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by emtel 1y ago
How does D avoid the problem I described?
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by emtel 1y ago
That change sounds like a big improvement if they manage to do it!
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by emtel 1y ago
I did C++ for over 10 years, and now have been doing rust for about 4. On the whole, I like rust much better, but I really miss header files. Modules are horrible for build times. If you change an implementation (i.e something that would no
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by emtel 1y ago
The author explains clearly what his sources were, and it wasn’t Google. Did you even read the post?
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by emtel 1y ago
> But I hope you permit me my goal of finding "objective" markers for saying "something works." A very worthy goal!
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by emtel 1y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong on the limitations of these studies, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for people to believe in the power of these drugs. For many people (myself included) taking psychedelics was an im
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by emtel 1y ago
This is all true, but there's another angle that often gets missed: JITs are really only ideal for request-processing systems, in which a) memory is abundant b) the same code paths run over and over and over again, and c) good p99 late
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by emtel 1y ago
Jonathan Gorard goes through a handful of testable predictions for the hypergraph stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtxXkugd5w
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by emtel 1y ago
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. The chances of a power source that _doesn't even work yet_ will out-compete one that is currently on both an exponential price decline curve and exponential capacity growth curve are pretty c
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by emtel 1y ago
US per capita gdp has been higher than Europe since 1960, and the gap has steadily widened: https://m.statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-eu-ec...
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by emtel 1y ago
Billionaires are not the reason CA HSR failing
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by emtel 1y ago
Of course it’s true for coding. Most people reading this probably got into programming because of how fun it is to just try things and see if they work. Of course you need a way to verify the code (types, tests, etc), but you already needed
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by emtel 1y ago
The strength of LLMs is areas where verification is significantly easier than production. This is why they have had so much success as coding assistants.
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by emtel 1y ago
This just isn’t true - one interesting paper on the topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827
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by emtel 1y ago
Rob Pike was definitely not a PL expert and I don’t think he would claim to be. You can read his often-posted critique of C++ here: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti... In it, he seems t
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by emtel 1y ago
Stanislaw Lem was far too much of a genius to believe his works were directed by any sort of committee, communist or otherwise. He is still overlooked far too much - people seem to regard Solaris as his only work of note. But he has so work
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by emtel 2y ago
OTOH, If they have production outside of Taiwan, then they can more credibly threaten to destroy the Taiwanese fabs if China invades.
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by emtel 2y ago
Ah, interesting. I had thought that any primordial heat would have long since cooled, with the remaining heat flux simply being the result of radioactive decay.
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by emtel 2y ago
As pointed out in the intro to the article, the total amount of power generated in the earth's center is ~50TW. Global total energy (not just electricity) consumption is currently 180,000TWh/year, or about 20TW. So we would have t
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by emtel 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27276706
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by emtel 2y ago
> Another technology that uses a lot of energy is blockchains. I think using public blockchains is almost universally unethical since there are other, better, less harmful options. Part of the harm from blockchains is an absurd amount of
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by emtel 2y ago
okay? I didn't find any of those when I was looking originally. I certainly wouldn't claim that you can't find this information with google, just that I wasn't able to.
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by emtel 2y ago
Ok, the first example I found was when I was trying to find a way to write a rust proc macro that recursively processes functions or modules and re-writes arithmetic expressions. The best way to do this, it turns out, is with `VisitMut` or
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by emtel 2y ago
Obviously I meant that the content of the results can be inaccurate, and I assume you weren't actually confused about that.
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by emtel 2y ago
I’ll try to dig some up soon (I’m on my phone now). But of course the output contains errors sometimes. So do search engine results. The important thing for difficult questions is whether the right answer (or something pointing toward it) i
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by emtel 2y ago
I’ve been using Google since about 2000/2001 or so. In fact I worked there for a time, and I still remember Craig Silverstein’s answer to “isn’t search a solved problem?” Which was: “in the future we want Google to be able to take any
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by emtel 2y ago
I like Chiang’s stories, but he simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to LLMs. Forget the philosophical points - he claims that LLMs are strictly worse than search engines for information retrieval. This is just obviousl
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by emtel 2y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the reason that the rejection sampling method is surprisingly fast: the probability of needing to resample N times decreases exponentially with N. So even for the 3D case, where 50% of your samples get reje
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by emtel 2y ago
The difference is that in the US, you can't be thrown in jail for producing a model that doesn't comply with censorships from the government.
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by emtel 2y ago
HN has become a very conservative forum (in the temperamental, not political sense). There is far more skepticism of new technologies in the comments, and a much stronger status quo bias than there used to be. But I think this is more refle

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