m4nu3l

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by m4nu3l 12d ago
Also, not all language models are transformers. You can have language models based on diffusion models or state-space models, or any other model that can be used to model sequences (so all of them, as sequences are just functions). Transfor
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by m4nu3l 2mo ago
The study seems to be strictly for TV watching. I mostly watch science/math/history/economics related videos on YT. I prefer the more in-depth ones; I also watch gaming/movies related videos sometimes. I don't think
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by m4nu3l 2mo ago
When I find articles like these, I remember I haven't watched TV for almost 12 years, except when at someone else's home. By this, I mean I never turned on the TV to see what's on the television. I used the TV as a monitor to
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
> When getting something out on the market, they woudn't take this risk and still have a commonly used port on the side. The consumers as well would prefer to not take the risk of buing a device forcing them to use a port no other d
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
The point is, if the regulation works as intended, it consolidates USB-C as the standard and slows or blocks new types of ports from being designed and tested. If it doesn't, then it's useless. You can't have it both ways. Im
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
What's interesting to me is that this is a bit like how the USSR worked. They were relying on the West for high-tech tractors and even to build factories (I know Ford helped them build some factories for a part of the factory output).
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
I replied to a similar question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711705 . If I wanted to buy a device with a different type of connector, including a different form factor or a totally different charging mechanism
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
> you just have to provide USB-C option as a fallback. Given you must have a USB-C port, the design would still be limited by the USB-C form factor and adding another port would even further increase the complexity, costs and weight of
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
> On the other hand, USB-C wouldn't have become a true standard if no-one forced Apple's hand I don't want a state-dictated standard like this. What you're saying is that because some people want iPhones and they wa
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
It doesn't really matter to me, because even if that's true for Apple (or it was at the time), it still means other companies can't test new technologies. They might as well be OK with that, but it still means that consumers
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
> I don't have this particular problem, so it doesn't exist! No, what I said is that you could find devices with USB-C in all the categories that are now regulated. This means it was pretty easy to find devices like that if you
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. A short-term view of the world, progress and technology. All my devices supported USB-C before the EU regulation. But if I wanted to buy a device with a new type of connector, I should have been
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
The education system has failed in the EU, but in a different way than it has in the US. I realised this when people thought mandating the USB-C connections was a good idea because "it is the best standard". I didn't think th
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
Not sure what you are referring to. Can you elaborate?
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
Just to be clear, my definition of free-market is just that there is no centralised authority that can use force to set prices/quantities/quality/type of services offered. Of course, the fact that the employer has to offer he
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
> You can't prove your free-market theory because it's not falsifiable. You can prove the logic part starting from the assumptions. It's also falsifiable. I just mentioned it was literally the most controlled test on human
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by m4nu3l 3mo ago
This is a very bad analogy. Markets behave like an imperfect optimisation algorithm, and you can prove that, under some conditions which are most often met, they give people what they want. In fact, you can almost always expect governments
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by m4nu3l 7mo ago
A more realistic estimate of the total number of addressable things should take into account that for anything to be addressable, its address should be stored somewhere at least once. If it takes at least Npb particles to store one bit of i
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by m4nu3l 7mo ago
It's not just about intentions. To convince me that the Government can improve things through regulations, you'd need to do a few things: 1) You must convince me that optimising for some utility function you defined is the right t
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by m4nu3l 8mo ago
There is a problem with this comparison. The agent had access to open-source browsers in its training set. So you'd need to compare the cost of creating an equivalent browser for a developer who has access to them, too. If all you need
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by m4nu3l 8mo ago
What I find confusing about this comment is that to me, authoritarian and libertarian are opposites, but have only to do with individual freedoms, not the political system. With these definitions, you can have a democratic or non-democratic
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by m4nu3l 8mo ago
The first one is basically some glue code using pipes. The ones I'd say are not trivial are the VMs in Python. However, I'd say they are entirely useless, and not too complex either (although somewhat tedious to implement).
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by m4nu3l 8mo ago
All of the linked apps look trivial to me. Also, the first one, the UI has no feedback once you click the answer (plus some questions don't really make sense as they have the answer in them). There is more on the website, so there coul
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by m4nu3l 9mo ago
I believe the problem with democracy is that it's affected by various problems analogous to the ones of markets, but often amplified. In this case, to me, it really seems a matter of extreme information asymmetry as you'd never se
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by m4nu3l 9mo ago
It seems it was her wife who pushed for that. By reading the article, it doesn't sound like he believed any of that. > "If it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it," she quoted the president as saying. Also > Both t
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by m4nu3l 9mo ago
What you are actually doing here is moving allocation logic from the heap allocator to your program logic. In this way you can use pools or buffers of which you know exactly the size. But, unless your program is always using exactly the sam
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by m4nu3l 10mo ago
I think the stochastic part is true and useless. It can be applied to anyone or anything. Yes, the models give you probabilities, but any algorithm gives you probabilities (only zero or one for deterministic ones). You can definitely view t
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by m4nu3l 10mo ago
I remember reading about this or a similar problem before. I think it was posted on HN, but the solution was much different. They entirely removed the branch and instead marked the requests in such a way that the packets would be discarded
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by m4nu3l 1y ago
> Ultimately, I think such a separation as you describe will be stable only when all natural resources are controlled by tier 1 and tier 2 gets by with either gifts or stealing form tier 1. For that to happen tier 1 would have to buy all
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by m4nu3l 1y ago
> So if tier one needs something from tier two I don't think they need to even ask You mean stealing? I'm assuming no stealing. > But this also means probably there will be no way way for tier two to extract any of the resou

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