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by Roark66 3y ago
Sadly this is exactly one of the cases where open source is much more vulnerable to a state actor sponsored attack than proprietary software. (it is also easier to find such backdoors in OS software but that's BTW) Why? Well, consider
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What creators need is a better youtube algorithm. Is it just me, or has youtube recommendations become almost unusable by now? Some years ago when I spent "an hour watching YouTube" I'd watch a huge majority of videos recomme
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by Roark66 3y ago
>I really find it hard to believe you can compare temperature measurements “globally” before 1950s with any sort of consistency You're right to be skeptical and we can't. There isn't even a single "global temperature&
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by Roark66 3y ago
>Some of these frameworks like instructor use like 80% more tokens or only work with OpenAI so we aim to tackle all these problems from the ground up. No doubt this is because open source OpenAI API implementations don't support fun
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by Roark66 3y ago
>low usage This is hilarious. As a developer, if PWAs work properly I'm much more interested in writing them, test them on ios and market them to ios users. If the feature is uncertain, or outright broken like now of course no sane,
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by Roark66 3y ago
>Chrome constantly scans your harddrive in a way you can't easily turn off, and it's not for your safety: it's for the safety of their ad business to try to catch malware that engages in click fraud. If you have media or b
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by Roark66 3y ago
This is no different than living in a city, going to work in person and renting cheapest, crappiest place of residence you can. You could say "There is always someone willing to tolerate shittier living conditions and undercut you&quot
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by Roark66 3y ago
>Which means Microsoft (9% of the Nasdaq 100), is using its cash and services to power an AI company which touched $1.6billion in ARR for 2023 but is raising money at a $100 billion valuation.. (raising money at >50X non-profitable sa
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by Roark66 3y ago
>it makes me feel bad (though not too bad at this point) that I have to log off at quittin' time, sharp, to go relieve my wife of some childcare and make a family dinner. It shouldn't make you feel bad. I have no children and
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by Roark66 3y ago
Some people are horrible idiots with amazing level of stupidity. Equating fpv drones with "weapons", AI in general with driverless cars. If we allow this hostile sentiment to spread it will be uneconomical for companies like waymo
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by Roark66 3y ago
I disagree, I also have a large number of accounts (in online shops for example) that I forget about and 3 years later when I make a purchase in the same shop my password manager reminds me I already have an account there.
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by Roark66 3y ago
Today is the AI equivalent of the PDP11 times in general computing. "Personal computers" were rare, expensive and it was easy for large companies (IBM etc) to gate keep. Open source was born in these days, but it really thrived af
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by Roark66 3y ago
There has been a lot of progress with tools like llama.cpp and ollama, but despite slightly more difficult setup I prefer huggingface transformer based stuff(TGI for hosting, openllm proxy for (not at all)OpenAI compatibility). Why? Because
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by Roark66 3y ago
>With all the battery and solar production being added in the next few years I think they will also rapidly remove coal from their grid. Is this irony? You can't seriously think the Chinese Communist Party will stop using coal until
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by Roark66 3y ago
There are certain "quality of life" issues with the open source ecosystem. I don't blame them for choosing (not at all) OpenAI. For one putting together a chatgpt like experience that supports reliably at least chat history a
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by Roark66 3y ago
Exactly this. I remember back when elance was a thing I signed up and I won my first gig in 2 days. I asked my client why he choose me (charging $1k) when others were bidding to do the job for $50 and he said he liked the message I sent him
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by Roark66 3y ago
Self employed means you're a "one man band" and you have no intention of changing it. A startup is when you may start on your own, but you want to grow it, have employees etc. I decided long time ago the former makes me a lot
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by Roark66 3y ago
>Well there’s FOV and there’s pixel density which are both too low right now. Exactly. You know what is the best "goggle" type display I ever saw (and I tried quite a few)? Recent FPV goggles (hdzero) that have 1930*1080 OLED d
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by Roark66 3y ago
Wait, it makes no sense, but let's run our own mpg numbers. I'll start in L/100km as that's what I'm used to and I'll convert it at the end. My 19 year old VW golf Mk5 4*4 (hatchback) does 4.5L/100km or 43
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by Roark66 3y ago
Exactly. I don't think I ever bought any software expecting to get updates for free. Bug fixes, if they break original functionality, yes, but not new versions that contain new features. Getting updates and new features has traditional
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by Roark66 3y ago
And they definitely, describe in great detail in patent documents how to make their "secret sauce", right? No, wrong. Patents are often written in a way to give maximum protection and minimum information how to recreate the thing.
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by Roark66 3y ago
Exactly, I always thought heating raises the entropy of a system and cooling puts it back in the "more orderly" state. So of course it can't be symmetric. Just like breaking a wine glass, reversing that process takes a lot mo
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by Roark66 3y ago
Seriously? This reads like a joke. They brute forced some tenant test systems. Fine, I bet the password was Password123!, but then "they used account's permissions" to access various corporate emails. How is that even possibl
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by Roark66 3y ago
>As for what will take them down - all large institutions are failing right now. The public education system. The health care system. The government. The mass media. The immigration system, and general idea of national borders. The zonin
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by Roark66 3y ago
The best shorthand for onscreen writing is the way SwiftKey keyboard supports. Basically you swipe your finger in one continuous path between letters stopping between words. It let's one write in comparable speed to typing on a smartph
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by Roark66 3y ago
People are different. For some it really increases productivity and wellbeing. For others the opposite. I'm not surprised it is about the same on average as measured by work output. I've been working 100% remote since 2017 and I&#
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by Roark66 3y ago
As someone who was born and spend half of my adult life in this country I can tell you an average Polish person didn't "hate Russians" in general before the recent intensification of the war in Ukraine. Despite the 50+ year o
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LLM function calling. Fine tune or use context free grammars, what is better?
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You know, for years people said the same thing in Ukraine about Russia. Sadly, an authoritarian regime (anything not democratic, mafia state, even a good old fashioned kingdom, or dictatorship) is always a threat for not just neighbours enj
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by Roark66 3y ago
I stopped reading when I got to the camera resolution... 324x324 px. Are they serious? Either it should run at 1k fps or the board should cost $10. Also the whole Edge TPU, the implied promise was that this is a beginning. That there will b

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