"Young man,

There's a place you can go,

I said young man,

To store a graph with your code..."

I still maintain an O'Reilly.com subscription, because it's good to read aan edited book on a topic, and the Google search has just gone to seed.

The "fungible" point sounds as though the "cattle, not pets" ethos of the infrastructure management has leaked into the management of the staff.

Always has been, IT has been resisting due to (as pointed out in the article) institutional knowledge required, but this is now going away as LLMs can efficiently and accurately write it down and search it. Meta turning ICs into data labelers is trying to make knowledge workers fungible; expect others to follow.

"Trying" being the operator.

Meta can get its Sysiphus on all it likes; whether or not genius pours forth remains to be seen.

I hope they fail obviously, but I have to respect the exponential they’re betting on.

This seems a clear enough win for things that would fit into a simple python dictionary.

Why is it preferred over <table> for laying out columns via a the character attributes at the bottom of TFA?

Family saying: "It ain't bragging if you can do it."

When one is competent to work at this level, strong opinions are in order.

Their correctness is something I cannot gage. I'm barely competent to follow the conversation.

Considering the first thing I saw in the thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244891 where the values returned from sp's sine function was compared to the correct values, I'm going to take any such opinions with a few grains of salt. Because the correct sine for the number they tested (31337 radians) is 0.3772 (0.3771522646 according to my calculator), sp's implementation returned 0.4385. That's not even close to right.

I was promised by the title that it is "high quality"

It’s still alpha

Generalizing, one can foresee a balkanized internet of niche communities fighting to discover/interact without getting hoovered up into the AI Borg.

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”--Yogi Berra

Leadership. We can spend megabytes of characters and fat piles of AI tokens, but the best leaders are those who remain humble enough for anyone to tell them safely that their prize surfboard is really a piece of drywall.

And when such negative feedback arrives, they don't get all Colonel Kilgore from "Apocalypse Now" and decide that CHARLIE DOESN'T SURF.

Contra Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the signal-to-noise ratio on the internet has been terrible.

One seriously wonders if GenX didn't manage to hit a sweet spot for technological availability ahead of everything just going to seed.

I think that largely depends on how you engage with the internet. To continue the metaphor, the internet has an absurdly high noise floor, but it’s easily filtered noise. So if you do that filtering you’re actually left with a pretty high SNR.

Theres major issues that people got really good at figuring out how to make really outsized spikey signals.

The wiring point is more subtle than that.

Consider the domestic power panel and wiring that is perfectly acceptable, but would 'splode outright if you moved it to an industrial setting and put it under an enterprise load.

Context matters.