Matl

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by Matl 4mo ago
> Must be nice to live in a country where your neighbors don't blame you for killing Jesus and want to exterminate you. Says a country that's been credibly accused of trying to exterminate its neighbors you mean? The absolute l
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by Matl 4mo ago
So it's based purely on party labels? Political parties are not static and is clear that Labour has been moving further and further away from a left platform. I mean they tried to cut benefits for disabled people, supported Israeli war
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> It's not based on the Bible, it's based on where we know for a fact people actually lived under the Roman empire. If not just speculation based on a 4000 year-old mythical text, it's literal documented history. It's
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by Matl 4mo ago
I am not sure I would characterize the current UK government as 'left' myself.
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by Matl 4mo ago
> my experience has been getting antisemstic (yes, not anti-zionist) comments whenever this gets discussed a lot I appreciate your experience. I have no doubt there's indeed been an increase in such comments. I think it's impor
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by Matl 4mo ago
> why should a startup be more loud because other people are biased? Diplomacy is the job of the state. I agree with you that it is the job of the state to do diplomacy, I would argue that the Israeli state has done an extremely poor job
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by Matl 4mo ago
Last time I suggested on a similar story that there's a disproportionate number of firms in Israel with an explicit focus on subversion, manipulation, spying and malware, seemingly because a large portion of the Israeli population gain
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by Matl 4mo ago
Some things I try to check for - sources array has sources that don't correlate to the package name/purpose or are from strange places, like github repos that don't seem relevant etc. - extensive post install scripts suggesti
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by Matl 4mo ago
Best to stick to official repositories only.
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by Matl 4mo ago
I think the best bet is that that at some point going from 30B params to 9T params is realistically going to give the closed model a 10% edge in niche tasks, but that the open model would be very useful most of the time still. I don't
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by Matl 4mo ago
There's great hand crafted library managers/players out there like https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org etc.
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by Matl 4mo ago
In the case of Gates at least, it definitely came in part from having access to the right people.
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by Matl 4mo ago
> known IP thieves Such as Antropic and OpenAI you mean?
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by Matl 4mo ago
Yes, it's like selling a share to a group of mates who hear from their mates that AI is hot so they want in. Still does nothing for the profit not being there to pay those investors back in any other way than via new investors (ie pens
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by Matl 4mo ago
Sanction busting is an interesting thing because states are sovereign so if one state imposes sanctions on another, it's not illegal for the sanctioned state to do everything to ignore/bypass them, unless we consider the sanctioni
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by Matl 4mo ago
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military - this goes beyond previous technology sharing
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by Matl 4mo ago
I'm happy for you that you're always the perfectly informed player in every transaction you ever make having the most up to date information, ensuring that you're getting the best deal possible at any given second, groceries
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by Matl 4mo ago
I am not endorsing what China is doing in terms of surveillance by any means, but their argument would be that every nation not subservient to the US got overthrown by CIA backed forces the moment they opened up. The surveillance tech that
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by Matl 4mo ago
> Training a model on copyrighted material is fair use I am not sure this has been actually established, but I don't see how distilling a model is not fair use then.
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by Matl 4mo ago
It can work quite well in the desktop GPU 'happy path' (single monitor etc.) if you don't care about the proprietary nature of it. But once we're talking about laptops, hybrid graphics etc. it quickly shows that this is
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by Matl 4mo ago
> just like their GPUs are So with proprietary blobs that give you more trouble that they're worth?
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by Matl 4mo ago
> if that were true, the large portion of code now being rewritten in Rust wouldn't be vibe-coded slop. There may be some recency bias with the whole Bun fiasco, but Bun is after all owned by Anthorpic. The wast majority of softwar
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by Matl 4mo ago
You're conflating why people want to rewrite it in Rust vs what is the likely end result i.e. I do think people want to rewrite things in Rust because they believe long-term it will mean fewer (memory safety etc.) bugs especially becau
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by Matl 4mo ago
I too want to go back to that, but I fear most consumers/potential visitors to your website have been conditioned to expect flashy web by this point and so it's a self reinforcing paradigm.
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by Matl 4mo ago
Tesla is known for hazardous factory conditions, worker mistreatment etc.[1] Then there's the autopilot misleading marketing, Cybertruck being glued together with spit glue and duct tape etc. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Matl 4mo ago
So then the European ones should join with European copyright holders to sue OpenAI/Anthropic and watch them trying to BS their way around what they train on.
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by Matl 4mo ago
> it's against the OpenAI ToU Given that OpenAI doesn't care about training on copyrighted data, why is suddenly their ToU something anyone should care about?
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by Matl 4mo ago
There was no race anymore once the first Moon landing happened. Same as the Soviets won the 'space race' since they were the first to get into space. The Moon landing race was a new race. Now the Back to the Moon race is a differe
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by Matl 4mo ago
Are you saying that Americans, who have close to 1,000 known and many unknown bases in every corner of the globe are worried someone else might set up a base somewhere before them? I guess I am just not that bothered, because I don't a
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by Matl 4mo ago
Yeah, because software is not meant to evolve and people are not meant to either.

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