yathaid

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by yathaid 2mo ago
>> There are also performance characteristics that are part of an informal spec. They are not informal AFAIK - https://github.com/PGPerfFarm . A lot of these heavy duty OS projects have explicit Perf testing/nighl
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by yathaid 2mo ago
I am not saying anything about the viability of that particular project; just that one argument that was repeatedly made in that thread which I think is frankly nuts.
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by yathaid 2mo ago
>> Decades of intrinsic knowledge. Which a rewrite lacks. You mean the ones encoded in the regression suite? I think your argument is valid in many medium-to-faang firms where the application is going to have encoded business logic th
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by yathaid 2mo ago
I like your fair-mindedness but for folks who are anti-LLM-anything, your argument is not the point. Evidence: see the amount of nonsense in the postgres rewritten in Rust story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884167
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by yathaid 3mo ago
You cannot access Fable because Anthropic can't reliably tell whether you are a US citizen. The govt order is based on export controls to non-US citizens. You can already imagine Anthropic working with a bunch of shady brokers to &quot
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by yathaid 4mo ago
Corey Quinn's PR for making Route53 a backend for this - https://github.com/ExtendDB/extenddb/pull/54 Please do read the full PR, it is informative and funny!
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by yathaid 8mo ago
Slightly off topic but: >> My workflows involve opening and closing up to hundreds of terminal or tmux tabs a day. What?!?
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by yathaid 10mo ago
>> No matter how well “AI” works, it has some deeply fundamental problems, that won’t go away with technical progress. Without an explanation of what they author is calling out as flaws, it is hard to take this article seriously. I kn
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by yathaid 11mo ago
Nobody performs as the CEO until they are given the CEO title. If the Peter principle was true 100% of the time, we wouldn't have any successful CEOs ever. Which is clearly not the case.
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by yathaid 11mo ago
A part of the job is only enabled when you get the Principal label. Unlike almost all other transitions, you only prove that you can do the role when given the opportunities. The hardest part about this transition is that you are doing two
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by yathaid 1y ago
>> Those are choices. If you want to do that, you need a process that can support it. __need__ is doing a lot of work here. There is no forcing function to get OEMs to do this ASAP: 1) the market doesn't really care that much 2)
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by yathaid 1y ago
This is a feature, not a bug.
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by yathaid 1y ago
>> a good design good is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The point of TLA+/Pluscal is to have a proof of the soundness of the design.
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by yathaid 1y ago
There is a long tradition in India, which started with oral transmission of the Vedas, of parallel cognition. It is almost an art form or a mental sport - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhanam
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by yathaid 1y ago
> Obsidian charges $8 a month to access the same notes across multiple devices. While not a huge amount for such a useful app, it adds up to an eye-watering amount - almost $1,000 if I planned to use Obsidian for a decade. This highlight
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by yathaid 1y ago
This is super cool! The GIFs showing the object being built are just yummy; I have no other way to describe it. If anyone else was searching for the dataset, it is at https://huggingface.co/datasets/AvaLovelace/Sta
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by yathaid 1y ago
>> Stealing deprives someone of something Yes. In this case, it is the artist's sole right to reproduce said images, based on their creative output. >> decreases scarcity, it doesn't increase it What does scarcity have
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by yathaid 1y ago
The Trump admin has shown the same attitude as the Biden admin when it comes to mergers. So why do they think the merger will go through this time?
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by yathaid 2y ago
Federal agencies pay over $65 billion to consultants each year. 98% of Booz Allen's revenues (~$11 billion) is from government consulting. I don't know what the threshold for "extreme waste" for you is, but that is a hel
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by yathaid 2y ago
Painful to read. I have had similar conversations with my own father, though nothing quite extreme. There is no moving them from their warped reality. I have theorized some root causes: - They cannot differentiate between well-meaning frien
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by yathaid 2y ago
Thanks for replying, hope it wasn't too critical. >> But in the limit of tokens generated, the chance that they generate the correct answer still decays to zero. I don't understand this assertion though. Lecun's thesis
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by yathaid 2y ago
>> But the limiting behavior remains the same: eventually, if we continue generating from a language model, the probability that we get the answer we want still goes to zero In the previous paragraph, the author makes the case for why
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by yathaid 2y ago
Does his accuracy take a sudden precipitous fall when going from multiplying two three-digit numbers to two four-digit numbers?
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by yathaid 2y ago
As a software engineer, this post resonates with me. But, you can find this attitude pervading the whole linux desktop ecosystem. This post may as well be titled "Why it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop".
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by yathaid 2y ago
Neural networks can encode any computable function. KANs have no advantage in terms of computability. Why are they a promising pathway? Also, the splines in KANs are no more "explainable" than the matrix weights. Sure, we can assi
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by yathaid 2y ago
I am not sure it is useful to bring in something as nebulous as "intelligence" and hand wave everything else away, unless you are going to tightly define what intelligence means. There are only two objective measurements needed: -
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by yathaid 2y ago
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by yathaid 2y ago
Can someone ELI5 what is the blockchain part of this? i.e. what emergent behaviors can it unlock that a DB will not. I tried reading what redstone blockchain was but I cannot make heads or tails out of this: >> Redstone is a chain bui
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by yathaid 2y ago
From the article: >> On Monday, Wood told Brinkema that Google intentionally put itself in this position to "manipulate the rules of ad auctions to its own benefit," The Washington Post reported. A better way to understand t
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by yathaid 2y ago
What you are getting at is that for a single person, the chance of going bankrupt is high but for a population ensemble, the average wealth increases. This is absolutely true. All it takes is to understand that for the single person, the mo

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