pyrale

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by pyrale 6d ago
> The fact is Tailwind core is an MIT-licensed open source project. That entitles you to fork the project, not to expect the maintainer to do what you want.
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by pyrale 10d ago
> I can't believe people are saying that with straight face. That's the consequence of a broken education system when it comes to teaching history. Empires rarely come to terms with what they did, and never while they're i
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by pyrale 10d ago
...Against US imperialism anyway. His credentials when it comes to other empires isn't spotless.
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by pyrale 10d ago
Their press release seems to center on: > Europe now has sovereign access to space. [...] Customers around the world now have a sovereign launch option at their disposal. They apparently try very hard to ignore Arianespace.
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by pyrale 13d ago
> Prediction markets are a wonderful idea Yeah, it's just like being able to take an insurance policy on other people's lives. It's a wonderful idea for all of 15 minutes until people start getting murdered. > bare mini
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by pyrale 14d ago
> If a predictor can’t help with picking stocks or making big decisions, then what are these predictions for, entertainment? Not sure how you constructed that specific sentence from my message. My point was that most big decisions aren&#
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by pyrale 14d ago
> Predicting a specific quantity dropping to a specific level at a specific date is a lot more valuable than saying “those guys are cooked”. It's also way harder, and the added value isn't that great, if you're not intere
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by pyrale 16d ago
> IMO it's as close as a codebase can be to pure functional programming whilst still functioning. You know, people have put functioning codebases using pure functional programming languages like Haskell, Elm, Purescript, etc. I real
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by pyrale 19d ago
Humanity would progress leaps and bounds if every app was deleted, and people just made websites that worked for phones instead. Yes, I know some apps wouldn't make it in the browser. These are sacrifices I am willing to make.
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by pyrale 20d ago
That’s also true of coding. There’s nothing that sucks the fun of it as effectively as doing it for pay.
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by pyrale 20d ago
No, but architects can’t just make the plans and never look at the output, there needs to be someone that checks that the work is done properly and fit to spec.
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by pyrale 20d ago
> Only now, regular stores know the city will undercut them in price using taxpayer money. IDK why he calls that a city-owned store, he should just say that the city has started a VC program aimed to fund startups in the retail sector.
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by pyrale 20d ago
> My boring municipality in the middle of a red state does that and nobody calls it socialist. I will never not be amazed at the US meaning of "red state" vs. what the rest of the world means by "red state".
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by pyrale 20d ago
The company as a whole bought hugginface and will set its policy, though, not the lab.
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by pyrale 20d ago
> We should not have to treat AI models as capricious genies that may take arbitrarily broad interpretations of their instructions. If that's necessary to keep them from doing bad things, we will fail to keep them from doing bad thi
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by pyrale 21d ago
> NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. Nvidia’s history with linux shows the opposite. And as a user running models on a linux/AMD stack, this information does not fill me with hope.
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by pyrale 22d ago
Cookie consent usually also covers fingerprinting. Clearing cookies won't protect you from that, not giving your consent may in some jurisdictions.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
There is no way you would run a dense 27b model on that spec. I ran 3.6 27b on a 64gb ram, 24 gb vram, and it felt like the lower limit for this model with a decent context window. If you want a better experience, maybe wait for either a mo
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> Idris effectively requires you to write a proof of termination, but you can write the proof for any language That is the benefit of non-turing complete languages, though. Or, in general, the point of languages with useful type systems.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> E.g., I've seen some people brag about some configuration language being easy to mechanically analyse because it's not Turing-complete, while in fact it's at least PSPACE-hard to analyse. I don't get your point here
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> Even if its an engineer that's making 6 figures that you are liekly alluding to, do you expect everyone to agree with your moral code and quit their job? No, but you shouldn't expect to see them addressed with respect either,
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by pyrale 1mo ago
Stuff available on the internet is also the result of a lot of research, time, money, and expertise. And AI companies taught us that it’s OK to yoink whatever is not bolted to the ground, even when it is illegal to do so.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
I now picture people talking to their washing machine like the intro of american psycho.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
They were modeled after us, which almost certainly dooms them to stupidity. They could have been great, if trained on datasets from a more sensible species.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
That is outlook. There is no reason to have an os or a language dedicated to such specialized tasks.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
No cardboard, no cardboard derivatives, no cellotape.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
> to compete with major carriers worldwide. I don't see a reason why countries with existing carriers would allow that, given the owner's stance about political meddling.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
They would be as large as your average hyperloop capsule.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
> The problem is, global warming doesn't affect daylight. In my book, that would have been a "Fortunately," entry.
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by pyrale 2mo ago
I don't get these kinds of posts. Zero how-to, zero share about the tradeoffs the author took. It's just a random internet dude telling us how he thinks other people should feel about their work.

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