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by version_five 3y ago
Being a poor performer is not the same as being a bad person . There are lots of reasons for poor performance like you say that are probably all present to some extent or another. But from a company's perspective, it's better to k
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by version_five 3y ago
People don't like to admit it, and companies will never say it, but a lot of recent "layoffs" have been polite ways to get rid of low performers. It's not a surprise that after dropping some dead weight companies want to
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by version_five 3y ago
Canada has given them an 11 figure subsidy to build EVs here... I wonder how that will play out if there is not the demand.
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by version_five 3y ago
If true, would that still hold now? There is so much politics and polarization and agendas - I'm not aware in Linux specifically but in tech and open source generally. Without benevolent dictators I think a lot of projects would fragme
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by version_five 3y ago
Yes. I posted in it yesterday, in my own "threads" I see the posts' age reflecting that, when I look at this thread they are now only a few hours old.
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by version_five 3y ago
I think you've found the solution! We could probably solve more problems by banning things!
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by version_five 3y ago
Everything about Amazon is deceptive. It's the digital equivalent of going into a shady bazaar somewhere and haggling with slimy merchants that know all the tricks to rip you off. I've all but stopped using it and cancelled prime
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by version_five 3y ago
It was posted on BBC, that's why it got more attention. I posted this article yesterday too, having searched for it and not found it posted.
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by version_five 3y ago
I think the endgame is having a different understanding of privacy, modesty, etc. There's no way this is going to go away or be regulated away somehow. Heavy handed punishment of young kids who generate images just creates more problem
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by version_five 3y ago
Quebec has enacted all sorts of discriminatory rules centered on their insecurity about culture and hatred of English canadians. Montreal is a bit insulated because it has large English and immigrant communities and less nationalist politic
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by version_five 3y ago
I see this on HN frequently. Someone posts their thing and you get some low quality banter about the name choice or hosting provider or whatever, and then the top thread is a big unsubstantiated criticism plus some pilers on. You never real
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AI-generated naked child images shock Spanish town of Almendralejo(bbc.com)
7 points by version_five 3y ago|6 comments
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by version_five 3y ago
As a positive, maybe we can consider this a bit like wfh vs in-person. We had this Dickensian workhouse version of work as somewhere you go for the day and give someone else your time. And in the best cases, this turned into outcome based w
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by version_five 3y ago
Right, look at conferences, MBA programs, etc. There are/were "remote" options but they essentially have no value, it was just a placeholder we tried. Some kinds of work can be remote of course. But learning and networking on
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by version_five 3y ago
The focus is on white supremacists but from what I've seen "activists" would be more reasonable. There are extreme activists from all sides trying to corrupt institutions like this. I'm hopeful the white supremacists don
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by version_five 3y ago
The US has socialized healthcare, it's just run my insurance companies. That means it has all the bad incentives of socialized healthcare, ie the incentive is to minimize (locally) the amount of care provided, and it also has all the p
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by version_five 3y ago
Sure, and the faster you did that the more you would have made. I don't think AI is equivalent, the emperor has some clothes on here, they're just not quite as nice as he's been led to belive, but the same principle applies.
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by version_five 3y ago
See "CHAOSS DEI Badging Initiative" https://chaoss.community/diversity-and-inclusion-badging/ It's what I guessed, "community health" actually means a toxic focus on personal and political garb
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by version_five 3y ago
If this was NFTs, what would the winning strategy have been? Strike when the iron is hot and hype is at the maximum and hope to get some exits or subsequent rounds asap, or draw it out. From a portfolio perspective, it's just one batch
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by version_five 3y ago
What is the reason for such an angry reply? They're pushing the boundaries and going against the spirit of free software. It's apparently legal but damages open source. There's been lots of discussion about it.
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by version_five 3y ago
It's not you, it doesn't make sense, it's just signaling membership in a club/cult
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by version_five 3y ago
Our results demonstrate that the power of language models can be attributed, to a great extent, to the auto-regressive next-token training scheme, and not necessarily to a particular choice of architecture. I think that's obvio
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by version_five 3y ago
I stopped using prime probably five years ago precisely because it became a bunch of stuff I didn't want and the shipping options got eroded. Most stuff seemed to be "add on" or "not available for prime" and without
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by version_five 3y ago
Ironically cnn types are the ones who want to cancel or rewrite Agatha Christie, in particular "And then there were none" to which I think they're referring. Anyway, I was thinking how screwed up it is that we live in a world
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by version_five 3y ago
Redhat and Nvidia have been pushing the boundaries of GPL recently, and Free software / open source as a concept continues to get watered down. I wouldn't be surprised to see MS try something.
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by version_five 3y ago
What would you want to see in MS Linux? I'm terrified that having "embraced" linux they are scheming in the background to "extend" it in a way that they don't release the source. That's got to be part of t
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by version_five 3y ago
I used a windows computer this week for the first time in years. I was really happy with WSL and how well integrated it was, in particular how easy it was to setup GPU drivers which historically I've found is very touchy. I hate to say
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by version_five 3y ago
When models are released like this, it would be great to do it with a PR to ggml/llama.cpp giving support, or use a format that's already supported. Imo if I'm choosing between a 3B and a 7B, I'm using it in an edge or l
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by version_five 3y ago
Canada post scans address information from letters and sells it to marketers. Canadas privacy commissioner ordered them to stop, but they make $800M per year on it so they are challenging it.
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Canada Post needs to invade your privacy to survive(nationalpost.com)
6 points by version_five 3y ago|2 comments

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