foobiekr

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by foobiekr 1y ago
What problem do you think a DB-as-filesystem solves? The only obvious one that makes any sense at all is cross-file transactions.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Regarding "We could conceivably have some version of AI that reliably performs any task you throw at it consistently" - it is very clear to anyone who just looks at the recent work by Anthropic analyzing how their LLM "reason
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by foobiekr 1y ago
They will just define away all of those terms to make that not apply.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Specific cases are probably impossible, though there's always hope. After all, to ue the example the nanotech people loved: there are literal assemblers all around you. Whether we can have singular device that can build anything (prob
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Perhaps so, but in the expansive definition you're using, even an in-memory binary tree qualifies as a database, which makes your point meaningless.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Microsoft poured at least $100M into this hole with nothing to show for it.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Investment was completely different at the time and interest rates played a huge part of that. VC also wasn't that old in 86.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Goalpost moving.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I think this is right but also missing a useful perspective. Most HN people are probably too young to remember that the nanotech post-scarcity singularity was right around the corner - just some research and engineering way - which was the
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by foobiekr 1y ago
You are confusing that databases implement their own filesystem equivalent functionality in an application-specific way with the idea that FS's can or should be databases.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
BeFS wasn't a database. It had indexed queries on EAs and they had the habit of asking application files to add their indexable content to the EAs. Internally it was just a mostly-not-transactional collection of btrees. There was no q
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Imminent means "in a timeframe meaningful to the individual equity holders this change is about." The window there would at _least_ include the next 5 years, though obviously not ten.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Another possibility is that OpenAL thinks _none_ of the labs will achieve AGI in a meaningful timeframe so they are trying to cash out with whatever you want to call the current models. There will only be one or two of those before investor
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by foobiekr 1y ago
If they think AGI is imminent the value of that payday is very limited. I think the grandparent is more correct: OpenAI is admitting that near term AGI - which, being that the only one anyone really cares about is the case with exponential
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Every single time this has been tried it has gone wrong, but sure. Almost all of the operations done on actual filesystems are not database like, they are close to the underlying hardware for practical reasons. If you want a database view,
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I had the unique experience as a youth in attending a school where a substantial portion of the school was funneled there by one of the many 1970s and 1980s troubled teen corporations that spun out of Synanon after it collapsed. This one sp
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by foobiekr 1y ago
"Otherwise why do we collocate research and teaching?" Because you need a second generation of researchers.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
"letting GPT-4 critique its own answers reduces accuracy" This is because the output, being the input, steers directly into the tree as soon as the tree is in the context window.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
What the hell does 3D hardware have to do with the block copies compositing window managers like MacOS are doing?
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Why is this downvoted? It’s clearly a reference to the zizians and MIRI and Bayesian nutjobs is an absolutely correct assessment.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
AM for example could plausibly be trained on 4chan and war footage.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Most of the criticism on display here is the outrageous, implausible lies that the tech industry leaders are telling to stupid people who believe it for propaganda purposes to avoid regulation and scrutiny. None of the bullshit coming out o
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by foobiekr 1y ago
They really aren’t. And I know a lot of them personally.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Edit: this was the Turbo units, which did have a bus-assisted block copy. Before that, just well-tuned 68030 burst block copy - they rendered to backing store and did block copies with a special case of vram to vram block copies (used for w
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Ah, McKinsey. That their pro-remote study was bogus will probably come as a shock to the four people left on planet earth who aren't familiar with "where there's fraud there's McKinsey"
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Why do you think "DEI people" are running DEI programs?
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Scott Alexander has a good summary of what went wrong with the former mindset (fill the job with the qualified candidate becomes mimic the population at large or else): https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-o
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Unfortunately many of the employees _most interested_ in remote work are such because they want to do things other than work. Not all. I work with some remotes who are awesome. But the 24 year olds who want to work remotely from Thailand ar
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by foobiekr 2y ago
The company was publicly lying that it did because execs thought it would help us recruit younger people.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
I work for a company that made a big deal about how well it worked. The CEO and chief people officer both made a lot of public statements about it, during and just after covid. They did this claiming they had the numbers to back it up and s

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