for permission.
they're not as good for pictures as they are for videos, for videos they really shine.
Fortunately, Qwen-2-VL exists, it is pretty good and under an actual open source license, Apache 2.0.

Edit: the larger 72B model is not under Apache 2.0 but https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct/blob/main/...

Qwen2-VL-72B seems to perform better than llama-3.2-90B on visual tasks.
Our software replaced the submitted URL https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michiga... because it listed https://www.usatoday.com/ as its canonical URL. Fixed now. Thanks!
> there is just a difference between engineers and teachers.

> Engineers have trouble communicating the complex things in their heads.

Yes!!!

And my first versions (like this), are always shit.

Eventually with a few git pushes I figure out how to teach to others what I can visualize in my head.
> no executive in her position ever willingly resigns to pursue different passions/spend more time with their family/enjoy retirement or whatever else

Especially when they enjoy a position like hers at the most important technology company in a generation.
interesting... I was really looking for a nice upgrade this year, but instead I got a cheaper headset. This is making things difficult. I might just get the Q3S while I wait for a Q4.
HVDC converter stations are expensive though. And you would need to have one every time you have a substation to directly replace an AC cable. It makes sense for longer distances.
Charitable Contributions – Matt Mullenweg
They talk about "memory safe languages (MSL)" plural, as if there is more than one, but only explicitly name Rust as the MSL they're transitioning to and improving interoperability with. They also mention Kotlin in the context of improving Rust<>Kotlin interop, which also has some memory-safe features but maybe not to same extent as Rust. Are those the only two Google uses, or are there others they could be referring to?
> it's possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days

Sure, a few thousand days and a few trillion $ away. We'll also have full self driving next month. This is just like the fusion is the energy of the future joke: it's 30 years away and it will always be.
Daily check-ins can be necessary under certain circumstances. (Think all-hands-on-deck quickly evolving situations with a tight deadline and several unknowns. Like a big feature launch.) Sometimes you might even need them twice a day. You cannot do it much more often, though.

So the big problem with scrum is not the daily, but it's ceremonious importance. It's just fixed, it doesn't have any reason. One does it because scrum.

If you look closely, you'll see more of that pattern in scrum. Sprints, for instance, are a given. Yet, why would anybody do them when there are no new features to be developed? When a product is mature and needs maintenance or simply doesn't exist at all, there's no reason to do sprints. Whenever there's no feedback from stakeholders, there's no reason to do sprints.
Where I'd like to see AR go
Sure, but it's a factor and it's not like Snap is doing great otherwise.

Startups have less money, but invent new fields because of the differentiated advantage that comes from being smaller and faster (among other things). This is Snap competing in the same arena against Zuckerberg who is a lot better capitalized and better at it.

It'd be one thing to do if Snap was otherwise firing on all cylinders and trying to expand into the platform of the future, but it seems like they never recovered from Apple's ATT and are blowing money on passion projects that are not competitive.

What do I know? I'm just an outsider, but I'd buy Meta and sell Snap. If you disagree, the other direction is probably a lot more profitable if you're right.
What can you confidently say AI will not be able to do in 2029? What task can you declare, without hesitation, will not be possible for automatic hardware to accomplish?
I wouldn’t be surprised at all that aliens that can do space travel are bipedal. It’s just a great way to manipulate things with arms. No manipulating equals no spacecraft. Speaking would be the same. I always thought the aliens in Star Trek spoke their own language but the universal translators translated it?

> By the 24th century, universal translators had advanced to the point where a full-fledged UT could be built into the combadges worn by Starfleet personnel. The translation was so natural and seamless that beings unaware of them believed that others spoke their own language.
Without them, the devs would just go into whatever useless direction or would spend days trying to solve non-problem.

Perhaps this is a sign you need better devs -- much better devs, in fact?

And that Scrum, while it may appear to help by patching over this problem -- is actually masking it?
Each giant marketing corp gets their own generation of glassholes if you spread the R&D far enough apart.
Breaking news - introverts don't want to have daily stand ups, whilst extroverts think it's fun and useful.

I personally found them quite helpful to ensure I could help out team members who had got stuck. It's sometimes lonely debugging a complex system, and people can appreciate someone else to either confirm it really is what they think is going on, or maybe bounce some ideas off. It's a great way for the more experienced team members to find places where they can make a significant difference by contributing a bit of their day to helping out.
finally, a valid use case for the block chain.. long future bets
> Are the engineering teams so dumb that they're following scrum to the letter?

No, their managers are.
I truly think you haven't really thought this through.

There's a huge amount of circuitry between the input and the output of the model. How do you know what it does or doesn't do?

Humans brains "just" output the next couple milliseconds of muscle activation, given sensory input and internal state.

Edit: Interestingly, this is getting downvotes even though 1) my last sentence is a precise and accurate statement of the state of the art in neuroscience and 2) it is completely isomorphic to what the parent post presented as an argument against current models being AGI.

To clarify, I don't believe we're very close to AGI, but parent's argument is just confused.
heh, it's 2024
While it's true that language models are fundamentally based on statistical patterns in language, characterizing them as mere "probabilistic syllable generators" significantly understates their capabilities and functional intelligence.

These models can engage in multistep logical reasoning, solve complex problems, and generate novel ideas - going far beyond simply predicting the next syllable. They can follow intricate chains of thought and arrive at non-obvious conclusions. And OpenAI has now showed us that fine-tuning a model specifically to plan step by step dramatically improves its ability to solve problems that were previously the domain of human experts.

Although there is no definitive evidence that state-of-the-art language models have a comprehensive "world model" in the way humans do, several studies and observations suggest that large language models (LLMs) may possess some elements or precursors of a world model.

For example, Tegmark and Gurnee [1] found that LLMs learn linear representations of space and time across multiple scales. These representations appear to be robust to prompting variations and unified across different entity types. This suggests that modern LLMs may learn rich spatiotemporal representations of the real world, which could be considered basic ingredients of a world model.

And even if we look at much smaller models like Stable Diffusion XL, it's clear that they encode a rich understanding of optics [2] within just a few billion parameters (3.5 billion to be precise). Generative video models like OpenAI's Sora clearly have a world model as they are able to simulate gravity, collisions between objects, and other concepts necessary to render a coherent scene.

As for AGI, the consensus on Metaculus is that it will arrive in 2023. But consider that before GPT-4 arrived, the consensus was that full AGI was not coming until 2041 [3]. The consensus for the arrival date of "weakly general" AGI is 2027 [4] (i.e AGI that doesn't have a robotic physical world component). The best tool for achieving AGI is the transformer and its derivatives; its scaling keeps going with no end in sight.

Citations:

[1] https://paperswithcode.com/paper/language-models-represent-s...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15he3f4/el...

[3] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-...

[4] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general...
I’m curious how this applies to Mac vs Windows, where most newer Mac code is written in memory safe swift, while Windows still uses primarily uses C or C++.
LLMs as programs are here to stay. The issue is with expenses/revenue ratio all these LLM corpos have. According to Sequoia analyst (so not some anon on a forum) there is a giant money hole in that industry, and "giant" doesn't even begins to describe it (iirc it was 600bln this summer). That whole industry will definitely see winter soon, even if all things Altman says would be true.
What about OpenAI Structured Outputs? This seems to do exactly this.
same tbh I'm so sick of Wordpress and I don't like how complex SSGs can be