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NASDAQ index has a 3x float weighting (and a far, far smaller total capitalization) which makes it far more susceptible. Other indexes do not have these multipliers, and are much l…

You should not trust me, but here's my understanding. I wish there was a really good writeup somewhere to explain this authoritatively but I'm not sure there is one. Would also lov…

There is a huge amount of misinformation on this topic, including in this thread, at the minute. Some index funds have a very long horizon before they include them (e.g. a year). O…

At least part of the answer is this doesn't meet the requirement of the proposed law. You need to actually provide the functionality of the server-side, not just its API.

> Anyway, I don't think that there's anything that it's like to be an LLM. I don't see how anybody who knows how they actually work could think that. While I have almost zero belie…

I have no idea how you can assert what is necessary/sufficient for consciousness in this way. Your comment reads like you believe you understand consciousness far more than I belie…

> My point isn't that coordination is easy - it's that treating it as impossible becomes self-fulfilling. While I see what you are getting at, and I think its super important we co…

I was struck how the argument is also isomorphic to how we talked about computers and chess. We're at the stage where we are arguing the computer isn't _really_ understanding chess…

> has a model much as we humans do The premise that an AI needs to do Y "as we do" to be good at X because humans use Y to be good at X needs closer examination. This presumption s…

Suppose this is as good a place to pile-on as any. Though this was not the post I was expecting to show up today, it was super awesome for me to get to have played my tiny part in …

It's fun to see everyone arguing about what "everyone" thought.. when... we can just... look... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 is a fun thread from 2012. The top repl…

For uninitialized memory reads, which is one of the biggest classes of issues, valgrind can still be invaluable. MSAN is one of the more difficult things to get setup and remove al…

> most Well... "a few" is probably more accurate. https://twitter.com/tjaltimore/status/1763571057703723344?s=...

I struggle to resonate with what you are saying, as my experience is the opposite. I'm curious where this discrepancy is rooted. Reckless hypothesis: are you working on majority la…

I agree entirely with the premise here save one subtle bit at the start. I think there is grave danger in reducing "vector database" to "vector search" as equivalent domains and/or…

The only reason you and others seem so desperate to redefine bailout so you can call it a bailout is because you want to attach the negative connotations to that word to “hurt” the…

We should be clear... in these large organizations... HEAD is always broken. But it has the advantage of being broken for everyone, tested by everyone, fixed by everyone, and thus …

FWIW, I joined HN 14 years ago (wow) and there's never been a time in those 14 years that HN wasn't convinced that facebook's demise was just around the corner.

It depends what you mean by free will. Non-philosphers almost always mean "libertarian" free will when they say that, and yes, this same argument also basically outlaws libertarian…

> they seem to be advocating for some sort of dualism. This paper is doing the opposite. It's arguing that other papers/ideas advocating dualism are going the wrong way and purely …

Here's my attempt at a tldr. 1. The laws of physics at the time scales, space scales, and energies of the human brain are "known" and we have deep reasons to believe that more will…

if the team is remote, yes

Software is more like building a machine than either math or art. There've been attempts to make formally-provable programs (so it _is_ like math) but these are not in widespread u…

I used to post quite a bit more. Times have changed.

This is the only good use of a const& shared_ptr which is when you 1) only _might_ want to claim shared ownership of the thing, and 2) the perf of those unnecessary refcounts matte…