hatthew

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by hatthew 4mo ago
I'm kinda of surprised that so many here on HN were dismissive/unaware of the capabilities and potential in the DALL-E days and earlier. I feel like this is the sort of forum where most people would be both aware of advancements a
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by hatthew 4mo ago
I'd say that broadly speaking, a system understands things when it can interact with them "correctly". I agree a pocket calculator understands math, but I'd say a pocket translator understands grammar , not language as
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by hatthew 4mo ago
I think most debates about LLMs understanding boil down to different definitions of the word "understand." For example, with the definition of "understand" that I typically use in my daily life, I would argue that in the
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by hatthew 4mo ago
The data on the graph is real, but the labels are made up for vibes.
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by hatthew 4mo ago
Yeah the graph is more for vibes than an actual analogy. The yellow slice represents the top 1%, purple 90-99%, green 50-90%, and red bottom 50%. It would make a bit more sense if those slices were labeled "1 person", "9 peop
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by hatthew 5mo ago
I solved it with this, a pleasingly symmetric solution. I was surprised that a solution exists with all the queens in a row. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q . . B . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q .
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by hatthew 5mo ago
I put `setInterval(checkBoard, 100)` in the console to do it automatically.
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by hatthew 5mo ago
I wonder how reliable this is. Will AWS lightsail continue to work indefinitely for free? What if AWS changes the system in some way? What if the person hosting my locality becomes unavailable?
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by hatthew 5mo ago
It's definitely theoretically possible, but not there yet. I use cursor, claude (opus 4.7), and several proprietary LLMs/LLM frameworks at my job. The institutional knowledge I have wouldn't fit in the context window, and AIs
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by hatthew 5mo ago
In no particular order - Meetings - Reading papers - Understanding legacy code - Reading internal news - Ad hoc chats with coworkers - Writing docs - Editing configs - Thinking about solutions - Slackin
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by hatthew 5mo ago
Can't access the paper, but I'm curious how they measured statistical significance. I wonder how much to interpret the result as "we didn't measure any effect" (which is a largely meaningless conclusion) versus &quo
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by hatthew 5mo ago
As someone who has never heard of most of these concepts before (plane trees, catalan numbers, ballot sequences, depth vectors), I found the question "Can you think of a way to efficiently generate a random plane tree?" confusing,
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by hatthew 5mo ago
Yeah looks like Venezuela is definitely an outlier in south america. French Guiana is also a big outlier in the other direction.
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by hatthew 5mo ago
Do you have a source for GDP/kWh? Last time I was curious I dumped some raw stats (copied from wikipedia) into excel and venezuela was among the bottom three. I recall being surprised that there wasn't any strong correlation betwe
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by hatthew 5mo ago
That requires deciding which element to zap, which takes more brainpower than I'm willing to invest into a webpage that doesn't want to show me its content. Ctrl+W works every time.
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by hatthew 5mo ago
cookies, newsletter popups, sign-in popups, product tours, soft paywalls, etc.
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by hatthew 5mo ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but cookie consent dialogs have exhausted my will to navigate anything blocking the content I care about. If I go to a new website and encounter any sort of popup, modal, or large banner, I will reflexively feel
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by hatthew 5mo ago
Chrome installs additional software that 99% of users don't use. It can intercept and modify code running on your computer, and spies on all network requests. Hackers use it to analyze potential vulnerabilities. 90% of users aren'
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by hatthew 5mo ago
I experience similar, but I'm pretty sure it's just rest and a fresh mind, not overnight learning/thinking. When I'm bashing my head against a wall, I'm stuck in a local optimum, and sleeping lets me reset and try s
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by hatthew 5mo ago
My guess is the stark difference in type of cars, number of cars, typical miles driven, and public transport. A standard american's road trip vacation would be unusual in europe. For example, my relative visits family several times a y
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by hatthew 5mo ago
I don't think that was a specific prediction, but rather an illustration of the type of impact oil shortages could have. I'm curious if people have more specific predictions about what products/services will be affected mor
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by hatthew 6mo ago
I think I am misunderstanding the behavior of the alt keyword
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by hatthew 6mo ago
It seems like this is proposing syntactic sugar to make mutating and non-mutating operations be on equal footing. > The more interesting example is reassigning the deeply nested l to make the cat inside older, without mutating the origin
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by hatthew 6mo ago
haha agreed
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by hatthew 6mo ago
> If war is mostly played out from a disrance, will years of playing RTS give South Korea an edge ? Not sure if this is serious, but RTS skills are different from real-world battlefield skills. Macro is completely different, and while mi
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by hatthew 6mo ago
Summary: Inflation is a thing. Publishers on average get 5%-15% EBITDA which is lower than many other generic industries.
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by hatthew 6mo ago
I'd call that substantial
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by hatthew 6mo ago
Isn't occam's razor that he's just some guy who doesn't like being famous
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by hatthew 6mo ago
Sure, if it's truly planned. I think the tricky part tends to be that it's hard to distinguish between "planned obsolescence" and "incidental obsolescence".
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by hatthew 6mo ago
Reddit alone contains about the same quantity of text (~10 billion posts * 10 words per post, vs 1 million books * 100k words per book). Messaging and document platforms (google docs, slack, discord, telegram, etc.) probably each have 1-3

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