twoodfin

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by twoodfin 9mo ago
I wish HN had a title tag for AI-generated posts, like it used to have for PDF’s and still does for year-of-publication.
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
That’s actually super relevant and helpful, thanks.
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
Do you have any recommended references to understand that concept and how it plays out in Solaris? I find myself in the middle of what I imagine are similar design challenges in software packaging, storage, integration, and deployment.
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
And you need to burn even more cycles before you’ve amortized the cost of using a cache line that could have benefitted some other work.
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The Rise and Fall of Corba (2008)(dl.acm.org)
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Presumably the advantage was ease and speed of developing the filtering feature. Wrong tradeoff, to be sure.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
That’s the role MCP should play: A structured, governed tool you hand the agent. But everyone fell in love with the power and flexibility of unstructured, contextual “skills”. These depend on handing the agent general purpose tools like she
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
That’s probably right; you can often spot an LLM-assisted post from the overly dramatic title. Anecdotally, though, these articles seem to have a disproportionate number of, “Wow, this article is so interesting & insightful”-class comme
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
This platform sees high front page placement / hundreds of votes for AI-written … uh sorry I mean “I used the AI to clean up my notes” … content daily. I have an allergic reaction to it and flag, but clearly a majority of the hn voti
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I’m guessing it’s hard to go short OpenAI without also going short a bunch of other companies riding the AI wave that aren’t led by Sam Altman? Would love to hear how that could work.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Well put. Best framing I’ve seen of the answer to, “Why is Apple in the streaming service business?”
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
If model training is determined to be fair use under US copyright law—either legislated by Congress or interpreted by Federal courts—then no license text can remove the right to use source code that way.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Democratic strategists have been centering on this broadly popular policy as an easy way to appeal to voters in the midterms. So the GOP is countering by attempting to take the issue off the table. Presumably, the Democrats in the Senate wi
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Well, yeah, Dennard scaling ended around 20 years ago!
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Loving this thread. My Tolkien audio of choice will always be the BBC production of LOTR: https://archive.org/details/lord-of-the-rings-10_202401 Fantastic cast, including Ian Holm—Bilbo in the Jackson films—as Frodo.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
It’s been a while since I read it, but I recall Rhodes’ point being that once the fundamentals of fission in heavy elements were validated, making a working bomb was no longer primarily a question of science, but one of engineering.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
The CRAY-1 was so ridiculously ahead of its time that it took until the Pentium MMX (1997) for “ordinary” computers to catch up to its raw performance. That’s 20 years or about 10,000X the available VLSI transistors via Moore’s Law.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
It’s simpler. Chess is a search through the space of possible moves, looking for a move that’s estimated to be better than the best move you’ve seen so far. The search is by depth of further moves, and “better” is a function of heuristics (
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Of course: Everything is resource-constrained. That’s why it’s called economics . The question was whether the “pie”—total economic output—has a meaningful upper bound on growth because we only have a whole planet full of resources to ex
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
My god, I think that’s right, & he at least considered it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart Yup. It was a strange time in Democratic politics: The assumption after 9/11 and the success of the GOP in the
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
More likely because the whole point of Markdown was to be embedded in text, not a freestanding format for an entire document.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Property taxes have to be set high enough to fund services: Voters want more services, they pay more property taxes. The policy goal is delivering services the voters want to households and businesses. LVT is designed to achieve a different
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
As far as I can tell, LVT only achieves what it sets out to do if it’s equivalent to market rent. As in, you never really “own” your land, you’re just renting it from the sovereign. If you can’t make good enough use out of it to afford that
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
More demand for homes makes homes more valuable and encourages more supply! Why is this a problem? Build more homes, get rich from the Swedes!
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Yes.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Right! It seems to me that any range of uncertainty on aggregate demand is at orders of magnitude more than we could build even if we 10X’d the current madness. Pause all current advancement in GPU and model R&D. How much matmul would t
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
That’s exactly what it is. More $ output, less $ input. That’s the way progress happens.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
What odds would you take that repeats in 2026?
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
OK, but why discount the simpler explanation that these tools are the most direct means for turning electricity into a wide range of economic value ever built, & thus demand is effectively unbounded?
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Instead of paperclip maximization, our economy is hell-bent on matmul maximization. The crazy thing is, I’m not sure it’s crazy.

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