Yair Halberstadt (@halberstadtyair) 's Twitter Profile
Yair Halberstadt

@halberstadtyair

Software Developer at google. Loves working on compilers and developer tools.

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Yair Halberstadt (@halberstadtyair) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'd love to see a something like a regex explainer, but for bash. So you put in a bash command, and it parses it and explains what each part is doing. regexr.com is my model for what it should look like.

6529 (@punk6529) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"the United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with a technical degree who wishes to emigrate to the United States" nationalreview.com/2022/02/drain-…

Yair Halberstadt (@halberstadtyair) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is incredible - I've always want a caching client in front of a database that automatically keeps your queries up to date! Next thing I would love is a way to efficiently turn the query into a stream, so it can also be consumed incrementally.

Naomi Fisher (@naomicfisher) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So let's ask ourselves, who are these goals really for? Are we actually asking for compliance, rather than thinking about the long term interests of this young person? Are the goals those of the child, or those of the adults around them? 10/

Daphne Keller (@daphnehk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It compares denying security based on moral disagreement to the "argument in the physical world that the fire department shouldn't respond to fires in the homes of people who do not possess sufficient moral character." 7/

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ll believe economists have too much political influence when every major city solves traffic jams with congestion pricing and uses the revenue to eliminate other regressive taxes slowboring.com/p/what-does-in…

I’ll believe economists have too much political influence when every major city solves traffic jams with congestion pricing and uses the revenue to eliminate other regressive taxes  

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Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why not let global management consulting firms run for office, and get paid their usual fee for doing the job if they win? They'd run on a long-term global reputation for performance, which seems to offer much stronger incentives to do well compared to local politicians.

Chris Freiman (@cafreiman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The alternative to the FDA is not nothing but rather private certification firms that have economic incentives to do the job well. This system needn’t be burdensome for consumers either—presumably stores, restaurants etc would only carry certified products

Yair Halberstadt (@halberstadtyair) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It seems LLMs are less likely to hallucinate answers if you end each question with 'If you don't know, say "I don't know"'. They still hallucinate a bit, but less. Given how easy it is I'm surprised openAI and Microsoft don't already do that.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@doctorow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees. 1/

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees. 1/
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@esyudkowsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some simple things that could be done to reform Earth science from its present disaster state: - Discard the idea of 'p-values' and 'statistically significant' data. Report likelihood functions and as much raw data as possible; have an epistemology in which different effect