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by achierius 2y ago
What actually constitutes a "well-constructed anonymous email setup"? From my understanding I'd expect that with 'NSA-level analysis' that things like fingerprints from creation/usage would show up, making it r
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by achierius 2y ago
Diversifying to what? When AI can fully replace senior developers the world as we know it is over. Best case capitalism enters terminal decline: buy rifles. Worst case, hope that whatever comes out the either side is either benevolent or im
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by achierius 2y ago
These are API calls to a remote server. We don't have the option of scaling up or even measuring the compute they use to run them, so for better or worse the server cluster has to be measured as part of their model service offering.
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by achierius 2y ago
Not everyone has the same experience with the replaceability of their job role as you do. I've tried pretty hard and it just doesn't work for me. Admittedly I'm in compilers which makes it a bit harder, but just in general th
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by achierius 2y ago
>Mauryan empire a little under 1.5 centuries. By comparison, east india company rule lasted a century and the British crown's rule less than that This is a very dishonest way to obscure the actual facts. Direct rule from Britain las
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by achierius 2y ago
>support npc roles This might sound trite, but are your parents "replaceable"? Even in a strict mechanistic sense, even a "baseline" parent possesses innumerable qualities that we have absolutely no clue how to build
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by achierius 2y ago
"if there's a market for it" is a big weasel phrase. It lets you ascribe fault not to the system, but to the people who 'chose' to live in such a non-marketable way. Even if we accept that: what would you have those
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by achierius 2y ago
This still isn't quite correct. Back in the day parsing was a much larger portion of the complexity of a compiler: performance was much more of a concern, as was memory usage. Parser generators were an attempt at helping with that, by
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by achierius 2y ago
Microsoft gave up on maintaining their own browser engine (Trident) almost a decade ago, and therefore are now dependent on Chrome's engine (Blink). Since then there have only been three independent browser engines: WebKit (Safari), Ge
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by achierius 2y ago
What he meant was that the USA can't levy income tax on non-citizens living in other countries.
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by achierius 2y ago
Frankly the fact that you expect everyone who lived around you to just up and reskill shows that even if you lived there, you did not understand the people you lived with. People are limited, flawed, and 50% of them are below average in mos
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by achierius 2y ago
Didn't they?
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by achierius 2y ago
The Skaldic Bard has a (non- historical, but openly so -- his shtick is composing songs in various dead languages) cool song themed on this fun fragment of history. https://youtu.be/1TKbQRwcLm0
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by achierius 2y ago
Fin-Fet was intel, and that was just 12 years ago. Sure they dropped the ball after that but it was a rather quick fall from grace.
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by achierius 2y ago
This seems like a nonsensical position. Computer vision models have not replaced every piece of code -- there's still harness, formatting, even old-fashioned classical vision processing that goes on both before and after the model runs
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by achierius 2y ago
Yes, miscalibrated -- a TC of $150k would be low for a FAANG company, unless you're just talking about entry level pay. Once you're a year or two in, $200k+ is typical.
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by achierius 2y ago
A prompt is just a specification for an output. Code is just what we call a sufficiently detailed specification.
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by achierius 2y ago
One problem with Wasm is that in practice there's not as much optimization work to do as you might expect, as the higher-level compiler which produced it already di a lot of the work. Of course you still need to lower the stack machine
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by achierius 2y ago
Problem is, people aren't machines either: someone who's getting bombarded with phishing requests will begin to lose it, and will be more likely to just turn off their Wi-Fi than allow an AI to run a hundred iterations of a many-a
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by achierius 2y ago
I don't think he's saying that AGI is impossible — almost noone (nowadays) would suggest that it's anything but an engineering challenge. The argument is simply one of scale, i.e. how long that engineering challenge will take
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by achierius 2y ago
Someone does, in fact, have to implement everything underneath that `import` call, and that work is _very_ hard to do for things that don't closely match Nvidia's SIMT architecture. There's a reason people don't like usi
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by achierius 3y ago
Perhaps a better phrase to have used would have been "not prior to a complex system" -- as the lump of plutonium exists only because of a complex system doing its thing, it should be considered a consequence of the complex system
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by achierius 3y ago
I think Occam's razor would have something to say about the relative likelihood of those two options.
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by achierius 3y ago
Thinking further on the analogy, yeah it's better than nothing but I would _not_ recommend people leave Ebola in a glass jar in their kitchen. What if someone accidentally knocks it over, cutting themselves on a shard while doing so? W
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by achierius 3y ago
In my experience profilers often need SYS_ADMIN or other capabilities. This is true even outside of a container. If I'm forced to work inside a container without the ability to add that cap, performance optimization work becomes very d
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by achierius 3y ago
But these caps aren't extraordinary — in particular I find often that using profilers and the like often requires them. E.g. the manual for Nvidia Nsight specifically tells you to add SYS_ADMIN, which as we see here breaks the seal. Er
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by achierius 3y ago
To pose an alternative scenario: > A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [be able to run some tool/software that says it needs this, but is in fact secretly malicious] or perhaps more common > A novice sysadmin gra
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by achierius 3y ago
The conservatives who run Portland and Oregon?
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by achierius 3y ago
Are you a graphics programmer, or are you just saying this because that's true in the CPU world (where you have experience)? From both my own and my colleagues' experiences, I would 100% disagree: the nature of GPU architectures m