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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Prediction markets very often have house odds, even if the market runner is not the house. When you bet on events, the people who can influence those events and are also betting alongside you are the house. They know or can even decide late
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
It's not true, as "dangerous" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Just because Tylenol (acetaminophen) is highly toxic in actually quite small doses doesn't make it as dangerous as vicodin or morphine or h
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> Did we not watch every single supposedly powerful US tech CEO immediately drop in supplication and kiss Trump's ring as soon as he became president? Why fight someone who is so open to corruption? The important thing is that they
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I am well aware that no visa is required, but that's beside the point. The point is that at least here, it's a common occurrence.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
The thing is, just having a centralized standardized dependency manager doesn't in itself force your ecosystem into this dangerous "micro dependency" pattern. Java'd Maven is also a centralized standardized dependency ma
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> The tradeoff being that tearing is what enables flattening. Yes, exactly. > So if you truly want the best performance (cache lines etc.) you must enable it. Someone was saying that this is planned as an option in some future version
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There is a very common pattern of people who go to work to some other, richer country for a set period of time with the sole purpose of making enough money to achieve an objective back home (provide for family, buy a house, retire, etc). I
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Burning fossil fuels is not a real option, it is a threat to all of humanity that it is horrendous we are not doing more to stop.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I think there is some major misunderstanding here. The point the OP was making is that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler should be able tell if a class is a reference class (and must be allocated on the heap and referenced by pointer) or a valu
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Note that tearing is NOT a risk for value classes in Java - the JIT compiler is not allowed to optimize the layout of any value class that can tear on the current architecture (so, for any value class larger than 64 bits on x86-64).
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> Realistically the value classes make sense most (only) if they are placed in arrays. Note that this is only relevant with the way Project Valhalla works for tiny value classes. A Point value class with two double coordinates can not be
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
You probably mean non-nullability. And the big limitation is the rule that object writes can't tear - while this remains in place, it means that only tiny value classes will get any of the performance advantages being discussed, on reg
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
It's much more than cables. You'd need an entire separate internet - ISPs, BGP, DNS, TLS PKI infrastructure, and probably many others. You'd also still need to very carefully keep this separate, as simply connecting an Intern
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
A VPN is not some foolproof system that guarantees you can't be hacked. If you're connected to the internet, people can probe your systems. Heck, Stuxnet proved they can do it even if you aren't.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Because power plants need to coordinate to serve the grid, and there is currently a single Inter connected Net work of computers out there. Would it be a good idea to create a secondary network for power control and similar critical funct
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There are much better arguments that brown/polar/black bears should be considered a single species, and that they perhaps would be if they were first discovered today. It is true that the distinction between "two closely rela
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There is actually a substantial debate on whether wolves and dogs are the same species or separate, precisely because they produce fertile offspring so easily. While wolves are firmly identified as Canis lupus, you can find modern sources c
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
A species is defined by one simple thing: if individuals can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. There are complications related to ring species and few others, but they're not applicable here. All human beings from all over the
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
The horrible practice is not writing libraries, it's having individual small packages like this crate that are handled by individual small authors, and ending up with huge webs of small dependencies. The better practice is for bigger p
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Yes, that's what I meant.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I don't think it's just that, though I agree they are clearly correlated. The reason I don't think it's a sufficient explanation is that there is a clear history of large, 3rd party libraries being created exactly to sup
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> arrayref is a small crate of four macros. Why do so many languages fall into this horrible practice?
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Samsung was a bad example of a plausible alternative, yes.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Since they're saying "Google phone", not "Android phone", I imagine the next purchase could be a Samsung or such.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
If it's functionally random PRNG, then how does it differ from any other random sampling? If it's biased PRNG, then the LLM can adapt to the bias, and coincidentally might even benefit from this bias.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There are so many things going on at the same time in the body of someone pushing themselves so far beyond human limits that it seems extremely unlikely you'd find a single neat cause for this. The bottom line is that they're dest
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Again, a product that facilitates the taking of notes, even notes that entail the killing of human beings, is fundamentally different from a product that exists to suggest which human beings to kill (or at least which places to destroy, reg
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There is a huge difference between your product being used for basic military operations like taking notes or getting from A to B, and your products suggesting military operations that kill hundreds of schoolchildren, an obvious and horri
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
There are two relevant problems here, I think. For one, the question for Anthropic is whether LLMs, specifically, not AI techniques more generally, can help significantly with cancer research. And here, all experience so far is that LLMs on
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
They weren't an option because they are much harder to build, that's my point. Fat from being the easy option, they are still the unlikely option, compared to purpose designed machines.

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