sethev

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by sethev 19d ago
Crows are fascinating creatures. My wife read that they will chase hawks and eagles away, so she started putting food out for the crows near the tree where they gather (we have chickens and ducks that we don't want the hawks near). Now
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by sethev 1mo ago
This immediately reminded me of the Hutter Prize ( http://prize.hutter1.net/ ) - a contest that has run since 2005(?) based on the premise that compression is closely related to intelligence.
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by sethev 1mo ago
I'm just guessing but observability is often looking at small slices of hot data and then there's a vast set of cold data that is occasionally needed. Sounds like NVMe is for the hot data cache and object storage is for cold data.
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by sethev 2mo ago
Yes, agree. These are very sane defaults and match what I use..
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by sethev 2mo ago
Interesting idea - I like seeing a list of pet-peeves followed by a proposal for a straightforward way to have a set of 'alternative defaults' that remains backwards compatible. If you don't want to opt in, don't run the
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by sethev 2mo ago
I don't think it's a knock on the original prediction to say it didn't turn out to be true. In fact, at the time it probably felt like a pretty conservative prediction. That being said, if you think back to the year 2000, we
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by sethev 2mo ago
So true. Where do people think agents learned to write slop?!
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by sethev 2mo ago
it said recognizable, and I recognize this :)
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by sethev 3mo ago
Right - but the big difference is that the received wisdom for healthcare is that the higher cost in the US is an unfathomable mystery and/or due to "waste". If you said "writing software is more expensive in the US beca
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by sethev 3mo ago
I'm actually making a very simple point. You said most of Jeff Bezos wealth is imaginary / not real. But he's proven that he can turn it into cash at a rate of at least $1B per year. And again, he only owns 9% of Amazon. Of c
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by sethev 3mo ago
Without making any value judgement, there’s a very clear distinction between earning wages as compensation for labor (even very high wages) and increasing your net worth through ownership of a company. That’s a valid distinction no matter h
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by sethev 3mo ago
You're not even staying consistent in your own replies in this one comment. Let me boil it down: are the 11,000 people who earn their salary at Blue Origin getting real money or not? My point is has nothing to do with despising blue or
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by sethev 3mo ago
By legislation and policymaking - just like any other numbers we as a society end up picking (like the age to get a drivers license or buy alcohol or the income tax brackets). Just like those cases, what other countries are doing would most
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by sethev 3mo ago
Dollars are the way we denominate wealth - no one who understands this thinks that these numbers represent cash that they hold. But that's a far cry from it being imaginary. This seems to come up on every thread like this. Owning 9% of
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by sethev 4mo ago
Thread was a poor choice of word. Outside the control of the program is a better way to put it. Like memory mapped io.
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by sethev 4mo ago
I wonder if it’s just the colorful metaphors and an opportunity to bring out examples of surprising behavior. Plus it’s a topic that can always stir up debates.
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by sethev 4mo ago
Yes, there is a data race there. The value of a volatile can be changed by something outside the current thread. That’s what volatile means and why it exists. Edit: thread=thread of execution. I’m not making a point about thread safety with
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by sethev 4mo ago
The Hard Problem strikes me as a "why" question and humans have a poor track record of ever answering a "why" for a foundational question (at least in a way that we can demonstrate to others). Our most successful explana
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by sethev 4mo ago
Right - I mean, what you're describing makes sense, but it doesn't sound like what they're describing. Their benchmarks are running on an EC2 instance and the post's author is here saying that they run on virtualized har
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by sethev 4mo ago
This seems sketchy. O_DIRECT skips the operating system's page cache, it does not guarantee that the SSD driver sent the data to the SSD or issued a flush to the drive itself. The data could still be in the driver's memory or the
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by sethev 5mo ago
It's fascinating to read the perspective of someone seeing X-files as a show from before their time. The clunky phones in the show, for example, were actually advanced technology that most of us had never seen in real life. The closest
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by sethev 5mo ago
Not sure that disproves the point :) Most people have never been anywhere close to competing with the top 6 athletes at a high school with ~2k students.
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by sethev 5mo ago
More power to them for re-visiting this, but agree with you: > The old model assumed one person, one branch, one terminal, one linear flow. That sounds exactly like the pre-git model that git solved..
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by sethev 5mo ago
It's kind of an aside in the post, but connecting LLMs and Searle's Chinese Room argument is a brilliant observation. Although there are people who believe LLMs are really thinking, it's mostly confirming that the Turing test
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by sethev 5mo ago
I don't doubt that number, but it's always a bit baffling to look at the median income in expensive cities. New York city's median household income is $87k, which means that the majority of households are well below the incom
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by sethev 6mo ago
Of course they’re paraphrases. And since when does 37 warrant constantly mentioning how old you are?
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by sethev 6mo ago
I apologize for not quoting you directly “Then go get some!”. That’s what you said in response to there being no evidence. Would you like a link to your comment?
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by sethev 6mo ago
I worked at a company once that posted h-1b jobs on a piece of paper on a board next to a restroom at the office. That was technically a publicly accessible area (if you had a guest pass).
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by sethev 6mo ago
You're the one in this thread claiming people are responsible for "going and finding the evidence" of other people's unsourced claims. You could have just not replied since you didn't have something to contribute.
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by sethev 6mo ago
IMHO, people making claims should provide the evidence for them. One link is behind a paywall and the other clearly states that it is making informed speculations. I could make all sorts of claims on the spot here. It doesn't create a

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