HALtheWise

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by HALtheWise 3y ago
I'm curious to see people's lists of possible "up and coming" or "near future" additions to this list. Off the top of my head: - Self driving cars, probably attributed to Sebastian Thrun. ~1.4 million people di
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
My current rules for tipping is that I'll tip when all three of the following are true: - The quality of the service I came to get is significantly impacted by a single employee - That employee is the one receiving the tip - I am onl
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
I don't see enough discussion of the fact that LLMs are actually trained with two losses: text prediction and a regularization loss of some sort that effectively encourages the network to use "simple" internal structure. That
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
2 because flying is much safer than driving, so people's fear of flying probably causes more deaths than actual aviation accidents.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Definitely nitpicking here, but for a modern pipelined CPU there's already lots of components of the die that aren't designed to be able to exchange data within a single clock. I don't see what would be fundamentally differen
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
I spouted this line for a long time, but was recently corrected by commenters pointing out that 2-3 occupancy electric cars actually beat the vast majority of subways and trains in practice, because you don't need to accelerate and dec
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Constant HD video logging of everything going on inside and outside the car doesn't eliminate these issues, but it should do a lot to minimize them. If you're looking to do stagecoach robbery, I'm not sure why you'd pi
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Does anyone know whether Bluesky has committed to allowing non-US users to share content with each other that's legal under their local laws, but not allowed under US laws? The proposal outlined here seems like it _ought_ to support th
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
> GitHub Copilot [for business] transmits snippets of your code from your IDE to GitHub to provide Suggestions to you. Code snippets data is only transmitted in real-time to return Suggestions, and is discarded once a Suggestion is retur
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Yep! Most microcontrollers will sustain permanent damage if you short an output pin for any significant time. You could probably design a microcontroller that didn't do this, but it would require putting a big resistor in line with the
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Trying to engage with your point with a straight face: I strongly oppose this because I personally experienced both public schools and a selective university, and I strongly doubt that it's possible to retain most of the good elements
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
If cache eviction and I/O usage are limiting, perhaps a better way to design this system is as a cluster management system that can very quickly change the number of cores allocated to foreground vs background tasks (within less than
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Good points. For security concerns, you would probably be selective about which services and workloads you move to cloud compute, possibly preferring to offload internal services like CI before customer data. Regarding cost, are you implyin
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
I don't think you understood what I was suggesting here, I'm referring to the load balancing system not auto scaling. Imagine a cluster with two nodes, that gets three requests. A round robin load balancer will distribute the firs
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
I was assuming that it's option 2 (you can spin up new workers within 10 days). If you're using cloud compute this is almost always true. If you're building an on-prem cluster, I'm assuming you either spin up cloud worke
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
While I generally agree that the pattern this article describes is real (there's some degree of tradeoff between robustness and efficiency), I've frequently seen engineers fall back on that logic rather than actually thinking ab
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
This project has some of the most satisfying deep yak shaves of any hobby project I know, to the point of writing a custom kernel, JIT compiler, and CPU fault emulator. > Most people would not take on a task of writing a just-in-time tra
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
BRING headphones
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Does anyone know of people or companies trying to work on technical solutions to make it easier to do this sort of conversion? For example, the problem of centralized plumbing seems like it could be ameliorated significantly with a small-sc
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Most technologies aren't races(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
How expensive would it be to perform an airport-style x-ray scan of every box (over some price) before it's shipped out, and when it's returned? That would give the customer support agent something to look at when judging somebody
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Nvidia's Denver ARM CPUs do the same thing
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Thanks
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Thanks for explaining, from a user perspective the best thing to do is definitely graceful recovery, but bugs like this highlight that there's value to the ecosystem in failing loudly whenever anything is out of spec. The appropria
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
This would have been avoided if the PNG format (or at least one commonly used editor) required that the data filled the whole file, or rendered extra junk when there was extra data at the end.
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
The API was (accidentally?) changed long before the Android tool was written, if I understand correctly. Depending on your point of view, that means it's either a poorly designed and documented API, an incorrect API that doesn't m
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
This gets brought up a lot, but in (all? most?) US states the additional state and local funding that goes to low-income schools more that makes up for the decreased local property tax revenue. That manifests as a negative correlation bet
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
One other (bad) option is raising the retirement age or lowering the start-work age.
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
I'm not sure what sort of smart meter integration is required to make this happen, but it would be sweet if the electric car could ramp down or pause it's charging near-instantly when the induction stove or AC kicks on, since thos
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by HALtheWise 4y ago
Nitpicking, but I think people here often don't think clearly about the value of expecting Constitution-inspired behaviors from non-government organizations. This frequently comes up when discussing free speech on moderated online plat

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