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by hansvm 9mo ago
My point is that if you're capable of doing constrained generation and want to try once and the constrain on failure, since that has the same output distribution as doing constrained generation in the first place, you'd be better
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by hansvm 9mo ago
There's no difference in the output distribution between always doing constrained generation and only doing it on the failures though. What's the advantage?
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by hansvm 9mo ago
IPA makes these conversations less ambiguous. The point is that parts of the South are more likely to use an "ah" sound rather than an "oh" sound in certain places. The BBC's example (supposing it's in good fai
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by hansvm 9mo ago
> Geek Squad Man, they've really screwed up all the settings. I've never seen Windows 11 look like this. A clean reinstall ought to fix it.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
This is good. It covers the two easiest dominant methods people use. It even touches on my main complaint for the one they seem to recommend. That said: - Constrained generation yields a different distribution from what a raw LLM would prov
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by hansvm 9mo ago
How do they afford pitchforks though?
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by hansvm 9mo ago
You alluded to it, but also: 3) Not everyone codes the same things 4) It's easy to get too excited about the tech and ignore its failure modes when describing your experiences later I use AI a lot. With your own control plane (as oppos
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by hansvm 9mo ago
This seems easy enough to solve. Every time the football oligarchy catches too many IPs in their dragnet, you can accidentally drag all the legitimate football exit nodes into your DNS blacklist. The only way to be sure DNS doesn't wor
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Just last weekend I developed a faster reed-solomon encoder. I'm looking forward to my jail time when somebody uses it to cheaply and reliably persist bootlegged Disney assets, just because I had the gall to optimize some GF256 math.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
To be fair, those macronutrient guidelines were established not because of any special properties of those macros (give or take the nitrogen load from protein) but because when applied as a population-level intervention they encourage suffi
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by hansvm 10mo ago
On the one hand, that obviously filters out many qualified candidates. On the other, you only have so much time in the day. It'd take me 3-6 months to give phone screens to every resume that comes in the door for any one engineering ro
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by hansvm 10mo ago
IIRC it was released somewhere in the iPhone 4/5 transition (2011ish?). It was so abysmal for a road trip I took that I went to Android and haven't looked back (they also removed Google Maps for a bit, and the web version wasn&#x2
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by hansvm 10mo ago
That was a fun little rabbit-hole with a nice 20x (not backward-compatible with my existing memory layout) speedup. Thank you!
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by hansvm 10mo ago
Programming is a ton of fun. There are competing concerns though. I recently wrote a 17x3 reed-solomon encoder which is substantially faster on my 10yo laptop than the latest and greatest solution from Backblaze on their fancy schmancy serv
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by hansvm 10mo ago
> taxes are allocated to That gets messy in a hurry. Most of the time time a lottery is introduced to help fund school districts, funding from other sources for those districts dries up. Money is fungible, and the effect is as if the lot
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by hansvm 10mo ago
Can confirm, I'm currently requesting as much RAM as can fit in the chassis and permission to install an OS not too divorced from what we run in prod. On the bright side, I'm not responsible for the UI abominations people seem to
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by hansvm 10mo ago
There's definitely an aspect of rising expectations (e.g., everyone and their dog having a late-model smartphone). There's also an aspect where some of that is mostly unavoidable (e.g., accessing my HSA now requires a very late-mo
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by hansvm 10mo ago
Your objection, as I understand it, is some combination of "no true Scotsman" combined with complaints about wide events themselves. To the first point (no true Scotsman), I really don't think that applies in the slightest. T
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by hansvm 10mo ago
If that's an issue (visibility into middle layers) it just means your events aren't wide enough. There's no fundamental difference between log.error(data) and wide_event.attach(error, data), nor similar schemes using paramete
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by hansvm 10mo ago
I largely agree, but there's a little nuance insofar as "interior-point" methods are very powerful. You can go a long way by encoding your goals as error functions and letting a gradient-based optimizer do the rest.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
I've done that for desktop apps before. You have to be careful with the effects of sub-pixel rendering and whatnot if your math is continuous, but it's a viable path that I quite like.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
To be fair, this particular issue wouldn't have happened in C, Python, Forth, Zig, or a host of other languages. String-based weirdness is something of a JS issue.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
That behavior is what finally got me off Facebook awhile back. Edit: And something similar with Windows now that I think about it; there was a privacy setting which would appear to work till you re-entered that menu. Saving the setting didn
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by hansvm 10mo ago
This is one of those places where it's worth disentangling the status quo from an optimal alternative. Currently, every factlet you leak to one of these systems poisons them toward their profit (and almost unanimously against your best
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by hansvm 10mo ago
I haven't heard.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
That was less my point, and more that "battle-tested" doesn't have to be a cudgel to argue against in-house projects, especially when considering defect rates (the more-general solution is very often slower and buggier to sup
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by hansvm 10mo ago
My understanding is that the iouring CVEs are about local privilege escalation, not being appropriately sandboxed, etc. If you're only running code you trust on machines with iouring enabled then you're fine (give or take "de
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by hansvm 10mo ago
Nice. I was looking at building an object store myself. It's fun to see what features other people think are important. I'm curious about one aspect though. The price comparison says storage is "included," but that hides
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by hansvm 10mo ago
I think their point is that system timestamps for that append-only format aren't good enough. You need logical timestamps corresponding to increasing transaction ids.
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by hansvm 10mo ago
You mean this log4j [0] with major vulnerabilities the industry missed for nearly a decade? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell

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