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Update: on LinkedIn the Faros team replied to me and stated that they see both usage and issues increasing over time.

2y of data. They should address that confounder and demonstrate the results are stable even if you stratify over time. 2026 models are very different from 2024 ones, after all.

I really liked the main question. But I’m more interested in the structure how we journal, not if you use Logseq, OrgMode, paperback, etc.

For example, I try to journal by treating my work as “experiments” and tie those in turn to goals and challenges. And my experiments consist of a plan, prediction, the actual data, and the evaluation (of the data against the prediction). Finally, I constantly track the current state relevant towards the goal. If that sounds familiar to the Toyota Kata, that is because it is. And it should sound familiar to anyone trying to apply the scientific method.

I’d be curious to learn HOW others journal?

Thanks for the warning! From the git docs:

Set it to refs/notes/commits to enable rewriting for the default commit notes.

Why wouldn’t that at least be the default? Why is rewriting off by default in the first place?

How does that compare to Claude Code? How protected are you when using CC?

For Mixture of Expert models (like GPTs are), they can produce different results for an input sequence if that sequence is retried together with a different set of sequences in its inference batch, because of the model (“expert”) routing depends on the batch, not the single sequence: https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/

And in general, binary floating point arithmetic cannot guarantee associativity - i.e. `(a + b) + c` might not be the same as `a + (b + c)`. That in turn can lead to the model picking another token in rare cases (and it’s auto-regressive consequences, that the entire remainder of the generated sequence might differ): https://www.ingonyama.com/blog/solving-reproducibility-chall...

Edit: Of course, my answer assumes you are asking about the case when the model lets you set its token generation temperature (stochasticity) to exactly zero. With default parameter settings, all LLMs I know of randomly pick among the best tokens.

To me it implicitly means: “I am selling you my distilled copy of the book at nearly the price of the book. That lets me recoup my investment, and after a few days I will take it offline, so I don’t get a law suit from O’Reilley for copyright infringement.”

Oh, wow, scummy to scammy, indeed! It’s all in the fine print… I didn’t bother reading this appendix on the first read of the blog post.

Disclaimer: I do really enjoy this book, as it reminds my of uncle Bob’s Clean Code, but a short version, and with the focus on what to do after writing code, when you need to change it or want to understand it better.

Yes, it is structured very much like a collection of blog posts. Which is great for me, as I typically work on learning one “tidying” a day or less. So I am not yet done with the book, end-to-end.

That’s an interesting viewpoint, even surprising to me. Can you be more concrete about what you think is wrong with the agile software development movement Kent Beck co-founded, and how it destroys developers?

I agree on principal, but believe it is more nuanced and hybrid can work if you implement it uniformly across the company. For example, I’ve seen places where everyone can WFH Tue & Thu or Mon, Wed, Fri where hybrid have a quite smooth collaboration culture. But if it is “random”, every day ends up being WFH - that’s in effect just the same as fully remote, and you need to act accordingly. And if you work in a global company with globally distributed teams, the company already is de facto fully remote, and the picture becomes even more nuanced.

World time buddy offers that: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

I use this. You can easily pick dates (and it correctly handles time changes in one region vs the other) and you see the time bands side by side. Finally, it has a great mobile app, too.

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Here’s another example: Apple Arcade decided to discontinue my kids’ favorite local multiplayer game (Marble Knights). Apple erased the game from my devices and there is no way to get this game at all now, at least as far as I know. With the pending increase in Arcade’s monthly costs, that was the last straw for me to say goodbye to this Apple “offering”.

OpenAI are doing tricks with the model output

Do you have any pointers to the “tricks” that are being applied?

Just to expand on the above, as two days later I now feel it is hard to understand how my reply is related to imtringued‘s last paragraph (“if you can fix the asymmetry or eliminate the zero lower bound it doesn't actually matter what form your money takes”):

If you don’t allow banks to “print debt” out of thin air by eliminating fractional reserve banking, as Daly suggested in his work, I believe you eliminate that asymmetry. Actual money is lent, actual money has to be returned.

The question that remains then is if it is valid to ask for interest on that money. But I believe that is acceptable, and the rate might be set to 0% or even negative in the right circumstances.

Thanks for the pointer to the Leitner system (my last name coincides…) But why would you want to use that simplified Leitner system if Anki can track each card individually?

Disclaimer: I don’t know if Anki supports a simplified system that applies spacing to a whole group of cards instead of each card individually, but why you would want that?

