hawkice

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by hawkice 17d ago
This writeup emphasizes the many, profound human failures that led to this, at the time, and continuing to the present day.
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by hawkice 3mo ago
And taking the labor and time of the employees is a value extracted. While there is some modest surplus I hope people get from their job (e.g. they'd do the same job for less money), that surplus of excess wages over what people would
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by hawkice 3mo ago
I think this draws too strong a line between the matrix-math core and the harness that uses it. Those harnesses undoubtedly were built with purpose and the systems fail to achieve that goal. Common usage says the the DMV can make mistakes,
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by hawkice 3mo ago
The vast majority of the value provided vs extracted, for any business, is related to consumer surplus and gross margins, as opposed to payroll.
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by hawkice 3mo ago
There exist both type I and type II errors, yes. But it's not absurdity, the South Korean Thyroid Cancer "epidemic" is one of the classic examples of the dangers of using traditional treatments on the lower-severity cases mor
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by hawkice 3mo ago
Exposing asymptomatic potential issues leads to medical care that often does not meet out standards for medical tradeoffs. Chemo is nasty, even the most minor surgery has risks. We endure the risks because we are addressing either major hea
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by hawkice 3mo ago
This couldn't possibly matter, but 5 xor 3 is 6.
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by hawkice 3mo ago
The aggressors not being the targets of the firebombing is central to the concerns here. They weren't military targets (largely).
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by hawkice 3mo ago
They have developed an LLM, so they are an AI lab, but the quality of that model suggests they're not a frontier anything.
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by hawkice 3mo ago
Confirming that saving genuinely works. Interesting stuff. Wonder if we can get trades working too.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Bananas are like transport and refrigerator maxing! It can't possibly be the literal optimum of that metric.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
The carbon in food is not captured or emitted in any coherent sense here. The crops are grown (capturing the carbon in the first place) for the purpose of feeding people -- in the same way that modern American forestry for paper is function
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by hawkice 4mo ago
I feel like this pastiche burned through whatever comedy potential it had before mid-2017.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Isn't this a Goomba fallacy? The people trying to conserve energy and the people who are using vastly more energy than before are different individuals, no singular person is contradicting their values.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
As a software engineer who has monitored LLM viability as a coding assistant, the idea that 90% of Anthropic's lifetime revenue up to the end of Q1, was in Q1 itself, seems completely realistic to me. And if every model is profitable b
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Their stated non-profit goal was to benefit all of humanity. Changing OpenAI to benefit their financial backers in a formal sense could be a loss of nearly unbounded value.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
I think you can report someone apologized, but cannot attest to their internal mental state enough to impartially report that they're sorry.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Non-profits are not the property of their donors, but of the general interest, with obligations to the public. It is part of the legal and social obligations of the legal structure of non-profits.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Yes, next Friday is not the next Friday, those two phrases are very different despite that being weird. Not endorsing this, just reporting from usage.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Perhaps this is regional? I would identify this Friday as the 15th, and next Friday as the 22nd. Next Friday always means the Friday after the next one, which I notice is insane as a matter of logic, but is the local usage I am familiar wit
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Obviously LLMs would identify as binary. (But also, low effort meanness is bad, HN strives for better in both dimensions)
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by hawkice 4mo ago
Incorrect, and mean-spirited. Come on.
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by hawkice 4mo ago
I think some comments are missing the upside of it being precisely Rust, without any new semantics. If you want lisp that compiles to machine code, Common Lisp can get reasonably efficient. The purpose of bringing Rust into it is to surface
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by hawkice 5mo ago
Cud, I think, is the thing that gets rechewed.
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by hawkice 2y ago
This article is very invested in constant mockery. As someone who just wanted to understand better, it made it a tedious read.
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by hawkice 2y ago
Unions aren't acting in the interest of the people generically, often not even the members of the union. Otherwise they wouldn't go to court to force people who don't even want to be in the union to pay dues, even when the du
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by hawkice 2y ago
It's probably also worth clarifying that workload necessarily excludes anyone who observes the Sabbath.
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by hawkice 2y ago
But image generation doesn't matter. It's a fun toy but it's not part of any professional workflow they care about, doesn't impact long term strategic goals, etc. It's literally just PR mistake they're covering
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by hawkice 2y ago
I think compact verification aware languages will be of particular interest to anyone wanting to make machine learning models write code at scale. Verification, and test generation, seem critical to the process of getting feedback from the
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by hawkice 2y ago
I mean, at least LLMs would have different text in different messages.

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