benlivengood

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by benlivengood 8mo ago
Hey, I had to read On The Road once for college, and I am currently sitting in SF. To be fair to Jack Kerouac, I was young when I read it but even at my advanced age I don't think I want to reread it. Also, the old hippie culture sor
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by benlivengood 8mo ago
decreasing COGS creates wealth and consumer surplus, though. If we can flatten the social hierarchy to reduce the need for social mobility then that kills two birds with one stone.
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by benlivengood 8mo ago
The contrast between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543 (Software engineering is back) is kind of stark. I am using frontier models to get fun technical projects done that I simply didn't have time
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by benlivengood 8mo ago
The McMurtry Spéirling is under 1000kg. Battery technology will only improve and so I expect to see under-1500kg sport EVs generally available eventually. Under 1000kg for a reasonable price probably means building your own electrified exo
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by benlivengood 8mo ago
I'm really curious what their data looks like at the various racetracks and circuits. Fun fact; most raceways have accurate street-level indicators (including that they are one-way, but sadly they are not the best racing line) on most
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Agreed; everyone complained that LLMs have no world model, so here we go. Next logical step is to backfill the weights with encoded video from the real world at some reasonable frame rate to ground the imagination and then branch the infer
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
I dunno, GPT-OSS and Llama and QWEN and any half dozen of other large open-weight models? I really can't imagine OpenAI or Anthropic turning off inference for a model that my workplace is happy to spend >$200*person/month on. G
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Granted, if humans had utility functions and we could avoid utility monsters (maybe average utilitarianism is enough) and the child in the basement (if we could somehow fairly normalize utility functions across individuals so that it was we
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Yep, like ECHELON and friends are. The metadata recorded about your (all of our) traffic is probably enough to perform the timing attack.
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Deontological, spiritual/religious revelation, or some other form of objective morality? The incompatibility of essentialist and reductionist moral judgements is the first hurdle; I don't know of any moral realists who are grounde
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Because if you want to hire engineers then you have to ask engineering questions. Claude and GPT and Gemini are super helpful but they're not autonomous coders yet so you need an actual engineer to vet their outcome still.
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
Without at least some filtering a Gateway NAT appliance is vulnerable to: * LAN IP address spoofing from the WAN * Potential for misconfigured "internal" daemons to accept WAN traffic (listening on 0.0.0.0 instead of the LAN or lo
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
One could use any number of LLMs on a take-home problem so in-person interviews are a must.
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by benlivengood 9mo ago
I guess if you only need to store one bit you could store either 0 or 11 and on average use less than two bits (for bit flips only), or 111 if you have to also worry about losing/duplicating bits.
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
With an optimal way of determining fair splitting of gains like Shapley value[0] you can cooperate or defect with a probability that maximizes other participants expected value when everyone act fairly. The ultimatum game is the simplest ex
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
Don't finish; read a good summary if you cared about any character or plot point sufficiently. I enjoyed it overall but in large part for the detail/immersion which it sounds like wasn't interesting enough to keep you. All ch
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
Transformers grew out of the value-add side (autotranslation), though, not really the ad business side iirc. Value-add work still gets done in high-progressive-tax societies if it's valuable to a large fraction of people. Research in
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
At Google I worked with one statistics aggregation binary[0] that was ~25GB stripped. The distributed build system wouldn't even build the debug version because it exceeded the maximum configured size for any object file. I never ask
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
In the long run I think it's pretty unhealthy to make one's career a large part of one's identity. What happens during burnout or retirement or being laid off if a huge portion of one's self depends on career work? Econ
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
I finally got around to reading Wheel of Time. It didn't quite take the whole year but a few solid months. If I had tried spreading it out over a longer period I wouldn't have been able to remember the overall plot or characters,
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
Presumably, like Cruise, if the safety rate is appalling then they get their permits revoked which is 99% the same as jail for a company that only does self driving cars.
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
I think I would enjoy building houses, or solar-battery-electrical installations. I like infrastructure (my favorite games include Factorio) and being able do that in the real world sounds both useful and enjoyable/satisfying.
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
It would be nice if there was a common crawler offering deltas on top of base checkpoints of the entire crawl; I am guessing most AI companies would prefer not having to mess with their own scrapers. Google could probably make a mint selli
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
Yes, at some point Boltzmann brains become higher likelihood but don't forget that interventions are not limited to prior history, e.g. someone builds a machine that performs whole-body surgery based on the timing of radioactive deca
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by benlivengood 10mo ago
If the universe is infinite that should happen sometime (not really important) around 10^10^29 meters away. Of course, you don't actually have to die for that copy to exist either, and a copy of the local galaxy etc. is not too much
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by benlivengood 11mo ago
Precisely the place where government intervention is required to distribute wealth equitably.
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by benlivengood 11mo ago
A major con of bedframes is annoying squeaks. Joints bear a lot of load and there usually isn't diagonal bracing to speak of, so they get noisy after almost no time at all. Fasteners loosen or wear the frame materials. I have yet to
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by benlivengood 11mo ago
If your argument is that value produced per-cpu will increase so significantly that the value produced by AGI/ASI per unit cost exceeds what humans can produce for their upkeep in food and shelter, then yes that seems to be one of the
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by benlivengood 11mo ago
Someone pointed out in another HN discussion that for the highest security it would be nice to have an independent service that accepted/pulled ZFS snapshot streams to apply to the backup datasets, as opposed to using ssh and risking l
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by benlivengood 11mo ago
Depending on how many disks you need, buying old PCs on eBay is the way to go because there are still some Xeon E3 ECC models available cheap ($100) with plenty of RAM (16GB) and four SATA ports for a NAS.

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