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by khuey 3mo ago
This is suburban Richmond, not a "small rural county".
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by khuey 3mo ago
Claude didn't "write" anything until a meatbag told it to.
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by khuey 3mo ago
The most obvious ones to me are the sentences that aren't actually sentences but just lists of stuff (and sometimes not even proper sentences). It starts at the third sentence and there's one in the majority of paragraphs. LLMs lo
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by khuey 4mo ago
Yes, there are cultural reasons crime is lower in East Asia too, but I haven't been to a major city there that doesn't have an extensive surveillance system.
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by khuey 4mo ago
My experience in major East Asian cities (predominantly Tokyo and Taipei) is that they have extensive networks of surveillance cameras operated by or accessible to the police.
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by khuey 4mo ago
Ford ended up paying $365 million (roughly $2200 per van) to settle a lawsuit from the government over that.
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by khuey 4mo ago
The 99 in his TM99 is also an arbitrary number. The more interesting part of the talk is how using what he calls "fenceposts" naturally results in bunching up against the fenceposts because even small regressions that cross the fe
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by khuey 4mo ago
https://socketsite.com/archives/2022/02/there-are-not-40000-...
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by khuey 4mo ago
> You would literally be spying on employees 24x7 for weeks at a time with the express goal of replacing them someday. Isn't this almost exactly what Zuck is trying to do at Meta? https://www.reuters.com/sustainabili
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by khuey 4mo ago
Having to write the "I did not cheat" pledge in cursive was the most difficult part of the SAT for me.
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by khuey 4mo ago
This is an easily solved problem if you start discounting referrals from employees who refer a lot of people who generally fail your screening interviews.
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by khuey 4mo ago
Applicants did this routinely ten years ago.
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by khuey 4mo ago
There's a saying among pilots that on a twin piston (which the 421 is) the second engine is there to get you to the crash site faster.
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by khuey 4mo ago
> The point is that memory issues are a smallish number of issue compared to the larger ecosystem of vulnerabilities If memory safety issues are 75% of exploited zero days it sounds to me like they're the biggest issue in the ecosys
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by khuey 4mo ago
> Just want to remind everyone that only 1% of vulnerabilities are memory related in the average Joe's code. Unless your point is merely that average Joes write such terrible code that you don't even need memory safety issues t
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by khuey 4mo ago
That's just restoring the status quo ante.
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by khuey 4mo ago
I would bet considerable sums of money that this deal is also not going to do anything for the Iranian people.
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by khuey 4mo ago
> if Mozilla spent all money on the browser only, if Mozilla made the best browser ever, would that really make a difference? Would more people use it, would they be a healthier organization now? I worked at Mozilla for a bit over six ye
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by khuey 4mo ago
Mozilla ended up switching from IRC to Matrix. Maybe they tested Yahoo Messenger at some point but I'm pretty confident there was never any switch to it (I left in 2016).
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by khuey 4mo ago
I suppose Fable is going offline imminently since there's currently absolutely zero KYC for Anthropic to know who is a foreign citizen.
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by khuey 4mo ago
If you run spell check on a document is it no longer 100% human written?
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by khuey 4mo ago
I think most people who've tried them both would tell you Anthropic's models are more than marginally better than Kimi. Kimi and the other open source models may score well on SWE-bench or whatever but the gap is noticeable IMHO o
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by khuey 4mo ago
I'm not usually an "AI is going to kill us all" kind of person but on the off chance we do get Skynet/etc why would we give the machines the literal high ground?
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by khuey 4mo ago
I don't think there's any realistic way to block importing open source models.
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by khuey 4mo ago
Prop 13 is the other way around, inflation is to the taxpayer's advantage.
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by khuey 4mo ago
Most of the relevant numbers in the American tax code are inflation adjusted, but not all of them. The biggest ones for people on this website are probably the value of the Child Tax Credit and the thresholds at which the Net Investment Inc
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by khuey 4mo ago
Opioid overdose in America kills the uneducated, not the college graduates who failed to launch. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10559184/#aoi230067...
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by khuey 4mo ago
I don't know where you live but if you look at the statistics this is very clearly a regionalized problem in the US. Big coastal cities like SF, NYC, etc are building almost nothing but Texas is cranking out new suburbs by the square m
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by khuey 4mo ago
> The point is that with RSEQ, you can write a _different_ algorithm that's faster than an implementation relying on hardware mediated MESI. Even without rseq(2) you're looking at a "different algorithm". For one, a p
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by khuey 4mo ago
The "CPU mutex" is just the cache coherency mechanism. If you shard your data to avoid triggering it as suggested, then yes, it's much faster. EDIT: or maybe you're asking if introducing an explicit userspace mutex is be

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