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by sidlls 4y ago
It may be slightly simplistic, but I don't think calling something that selects tokens to chain together based on a statistical model a "fancy markov chain" is too far off the mark.
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by sidlls 4y ago
We don't know all the different ways humans arrive at answers to novel problems. And while these LLMs aren't literally just copying verbatim, they are literally just token selection machines with sophisticated statistical weight
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by sidlls 4y ago
Any “emergent reasoning” produced by these LLMs is almost certainly coincidence (i.e. the long tail of the probability curve, e.g., like monkeys randomly banging out Shakespeare’s Othello).
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by sidlls 4y ago
That's literally what the language model is. It might correctly generate a solution to a "novel" question/problem that is sufficiently close to one with an existing, known answer. But then again it might not. And in soft
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by sidlls 4y ago
"Making it harder to switch is by definition anti-competitive" It isn't. Anti-competitive would be using one's market power to drive out competition or keep competition from arising. There is no reasonable definition of
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by sidlls 4y ago
In our society jobs that are satisfying are often not an option (even for the trades), regardless of the pay and regardless of the educational requirements. In the context of this thread it is (almost) all about compensation. "Good q
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by sidlls 4y ago
The context within the social and economic structure of society matters, too. Very few good quality careers are accessible for the self-taught individual.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I don't see how this is anti-competitive. It's a crappy business practice designed to promote lock-in, but Google Compute and Azure both exist and are run by large, well-known companies that have the marketing and technical prowes
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by sidlls 4y ago
It isn't because we have the observations we have. It might be mathematically easy to invert time, but empirically it's not so simple. Mathematical symmetries and expressions are nice, but then the actual physical consequences and
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by sidlls 4y ago
50k qps on consul or system wide?
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by sidlls 4y ago
Both, though the latter is likely due to marketing/promises from HashiCorp. Consul (and the entire hashicorp stack, really) is overengineered, under-optimized, and generally terrible to use at any scale beyond "small".
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by sidlls 4y ago
levels.fyi is weighted heavily towards FAANG and FAANG-like companies. My personal experience is both at FAANG-like and "other". The difference in compensation is quite large, and likely bimodal.
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by sidlls 4y ago
You're an extreme outlier, then. Most Bay Area software salaries are going to cap out around $190k - $230k range, except at FAANG or FAANG-like companies.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes, but it's rare that employee 10 contributes to the success of a company that has a huge liquidity event at the same multiple as his or her equity multiple as compared with employee 50.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Russia has a nearly unbroken 150-200 year history of tyrannical government (sometimes in just the classical sense of power vested in a single individual, but often in the more modern sense where oppression is added to that). Sometimes the
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by sidlls 4y ago
Depends on the circumstances. I associate “fired” with a negative reason (e.g. performance, theft, harassment). “Laid-off” doesn’t carry the same connotation.
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by sidlls 4y ago
"Wake me when someone is convicted" isn't an "eat the rich" statement. The OPs point is that an "uncomfortable conversation" isn't a punishment for wrongdoing, such as insider trading.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The "uncomfortable conversation" can mean a conversation about breaking insider trading regulations, the penalties for which include huge fines and potentially jail time.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It might be easier to start at the bottom and become wealthy in America, but it is not "easy". In fact, it's quite difficult, and for practical purposes may as well be impossible for the majority of such people. It usually re
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by sidlls 4y ago
The salient point is that a $600k/year salary is uncommon or even rare even at FAANG . There are a lot of engineers who could work at a FAANG or FAANG-like company, but most of them will never see $600k/year in compensation. Al
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by sidlls 4y ago
The reality is that "$600K at BigTech" isn't as common as HN would have you believe. It's not easy to be at the $600K total compensation level at FAANG. It's not necessarily uncommon, but it's not like the majo
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by sidlls 4y ago
It's not about his predictions, but his admitted market manipulation. I don't know how "in the know" he is now, but all you need to know about his motivations is encapsulated in the first minute of this interview: https
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by sidlls 4y ago
You don't think being shoved into equipment or other people, or having your feet trampled/legs kicked is aggressive? Because that's what these aggressive pushers do. It's aggressive, and not in the watered down sense.
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by sidlls 4y ago
That is an interesting take. The concert example is especially amusing to me: these people pushing through certainly are aggressive, intentionally so, because the whole point is to assert themselves into a position for better proximity to t
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by sidlls 4y ago
I started school in the early 80s, and was walking or riding my bike to school by myself/with friends in the first grade. This went on through the kidnapping hysteria of the time, so it's just weird to me. The way it works is they
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by sidlls 4y ago
I doubt it, because I have a similar issue at my kids' school. Kids must either enter a parent's vehicle (which must have a paper or other sign with the names of the kids being picked up on display) at the drive-through pick up, b
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by sidlls 4y ago
I am in my 40s, and so are most of my friends. But I'm dating a younger person (20s) and hang out with his peer group on occasion. So, this is anecdata, but I don't think it has anything to do with any age group specifically. The
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by sidlls 4y ago
One doesn't have to be an "LA street gang" to be a gang. I thought the article was clear about that.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Having lived in LA county when I was younger (and poor, nearly homeless, etc.), I've seen plenty of gang-like behavior from the police: I doubt this article is exaggerated at all.
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by sidlls 4y ago
In my experience building the pipeline and related infrastructure is not trivial, but it’s also a relatively tiny problem compared to, well, everything else. That is, acquiring and moving data around, managing the data over the lifetime of

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