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by alex_sf 4y ago
All three of your examples also apply to the internet.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That's.. not how social engineering works.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
A more reasonable alternative view is that regulations are largely opposed by most in the industry for good reasons. Including the fact that the explicit absence of such is what allow for the internet to exist at all.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
There's no one answer to that since different models are.. different. Beyond just modalities (text input and image output? image input and video output?), there are different common underlying tools used to build them. And then, of
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I have a similar setup. GPUs were $1.6k US, rest of the system was another ~$1k. This includes 256GB RAM and dual Xeons.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I mean the first and the third aren't great. So, 33% chance of being boned.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
More than you'd think. BLS says 4.4 million software engineers in the US. Compare that to: 5.5m Nurses 4m Teachers 9.8m Retail workers
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Somewhat related, I've seen mentions here and there of people using cruise ships for the same thing. Minimal distractions from the outside world (via the internet anyway), and most personal concerns out of the way (food, laundry, etc)
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by alex_sf 4y ago
They usually don't win in the long-run because someone comes along with > better design, cheaper price, better range, better reliability That doesn't mean the first mover advantage doesn't exist.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I have been. This is absurd. You’re claiming that 80% of your time, 80% of your substantial pay, was spent managing the fallout of a single employee on a team of 30. It’s astonishingly inefficient and wasteful. And while you’re emblematic
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You made it much harder on yourself. You should have just fired that one person. But, management.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
But that's talking about the process, not a lens for looking at it. It's more akin to giving your Roomba a name, and describing it's behavior in terms of "it likes to eat goldfish, but not string because it gets tangled
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Of course, because plenty of thoughts, when critically examined, are correct but socially unacceptable. When someone reaches the conclusion that a socially unacceptable thought is correct, the vast majority will try to stop thinking about a
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but I hate this argument. If anthropomorphizing it a) gives practical insight into it's behavior that b) also happens to result in the behavior you would expect, why not do it?
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The entire point is that basic discussions are twisted into being attacks on people because they are too sensitive.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
k8s is almost the polar opposite of this idea for most companies. At minimum, a half dozen daemons spread across multiple hosts for.. what? Making the easy things built-in and everything else much more complex than it needs to be?
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You don't 'set up' deliverability.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I'm perfectly capable, as is the vast majority of even passing readers of HN. If you think that the hard part is setting up the mail server, you're exactly the type of person that should _not_ be hosting it yourself. The problem
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by alex_sf 4y ago
No, the configuration is not difficult at all. It's the interactions with all the other mail servers on the internet.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I've been doing email related things for 15 years. Do not host your own email.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This is a fairly normal structure for large German companies, fwiw.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Nor have pirates: https://twitter.com/novelaiofficial/status/15785291897410805...
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I've come across a few, but they are so neutered that they are effectively worthless. The latest round of commercial AI offerings are hobbled to an extreme extent.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I don't disagree.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
No. US law makes a distinction between 'prior restraint' and 'compelled speech'. Prior restraint is the government forcing you to _not_ say something. Compelled speech is the opposite, forcing you _to_ say something. Bo
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> I don't see how the government could be stopped from forcing a company to hand over their encryption keys and just continuing to publish the canary on the company's website themselves though. The government could force the ha
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The sort of banana republic that can generate a court order for you to do that is the same kind that would simply put a gun to your head instead. In the US, no court would order that type of equitable relief. But, pretending that's no
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by alex_sf 4y ago
It's not a 'logic bomb'. US law sets a high bar for prior restraint, an even higher one for compelled speech, and has never compelled false speech as far as I'm aware. And no, most rulings are, in fact, logically consis
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> They really have no incentive to do so. Other than, you know, doing the entire thing they are designed to do. Some people do, in fact, care about civil liberties.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That's clever. Have you had good luck with a particular model?

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