esseph

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by esseph 4d ago
> Dude probably sleeps on a bed worth more than your networth. I never understand shit like this coming out of people's mouths. Never. It's not a judge of actual Worth as a human being, it's not a judge of capability or
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by esseph 4d ago
Place yourself at the head of one of like 3 companies the entire rest of the world has been taking about nonstop for 4+ years now. You can move forward or you stop. If you move forward you get to have a hand in how stuff turns out and you m
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by esseph 4d ago
> Surely, we managed to negotiate a Non-Proliferation Treaty with most of the countries of the globe. N/S Korea, Russia/Ukraine and finally US/Iran changed everything in regards to stances on nuclear weapon ownership for m
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by esseph 4d ago
> but that my reason for commenting here is that public comment processes are a nightmare for democratic policymaking. The public comment process has stopped a lot, a LOT, of shitty things from happening at the federal and state governme
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by esseph 5d ago
No, I don't actually. It's part of their lock-in and market capture like any other large digital business. The only ones that don't do it, can't.
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by esseph 5d ago
> The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections. 400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G
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by esseph 5d ago
It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.
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by esseph 5d ago
It is apparently a big deal. https://openai.com/index/building-an-early-warning-system-fo... https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2977-1.html --- "Prompting Moremi Bio Agent wit
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by esseph 5d ago
Well it IS being used to make vaccines... https://theconversation.com/worlds-first-ai-designed-vaccine...
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by esseph 5d ago
> If LLMs have a lasting effect on society, I'd prefer to see some options that don't have generic corpo-speak anti-liability status quo guards encoded into them by default. Non-zero chance the lasting impact LLMs have are a bi
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by esseph 7d ago
> So you would prefer a media circus and investor scrutiny when your employer's executives are fired for failures or misconduct? Yes, as a warning to the other executives. Signed, The Shareholders
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by esseph 7d ago
Larry Ellison must love them, they are helping carry out his idea.
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by esseph 8d ago
ahahahahah
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by esseph 8d ago
Me? I can read the 2 pages in ~30s or so. How long is the video? 15m? Nah. Edit: video is 37 minutes
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by esseph 8d ago
Companies are doing 7-9 interviews now for even mid level engineering and infra roles, and these companies are not doing anything unique. As someone often doing the hiring and firing, I do not understand it. If it takes that make interviews
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by esseph 8d ago
Brother if you have the solution, start a company. There are people willing to throw money at you. But Free is hard to beat with a global presence. And please listen to what others are saying here, there's a lot of experienced people h
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by esseph 8d ago
Data scraping. If anything else, the AI machine wants near constant streams of new data, even if it already checked with you 30ms ago. A CDN helps immensely. Also keeps you from getting DDoS'd if you did something like run it off your
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by esseph 8d ago
The site this is about is current down due to HN traffic. Lol
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by esseph 9d ago
> Im assuming the people who _train_ AI [ LLMs ] actually need to separate the two, and avoid the feedback loop of training the next LLM on the output of the previous LLM. Check out Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). Then s
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by esseph 9d ago
> “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This has not led to positive outcomes currently in the US. I agree with it in theory, I truly do. I think it also gets used as a tool for politicians,
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by esseph 9d ago
That is a ~9 year old card. I'm not sure any of the newer work AMD has been doing can utilize that hardware at all. It would have been sold off to grey market or destroyed 3-4yr ago in most companies. Newer, much cheaper stuff ironical
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by esseph 9d ago
On Linux the problem is often flipped (historically for Nvidia/AMD). The AMD drivers are mainline kernel, while Nvidia is still handing out binary blobs.
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by esseph 9d ago
It's part of a very popular song from the 70s by Joni Mitchell called "Big Yellow Taxi". Counting Crows did a cover in 2002.
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by esseph 9d ago
LA county has about the same population as Sweden.
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by esseph 9d ago
”Not really" what? It's hard to understand what point you're trying to make. Can you clarify?
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by esseph 9d ago
> AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs. 9060 XT 16GB seems to have some great performance with gpt oss 20B and others, and works great with their lemonade-server. https://
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by esseph 10d ago
4 major AI services all had outages around the same time. Gemini, too. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/four-major-ai-models-suff...
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by esseph 11d ago
You're talking about a CHILD, the posters grandchild, and some of the joys of life. And your response is "Well what if they become Hitler?" Are you serious?
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by esseph 11d ago
What is wrong with you?
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by esseph 12d ago
Update: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

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