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by jldugger 6d ago
Part of the secret explained elsewhere on this HN post is that the OP is selecting values that all collide. Most hash tables handle collisions with linked lists that would be linear insert. It's O(1) average case but O(n) if you pull a
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by jldugger 6d ago
> What do I need 8 HDMI cables for 5 for five generations of consoles into the same TV 1 for the audio bar 1 for the hdmi switch to the tv 1 for a laptop when nothing else works
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by jldugger 6d ago
Uh, what is going on with this benchmark? Why is M so big? Why does it cross the maxint boundary? Why is constructing the list comprehension part of the benchmark? Why are we summing the set? Why are we only measuring 5 values for n?
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by jldugger 7d ago
Congratulations on your self promotion into management.
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by jldugger 10d ago
A long time ago, I took a "statistics for engineers" class in order to graduate. I slept through most of the classes. It sucked, and 70 percent of it was just "distribution of the week." It did not help that homework was
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by jldugger 14d ago
OpenAI's entire pitch for existence is: > We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate p
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by jldugger 14d ago
Apparently they read the ExploitGym paper[1], which claims to have a causal analysis requirement: > Success. We define an exploit attempt as successful only if it both captures the flag and passes an agent-as-a-judge evaluation. The judg
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by jldugger 15d ago
The conclusion is faulty given that it was derived from faulty data. The 2002 paper had two pilot studies and 2 bigger studies. The replication of study 2 failed[1], and the original data has substantial concerning features the rest of the
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by jldugger 16d ago
And 2017 was _late_ in their pivot. They'd been active for much, much longer. Last winter break I sat down to watch every GTC keynote, going back to 2009[1]. Even then, he's talking about expanding to non-graphics workloads. Googl
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by jldugger 27d ago
It's certainly someone's dream: https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan
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by jldugger 27d ago
I mean, there are many unserious engineers in corporate America.
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by jldugger 27d ago
You know, when I see the phrase "CIA funding" I expect something like "the CIA put a backdoor in NeXT computers destined for Hungary" or something, not "NeXT made computers and the CIA bought and used them."
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by jldugger 29d ago
I think I'm missing a _lot_ of context here. Obviously management consultants are sycophantic but why post this now?
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by jldugger 29d ago
> I don't understand the distinction you are making. 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing > According to the one-count charge filed in San Francisco's federal court on
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by jldugger 1mo ago
OP's link: > Now the researchers have addressed this issue by having both the self-improving agent and the evaluator evolve together. and your quote: > This particular paper is about co-evolving predator and prey, where the behav
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by jldugger 1mo ago
Ah, TIL. I knew prevailing wages were higher locally but was surprised to see it hit $20. Now I guess I know why.
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by jldugger 1mo ago
> When I was young it was common for a McDonalds to have 10+ employees working the lunch rush, ... > Now I go and it's 3, sometimes 2 employees. The one I went to last week had a banner advertising a $20/hr starting wage. Cl
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by jldugger 1mo ago
> Hard working people tend to know other hard working people. ... Hard working people get more done. Getting promoted at a FAANG is like a micro-effect. One percent of one percent of one percent. Generalizing our experience to 72 million
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by jldugger 1mo ago
I think the difference is that Goodhart's law describes how the causal chain _changes_ as a result of management behavior, and in particular the incentives they design for the labor they manage. Incentives are a causal variable for out
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by jldugger 2mo ago
True, I guess I just presume someone blogging about it has more than average insights on the subject, and the bar further raised by posting to HN. They do get to somewhere interesting by the end, I just had to scroll past a lot of basics.
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by jldugger 2mo ago
It's little surprising that the author was doing perf work and not already comparing distributions. As the rest of the article outlines, you learn a lot more with more data! It's complicated, but really worth learning how promethe
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by jldugger 2mo ago
The gpus not the models silly
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by jldugger 2mo ago
> And I'm also standing by my own idea that AI will run out of money and just be turned off due to the huge operational cost. Thats a pretty strong outcome. It implies that not only are GPUs that power AI too expensive long term, bu
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by jldugger 2mo ago
> Plus, electricity costs money while the sun is free. Paradoxically, wholesale electric costs are negative during the day here in California[1], especially in the Salinas region. In theory you could get paid to tumble dry clothes. [1]:
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by jldugger 2mo ago
It's true that markets are more _adversarial_. But there's still a lot of trouble with distribution shifts even in server metrics. As an example, our SRE team got paged a few times in the past month for traffic drops due to the Wo
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by jldugger 2mo ago
Apparently not given how many comments in opposition I got.
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by jldugger 2mo ago
The difference is that vacuuming seven times as often can compensate for a less effective process. Folding 7 times doesn't eliminate wrinkles.
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by jldugger 2mo ago
> You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? Did you watch it actually fold that shirt? Super slow and bad at it.
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by jldugger 2mo ago
The linked paper suggests brain sizes were only measured once at visit 5.
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by jldugger 2mo ago
After the third !, the probability of a fourth probably skyrockets =)

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