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by 0xDEF 4y ago
It's crazy that OpenAI hasn't fixed their tokenizer yet. They are leaving the door wide open for some Chinese big tech company to capture the non-Latin script parts of the world. i18n (and accessibility) was something American tec
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Ask HN: What do you use for vector database? (FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone etc.)
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There were dozens of terror attacks against air travel in the 80s and 90s. The global post-9/11 "security theater" did make flying in the developing world much safer.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
They are an organization founded by scientists. However today their primary goal is anti-nuke activism. For example the author of this piece is a former Danish Greenpeace activist who according to his LinkedIn profile doesn't have any
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
MidJourney gives by far the prettiest results of all the text-to-image models however it's obvious they have fine-tuned it to that generic ArtStation digital art look.
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EVs were a small irrelevant market segment until 2017ish.
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>The recent BRICS currency It's important to not paint BRICS as an actual political entity. It literally started as an investment term made up by Goldman Sachs. Especially India has its own problems with China and China's Israe
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>Europe, except for Poland and the Baltics, does not seem to be too enthusiastic for this war. Why do blatantly false statements about Europe keep getting upvoted on HN? The European public overwhelmingly supports Ukraine and military ai
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Honestly this is my main problem with TikTok. I know Meta and Google spy just as much as TikTok. However it is problematic that Chinese app companies have full access to Western markets while the reverse is severely limited.
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The only reason Putin is not off limit is because Russia's GDP is smaller than Canada's GDP.
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True. So are the ruling parties of Hungary and Russia.
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>Putin has shown restraint over past two decades Ask the people living in Georgia, Ukraine, and occupied Chechnya about how much "restraint" Russia has shown them. >Those who may replace him, real hardliners, may be less res
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Russia losing its political objectives in Ukraine is not an existential threat to Russia so there is no reason they will escalate to nukes. The Russian political elite are enjoying their luxurious lives in Moscow. Many of their children and
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>or some of the extremely violent war footage "Where is the war footage?!" is one of the main talking points among far-right disinfo accounts to dowplay the severity of Russia's invasion. Selectively down-ranking war foota
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>There used to be a team at Google called Google Brain and they all left to go to OpenAI after the employee protests against taking military AI contracts in 2018. This is blatant revisionism. Military contracts is not the reason Google h
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Does anybody have a scientific (not clickbait) citation for this? The lack of this in the coverage of the East Palestine train derailment is interesting. So many of the claims goes back to TikTok videos and reddit comments.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
As a Danish person I was chocked by the amount of fat people I saw in the US. I know the non-fat healthy Americans on HN and reddit don't like this being brought up and would rather blame "the system". But even the Danish hea
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
This is just a temporary annoyance for OpenAI. Their partner/owner Microsoft already hosts GDPR compliant OpenAI GPT-3 models from an Azure data center (in the EU). It's only a question of time before they also host GPT-3.5-turbo
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>WITCH It's been a while since I heard that term. They are everywhere in Danish government IT (through KMD). InfoSys (the I in WITCH) invested in OpenAI back in 2015. How much is their investment worth now? If it is in the billions
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
That website claims the median software engineer salary in Ukraine is $60,000 and $47,000 in Russia. Both are way too high to believe.
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I remember reading some Bangalore-based users in r/DevOps being surprised that they were earning almost the same as devops engineers in Germany.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Big Tech is purging all teams that don't own user-facing products/features although SRE and AI teams will most likely be spared.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
In the past three years Coinbase has become one of the most aggressive lobbyists and corporate donors in DC and they're predominantly supporting Republicans. What did they expect would happen when the other guys are in power?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
When OpenAI and Google insists on "safety" it leaves the door open for startups that do things like this.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Someone probably send conventional SMS over the Signal app.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Crypto trading platforms should also not get any of the benefits Coinbase is lobbying for right now.
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They already bought AI.com for probably a huge sum. It's only a question of time before they rename themselves.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
LangChain is LLM agnostic. People are using it with Cohere's LLMs and even self-hosted LLMs like LLaMA.
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Android is a mobile-specific middleware layer running on a European operating system.
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The average programmer could probably get by with high school maths and just enough college-level statistics to know the difference between mean, median, percentile, and standard deviation.

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