stevenhuang

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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
This is a not even wrong sort of misunderstanding to the realities of real politik. Your confusion is simple. You are unaware of the geopolitical games played at this level. It is true there is anti Chinese propaganda but that is neither he
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Yes, I sympathize with you that it's tricky enough. I didn't find the first example with foo() as the author trying deliberately to be tricksy (ie saying the snippet itself is UB by construction), but I certainly see how it can be
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Edit: I think one part of the confusion is we were addressing different parts of the first example of the article. You were referencing the int foo(..) snippet (which I agree has no UB), but I was referencing the parse_packet() snippet (whi
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
There is an important distinction here to the technical meaning of UB that is lost to many. UB simply means the operation you are intending to perform has no defined semantic under the ISO C specification. That is all. Understand what this
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
I agree. I meant to elaborate more on how to think of UB. For most C software on x86_64, UB is "fine" with very strong bunny ears. But it is preferable for one to, shall we say, write UB intentionally rather than accidentally and
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
The examples are unequivocally UB. Full stop. How to think of this properly is that when you have UB, you are no longer under the auspices of a language standard. Things may work fine for a time, indefinitely even. But what happens instead
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
There is nothing ironic in letting an llm have a pass at identifying potential UB and other correctness issues in C code. I say this as an experienced C developer.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Byte and int has different alignment requirements. It is UB the moment you make such a ptr. Great way to demonstrate the point of the article.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Good.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Labor substitution is math, not a bet.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
AI automation will shift the labor demand curve. Once jobs that were previously done by humans are done by AI, this directly reduces human labor demand.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
I was curious so I looked it up. Human doctors medication administration error rate is about 20%, but only about 8% excluding timing errors. > Medication errors were common (nearly 1 of every 5 doses in the typical hospital and skilled n
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
> But I have a hard time thinking about how the AI techniques could produce novel, surprising outcomes like this one The comparison is not equivalent as a human isolated from the environment and unable to perform experiments would fair t
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Current local models already compete.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
If topics are presented engagingly these efforts will no doubt inspire the next generation. Young people are curious, sometimes all they need is a spark and to be introduced to a new topic in an engaging way. These forms of content deliver
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Social norms and laws influence each other but often it is norms that change first, then laws change. Once a technology becomes massively useful and socially normalized, it is our legal systems that adapt around the new reality. You can mak
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
> there is no Linus Torvalds figure neither for this, as of now Well yes there is. It's Karpathy.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
What, so you believe technology corrupts absolutely? Nonsense.
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Correct. But I disagree on one point: the publicity does help normalize discussion around UAPs. That’s arguably the main value of these releases. They simply get more people openly talking about the subject, and it moves the subject forward
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
I haven't really. Yes, it's reasonable to feel underwhelmed. I'm more interested in the normalization and development towards further disclosure than the exact specifics of digital records being released, which I expect to be
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
I have dispassionately followed this topic for years and I am thoroughly familiar with all sides of the debate. Nothing can be known for sure, but I'd say directionally we are moving closer to these conclusions over time, especially as
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
These are the sort of people who aren't good with ambiguity, lack curiosity, and cannot tolerate holding conflicting views. This reframe is a meme, but truly, if they were to dig into this topic they'd find there's more to ua
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
When someone has already demonstrated they can do the work, what additional value do you think them getting a degree will bring to a company?
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
No disagreements with what you said in your first paragraph. > I'm sure qualia is created not by consciousness Whether or not qualia is created by consciousness, I don't see how we necessarily can tell one way or the other. We
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
That's all user space platform specifics, it has no relation to your previous statement where you said 'android is not linux'. Someone can statically build a freestanding executable/so targetting arm64 linux (specificall
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by stevenhuang 5mo ago
Parent complaint sounds like they are just unfamiliar in general with managing regular system services using unit files/systemctl.
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by stevenhuang 6mo ago
You'd be inclined to, but no, of the little we do understand about human perception, we do understand enough by now to say that different people can genuinely experience and perceive the world differently, sometimes wildly so. Look int
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by stevenhuang 6mo ago
reminds of the greetings robotics blimp from Interface https://umami.fandom.com/wiki/Greetings_Robotics_Corporation dystopian and very fitting
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by stevenhuang 6mo ago
You are baffled because of your own ignorance of the underlying principles under discussion. Do you believe in a dualist interpretation of reality, that the process of thinking is somehow nonphysical? That these programs operate on language
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by stevenhuang 6mo ago
Oh I enjoyed the Sign Painter short story it wrote. --- Teodor painted signs for forty years in the same shop on Vell Street, and for thirty-nine of them he was angry about it. Not at the work. He loved the work — the long pull of a brush l

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