xienze

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by xienze 5d ago
Yeah it's more of a concern but not "rewrite a ten year old application in Rust to save on the cost of several gigabytes of RAM" bad.
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by xienze 5d ago
Well let's start with goods and services being more expensive?
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by xienze 5d ago
> This is so untrue I still don't know how anyone can even claim this. Because it's referring to long running processes, AKA the kind of things where hot paths can be JITted into faster native code than is possible from static
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by xienze 5d ago
It's good to quantify the extent to which a lot of the stuff on there is just vibe-hosted. But I think it was always pretty apparent that this was the case. You've got numerous providers all running the gamut of: * Hardware availa
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by xienze 5d ago
Yes, the things that affect your lifestyle w.r.t. oil are contained to just you and your apartment.
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by xienze 7d ago
> Never understood why the outrage of flock in particular is so big online. Nobody really cared until they realized that it could be used to more effectively round up our precious illegal immigrants.
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by xienze 8d ago
Humans are voluntarily driving themselves to extinction through sub-replacement birth rates worldwide. That's going to play out far quicker than global warming or pretty much anything other than every country on earth launching nukes a
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by xienze 10d ago
Good point, we should also allow foreign organizations to contribute to US election campaigns and make Facebook ads because they might also believe in civil liberties as rights and ideals, uh... right?
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by xienze 10d ago
> Jan 6, didn't work, not entirely sure why you bring this up as a blueprint for anyone. Might want to let the Democrats know that. According to them the government was >this< close to being overthrown. Which is funny, because
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by xienze 10d ago
> In a few years we will have zillion dollar companies being run entirely by robots making enormous profits. "Zillion", I see you've done extensive research here. And these companies aren't making any profit, nevermin
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by xienze 11d ago
Have you considered that sometimes people buy automobiles that can accommodate multiple use cases? Just because you don't need to haul hundreds of pounds of supplies every single day doesn't mean that you don't need to do it
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by xienze 11d ago
> LLMs cannot “crawl pages” or “scrape” or do anything - it’s an offline archive with a few convenience methods. Being a bit needlessly pedantic here. I think it's well understood in these circles that such models are being driven b
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by xienze 12d ago
> for their heirs and dependents Why can't they do what the rest of us do? Earn and save money during your working life and leave _that_ for your heirs. Let copyright die with the author.
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by xienze 13d ago
Not sure a model that small is really supposed to be used for any real coding. At that size you're usually using the model to do simple tasks like summarization.
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by xienze 13d ago
They have the 32B listed as "stage 1" with the note "final checkpoint to be released." So, not finished yet. Not sure why you'd release it if it's not finished, but that's the explanation. The 7B does look
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by xienze 14d ago
> as soon as the real voter tries to vote, the system will detect a "double vote." And which of the two people are lying? Would you have to... verify ID to figure that out?
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by xienze 16d ago
> It doesn't even serve Anthropic's interests (surely better for them if it burns your token quota so you have to buy more the next morning.) Parent mentioned their $20/month subscription. It's definitely in Anthropic
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by xienze 16d ago
> I went to bed, and decided that it would stop at "3am" (it wasn't) and "not do significant work this at this late hour". Like WTF ? You're an LLM. You don't sleep. I think that's Anthropic tryin
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by xienze 16d ago
IMO local models require a substantial amount of prompt+harness engineering to get in the neighborhood of what you'd get from a cloud model. Which isn't a bad thing, you'll learn a whole lot about how these things work. What
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by xienze 17d ago
> nobody expected the result and would not have put it to referendum otherwise I think you're right, you see this sometimes where the powers that be are extremely over-confident in themselves and think "sure, let's put thi
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by xienze 20d ago
> Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux? And Nvidia hardware was running on Linux before AI as well... > And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation Mac servers exist
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by xienze 20d ago
All the big boy AI stuff runs on servers, which certainly aren't going to be running on Windows or Mac anytime soon. Linux _is_ what all this NVIDIA hardware is going to run on until... what exactly? FreeBSD overtakes Linux in the serv
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by xienze 21d ago
That's highly dependent on what sites you're visiting. Take a look around at a lot of modern sites, there's a sea of divs and spans. Markdown conversion helps LLMs a lot.
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by xienze 21d ago
What would constitute evidence in your opinion?
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by xienze 21d ago
It's not released yet, just announced.
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by xienze 22d ago
I think you'd be very surprised to learn that in a lot of cases, tipping pays much better than whatever a "reasonable" hourly wage for taking an order and carrying food to a table would be. If you're serving three tables
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by xienze 23d ago
> So move up the management ladder, if you will, until a party that is responsible for making this kind of decision is reached. That's the class of party of which I was speaking, and where I suggested that irrational decisions are b
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by xienze 23d ago
> What's wrong about syringe disposal? A significant portion of population has diabetes. Ask yourself if that's truly what motivated those being installed... > And even if a drug addict uses it, still better than throwing to
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by xienze 23d ago
OK, guess I missed that one. Score a point for mean ol' Trump I guess. But, you're ignoring that it's also not exactly a blanket ban on travel from the DRC, just "within the last 21 days", which... does that make a
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by xienze 23d ago
> It is very possible some sorts of lockdowns are implemented. What drives me nuts, and the same thing happened with Covid, is all the things you mentioned are true and yet western countries don't even entertain the possibility of p

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