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by mbernstein 6d ago
I think you need to define what solved means and what better means. Have you tried one-shotting real distributed systems problems? What was the result and how did you verify correctness?
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by mbernstein 1mo ago
Fair, but even though I don't comment often, my account is almost 15 years old. So I'd hope that at least pushes back against the spammer aspect - but ultimately, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mbernstein 1mo ago
Thanks. Glad at least a few people understood. I pulled out my copy of Martian Chronicles today (which I'm fortunate to have signed by Bradbury) when I saw this pop up on the main page.
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by mbernstein 1mo ago
I'm not a spambot - it just felt sort of poignant for today. Ultimately, doesn't bother me that it got downvoted. Created some discussion, I got maybe mistaken for a bot - so all good ;).
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by mbernstein 1mo ago
Nature won't know or care if humanity erases itself.
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by mbernstein 4mo ago
The argument for universities to be a place to learn to think critically and not learn specific skills is an even stronger value prop in an era where useful skills likely change rapidly.
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by mbernstein 4mo ago
Hiring earlier career folks isn’t about maximizing their productivity. It’s also about an influx of new ideas, different lenses to view problems, and connections to people like them, amongst a number of other reasons.
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Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking(bernste.in)
4 points by mbernstein 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mbernstein 5mo ago
This is a compute memory trade, not compression vs. turobquant? Lemma 1 is something like, "forward pass is deterministic because it's deterministic" which means the input tokens were always the lower bound...which isn't
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by mbernstein 5mo ago
They aren't - they'd have led with that. (note: I use arch and am legally obligated to tell you).
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by mbernstein 6mo ago
HN used to provide a really high signal to noise ratio for me, but it's degrading pretty quickly. There are new accounts below saying "hey I just learned what RTOS means, thanks!" I reflexively reload HN many times per day, b
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by mbernstein 6mo ago
I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.
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by mbernstein 6mo ago
Stork.JS is a really well written piece of software, though.
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by mbernstein 6mo ago
Short answer: yes. Longer answer: About 10 years I moved into leadership roles (VP Eng) and while I continued to write code for POCs, it hasn't been my primary role for quite some time. DDIA has been a book I pull out often when guidin
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by mbernstein 6mo ago
There's almost no shot to get hand authored posts some views (I tried with one of mine recently). I felt like I submitted it and a moment later there were like 20 new very obviously AI generated posts ahead of it.
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by mbernstein 7mo ago
Shameless plug - I sort of eluded in this post I wrote about Dark Factories generally and about rust being better than Go for building software (not just agents) with AI - but I think something generally important is feedback loops. While n
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The unreasonable effectiveness of external feedback loops(bernste.in)
4 points by mbernstein 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mbernstein 1y ago
Do they? So far I haven’t found anything that matches battery life, build quality, or trackpad quality.
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by mbernstein 1y ago
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by mbernstein 2y ago
These are terrible examples that don't prove a single thing. Babel, Webpack, and React all used leftpad as dependencies. Blaming someone for using an Apache project is absurd. Here's my pointless randomly made up on the spot anecd
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by mbernstein 2y ago
I just did a pass with some replacements with o1 and it very much still recognized it as the Einstein riddle and actually seems to have cheated a bit :) "Revisiting assumptions Considering "Camels" might be a mistake for &quo
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by mbernstein 2y ago
At least per Github, the TabbyML project is older than the TabbyAPI project.
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by mbernstein 2y ago
I remember that class - it was just between recess and lunch!
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by mbernstein 2y ago
Is your customer bringing you the solution to the problem or the problem and asking you to solve the problem? One is a translation activity and the other isn't.
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by mbernstein 2y ago
Not outsourcing at all - you're are an engineer using the tools that make sense to solve a problem. The core issue with identifying as just a coder is that code is just one of many potential tools to solve a problem.
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by mbernstein 2y ago
> Seriously scaling nuclear would involve batteries. Nuclear has issues being cost effective at 80+% capacity factors. I assume you mean that sub 80% capacity nuclear has issues being cost effective (which I agree is true). You could pai
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by mbernstein 2y ago
When talking to my parents, I hear a lot about Jane Fonda and the China Syndrome as far as the fears of nuclear power. She's made the same baseless argument for a long time: "Nuclear power is slow, expensive — and wildly dangerous
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by mbernstein 2y ago
History is a great reference, but it doesn't solve our problems now. Just because hydro has prevented more CO2 until now doesn't mean that plus solar are the combination that delivers abundant, clean energy. There are power storag
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by mbernstein 2y ago
Of course not.
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by mbernstein 2y ago
Nuclear power adoption is the largest force to combat climate change.

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