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by benterix 1y ago
Think well: why should a platform provider get into a terribly expensive and unprofitable business when they can just provide hardware for those with money to spend? This was AWS strategy for years and it's been working well for them.
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> WASM is not supported in the standard library. Would using the C output and using emcc on it solve this problem?
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> I’m a huge fan of Hetzner ... I don’t see how “bare metal” saves much engineering time. I think you confuse Heztner with bare metal. Hetzner has Hetzner Cloud which is like AWS EC2 but much cheaper. (They also have bare metal servers
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by benterix 1y ago
Hetzner. For most public cloud providers you have to give them your credit card number so they can charge an arbitrary amount. For Hetzner, instead of CC#, you give a scan of your ID (of course you can attach your CC too or Paypal). Persona
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Yeah, let's use the opportunity while it lasts.
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Similar here - but in my case the reason is because of vendor lock-in - they spent years getting into AWS and any thought of getting out seems dreadful.
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You are aware that RDS needs backups, setting up monitoring properly, defining access, providing secrets management etc., and updates between major versions are not automatic? RDS has a value. But for many teams the price paid for this valu
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by benterix 1y ago
Either way, when you are in a business of selling relatively cheap models with very low storage option and charge a fat extra for more modern options, you have incentives to fill the space on your device a bit faster.
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> The output is considered derivative and therefore it’s not illegal. Well, this is what they claim. In practice, this is untrue on several levels. First, earlier OpenAI models were able to quote verbatim, and they were maimed later not
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> These seem like randomly chosen generic grievances, not examples of companies making promises in their privacy policy (or similar) and breaking them. Am I missing some connection? My point is that whenever we send our data to a third p
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Well, yes and no - it gives them more plausible deniability ("oh, this particular piece just ended up in the training set by accident") if they get caught when compared to the previous ToS.
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by benterix 1y ago
I can somehow understand the parent. If you control the language, you control the discourse. This is like the famous "I'm appalled at the negativity here on HN" comment threads when doing product launches etc. Or using euphe
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by benterix 1y ago
The contract was never written down, though. And it could never be written as the rules are in constant change. Even the contract itself is just an assumption when at some point in your life you look at how people live, how they have been l
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This is not nitpicking, this is a sane reaction to someone modifying the meaning of words on the fly.
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What kind of guarantee do we have this is true? Meta downloaded copyrighted content and trained their models on it, OpenAI did the same. Uber developed Greyball to cheat the officials and break the law. Tesla deletes accident data and repor
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In the past we used the term "multimedia library".
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> It uses a micro-USB port to charge. They released the plus model which uses USB-C so at least this point is no longer valid.
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> A GUI library is indeed not a GUI, but a library with which one might implement a GUI. This definition basically blurs the distinction between a "GUI library" and "graphics library". A GUI library is GTK, QT and oth
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by benterix 1y ago
This should hit the headlines. I was always of the opinion that AI of all kinds is not a threat unless someone decides to connect it to an actuator so that it has direct and uncontrolled effect on the external world. And now it's happe
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As for 3, regardless if it's true or not as it's also quite subjective, you need to also ask yourself the question whether that's really desired, or, whether the society has the moral right to ask that. Think about Jews durin
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> Or, at least, not from North Africa, and I don't really see any other place to get them. I have many excellent and hard-working colleagues from India, for example. North Africa is not the only option, and just taking these people
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> It’s much easier to say “brown people took your life away” than to face reality many small and large decisions made by the government and the people have led to the current outcome. Tangential note: While I agree, there is something mi
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> Not a native speaker, but is depopulated really the right word here Straight from the dictionary: depopulate (v): to substantially reduce the population of (an area)
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No, the second would be both absurd and illegal, not the parent but we're talking about lack of competition here, not the end of civilization.
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> yet they fail to deter smokers. The existing ones, sure - you get used to it. But for non-smokers, that's a visible indicator of what you're bringing on yourself if you start smoking, so it has a deterring value. It helps you
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Or you can just have rich parents and do nothing, and still be considered successful. What you say only applies to people who start from zero, and even then I'd call luck the dominant factor (based on observing my skillful and hardwork
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It's a cliche but people really underestimate and try to downplay the role of luck[0]. [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/beautiful-minds/the-...
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>> I realized that it was impossible to memorize a proof without understanding it! > I find it hard to memorise things I don't actually understand. Isn't it the parent's point?
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> That said, I strongly believe developers don’t do enough consideration as to how to maximize vendor usage in an optimal way Because it's not straightforward. 1) You need to have general knowledge of AWS services and their strong a
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It does have some good aspects for engineers working with these tools in some cases: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-...

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