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Meta AI Support – full system prompt leaked(github.com)
3 points by alasdair_ 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alasdair_ 5mo ago
Torment Nexus springs to mind
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by alasdair_ 5mo ago
Next you’ll be telling us the shocking news that one of the parties used EMAIL!
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by alasdair_ 5mo ago
A representative of the corporation, while taking over the store, expressly states that the corporation is taking over the consignment agreement, on camera and with several witnesses.
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by alasdair_ 5mo ago
They can seize assets that belong to the entity. They can’t seize assets that belong to other people just because it happens to be on their premises, in the same way that they can’t seize and sell the cars that happen to be in a bankrupt st
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by alasdair_ 5mo ago
Notably, his essay “no silver bullet” states that there has never been a new technology or way of thinking or working that has led to a 10X increase in the speed of software development. That was true for almost seventy years until roughly
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by alasdair_ 6mo ago
Or skip the half measures and go straight for the dioxygen diflouride. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
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by alasdair_ 6mo ago
>Well met, fellow Uplinker!! I'm pretty sure this person worked at Playtronics.
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by alasdair_ 6mo ago
I think your post may have more acronyms than any other post I have ever read on hn. Do you have a guide to which specific things you are talking about with each acronym? Deep Learning and Machine Learning are obvious but some of the others
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by alasdair_ 6mo ago
Why 20 years? Just because we know, post hoc, the usa outperformed other places in the last 20 years, in no way means the next 20 years will be the same. If you want a different point to backtest from, try Japan in the 80s and early 90s
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by alasdair_ 7mo ago
I just don’t believe that this can run inference on a 120 billion parameter model at actually useful speeds. Obviously any Turing machine can run any size of model, so the “120B” claim doesn’t mean much - what actually matters is speed and
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by alasdair_ 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_...
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by alasdair_ 1y ago
That depends on how many lanes there are and if there is a median.
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by alasdair_ 1y ago
In terms of profit given to its creators, “money” has to be number one.
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by alasdair_ 1y ago
Personal hot take: China is forbidding its companies from buying Nvidia chips and instead wants to have its industries use China-made chips. I think a big part of the reason for this is that they want to take over Taiwan and they know that
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by alasdair_ 1y ago
The issue is the X is still a small SUV. We have one and ended up buying a Rivian as well because it has a lot more useful space than the X.
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by alasdair_ 1y ago
We have a model X and model S. I still like them but for our latest car we bought a Rivian SUV instead. The interior is just laid out better and there is a lot more space despite being roughly the same size as the X. The Rivian has the 360
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then? Yes, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was sentenced to 30 years in prison (!) for having a single partially-smoked joint in his car.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
homicide is not a "petty crime" or a "code violation" - that should be all the data you need.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>but they have never been free. Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed the cop off, you'd never get shot for it.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
No one I pay attention to posts on twitter any more.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
If congress doesn't allocate the money, they won't be paid, even if they have a contract that says they will. Imagine Trump decided to offer a worker a trillion dollars. He writes a contract with the worker. It is irrelevant - the
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
And Professor X is Martin Luthor King and Magneto is Malcolm X.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Through who? I'm paying $450 a month for 5 iphones and 4 watches.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The last time I rented a home in the Bay area I paid first, last, damage deposit and pet deposit in cash (almost $15k). The reason was that I was changing banks after a dispute and didn't want my old bank snagging the money. The owner
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>if you tell a story about someone carrying more money than most Americans ever have in their bank accounts in their entire lives, in cash, on their person, you're describing something extraordinarily unusual. I used to play poker s
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
> i can't imagine why you'd carry cash for such transactions and not a cashier's check. because people forge cashier's checks far more easily than they forge cash. I certainly wouldn't take one as payment for a t
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
It seems it would be far easier to just mail the company a raspberry pi, a battery and a GSM module. Address it to someone nonexistant so it doesn't get opened for a few days. The real news is that the wifi didn't use 2FA like the
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>The difference is that you can trust a good calculator. I found a bug in the ios calculator in the middle of a masters degree exam. The answer changed depending on which way the phone was held. (A real bug - I reported it and they fixed
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
I had an interview once where they asked "can you describe yourself in one word?" and they disliked my answer of "no".

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