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Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires(danluu.com)
2 points by yosefk 29d ago|0 comments
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by yosefk 1mo ago
Uber reported that their Go code has quantitatively more concurrency bugs than code in other languages, and while to me it seems obvious from looking at Go's concurrency model, this is backed by actual data. Is there any quantitative d
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by yosefk 1mo ago
Bush knew what he was doing - Hamas has the influence it has because the US wants it to have it. When Trump decided he wants them to release Israeli hostages he forced them to do it rather quickly, all things considered, showing who really
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Currently these models have a limited context window, so the value of a session is not that high, at any rate at some point the model will have forgotten things. If in the future the model will truly learn / "change" as a res
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by yosefk 2mo ago
I'm able to see how it's safer than Rust but what I like is that it works with existing C++ code; I don't think the extra safety relative to Rust is worth the performance penalty (not to mention needing to recompile every dep
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by yosefk 2mo ago
I think Fil-C is awesome and I very much like the style in which you present your work as well. (Hope I'm not being too emotional here!) FWIW, I can see where TFA is coming from and I had the urge to write something "in defense of
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Too cheap, charge 3x more at least
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by yosefk 3mo ago
Certainly puts "good" into perspective
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by yosefk 3mo ago
The Ukraine of China is more like it
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by yosefk 4mo ago
Flush denormals to zero. Even their inventor had trouble writing correct code in their presence - see the Appendix to that "what every programmer should know..." paper
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by yosefk 4mo ago
Indeed you're supposed to, but that way if someone calls exit(0), it looks like the program worked fine, when in fact they committed some debug code and made the program no longer run to completion. "Yay, done" was put in for
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by yosefk 6mo ago
While we're at it, when did central banks start to buy lots of gold and under which POTUS? Could it have something to do with the freezing of hundreds of billions of some sovereign assets?
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by yosefk 6mo ago
What produces this Iranian "mercy" at a time when Iran is extensively bombed, if not a combination of defensive and offensive capabilities providing escalation dominance?
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by yosefk 6mo ago
The optimal age to have children is way before you need to rely on frozen eggs (one reason among many being that this process doesn't always work)
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by yosefk 7mo ago
Coding is a solved problem. Problems with the code - these are far from solved, in fact they're multiplying, but coding is definitely solved
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by yosefk 7mo ago
Seems like a case of snobbery on behalf of these people. These are nice images but not "high art" which I guess prompts some people to scoff at them
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by yosefk 7mo ago
"Ironically, among the four stages, the compiler (translation to assembly) is the most approachable one for an AI to build. It is mostly about pattern matching and rule application: take C constructs and map them to assembly patterns.
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by yosefk 7mo ago
Thank you very much for your work. I think people envious of someone's compensation don't deserve a response
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by yosefk 8mo ago
"Also, it [Claude Code] flickers" - it does, doesn't it? Why?.. Did it vibe code itself so badly that this is hopeless to fix?..
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by yosefk 8mo ago
The list of the oil producers listed and omitted on a given forum in these contexts is always interesting. On HN it is often SA or Russia, and almost never Qatar or Iran.
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by yosefk 8mo ago
How dare you question the rigor of the venerable LLM peer review process! These are some of the most esteemed LLMs we are talking about here.
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by yosefk 8mo ago
std::move is definitely for there for optimizing application code and is often used there. another silly thing you often see is people allocating something with a big sizeof on the stack and then std::moving it to the heap, as if it saves t
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by yosefk 8mo ago
TFA explains how std::move is tricky to use and this is not a feature reserved for library writers
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by yosefk 9mo ago
You could say the same things about assemblers, compilers, garbage collection, higher level languages etc. In practice the effect has always been an increase in the height of a mountain of software that can be made before development grinds
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What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation(danluu.com)
3 points by yosefk 9mo ago|0 comments
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by yosefk 9mo ago
Rust HashSets are HashMaps with an empty type as the value type, but the compiler actually optimizes away the storage for the keys based on the type being empty. Go doesn't bother to either define a set type like most languages do, or
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by yosefk 9mo ago
The Chinese are ahead at too many things at this point to think they're only good at copying
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by yosefk 9mo ago
"Why, then, are the reconstructions so ugly? One factor may be that the specialists who execute them lack the skill of classical artists, who had many years of training in a great tradition." Has he ever met people doing this stuf
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by yosefk 10mo ago
I am very impressed with the kind of things people pull out of Claude's жопа but can't see such opportunities in my own work. Is success mostly the result of it being able to test its output reliably, and of how easy it is to set
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by yosefk 10mo ago
"AI systems exist to reinforce and strengthen existing structures of power and violence." I still can barely believe a human being could write this, though we have all read this sort of sentence countless times. Which "struct

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