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by Sebb767 2mo ago
As the famous saying goes: If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
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by Sebb767 2mo ago
> - "Prefer New" seems almost useless. You've already spent all this effort doing the job, why are you cancelling it and throwing away the results? The obvious use-case is if the result depends on a state and the state has
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by Sebb767 2mo ago
Related previous posts: AI 2040: Plan A - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848425 AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874200
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AI Chip Regulation Is Not a Dystopian Surveillance State(astralcodexten.com)
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by Sebb767 3mo ago
Which model and how can you achieve that speed, if you don't mind me asking?
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by Sebb767 3mo ago
Usually, yes. There are a few exceptions, such as serious misconduct, tax fraud and not declaring insolvency when necessary. But as long as you're following the law, you're fine.
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by Sebb767 4mo ago
> I hope there's always someone willing to make this bet and release better and better open models. What would this bet be? Training is expensive and open weights mean that for hosting you compete on price with people that don'
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by Sebb767 5mo ago
> Unless you have a “every commit must build” rule, why would you review commits independently? Security. Imagine commit #1 introduces a security vulnerability (backdoor) and the features. Then #2 introduces a non-obvious, harmless bug a
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by Sebb767 8mo ago
What was the issue with the Nord line?
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by Sebb767 8mo ago
Each of our devices spents a lot of energy dedicated to encryption. By now, all disks you did not set up manually are most likely encrypted and hardly any unencrypted package will travel out of your network. That's not to mention the t
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by Sebb767 9mo ago
Usually, it will be where the passenger side is in the cars home market. That is left for Japanese and British vehicles and right for US and German ones. Fun fact, for single exhaust cars, the exhaust will usually be on the driver side, in
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by Sebb767 11mo ago
> Probably because actual time required to manage a db server is really unpredictable. This, and also startups are quite heterogeneous. If you have an engineer on your team with experience in hosting their own servers (or at least a home
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by Sebb767 11mo ago
I dislike those black and white takes a lot. It's absolutely true that most startups that just run an EC2 instance will save a lot of cash going to Hetzner, Linode, Digital Ocean or whatever. I do host at Hetzner myself and so do a lot
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by Sebb767 11mo ago
It would be more correct to say that most _payments_ happen off-platform. They still use the Steam API for trades, but it's just bots trading with players for nothing and payment is facilitated offsite.
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by Sebb767 11mo ago
> Always, always log in through bookmarked links or typing them manually. Never use a link in an email unless it's in direct response to something you initiated and even then examine it carefully. If you still want to avoid the comf
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> There's no proof that your catastrophic imaginary scenario would actually happen. There is, just read TFA. > Financial transactions happen all the time and are plenty cheap, they just don't do any with sanctioned entities.
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> They know what works - threaten executives with prison. The problem is that it works too well . As you can clearly see, the solution basically everyone individually applies is to stay clear of anything that might be an issue by severa
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by Sebb767 1y ago
If you need a lot of (not so fast) storage, 3,5" drives are still by far the best TB per €. For a lot of NAS solutions (backups, video/movie/music storage etc.) their performance is completely fine. Plus, we're most like
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by Sebb767 1y ago
It could be made harder, yes. This depends a lot on how the text is hidden and what kind of noise you use, though. Also, this would quite likely also impact legit usecases - you'll obscure intended text and details, as well.
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> and successfully avoided using Llm development these last few years. I'm not sure that's much of an achievement, to be honest. If you tried it and it turned out to be not useful for you, fine, I'm on your side. But refus
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> And I think that then leads to calls for: > - Redistribution of wealth We can talk about excessively wealthy individuals all day, but I'm pretty sure that most knowledge workers are not going to be on the receiving side of weal
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> but you can also run most Windows and Linux applications (in a VM). This is really just a cheap rhetorical trick. Linux [0] can run just as much software, if you include VMs, but you can't legally virtualize MacOS, therefore buyin
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by Sebb767 1y ago
An NFL football field is 120 yards, according to WolframAlpha (which I used for the calculation).
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> "all crypto is fraud" stands alone just fine. It might, but in this case it is preceded by "This is why", which makes the sentence as a whole simply wrong.
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> BTW I used to browse tcrf.net and it was so interesting that video game developers would leave pieces of themselves in their work. Love letters, old memes, angry letters, random shit, whatever. This is quite dependent on the games you
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> And I’d go further than that. I’d suggest that, contrary to what intuition might tell you, refactoring might be better achieved by throwing the code away and starting again. I don't think this applies in most situations. If you ha
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by Sebb767 1y ago
> * Defer has an overloaded operator%. It's a template function, which takes a callable object (type is the template parameter Callable) and returns a DeferHolder<Callable> instance. Is there any reason to use operator% instea
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by Sebb767 2y ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted - this is actually a valid point. If your average charging station handles 24 cars an hour, it does not matter from a power consumption perspective if it does so by having 12 chargers and everyone wai
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index. "There might be an option in the future if there are suff
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> Look at Tumblr or even Reddit, that despite being popular, never had influencer culture. I can't talk about Tumblr, but while Reddit doesn't have an open influencer culture in the same way that TikTok or Instagram do, it does

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