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by lambda 9mo ago
RMS famously lived out of his office at MIT for a while.
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by lambda 9mo ago
Yeah, probably asking on LMArena makes this an invalid benchmark going forward, especially since I think Google is particular active in testing models on LMArena (as evidenced by the fact that I got their preview for this question). I'
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by lambda 9mo ago
I've tried doing this query with search enabled in LLMs before, which is supposed to effectively do that, and even with that they didn't give very good answers. It's a very physical kind of thing, and its easy to conflate wit
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by lambda 9mo ago
The thing is, I see people use it for tricky niche knowledge all the time; using it as an alternative to doing a Google search. So I want to have a general idea of how good it is at this. I found something that was niche, but not super nich
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by lambda 9mo ago
Yeah, that's part of why I don't disclose. Obviously, the fact that I've done Google searches and tested the models on these means that their systems may have picked up on them; I'm sure that Google uses its huge dataset
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by lambda 9mo ago
I'm a significant genAI skeptic. I periodically ask them questions about topics that are subtle or tricky, and somewhat niche, that I know a lot about, and find that they frequently provide extremely bad answers. There have been improv
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by lambda 10mo ago
This is an experimental homebuilt aircraft, so the regulations on manufacture and replacement parts are much less stringent than commercially sold aircraft. Also, the part it was replacing was a fiberglass part in an epoxy resin, with a gla
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by lambda 10mo ago
All of this sounds like something you could just do yourself after putting a piece down for a day or two and coming back to it with fresh eyes. What benefit is there of cooking the oceans with a bullshit generator? Like, sure, it's pos
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by lambda 10mo ago
Do you think it would show ads, or just prioritize content based on who has paid for ad placement?
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by lambda 10mo ago
That's one of the big problems with any kind of AI alignment or safety work. Safety for whom? Alignment to whose needs? And a lot of time, that's contextual. You don't necessarily want to be effortlessly crafting novel exploi
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by lambda 11mo ago
Please, when commenting on the title of a story on HN: include the title that you are commenting on. The admins regularly change the title based on complaints, which can be really confusing when the top, heavily commented thread is based on
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by lambda 11mo ago
It's incoherent. It simply makes no sense at all that Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy socialite, would post a bunch of stuff on Reddit for years to accumulate meaningless internet points, under something based on her own name, while someh
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by lambda 11mo ago
Yes, the mod stopped posting publicly around the time she went to prison. That seems to have been the catalyst for the conspiracy theory. But it was actually a couple days apart; he stopped posting before she went to prison. And he actually
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by lambda 11mo ago
TIL that there's a conspiracy theory that Ghislaine Maxwell is the same person as power mod MaxwellHill. Seems like a pretty incoherent conspiracy theory. What a weird thing to believe.
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by lambda 1y ago
Isn't that just... the setup in this article? Like, yeah, there's some sketchy stuff with connecting those loads to this over extension cords snaked all around the house, but this setup is basically what you're asking for.
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by lambda 1y ago
Another to check out is Solvespace. It's a much smaller simpler CAD modeling program than FreeCAD; doesn't do nearly as much, but I find it much easier to use, more intuitive, and more stable than FreeCAD.
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by lambda 1y ago
Yeah, Molicel are quality cells as well.
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by lambda 1y ago
Yeah, anyone can, but I think you'll be rate limited if you're not on AWS. So fine for a one off, but not something to put in your CI.
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by lambda 1y ago
Not Debian itself, but Red Hat's registry has them: https://quay.io/organization/lib
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by lambda 1y ago
The images I use the most, we pull and push to our own internal registry, so we have full control. There are still some we pull from Docker Hub, especially in the build process of our own images. To work around that, on AWS, you can prefix
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by lambda 1y ago
When discussing the headline on HN, can you please quote the headline that you are discussing? Headlines are commonly edited by mods without any history, so it's hard to tell if you're discussing the current headline or something
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by lambda 1y ago
They have yanked the bad version of simple-swizzle by now, which was the last of the packages that I was tracking. It took them quite a long time to do so.
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by lambda 1y ago
There's no useful parallelization that could happen during this particular search. This took a couple of iterations of research via ChatGPT, and then reading the results and looking at the referenced sources; the total interaction time
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by lambda 1y ago
Not sure which is the hardest, but sure, let's try them all. * Bouncy people mover. Some Google searching turns up the SFO article that you liked. Trying to pin down the exact dates is harder. ChatGPT maybe did narrow down the time fra
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by lambda 1y ago
I guess the part where I'm still skeptical are: Google is also still pretty good at search (especially if I avoid the AI summary with udm=14). I'll take one of your examples: Britannica to seed Wikipedia. I searched for "wiki
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by lambda 1y ago
I would write it with Option-shift-hyphon when I used macOS. On Linux, I use Compose-hyphen-hyphen-hyphen. I don't use it as often as I used to; but when I was younger, I was enough of a nerd to use it in my writing all the time. And y
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by lambda 1y ago
A kickback is a bribe; specifically, a bribe to someone on one side of a larger financial transaction, for facilitating it. As in, vendors A, B, and C are competing for a ten million dollar contract with Walmart to provide some service, so
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by lambda 1y ago
It can be more than one reason. First of all, keep in mind that research has shown that people generally overestimate the productivity gains of LLM coding assistance. Even when using a coding assistant makes them less productive, they feel
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by lambda 1y ago
It's simply not open source. It doesn't meet the definition. It's co-opting the term to call it open source. This has been debated and settled. What people mean by open source or free software has a well agreed upon definitio
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by lambda 1y ago
This is a perfectly succinct way to put it. New housing is simply more expensive; so it's marketed as "luxury", and it's sold at a premium to the higher end of the housing market. This reduces demand for the older, more

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