andrewla

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by andrewla 2y ago
I read the article waiting for an answer to the question "in what operational sense does this matter?" but it never arrived. The question posed is whether we consider mitochondria to be "alive". It's just a word, wh
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by andrewla 2y ago
I guess there's just a disconnect here. Threatening someone with legal action for breaking the law is basically okay in my mind. Trump thought that there were unsigned ballots that were counted that were being destroyed, and that Raffe
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by andrewla 2y ago
> if there are any signs that someone is a risk to democracy All due respect, I'm curious as to what these signs actually are for Trump. Everything I've seen and heard has been horrifyingly taken out of context -- "dictato
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yeah, it was really impressive how a law, passed in 2022, managed to travel back in time to 2019 and convince TSMC to start applying to build a plant. It then travelled back in time to 2020 to get Arizona to approve construction. Really an
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by andrewla 2y ago
I'm a little bewildered by this sort of prediction. How will you update your priors in 2028 when this doesn't happen? What will be the excuse for why this didn't happen?
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by andrewla 2y ago
That's at the very highest end. As the element size gets larger there are more fabs capable of doing the work. The equipment gets slightly more standardized, etc., although ASML (the Dutch company) is still the big dog in the equipment
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by andrewla 2y ago
When we saw a rise in 3d printing, I was very hopeful that a hobbyist movement towards fabricating large-feature ICs would soon arise. Nobody's doing 4nm fabrication in their garage, I reasoned, but surely we could get to ~10um. As I r
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by andrewla 2y ago
Several commenters who have not read the abstract of the paper are mentioning LLM-detection tools. That is not what is being shown here. Rather they are saying how to modify the design of an LLM to deliberately inject watermarks into genera
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by andrewla 2y ago
It wouldn't be the work of a couple of hours and changing DNS records. Youtube runs on Google hardware in Google datacenters running proprietary Google software that integrates throughout the Google proprietary ecosystem. Everything wi
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by andrewla 2y ago
"additional evidence" your quote says. Just before that, we have: > In one article PRODIGY stated: > "We make no apology for pursuing a value system that reflects the culture of the millions of American families we aspi
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by andrewla 2y ago
I don't know why this hasn't been voted to the top. Curry-Howard isomorphism is a hell of a bludgeon to apply here but it makes for a very straightforward and obvious refutation of the parent post.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Wikipedia's characterization is too broad. You can read the decision here [1] and decide for yourself. [1] https://www.dmlp.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/1995-05-24-...
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by andrewla 2y ago
I would argue that Microsoft's original practice (without the 20/70/10) is actually pretty good. Have managers make subjective evaluations, merge them together at higher level meetings, and then work out compensation from the
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by andrewla 2y ago
> Without Section 230, any moderation - even if it was limited to just removing abjectly offensive content - resulted in the internet service taking liability for all user generated content Cubby ruled in the opposite direction -- that a
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by andrewla 2y ago
At Microsoft in particular, stack ranking has always been used in the sense of trying to put together a rough ordering of employees at similar levels. But "stack ranking" in scare quotes at Microsoft referred to the specific pract
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by andrewla 2y ago
I never experienced Richard Scarry as a child myself. I discovered it for my own children in a pile of books left on someone's stoop to give away. I was immediately blown away by the whimsy and astonishing care put into every detail. M
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by andrewla 2y ago
The question that section 230, and the Communications Indecency Act in general, is the same one that plagued the court cases leading up to it, is to what degree the voluntary removal of some content implies an endorsement of other content.
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by andrewla 2y ago
The concept of "passive income" is almost a scissor concept. Or maybe only if you couple it with the categorical imperitive. On the one hand, it's so obviously true that it would be great to have passive income. Draw the sala
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by andrewla 2y ago
> and make only OK money Sounds like it has a lot to do with the system. In the US, because of employer insurance, the cost of insurance is mostly hidden from patients. The cost of medical care is similarly opaque -- consumers expect rou
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by andrewla 2y ago
I’ll check out your project - everything you say here resonates with me, especially the rootless nature. What we probably need, long term, is a content addressable store, local first, secure, and freely shareable. Layering this on top of PO
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by andrewla 2y ago
Similarly in English. I think "nix", like "git", is a self-deprecating name. It's a play on both "nix" -- to cancel or to not exist, and "nix" as the suffix for Li- and U-.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Of course -- as do I. But I've become unwilling to accept that the failure of the Nix language is just a skill issue.
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by andrewla 2y ago
The future of software is Nix in the same sense that the future of software was Bitkeeper. It was readily apparent to anyone using Bitkeeper that this was the right way for version control software to work. Similarly, the Nix model is clear
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by andrewla 2y ago
I think the easiest way to make it clearer is to highlight it in red as a mistake if done incorrectly, as you do with the counts on the row ends. If you try to place a ship token close to another one then you should also highlight it in red
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by andrewla 2y ago
It's hard to see the steelman case for this. The transcript of their objections at the initial hearing are on page 13 of the transcript [1] > The FTC's highly prescriptive proposal requiring numerous disclosures, multiple conse
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yes, we've all worked with people like that. They are easy to identify, regardless of what kind of metrics they throw out. All you have to do is use your subjective powers of observation, and have the courage to believe this instead of
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by andrewla 2y ago
A police officer sees a drunkard under a streetlamp and asks him what is the matter. He says that he dropped his keys, and the officer asks him where he dropped them. He points off to the side and says that he dropped them over there, but &
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by andrewla 2y ago
The trouble is that complex conjugation is not holomorphic (analytic) over the complex numbers. It's incredibly useful as an operator, and it appears all over the place in Hilbert spaces and other complex-probability situations, but fu
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by andrewla 2y ago
Your company has been captured. It's over -- if you are quietly competent you will either have your coworkers and technical managers create a shield around you or you will find yourself outcompeted by developers who spend all of their
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by andrewla 2y ago
I'll stop saying feedstock -- I thought I saw that in the astralcodexten article but I am mistaken. When I say "the real thing" I mean that they are selling semaglutide, which they are obtaining somehow. The reddit post was t

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