tsukikage

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by tsukikage 5d ago
It's just like cookie banners: they shouldn't exist, but people's bonuses rely on never admitting that, so here we all are.
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by tsukikage 6d ago
> Nobody wants this "Oh. Well, then stop."
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by tsukikage 7d ago
Have you ever considered that "well, it works on MY machine!" is perhaps not the most helpful response to people voicing frustration at something that is not working as they expect for them?
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by tsukikage 7d ago
Realise that you are talking to some mathematics in a box. You can't get a rise out of it. It cannot feel guilt or remorse. Whatever emotional payoff one might want from "I asked for ONE button" cannot be had here. Meanwhile,
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by tsukikage 11d ago
Traditional forum/wiki spam is intended for search engine crawlers, not humans. How this new stuff relates to human users of the resource does not seem to differ in any way that is significant.
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by tsukikage 11d ago
“You could have LLM, LLM, chips and LLM. There’s not much LLM in that.”
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by tsukikage 14d ago
We don't understand what those are or how they come about, so how does that help us objectively reason about whether a particular black box does or does not have them, especially when it behaves as though it does, beyond arbitrary I-kn
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by tsukikage 24d ago
Meanwhile, entirely too frequently I see unit tests that have atol / rtol values which permit errors of one part in 200 or even higher, where people bother with unit tests at all. At some point someone in the pytorch ecosystem used rto
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by tsukikage 26d ago
> Or are they just using it for training You’re making a distinction here, but training is something you repeat for every new point release, so you need to keep the data if you want to use it for training.
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by tsukikage 27d ago
> The origin of this sentiment is users entering a quiet IRC room For me, the origin of this sentiment is the culture for certain departments at $LARGE_CORP I used to work for. People would ping me on the internal instant messaging tool
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by tsukikage 29d ago
Facebook already requires users to tell them their age, and already mandates minimum ages for users in their T&Cs. Recent and current lawsuits establish that /this is not enough/. Hence, mandatory age checks involving some com
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by tsukikage 29d ago
We should take a minute to understand that the current lawsuits are pushing, hard, for this. Whether or not Meta also want to do spying thing for their own purposes, we are forcing them to roll this shit out when we declare it's not en
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by tsukikage 1mo ago
You’re supposed to use an AI on your end to get the original few words back, so the providers get paid twice for the same email as is their right
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by tsukikage 1mo ago
Meta acquired Rivos last year.
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by tsukikage 1mo ago
He explains, at length: there is no sane way to determine what the hardware you are running on actually supports, and so there is no sane way to ship compiled code that is both compatible and performant. We already had the mystery meat CPU
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by tsukikage 2mo ago
What is the sane default response to "we and our 242 partners value your privacy"? I mean, it's even the literal truth: they value your privacy in the sense of having their software do a little internal auction to put a price
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by tsukikage 2mo ago
Had no problems at all self-hosting for two decades; then a provider went bust and I lost my static IP block, and with it its two decades of reputation. I still self-host, but now I cheat for deliverability: route the problematic destinatio
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by tsukikage 2mo ago
This will bite you.
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by tsukikage 2mo ago
It's how venture capital works: the theory is that you invest in a dozen pie-in-the-sky pipedreams, almost all of them fail, and the one that doesn't pays for the rest. If you're not failing most of the time, you're not
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
When first encountering these ecosystems and looking at the various pieces they contain, one may repeatedly ask: "why didn't they just use <off-the-shelf solution> for this problem instead of writing this component/subs
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
For the love of all that is good, clean up the AI slop before you parade it in front of people. Can't you see the misspellings, misattributions and duplicated labels in the images? If you couldn't be bothered to spare it even a pa
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
Note that those are total comp numbers. Something like 60% of that is dependent on performance review, which is fed in large part by automatically collected metrics like number of commits, number of code reviews ticked off, the LLM token us
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
So, Meta are certainly happy to take advertiser money (except when they aren't, apparently), and demonstrably triple-digit-billion-dollars worth of people are happy to pay them, so something somewhere must be working, but I still don&#
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
I would personally be much happier sharing that link with others if it did not have the information-collecting form.
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
I particularly like the form at the bottom for collecting your email address and adding it to a big list. EDIT: looks like it's gone now. Gonna count that as a win.
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
The job contracts include clauses about not posting things that paint the employer in a bad light on social media. No idea how enforceable that stuff is in any given jurisdiction, but really, what individual can afford to find out?
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
...ah. So, kids can doomscroll youtube shorts all they want, but they can't use a premium account that lets them avoid adverts. Does that... help?
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by tsukikage 3mo ago
…so, have kids actually stopped watching Youtube?
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
Your “and then” is doing a lot of work there. The steps between may or may not include some form of “learn to understand humans”, but you can’t just hide them behind “and then” if what we are doing is claiming some particular thing is not i
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
What does “understand” mean? Turing complete systems can be built out of matrix multiplications, out of attention, out of key/value lookups. The Chinese room is Turing complete. By claiming it cannot understand things because it is bui

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