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A person once said to me - the only direction you move when coasting is down. Maybe that's "cancer" but I do agree with it.


When it comes to the personal and intangibles, then grow all you want; read the books, develop the skills, and so on. But when it comes to consumption of resources and economic growth then cancer is the right word as unbounded growth fundamentally results in unbounded growth of waste products and overconsumption of inputs.

There is no system or ecology that can support infinite growth; as long as we're stuck in the "coasting is dying" mentality we'll see productive entities develop dysfunctions as they outgrow their ecosystems or kill themselves trying to expand. If coasting leads to gradual decline then over expansion leads to catastrophic failure.


That's not true. You can indeed create value out of thin air.

Emissions decreasing while economies grow: https://time.com/6632271/climate-emisisons-and-economic-grow...

IP is a type of property that can infinitely increase in value without consuming more resources.

Not to mention all this assumes that we are stuck on Earth, which isn't true.


Not growing does not mean “coasting”.

There is a difference between keeping your car going 55 and letting your foot off the gas entirely.

In this case it’s being suggested that the former is better than continuously accelerating as long as possible.


That person must have never heard of Isaac Newton's First law of motion.


Simply speaking - They chunk the document (make it smaller so that it can be sent to gpt) and then vectorize it (change it to numbers / vector array). From there that is stored in a vector store - now, when you query you first query your vector store for the context (part of the 50MB file) and then send the context along with the question to GPT.

You are right GPT-4 doesn't support fine-tuning but, I think (in general) people might be misunderstanding what fine-tuning does.


Good explanation. Thanks! Can the first part, i.e. vectorizing and finding relevant chunks be done with any LLM (e.g. a self hosted one) and the second part, i.e. querying relevant chunks be done with OpenAI?


Came to the comments looking for this app - one of the very few apps I am happy to pay for and use a bunch!


Some believe it is their moral obligation to do so. I, personally, believe that "blaming myself for the worlds problem" is a step to becoming a more mature (accountable) person in our society.

I also believe that corporation will do literally anything to make a profit - including slavery - and the only thing that stops them from doing so is because they stop being profitable. Knowing this allows the consumer to pressure the company to align with their values or loss their business.


Did I miss why the study was only done on women?


I assume it was simply down to having a pre-existing, conveniently-accessible large set of potential participants to analyse, in the form of those involved in the UK Million Women Study (sponsored again by Oxford), who had been asked about their phone use all the way back in 2001.


SHOULD Grafana run Doom?


There's something about the possibility of fragging your exceptions that is probably zen-inducing for a lot of folks.


Probably as satisfying as fragging processes?

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html


“That which can run Doom should run Doom” - Litany of Carmack


Crypto IMHO -> We are changing the wheels on the bus while it is moving. To do so, we have to use the old wheels until we have all the wheels in place to take off the old wheels.

You can't replace an entire infrastructure, this large, overnight.


The great resignation marches on.


Deep reference! This comment made my morning. Thank you!


I'm pretty excited about this site's potential. I am avid promoter of creating autonomous teams through principles and goals alignment (OKR).

I think there were suggestions about Time being an aspect of a principle. I wonder if this would be better represented by the SDLC stages, something like this might address the "time" part that allows it to be associated with type of work being done. Just a thought. I also wonder, at the same time, if this is too burdensome for a team or individual to do. Establishing your principles, IMHO, should be the most important thing you do, if you use them to guide your behavior.

I also have hope that when people establish what their individual principles (that define them) they then can ensure when they are job hunting or self reflecting on their current job that they what they are doing is aligned with who they are to ensure they will be satisfied in that role/job/company.

I just bookmarked the site. Excited to see this grow.


Oneshoe, thank you.

On the SDLC, it could work. The temporal aspect is something I need to think through in a way that's not too complicated. Getting feedback at this stage is beneficial, even if this hit HN a lot earlier than I was expecting.

Establishing your own principles is burdensome, but using others is not. Having access to everyone else's principles and being able to see what other successful teams use, makes it easy to take other people's capability and add it to your own. Imagine if you could see what principles Rob Pike or <insert favorite programmer uses> or the principles behind a library, framework or a particularly productive team? This gets me excited. It gives people the building blocks to make great things.

I totally agree that individual principles is extremely important. If not for the very fact that finding and being on aligned teams is an amazing experience for everyone involved. Happier, more productive teams.

I would love to have an informal chat with you, you get what I'm doing and it needs people like you to for this to succeed for the community. Drop me an email if you can take me up on the offer :)


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