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I worry that all this talk about "China can't be allowed to beat the West on LLMs" is a setup to saddle the public with a bailout in the name of national security.

When has enforceability ever been a concern of the government? This is the same government that had anti-sodomy laws on the books until the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional …

DCA is not unreasonable advice given that most people's greatest enemy is themselves. DCA helps avoid the very emotionally upsetting feeling of you throwing money into a fund and i…

there was also a small trend a while ago of using it to bracket tongue and cheek/sarcastic phrases, for example: > setting your computer on fire for (sparkle) self care (sparkle)

Always a delight seeing Chisel in the wild :)

The trick is antitrust style bundling. The massive pile of documents and processes tied to GSuite is a moat which makes it hard to switch to something like o365. Since a company mi…

Psychology in general tends to make the same distinction. There are lots of behaviors which may be considered abnormal but do not have a meaningful impact on the quality of life of…

I think what you're really getting at is that it's only useful if the benchmarks are predictive of your workloads. If it predicts well (for example, your tasks are equally easy), t…

I remember reading this blog post when it was first published, but the subsequent updates are better than I would've ever expected this to turn out. Worth checking it out again if …

I would hope this is true both in the context of LLMs and more broadly, but I think this is especially not the case for LLMs. It's hard to take the idea that companies are trying t…

Are you going to ask your employees for their 2% cashback if you reimburse them for a purchase they made with their credit card too? At the end of the day, it seems more practical …

Is what you suggest about training even possible? Most exploitation techniques are really just about having in-depth knowledge of how components work. For example, I imagine a suff…

Is interactive use for coding something that actually works today? With unsafe mode, even frontier hosted models are slow enough I end up just tabbing out to work on other tasks. I…

Reading this thread, I'm starting to think that I did not fall out of a coconut tree and that I exist in the context of all in which I live and what came before me.

As time goes on, I am beginning to wonder if sometimes the failure codes are good exits. Some tasks should not be done.

Another trick is that people are usually nicer to you if you talk to them after having gone to the same place at the same time for a while. If you smile and waive at them a few tim…

>The ergonomics of using a laptop on an economy-class tray table are not worth it. You're sitting there like a T-rex The trick I've found is to pack a bluetooth keyboard. If you pu…

>If they are implemented as a "rendez-vous" absolute date Do people actually do that? What's the plan for when the user sleeps their machine? All the events just inexplicably happe…

esc once interrupts the LLM, double-esc lets you revert to a previous state (interrupt harder).

I wonder how much of the cost is coming from the cache misses vs the more frequent indirections/ILP drop? For example, I wonder what this test looks like if you don't randomize the…

What's the concern? Harness tends to be fairly common in the context of "shim program which manages some other program" (see: "test harness", "fuzzing harness", etc.)

This has also been a common theme in recent decades with respect to privacy. In the US, the police do not generally need a warrant to tail you as you go around town, but it is phen…

Does it have the same issue with key repeat? It's a long standing iOS bug, but some apps seem to fix it (somehow). Without the fix, vim ends up being essentially unusable since I c…

Wouldn't that apply only to a truly unlimited subscription? Last I looked all of their subs have a usage limit. If you're on anything but their highest tier, it's not altogether un…