sweetjuly

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by sweetjuly 3d ago
There's a bit of convention and practicality The only thing you really need is that your "fatal error" instruction and "syscall" instruction can be reasonably discriminated without needing to set registers at the
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by sweetjuly 11d ago
I do really wonder what it would be like to learn to program for the first time with OCaml. I remember learning to use OCaml in a properly functional way after so long writing code in C and it was really miserably painful trying to change h
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by sweetjuly 17d ago
I don't think you're giving ARM credit for the ever growing pile of features which are always optional or optional only on some versions of the ISA. For example, can you use FEAT_CSSC to improve code size and performance? Well, if
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by sweetjuly 26d ago
It's complicated. > Courts have generally found that compelling individuals to provide their numeric or alphanumeric passcode is potentially testimonial under the Fifth Amendment, as it forces the defendant to reveal “the contents o
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by sweetjuly 26d ago
One must imagine punching the wall feels good (in the moment)
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by sweetjuly 26d ago
I don't think it's a matter of "staying ahead"; the proprietary frontier models are better, but the trouble for them is that open weight models are good enough in increasingly many cases. This raises the floor on the
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by sweetjuly 1mo ago
Yes, this is why a warrant is required to access carrier location data for a phone but one is not required to have a police officer physically following you around town despite the outcome (the police get a trace of your location) being the
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by sweetjuly 1mo ago
I worry that all this talk about "China can't be allowed to beat the West on LLMs" is a setup to saddle the public with a bailout in the name of national security.
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
When has enforceability ever been a concern of the government? This is the same government that had anti-sodomy laws on the books until the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 2003 . Making it illegal even without having a realistic
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
DCA is not unreasonable advice given that most people's greatest enemy is themselves. DCA helps avoid the very emotionally upsetting feeling of you throwing money into a fund and it dropping 5% the next day. This emotional volatility c
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
there was also a small trend a while ago of using it to bracket tongue and cheek/sarcastic phrases, for example: > setting your computer on fire for (sparkle) self care (sparkle)
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
Always a delight seeing Chisel in the wild :)
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
The trick is antitrust style bundling. The massive pile of documents and processes tied to GSuite is a moat which makes it hard to switch to something like o365. Since a company might effectively be locked into GSuite (the primary product),
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
Psychology in general tends to make the same distinction. There are lots of behaviors which may be considered abnormal but do not have a meaningful impact on the quality of life of the person or those around them, and so there little reason
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by sweetjuly 2mo ago
I think what you're really getting at is that it's only useful if the benchmarks are predictive of your workloads. If it predicts well (for example, your tasks are equally easy), then the fact that a larger model can complete it m
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by sweetjuly 3mo ago
I remember reading this blog post when it was first published, but the subsequent updates are better than I would've ever expected this to turn out. Worth checking it out again if you've seen it before :)
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by sweetjuly 3mo ago
I would hope this is true both in the context of LLMs and more broadly, but I think this is especially not the case for LLMs. It's hard to take the idea that companies are trying to hire people with reservations about LLMs seriously wh
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by sweetjuly 3mo ago
Are you going to ask your employees for their 2% cashback if you reimburse them for a purchase they made with their credit card too? At the end of the day, it seems more practical to focus on ensuring that they picked the appropriate value
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by sweetjuly 3mo ago
Is what you suggest about training even possible? Most exploitation techniques are really just about having in-depth knowledge of how components work. For example, I imagine a sufficiently powerful model could fairly easily re-invent the RO
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by sweetjuly 4mo ago
Is interactive use for coding something that actually works today? With unsafe mode, even frontier hosted models are slow enough I end up just tabbing out to work on other tasks. It would need to be much faster if I am to sit and stare at i
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by sweetjuly 4mo ago
Reading this thread, I'm starting to think that I did not fall out of a coconut tree and that I exist in the context of all in which I live and what came before me.
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by sweetjuly 4mo ago
As time goes on, I am beginning to wonder if sometimes the failure codes are good exits. Some tasks should not be done.
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by sweetjuly 5mo ago
Another trick is that people are usually nicer to you if you talk to them after having gone to the same place at the same time for a while. If you smile and waive at them a few times before you go and talk to them, you've built a bit o
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by sweetjuly 5mo ago
>The ergonomics of using a laptop on an economy-class tray table are not worth it. You're sitting there like a T-rex The trick I've found is to pack a bluetooth keyboard. If you put your laptop on the tray table, you can put th
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by sweetjuly 5mo ago
>If they are implemented as a "rendez-vous" absolute date Do people actually do that? What's the plan for when the user sleeps their machine? All the events just inexplicably happen all at once when they wake it?
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by sweetjuly 5mo ago
esc once interrupts the LLM, double-esc lets you revert to a previous state (interrupt harder).
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by sweetjuly 5mo ago
I wonder how much of the cost is coming from the cache misses vs the more frequent indirections/ILP drop? For example, I wonder what this test looks like if you don't randomize the chunks but instead just have the chunks in work o
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by sweetjuly 6mo ago
What's the concern? Harness tends to be fairly common in the context of "shim program which manages some other program" (see: "test harness", "fuzzing harness", etc.)
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by sweetjuly 6mo ago
This has also been a common theme in recent decades with respect to privacy. In the US, the police do not generally need a warrant to tail you as you go around town, but it is phenomenally expensive and difficult to do so. Cellphone locatio
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by sweetjuly 7mo ago
Does it have the same issue with key repeat? It's a long standing iOS bug, but some apps seem to fix it (somehow). Without the fix, vim ends up being essentially unusable since I can't press and hold on the cursor movement keys. i

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