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by haswell 2y ago
> The main problem right now is that we don’t really understand how LLMs work internally. Right, and this is why claims that models are “reasoning” can’t be taken at face value. This space is filled with overloaded terms and anthropomo
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by haswell 2y ago
Success doesn’t imply that “reasoning” was involved, and the definition of reasoning is extremely important. Apple’s recent research summarized here [0] is worth a read. In short, they argue that what LLMs are doing is more akin to advanced
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by haswell 2y ago
The underlying study: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002797
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by haswell 2y ago
There are a lot of legacy lead pipes. 400K homes in Chicago alone supplied by ~50K lead supply lines estimated to require 40-50 years to replace.
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by haswell 2y ago
Why do you believe this was malicious and/or explicitly to make money? The use of lead pipes was a well established practice that started in the early 1800s and continued until the federal government banned them in 1986. The original p
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by haswell 2y ago
Not sure I understand the point you’re trying to make. Regardless of the history, it’s a big issue that requires a massive effort to solve.
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by haswell 2y ago
Just one example, but in the city of Chicago, over 400K homes still get their tap water through leaded lines. The city will get an exemption to the 10 year replacement requirement due to the sheer number of pipes that need replacing meaning
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by haswell 2y ago
> Drivers under the influence isn't necessarily reckless, but is banned due to a strong association with reckless action I’m trying to understand this. It is well documented that consuming alcohol impairs thinking, reaction time,
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by haswell 2y ago
I’m currently on sabbatical. No enterprises involved. Good security hygiene and having a flexible but safe development environment are not limited to the enterprise, and are practices that I apply to every project regardless of whether it’s
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by haswell 2y ago
> Experienced users don't usually screw up their systems to need this thing It’s less about experienced users screwing up and more about safely running software. I do lots of small experiments and regularly clone repos from GitHub
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by haswell 2y ago
This isn’t a good analogy imo, and I’d argue that it’s often healthy for someone to push back this way. I’ve been on both sides of this fence as a customer and a developer, and have at times had to straddle the fence as a PM. The hardness
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by haswell 2y ago
> If [the accusations] were refutable, he would have refuted it at trial. This is not what irrefutable means. There are many reasons something might be refuted poorly at trial even if the accused never did anything wrong at all. This i
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by haswell 2y ago
> there was plenty of strong evidence that he did it, such as possessing all the victim's stuff and pawning her laptop This should not be sufficient to justify the death penalty. Whether or not this guy did it, using such an incre
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by haswell 2y ago
It seems like a stretch to argue that a world in which thousands of people are simultaneously injured or killed by an electronic device they had no reason to fear is not meaningfully changed by said event. The world is in a continuous state
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by haswell 2y ago
I chose Ibuprofen for the analogy because it requires no prescription and there’s often no doctor involved. The reality is that most use of these tools will involve no medical professionals, and the people using them will often be the most
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by haswell 2y ago
I’m not convinced that a more perfect simulation can meet the needs of a human psyche in the long run. I think we vastly underestimate our own complexity in this regard. Whatever the case, we’re certainly nowhere close at the moment.
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by haswell 2y ago
Ibuprofen reduces pain. It is also not a solution, especially when that pain has a solvable underlying cause. What worries me is that many people are becoming lonely because we’re losing the habits and skill sets needed to form and maintain
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by haswell 2y ago
The issue is that what often happens next is the thing that got cobbled together as a customer POC ends up in production. Most hardware goes through extensive validation and revision before tooling to manufacture and ship at scale. The soft
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by haswell 2y ago
> I’ve pushed some trash tier code over the years because it worked just well enough to drive growth/revenue With all respect, this summarizes everything I’ve come to hate about our industry over the years. I understand why this
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by haswell 2y ago
Most online discussion boils down to: - A few people report they’ve had issues opting out - Most people report they have no issues at all Personally, I’d feel like I’m perpetuating the problem (of privacy violation/overreach) by not
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by haswell 2y ago
I was raised in a Christian church. Spiritual bypass was alive and well. The notion of "carrying one's cross" was more about finding virtue in suffering than it was about actually gaining practical tools to navigate life&#x27
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by haswell 2y ago
Read about the notion of “spiritual bypass”. Yes, people turn to faith and religion. But this often amounts to a complete bypass of actually processing/reframing difficult feelings (like regret) and instead of learning to use those fee
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by haswell 2y ago
After spending most of my career as a developer, I transitioned to product management for a number of years, and I've been on both sides of this dynamic. I think that "hosting a party" is a bad analogy, because it implies tha
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by haswell 2y ago
I was sad that it didn't seem to know much about the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Fun project though!
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by haswell 2y ago
Should also run on Linux based on the native Steam Deck support.
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by haswell 2y ago
It’s my experience charging it in the car and while camping with portable batteries that makes me want more battery. Can charge in the car, sure. Will I actually charge it in the car? From experience, it’s a constant struggle because I’
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by haswell 2y ago
Some concrete reasons I have for wanting that extra battery life: camping, hiking, and road tripping. I can keep up with charging when I have a predictable schedule. When I don’t, I’m always running out of battery and often in the worst mom
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by haswell 2y ago
That’s the burnout talking. Took me a number of months on sabbatical before I realized that the idea of interviews no longer made me want to crawl into a hole.
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by haswell 2y ago
When you say your company dropped support, do you mean they were providing it directly and now aren’t, or it’s no longer part of your health insurance? I’ve worked at places that did both. Check your health plan. Most decent ones have menta
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by haswell 2y ago
That's fair. Maybe a category error on my part to compare these given the victories by big tech are mostly in other areas.

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