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by Calavar 9mo ago
There are multiple Python 3 interpreters written in JavaScript that were very likely included in the training data. For example [1] [2] [3] I once gave Claude (Opus 3.5) a problem that I thought was for sure too difficult for an LLM, and mu
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by Calavar 9mo ago
> If a valid alternative is to halt normal operations and present an alert box to the user saying "internal error 573 occurred. please restart the app", then that is much preferred IMO. You can do this in your panic or terminat
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by Calavar 9mo ago
Paul Graham said the same thing about Python 20 years ago [1], and back then it was true. But once a programming langauge hits mainstream, this ceases to be a good filter. [1] https://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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by Calavar 9mo ago
You're not the only one who feels that way, but IMHO it's not a valid complaint. The C++ standard says implementation defined because the weeds get very thick very quickly: - Are paths formed with forward slash or backslash? - Cas
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by Calavar 10mo ago
"inline" was always just a hint
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by Calavar 10mo ago
Quite to the contrary, I'd say this update is evidence of the inner loop being hyperoptimized! MSVC's support for musttail is hot off the press: > The [[msvc::musttail]] attribute, introduced in MSVC Build Tools version 14.50,
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by Calavar 10mo ago
Because Ruby is just a better thought out language than Python is. It had a sane package management story 15 years before Python. It doesn't rely on weird hacks like exception throwing for iterator control flow. It doesn't have ne
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by Calavar 10mo ago
Let me counter with this: Can you point out one country in the post world war era that had minimal government investment in science but had very productive scientific output? Or can you point out one country where scientific productivity in
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by Calavar 10mo ago
Reminds me of a recent story on scammers using search queries to inject their scam phone numbers into the h1 header on legitimate sites [1] [1] https://cyberinsider.com/threat-actors-inject-fake-support-n...
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by Calavar 10mo ago
I think you hit the nail on the head with the analogy to Doctor GPT, but I think you missed it with gatekeeping. I don't think it's about gatekeeping at all. A freelance developer (or a doctor) is familiar with working within a pa
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by Calavar 10mo ago
Doctors do, as required by federal law. You can look up any doctor you like: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
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by Calavar 11mo ago
Web browsers, yes. With GUIs and games, it's a less clear. Of course you can write GUIs and games in any Turing complete language but there's still a lot of work to be done in finding the right ergonomics in Rust [1, 2]. [1] ht
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by Calavar 11mo ago
Because fiddling with Windows firewall settings is a power user feature that only a fraction of a percent of users will touch. If it ever becomes more widely used, then I agree, all bets are off.
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by Calavar 11mo ago
> there are much, much larger and controversial line items in the budget to argue about than feeding the poor. For example, the 40 billion dollar bailout of the Argentine economy.
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by Calavar 11mo ago
> Something is very wrong if it takes 20+ years to field new military technologies. Is it? By what criteria? IMHO the point is to get new tech out quickly enough that you aren't falling behind other major powers in the international
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by Calavar 11mo ago
> Learning what though? When I wrote software I learn the domain, the problem space, the architecture, the requirements, etc You don't learn these things by writing code? This is genuinely interesting to me because it seems that dif
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by Calavar 11mo ago
What happens when a researcher makes a generative art model and publicly releases the weights? Anyone can download the weights and use it to turn a quick profit. Should the original research use be considered legitimate fair use? Does the l
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by Calavar 11mo ago
You were probably thinking about this piece on nondeterminism in attention by Thinking Machines: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
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by Calavar 11mo ago
Const is the reverse. Constness is infectious down the stack (the callee of a const function must be const) while asyncness is infectious up the stack (the caller of an async function must be async). So you can gradually add constness to su
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by Calavar 11mo ago
Of course it's useful, that's why function modifiers like 'const' or 'virtual' (thinking from a C++ perspective) are widely seen as useful, but making one function virtual doesn't force you to propagate th
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by Calavar 11mo ago
If you are serving web pages, you are soliciting GET requests, kind of like ordering a package is soliciting a delivery. "Taking" versus "giving" is neither here nor there for this discussion. The question is are you exp
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by Calavar 11mo ago
I agree. It always surprises me when people are indignant about scrapers ignoring robots.txt and throw around words like "theft" and "abuse." robots.txt is a polite request to please not scrape these pages because it&#x2
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by Calavar 1y ago
There are many more ways to degrade model performance than to enhance it, so I would expect the vast majority of bugs to lead to artificially reduced accuracy, not artificially increased accuracy. So if PyTorch is full of numerical flaws, t
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by Calavar 1y ago
Likely bad because the conviction will still show up in background checks. (A pardon doesn't entail expungement.) As you said, this won't be an issue for CZ because he's not going to be looking for the kinds of positions wher
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by Calavar 1y ago
Not if you're always getting the tranfusion from the same person
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by Calavar 1y ago
Apparently yes: https://abcnews.go.com/International/canadian-mans-lottery-w...
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by Calavar 1y ago
That's my understanding. Uber takes 25%, but by default that's offset by increasing the on-app price 25% relative to the in-store price, and the owner has to explicitly opt out of that behavior. So at the end of the day, they shou
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by Calavar 1y ago
Could you explain further? The restaurant gets the order at the same price, Uber adds delivery fees and a 25% markup on the cost of food. Why would these numbers not work out in the kitchen's favor? Maybe I'm missing something. Ge
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by Calavar 1y ago
America itself and the opportunity to get your foot in the door with a student visa is the prestige factor for many students - the prestige of the university is secondary. That allows a lit of third tier universities to fill their master&#x
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by Calavar 1y ago
He does say that around 5:32 in the video. He says his driver told him there were two cars on the loop that day, and the other car wasn't in service because it was being used for training.

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