dan-robertson

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by dan-robertson 5d ago
This seems like a distinction without a difference. The EU gets to choose their rules and Meta gets to make business decisions about how to comply with those rules. One can complain about either, I suppose. I don’t know how the cost-benefit
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by dan-robertson 7d ago
If a model complains about hyperbole, that doesn’t mean the text is hyperbole, and this can be because of the context of the text or because of the hedging the models are wont to do
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by dan-robertson 12d ago
Most state is buffer-local rather than global. Note also that there is already some amount of multi-threading in elisp. One thing you could imagine is doing some kind of mvcc system so that if two tasks don’t interfere with each other, they
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by dan-robertson 24d ago
It would be picked 10% of the time with watermarking. The randomness properties of the PRNG will be very similar to other random number generators, it is just chosen to be vulnerable to a particular cryptanalytic attack (that requires a pri
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
I thought old Reddit was about the old UI, not the age of the posts?
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
I think it was historically something like 30% of Twitter traffic. I don’t think this is a new trend in terms of total volume but maybe the filtering got a lot worse.
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
What you write implies that you think that good programming jobs of the kind available in 2014 are no longer available. I basically think that’s wrong (indeed I think the opposite trend happened) for most HN readers who are able to live and
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
Don’t you still see this with hip-hop to some extent? I also think a lot of the difference is that a much smaller percentage of the population grows up as poor as she did. A person from a similar wealth/income percentile today mightn’t
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
I don’t understand this comment. Firstly you’re looking at one person’s selection, not some authoritative list of the best comments, so it mostly reflects what that person is interested in. I don’t really understand the rest of your comment
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
It’s had more recent updates
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
I think SO had issues before LLMs but I would classify them more as community and moderation issues than dead answers (which can mostly be dealt with by pointing out on the site when an answer is old and allowing a higher-voted answer to ra
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
While losing a job is a pretty unpleasant disruption to one’s life, it can also be the case that the next job will be better and one ought to (in hindsight) have changed jobs sooner. Potentially the shake-up of employment in low-productivit
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
I think it’s mostly break dust. Electric cars are heavier but can also hopefully mostly use regenerative breaking instead of break pads. Road vibrations (and wear?) tend to go as the fourth power of weight over the axle and so it tends to b
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
The stimulus was not just the checks, it was also pretty generous unemployment, and the discussion was about incomes of workers, not wealth.
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
For a program that has not received much optimisation effort, the thing limiting performance gains is developer time and skill. It is not uncommon to have some small bit of code that could matter a lot, eg maybe you are doing something like
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by dan-robertson 1mo ago
Much of the ‘secret sauce’ at the AI labs is not from the corpus on which they are trained but from the reinforcement training done afterwards. This step can influence the ‘personalities’ of the models and it is what makes them better at be
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
What’s the established evidence? Certainly it is very uncommon for to be reviewing a postmortem thinking ‘I wish we were more thorough with code review’ rather than ‘what changes to our testing practices could have increased our chances of
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
I think it’s just a metaphor for being isolated from the wider tech community.
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
I don’t think that’s right. If people have an easy way to measure the levels, and they can see something on their phone like ‘you spent 8 hours today above 2000ppm CO2’ then the room will care a lot more than it did before, and people will
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
I think LLMs are trained to not refactor. I think it’s either that you would need to do something in training to make them want to do it and the labs don’t do that, or that the labs correctly guess that it would be very annoying for LLMs to
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
I think being successful makes hiring easier because you can source better candidates, and being big makes hiring easier because candidates are more likely to know people at the firm who can use referrals to work around otherwise broken sys
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by dan-robertson 3mo ago
I think various ‘longer interview’ processes can be good by reducing the chance of particularly regretted hires. This could be internships (but note this goes two ways and you want interns to accept offers and recommend the programme to the
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by dan-robertson 4mo ago
Their IPO sees the company as doing a small amount of space and $22T of B2B services. If you believe that then space launches shouldn’t have much impact on their valuation compared to things that affect their hypothetical services revenue.
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by dan-robertson 4mo ago
The super literal interpretation ideas were much more common in the past when LLMs didn’t exist. Now we have models that are generally pretty good at picking up on nuance and understanding what you mean but also often quite bad at execution
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by dan-robertson 4mo ago
Firstly, consider why so many people like running outdoors when they could just run on a treadmill and watch tv indoors? Secondly, note that running injuries don’t tend to suddenly appear and cripple people half-way through a run. They are
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by dan-robertson 5mo ago
I actually don’t know the details of the specific crimes. Eg if you’re a soldier and you post on Facebook that you’re about to go on a raid to depose a head of state, that’s presumably a secrecy violation you would be punished severely for.
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by dan-robertson 5mo ago
They may not be participating in the same competition.
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
I’m not sure if it’s AI so much as a composition of dozens of images stacked on top of each other. The shadows of different objects seem to be going in different directions.
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
People are not seeing the prosecutions they were expecting. I think some of that is because the person who would be prosecuted is dead, part of that is because the justice system makes a successful prosecution difficult (eg some people may

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