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by em500 8d ago
Tale as old as time (or at least as the 1970s): nobody ever got fired for buying ~~IBM~~ Cloudfare / AWS / Azure. 9 out of 10 corporate decisions are for blame avoidance / ass covering.
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by em500 10d ago
Note that almost all tests and marketing claims about M-DISC (most notably the 1000-year claim) where about the DVD versions. The main distinguishing characteristic of DVD M-DISC is that they do not use organic dyes like standard DVD+&#x2
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by em500 14d ago
It seems that Mistral is moving in that direction anyway: "Our customers particularly value us for pioneering open models. Open weights give them what mission-critical work demands: the ability to see inside a model, adapt it, and ret
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by em500 14d ago
There are probably three main reasons: 1) unified memory (but you can also that with DGS Spark / Strix Halo), 2) access to your Apple account, so you can have a bot handle your iMessages, email, calendars 3) energy efficiency. Apart f
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by em500 14d ago
I understood from informal chatter that researchers in the top Chinese labs are pretty open with sharing knowledge with each other. Additionally, it seems that anywhere between 30-50% of key researchers in the top US labs are ethnically Chi
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by em500 15d ago
> From a cursory read of their white paper, my impression is that LISEP is trying to quantify the sense that making a livable income is harder and more disparate than it used to be. But their own defined measure shows the opposite. The f
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by em500 24d ago
Yes, I've wondered many times why there are no modern (human to human) chat interfaces that implements that, rather than sentence by sentence.
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by em500 1mo ago
I wonder if someone already made a somewhat turnkey setup like this? Small models should ideally not waste a lot of parameters on trying to memorize too much knowledge and then hallucinate / interpolate a lot of the gaps.
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by em500 2mo ago
I don't think this type of legislation will have any kind of real world effect. Apple App store labels all their buttons with "Get". Google Play Store just prints the price on the button for paid apps/games.
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by em500 2mo ago
Everybody is in a bubble. Which is why it's worth looking into other people's bubbles occasionally. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/07/15/people-in-many...
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by em500 2mo ago
Government issued versus corporate issued age verification is a false dichotomy. There are other options, such as refusing games that require them. (Yes, we do have a teen, and yes we did exactly that with Roblox.)
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by em500 2mo ago
Why would that be a shame? "bc" is a mandatory POSIX command, while /bin/bash isn't (/bin/sh is the standard).
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by em500 2mo ago
This article seems high on vibes, low on metrics. > While a plain-vanilla philosophy degree remains as hard to monetize as ever, David Chalmers, a prominent philosopher of consciousness at N.Y.U., observes: “I think the demand for philos
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by em500 2mo ago
It's not "the company" that makes such decisions, but some senior managers or directors who do. They don't see a penny extra in their paycheck for savings money, but they are on the hook if anything goes wrong with less
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by em500 2mo ago
I think you're missing my point. China does not need to or aim to attract any researcher from anywhere. Just attracting top tier ethnic Chinese researchers and technical talent from the US is already a big unequivocal win for them. Tha
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by em500 2mo ago
It's not too different for ethnic Chinese researchers, of which there are a lot in American STEM departments.
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by em500 3mo ago
Pertinent data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOP65UPTOZSUSA
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by em500 3mo ago
We've had the great small Qwen 3.6 early April that many could actually run on their laptop. Then similar from Google a few weeks later (Gemma4, better in prose, worse in code). Then the super cheap large Deepseek V4 a few weeks later.
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by em500 3mo ago
Just to be accurate, median annual salary is over $62k accross the US for kindergarten and elementary school teachers, with California nearing 100k. [1] https://www.onetonline.org/link/localwages/25-2021.00?st=CA
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by em500 3mo ago
Noteworthy that Z.ai, maker of the just released near-frontier GLM 5.2, has already been on the Entity List since Jan 2025[1]. Being on the Entity List does not mean all trade is forbidden. Broadly speaking it means American companies an
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by em500 3mo ago
Hourly wage for all private sector workers is up +32% since Dec 2019 ($37.54 vs $28.38)[1]. For non-management workers +35% ($32.31 in May 2026 vs $23.85 in Dec 2019)[2]. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES050000
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by em500 4mo ago
> The biggest trap is the hallucinated citation. It will easily insert an absolutely authentic sounding quotation from another case that perfectly proves the point you are trying to make, then it'll make up an authentic name for it,
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by em500 4mo ago
So this is specifically about Toyota's hybrid engines (which is very different from e.g. Honda's engine, not to mention plug-in hybrids or "mild hybrids"). The explanation of the mechanics starts around the 36 minute mar
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by em500 4mo ago
They learnt from ooenai that naming yourself open-xyz doesn't actually require opening anything.
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by em500 5mo ago
> The cities' water usage is to keep people alive with basically mandatory things, like hygiene, and drinking Almost half of city water usage is for residential landscape irrigation, mostly spraying lawns, which is not exactly manda
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by em500 5mo ago
I sure hope connected health device makers include some generous tolerance for network outages.
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by em500 5mo ago
> Why do you think an employer would waste resources like that? The parent post specifically mentioned large organizations, where the "employer" is not some person who hires and pays employees from their own funds. Hiring and p
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by em500 6mo ago
> The price of a loaf of bread in gold now is still similar to what it was in the Roman Empire 2000 years ago. That seems pretty unlikely, when the price of a loaf of bread in gold now is less than half of what it was only 3 years ago.
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by em500 6mo ago
Yes, under How It Works : > libqemu-system-aarch64.so (QEMU TCG, no KVM) TCG means software emulation
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by em500 6mo ago
You mean his terrible financial decisions of founding a company in 2004 that IPO at 104B within eight years, and now 14 years on is valued at 1.6T? Are we looking different track records?

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