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1. 691.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   If your business is not in core tech, you are out of your competence to build your own multi-region cluster or a private cloud. It is a quite challenging task to start with, with unpredictable costs. Many HN readers do not understand this,
2. 692.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   A mainframe is your own on-premises AWS. (IBM should send me money for this tagline). Seriously though, there are businesses where sending the data to a third party is absolutely impossible. You can spend a lot of money building your own pr
3. 693.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   Yes, like military strategy.
4. 694.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   Ah, yes, you have to put a card and sometimes (not always) know a PIN, but nobody checks whether it is your card.
5. 695.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   Games are solved since AlphaZero. Just set up an adversarial model, and voila. Any game, any conditions. Proactive models are simple — just generate the “internal monologue” periodically from the system prompt, mix it with the compressed st
6. 696.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   This is what we used to call an "AGI" back in 2013-2014. Generalized artificial intelligence. An AI which is general enough to be used for diverse tasks in multiple fields, unlike specialized AIs of that time (e.g. for image recog
7. 697.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   Here in Switzerland, I have a daily cash limit to put in ATM (there are ATMs allowing cash deposits), and this limit is about 50000 francs (52400 euros). Daily. Fully anonymous. There is no limit, of course, for in-person deposits (and with
8. 698.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   And with this, you basically learned all pre-QFT quantum mechanics.
9. 699.▲
   by atemerev 3y ago

   You are already responsible for whatever your car is doing, regardless of how it is driven. What additional regulation we need?
10. 700.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    “don’t bring it to school”, yes, but the rest should be safe.
11. 701.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Can we interpret these 9-bit square arranged combinations as letters in Marain, the language of The Culture?
12. 702.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    “Avoid success at all costs”
13. 703.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    The Chinese: “wow, we actually can do this?”
14. 704.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Fedora. Ubuntu is becoming worse as of lately.
15. 705.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    HFT is relative. But here's one thing that is actually used in many firms: https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload (and correspondingly these network cards: https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards
16. 706.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    I don’t know where to store all my tons of scanned paper documents to be automatically OCRed, searchable, and accessible on all devices :( Do you know any other solutions?
17. 707.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    I was there! I dialed up my connection, and went straight to http://timessquarechat.geocities.com (later gameschat.geocities.com), my fingers still remember. I was a 15 years old kid in the city of Omsk, Siberia; and nearly ever
18. 708.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Model binary to Huggingface or it didn’t happen.
19. 709.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    I returned to the academia after 15 years in the industry. Copying protobufs for an ad company (or worse) will not get you any meaning of life.
20. 710.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Yes, if you want to keep that sweet growth. If you are OK staying where you are as a relatively niche outlet (like HN), you are safe. But transitioning to the general public stage will require you to sell your soul. No getting around that.
21. 711.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    LLMs are like perfect, brilliant high-performance cheating students on steroids. They are not optimized for understanding and reasoning, they optimized to give you plausible-looking answers. So yes, they will cheat their way to good scores
22. 712.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    You can still use it with a more modern syntax with GT.M and YottaDB databases, both open source and commercially supported.
23. 713.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Some of the ideas from MUMPS (like global transparent object persistence) were useful, and with the syntax modernized and some rough edges smoothed, you can enjoy them with MUMPS spiritual successor, YottaDB. I highly recommend it to try.
24. 714.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Remember, remember eternal September…
25. 715.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Well, Switzerland is not in EU.
26. 716.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Well, ChatGPT works perfectly fine here.
27. 717.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    Nope (Switzerland). I wonder why this idiocy happens.
28. 718.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    This toy was perfectly safe, no injuries were reported, and nuclear scare in general prevented a lot of good things to happen. Like, cheap and CO2-free electricity.
29. 719.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    > Things like sentience, subjective stream of experience, or other aspects of being alive don't just accidentally fall out of larger training datasets. I disagree, language is all we need. Agency? Encode your “internal needs” as pro
30. 720.▲
    by atemerev 3y ago

    All AI companies (OpenAI included) are now working full tilt on making AIs improve themselves (writing their own code, inventing new pipelines etc). I don't know why choose anything else to work on. This is a prime directive, that will