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by bandrami 4mo ago
I'm too paranoid to ever want a home snitch device, so I'm not their target audience, but it always struck me that if it took even ten minutes to debug a problem like that it completely destroys a year's worth of time alleged
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by bandrami 4mo ago
He also claimed in 2015 that nobody would be driving their own cars by 2018. Meanwhile I've seen a driverless car once in my life.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I personally think Elon is willing to take a hit on SpaceX's IPO Friday because he knows it will suck the air out of Sam's attempt at exiting.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I think the reference was to Elon giving Dario a two-month discount on compute as part of the deal and Dario immediately announcing a profitable quarter based entirely on that discount .
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by bandrami 4mo ago
That wasn't an S1 and we have zero idea what GAAP compliant numbers for Anthropic or OpenAI would look like
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by bandrami 4mo ago
That's true but then that's basically the end of Nvidia if that happens
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I remember nearly losing my mind at that stupid conveyor belt sorting demonstation because 1. The human beat the robot, but more importantly 2. We've had non-humanoid conveyor belt sorting machinery for decades that beats both
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Same thing with the weird push towards humanoid robots. "They can do anything!" Sure, once you subscribe to the $15/mo laundry package, the $25/mo lawn care package (with the $10/mo hedge trimmer upgrade), and the $
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Like Medeco claims to do with key blanks? I'm not hopeful.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
For better performance of ~equivalent tasks. That's what all the harness tooling people are using does: (often) increasing output quality by significantly increasing token counts.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Not necessarily. European grocery shoppers report higher satisfaction with the shopping experience than American grocery shoppers do.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
The other part of that is that while price per token may be going down, tokens per task is going up
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by bandrami 5mo ago
My vague prediction right now is that in five years LLMs will be heavily used by universities in grant-funded math research but nobody else will be able to afford it, much like supercomputer clusters 25 years ago.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I agree with the Wayland premise that having an old and hairy library everybody is afraid to touch is bad, but having those same capabilities implemented piecemeal and incompatibly by five (and counting!) compositor ecosystems in ways that
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by bandrami 5mo ago
There's probably somebody in Monaco who does that
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Oh hey, so about that Gulf oil money...
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by bandrami 5mo ago
You sell equity now if you think equity is going to be worth less in the future
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I just got one of the lighter Snapdragon surface laptops and the software ecosystem is still hit and miss. LuaJIT in particular still has build problems on WoA and that's unfortunately upstream of a lot of stuff I use day-to-day. The N
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by bandrami 5mo ago
This is actually one of the more useful services those horrible check-cashing storefronts provide.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Defense. Containers on our normal network are the wild west, but anything that touches the secure network has to be signed off on by the clients.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
You mean directly on the machine? Not in a container? That would be a recklessly fast timeline. The configuration control board meets quarterly and it usually takes 4 or 5 meetings to clear a piece of software.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
That's why we don't let the developers run system package manager install scripts as root. We do let them run npm inside containers, which is still more access than I'd like them to have.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Our pre-LLM system does better than that, but any improvement would help us do more lucrative things with our labor hours
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Because it needs to look up ITAR and NATO rules as well as current unilateral export restrictions and departmental guidance.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
"Do these documents contain models or descriptions of (list of devices redacted for HN), or personally identifying information?" would be a great question to be able to automate since it sucks up a lot of time that could be more p
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by bandrami 5mo ago
The big manual task we haven't automated is going through documents and determining "is this sensitive enough to warrant information controls?" We may just be stuck with that in the way of things.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
That's already sounding like more work than what we would be trying to automate
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Well that as the set up is non-negotiable (it legally has to be on premises); the issue is a model nonetheless exfiltrating data if we give it any network access.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Exfil remains the big worry for my company and the main blocker from adopting agents in general. We've brainstormed a lot but we can't really find a way around the fact that it's feeding data we care about to software we don&
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by bandrami 5mo ago
The worry is direct exfiltration, not training

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