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by akiselev 3y ago
Demand outstrips supply by such a wide margin it doesn’t matter one bit how they compare. The cheapest 8x A100 (80GB) on the list is LambdaLabs @ $12/hour on demand, and I’ve only once seen any capacity become available in three months
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by akiselev 3y ago
The easiest way to win hearts and minds is through the stomach [1]. I don’t know how effective South Korea’s program has been since LA’s Koreatown had tons of kbbq and other korean restaurants before 2009 but Thailand’s Global Thai [2] pr
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by akiselev 3y ago
You can tell if it’s vanilla ChatGPT but the second you tell it to write in another style and tone, it changes completely. It’s very interesting that it sounds like a generic high school essay by default, but that’s without any extra instru
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by akiselev 3y ago
Meh. Add it to the pile. The number of world ending risks that we could be worried about at this point are piling up and AI exterminating us is far from the top concern, especially when AI may be critical to solving many of the other proble
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by akiselev 3y ago
Have you never heard of the Cylons?
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by akiselev 3y ago
> The only intervention that does reliably work is bariatric surgery. My understanding is surgery only works reliably because failure to comply with life style changes post-op is easily fatal and ethical doctors only perform the operat
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by akiselev 3y ago
https://archive.ph/c1bG3
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by akiselev 3y ago
https://archive.ph/1waP9
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by akiselev 3y ago
https://archive.ph/MUi6k
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by akiselev 3y ago
I guess predictable HN click bait leads to predictable HN criticism leads to predictable HN meta-comment leads to predictable HN meta-rebuttal. It's the circle of life :-)
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by akiselev 3y ago
The LAX-SFO flight averages to around an hour and a half one way. It sounds like he really liked commuting to and from the airport more than flying. He would have been better off with a PPL and a Piper that takes off from the nearest small
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by akiselev 3y ago
Key quotes: > I was living in LA, rent free. > I love flying and I have a lot of frequent flyer miles/points from credit card sign up bonus/flying over the past few years. > I booked all my tickets for Fall 2022 back
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Little woody's is a $7.50 burger but has no sides. add fries for 3.5 and you are at $11. Or better yet, how much is a burger at Dick's now?
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by akiselev 3y ago
I believe the technical term is "bloodbag"
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by akiselev 3y ago
There's Google Wait, Wait+, GWait, Hangwait, Wate, Wait4it, Google Weight List, Alphawait, and last but not least GWait Hangwait. Am I missing any?
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by akiselev 3y ago
https://archive.ph/qvh5V
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by akiselev 3y ago
Getting to the meat of the release (from their github [1]): > What's the difference between StableStudio and DreamStudio? Not much! There are a few tweaks we made to make the project more community-friendly: - We removed
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by akiselev 3y ago
I think you may have just stumbled onto the new Turing test: when confronted with the confusing world of Javascript frameworks, does it make a choice or collapse into a state of complaining about javascript frameworks. I’m not sure which wo
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by akiselev 3y ago
Most people in the west haven’t eaten real mangoes. The US and Europe are just too far away to get access to proper tropical fruit because it spoils so fast. We get the varieties that travel well which are almost universally the worst tas
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by akiselev 3y ago
I've found that LLMs have some intense binary trypophobia. Once you start replacing all their 1s with 0s, they quickly fall in line.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Drop a ball on sand, it goes thud; the force involved is the weight of the ball. Drop a bouncy ball on concrete, the force is ~2x (stopping the downward motion, then enough for the upward motion). The force in both scenarios is exact
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by akiselev 3y ago
The total number of registered pilots (general aviation included) has fallen almost 10% since 2013 [1]. There are simply far fewer pilots in the pipeline, which effects everyone downstream including airlines and military, even while the num
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by akiselev 3y ago
It keeps telling me you're a Mongolian warlord from the 13th century [1]. [1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mr_Prosser
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by akiselev 3y ago
Because even industrial pollution at a modern scale is small potatoes compared to the possible consequences of honest-to-god intentional geoengineering. The risks here are in a completely different league. We recently found out that the A
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by akiselev 3y ago
The GP is technically correct. By volume much of the ocean is practically a wasteland because of the oxygen minimum zone [1]. A few animals like vampire squid are adapted to this zone but for the most part, the vast majority of ocean life i
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by akiselev 3y ago
There was a really interesting article on HN a few months ago [1] about the biggest ship recycling yards and their environmental impact. Anyone have any idea why these oil rigs are taken to different places to be scrapped? I would have assu
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by akiselev 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ow1Rc
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Then it just switches to Latin roots: > Mortifraction: Morti- is derived from the Latin "mors" meaning "death", and "fraction" from the Latin "fractus" meaning "broken". This word could
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> In some ways it does seem like the perceived glamor of these jobs is a double-edged sword: the allure of what you do makes it less likely that you’ll jump ship to something less exciting but more lucrative (similar to how game industr
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by akiselev 3y ago
The bulk of artifacts that survive to this day are pottery, jewelry, and metal Roman coins. Two of those three categories were mostly metal objects that could have been melted down but weren't. Collections of Ancient Roman artifacts ar

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