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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It is worth pointing out that we Northern Europeans can only afford this because we have a small group of highly competitive and wealth generating companies and sectors. We would be in a dire situation here in Denmark without Novo Nordisk.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It is also interesting that some of highest income people on Earth use the archive trick instead of paying to get through the paywall. Who actually pays for legacy media anymore?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It's a playground to try out various free open source LLMs. You seem to have picked the default one. Try mixtral-8x7b-instruct. It gave the following answer: >The color of your house is likely caused by the paint or material used on
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>It's become apparent that the Israeli political/war/propaganda machine has an incredible amount of influence - far beyond anything I'd personally imagined could be possible. They've been able to effectively comm
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Interesting that Discord has automatic systems for this. Is it LLM-based?
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Discord tips off FBI to 13-year-old's synagogue mass shooting plot(abcnews.go.com)
9 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|4 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>RV64GC >C What is the purpose of including the RISC-V Compressed 16-bit extension set in what is supposed to be a HPC chip? Most embedded/IoT RISC-V implementations include that for obvious reasons but why here?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The reason people think only 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed is that is lowball number the UN made up to not offend and anger Russia and China. It is estimated that 25,000-75,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just in Mari
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Even that, has x10 less the civilian rate death. What a blatant lie. The Siege of Mariupol alone is estimated to have killed somewhere between 25000 and 75000 civilians. The UN's fraudulent claim that "only 10,000 Ukrainian ci
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The internationally recognized State of Palestine is made up of two disjoint territories: Gaza and the West Bank. Israel gave peace a chance and left Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians immediately turned Gaza into a forward base and started att
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The UN is blatantly biased. There are ~50 Islamic states in the UN that compulsively always vote against Israel. These Islamic states have even made rambling and screaming about Israel a mandatory ceremony (Item 7) at UNHRC sessions.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
One of the two cameras is the ultra-wide camera so it gets some additional parallax and visual information than just the separation to the other camera.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
French engineering and computer science education really emphasizes math and theory. That is an advantage in AI.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Azure OpenAI services also makes it possible to choose data centers outside the US.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The blockade is blatantly ineffective when Iran can supply the Houthis with long-range ballistic missiles.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Last week the world's largest container line, AP Moller-Maersk, announced it would add an emergency risk surcharge of $50 per 20-foot container and $100 per 40- and 45-foot container to all new shipments to Israel Every container b
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Yemen's Houthis to Target All Ships Heading to Israel(shipandbunker.com)
6 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|3 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The chattering classes love counter-cultural packaging. That is why they embraced Greta Thunberg much more than they embraced Al Gore despite the messaging being the same. The ECHELON report revelations were packaged into a formal (boring)
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>I think there will be open source models at GPT-4 level that can run on consumer GPUs within a year or two. There is indeed already open source models rivaling ChatGPT-3.5 but GPT-4 is an order of magnitude better. The sentiment that GP
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Students are being wrongly accused of cheating by "AI detection tools". In the Israel/Palestine conflict both sides have used "AI detection tools" to accuse the other side of using AI generated content. Seems like
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Today most (by volume) Linux attacks are against IoT devices that run Linux and SSH with weak/no auth. Behind that are attacks on Linux web servers where exploits in the web application (e.g. WordPress) or the web framework (e.g. Rails
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>popular local services >Vkontakte, WeeChat Since 2008 big US tech companies have been a runaway GDP doubling success. It is laughable to compare them with VK and WeChat. The reason we Europeans should aim to have our own big tech com
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
That (taken out of context quote) was true during the Cold War because of the cynical realpolitik that Kissinger himself was a proponent of. For example he was against the US supporting Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. That would likely h
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
How is Valve contributing back to Arch Linux considering it is the base for their SteamOS?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Tesla is shooting itself in the foot by not being pragmatic. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are combined the 3rd biggest market for Tesla. During some months we even edge out China temporarily becoming Tesla's 2nd biggest market. The way
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Qatar is also funding the humanities and social science faculties in many US colleges.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The Qataris were primarily funding humanities and social sciences.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
This entire shitshow is Musk's reaction. Most foreign companies know how to operate in Scandinavia without getting into fights with our unions.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Eastern Europe is politically unstable. Just look at Poland and Hungary.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are combined Tesla's 3rd biggest market after the US and China. Why did Elon pick this fight? Most American companies know how to operate here without getting into fights with unions.

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