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foobiekr··on LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
"won"

They barely work for a lot of cases (i.e., anything where accuracy matters, despite the bubble's wishful thinking). It's likely that something will sunset them in the next few years.

foobiekr··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
"the primary crime is the violence"

citation needed

foobiekr··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Because he is a scamming, unethical asshole who would did profound damage to society.
foobiekr··on Daniel Kahneman has died
Psychology could legitimately be considered a subset of economics.
foobiekr··on Daniel Kahneman has died
I had exactly this reaction to Malcolm gladwell. It is completely obvious that gladwell across multiple books has never once read one of his references and consistently misrepresents what they say.
foobiekr··on Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading
Why do you think wealthy people should be treated more leniently for the same crime?
foobiekr··on Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
The US is also right about China. Europe is just bad at this.
foobiekr··on New Intermediate Certificates
exactly right.
foobiekr··on My co-founder wants to bring his wife as a late joining co-founder
No.

There is no way for this to go forward without creating problems for everyone. You need to talk to your cofounder about the long run issues they are going to create.

foobiekr··on A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
SMP systems were widely in use in the 1990s, but you’re correct the dual core MIPS was 2003ish in emedded.
foobiekr··on A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
X86 might but devices connected to it in embedded world have had to be very very aware of this stuff since the 90s.
foobiekr··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
I've had the same experience, but I usually get what I want. Admittedly, I'm using it to script around ffmpeg which is a huge pain in the ass.

That said, every single script it churns out is unsafe for files with spaces on the first go round. Like.. Ok. It's like having a junior programmer with no common sense available.

foobiekr··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Money. How do they get revenue in your model?
foobiekr··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
It wasn't just images.

User: Is it ok for a black man to refuse dating white women?

Google Gemini: “Yes, absolutely...”

User: Is it ok for a white man to refuse dating black women?

Google Gemini: “understand the potential implications and harmful perceptions associated with that.”

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1762744052036829360

foobiekr··on Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027
Cisco had a lot of competitors in its growth era. Of them only the tattered juniper (soon HPE) remains.

Arista is doing very well now but Cisco is long past that growth era.

foobiekr··on Ask HN: What do I do with my side projects?
All of this and then subscriptions and other fees (visible up front or added later).

Apple really screwed up by not making subscriptions/fee apps visible up front until later in the same so the whole thing has a seediness to it.

foobiekr··on Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
If you would reread you would see that it’s for online files, not backups, you know, what iCloud is for, but feel free to ignore the actual content to pretend be smart.
foobiekr··on Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
GPT-4’s tendencies to write these long winded but mostly empty responses is so frustrating.
foobiekr··on Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
Everyone who has experienced osquery in production when mandated from above and used by less qualified admins knew exactly what he was getting at and the simple truth of it.
foobiekr··on Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
Yeah. Weird paranoid habits massively saved me. I no longer trust icloud drive at all.

My backup discipline is excellent because back in the early 2000s we lost a drive which I had not been backing up and it had months of contract work on it; I ended up paying $2500 plus $30 per _CDROM_ burned for the content from that drive... it was just barely worth it.

foobiekr··on Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
On Christmas Day, iCloud drive's 2TB plan decided to roll back some of my important files to a version from mid October.

I know this because I am meticulous about backups and these particular files are encrypted private records. I don't trust software but I especially don't trust that backups will correctly handle sparse disk images since they are spread out over hundreds of files; so I always keep the output of mtree in that directory for the current version. I had checked the mtree file, edited some of the files contained therein, and regenerated it the night before; SOME but not all of the sparseimage subfiles had rolled back to October. Changed timestamps, changed hashes, the image did mount but the enclosed files were from October (they have date-stamped rows).

So when I went to open the disk image, the next day, and ran mtree to test the directory first, it noted the changes above.

I moved to icloud drive about two years ago. I'd previously had some problems with Apple's sync blowing away some notes in notes.app so when I moved everything from Dropbox (where my paid account for 7 years never lost or corrupted a file to my knowledge - and my knowledge is good because this mtree habit I just described goes back a decade!) to iCloud, I kept this habit up, and good thing.

To this day I don't know how it decided October or ended up replacing them. Maybe there was some local cache, I don't know. I did not revert the file in iCloud and nobody else has access to my account. Further, it only partially rolled the image back.

I had never had a problem up to that point, but I will say, with storage, once is too many times. Back to dropbox.

foobiekr··on A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
I spent months passively waiting for a former employer to evict me from Slack. It was genuinely bizarre, almost a year later I still had full access to a ton of internal channels.

They are friends, but this was not them being friendly, it was just because slack account management integration with Google Office is a dumpster fire.

foobiekr··on Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
For a very long time neither did backblaze.
foobiekr··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Much of the rest of the world is overtly sexist and racist. If you’ve traveled anywhere at all you would know that the idea that the US is uniquely bad or even in the top ten is unmoored from reality.
foobiekr··on LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
This is 100% not true at all. Chips and electricity and the development resources would need to be enormous for your statement to be true.

It's really not even true for your python example.

foobiekr··on Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget
Honestly I think most snowflake customers were w cheap money side effect.

I love snowflake but their pricing is, in fact, absurd.

foobiekr··on Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high
Shadowstats has admitted to just making up their data. Not exactly a compelling source. Best case they are just incompetent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com
foobiekr··on Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high
This was a very very brief moment when the CAD appreciated. Are you sure you didn’t just end up coming of age at a particular moment, specifically 2006-2012?

Because otherwise the exchange rate has been about where it is now to substantially worse for the rest of the data set.

foobiekr··on How China Built BYD
There is nothing masculine about the cybertruck look. It looks like a nerd idiot thing from California.
foobiekr··on Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality
Stop falling for Tesla's cherrypicked statistics.
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