I don’t think Daly is suggesting to move away from debt as an instrument in his work, only to establish a 100% reserve system for commercial banks, including the Fed. He was suggesting to nationalize money supply via the Treasury, to avoid bank runs and fiascos like they happened just now to CS and SVB.

Apparently, this was already the direction of thought among some economists in the 1920s (like Frank Knight and Irving Fisher), but then got overruled by the eternal growth mindset that evolved during the Great Depression (which Daly claims leads to “uneconomic” growth). Printing money as an instrument should very much be available - but only to the Government/Treasury.

I am currently reading the late Daly’s 2014 book “From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy” that seems to address exactly your concern for a more fairly distributed economic system. A real eye-opener that would require us to change three things to build a more sustainable economy and future:

(1) stop fractional reserve banking and nationalize money again to avoid the very quantitative easing/tightening fiasco we are seeing today, (2) measure economic progress with a quality of life index instead of GDP to accurately reflect the cost of products/resources and put more emphasis on life quality improving services, and (3) replace the current international trade rules and system run by the IMF with a more equitable system where capital costs are accurately reflected at the source to avoid “outsourcing” problems to third world continues.

While all three changes are difficult to achieve in our current society, I am amazed at how clearly Daly’s life work can outline how we could build a much more sustainable economy and healthier society. Maybe his amazing last summary book is of interest to others on HN.

Rejoice, as you have issues that are really easy to improve upon.

First of all, don’t ever argue about solutions with your peers (e.g. whitespaces), and dive deep (Can you imagine that it is hard for others to read your code? Have you tried reading your own code that you have not touched for 5-10 years? Etc.). From what I hear, you might just ask the question to yourself before you confront your coworkers. And then ask Why at least several more times for every answer.

You also are very close to understanding the core issues: It typically matters to understand the business problem and find the simplest solution, with the least effort to resolve any problems.

You might get good mileage out of studying domain driven design at this point in your path.

I prefer System76, because it ensures that hardware and software work together flawlessly. Most threads here seem to complain about that, but I never had an issue on that front with my Oryx Pro.

Only hardware complaints are that it can become noisy with (Nvidia!) GPU use and that the battery life is short (at least if you are used to MBPs…) But for example, I have had no serious headache with the Nvidia GPU, only some driver update juggling.

Using Oryx Pro with Nvidia, and it is a breeze. Depends on your manufacturer supporting your hardware, I guess.

Doesn’t this have to pass anti-competition regulations before it goes anywhere? And if it does, is it likely that it will pass?

Every time I catch myself thinking "wrong" about a position or solution someone states, I remind myself that my thinking is probably the only wrong thing here. I displace that negative behavior with curiosity.

That means, trying to explore what the other person might know that I do not. What data or knowledge I am missing could have lead that person to the view or position my fast thinking labeled as wrong?

Rarely, it does happen that I had more context or data, but those are outliers. In general, by adapting my behavior from thinking "wrong!" to thinking "what does this person know that I do not?" I am able to have way more productive conversations.

Agile Conversations by Squirrel & Frederick: https://www.conversationaltransformation.com/agile-conversat...

I am working with one of the authors, and am totally blown by the depth of thinking these two have put into all aspects of company communication and culture.

The actual problem in that case (when you need a closed door for something like this) is that you are part of a team without trust and you senior staff has not yet learned how to make themselves vulnerable.

I've recently switched from my usual MBP upgrade to System 76 (Oryx Pro). While yes, Apple's walled garden does feel like a Rolls Royce compared to anything, the price tag difference this time was just way too step for me to keep buying a new Mac: It was basically 2x or more for roughly similar hardware, if not slightly worse on the MBP side. Overall, using Pop_OS! with its specialized GNOME3 setup has been a bliss, and I must say I had expected a far more difficult migration. In a few days I was happily up and running with my new machine. And then, there is the support - Apple's support outside of visiting a Genius Bar is basically non-existent. System76 has diligently helped me even set up external hardware that wasn't theirs! Long story short, very much looking forward to COSMIC and continuing this experience. The only thing I do miss a lot is my iTerm2... :)

My main reason for not using Notion is that its search is half-baked: You cannot search for headlines and body content in a single query. Say if you query for "H B", and H is only in the headline, while B is only in the body, you get no hit.

Happens to me all the time, because my name is fairly common. Weird that Google wont "fix" that.

Isn't what you are describing exactly the Internet plus a search engine you trust will pick up the article type you are interested in? In fact, you'd still need to trust that open WPv2 thing just like that search engine.

OP grandparent meant CMD-?, and ? happens to be SHIFT-/ on US and international keyboards.