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by benterix 1y ago
I know people hate this but it shows a huge problem: innovation in operating system design. It's really a tough one. You really want the basic functionality to be very stable and unchanging to save yourself and others incompatibility p
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But this is an artifact of a distant past, a small glimpse of the Geocities era. We would write whatever was interested to us enjoying the whole process. Look at the Lisp "article": http://webarchive.me/geocities&#
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> users found them more pleasing. Some users. For me the drop was so huge it became almost unusable for the things I had used it for.
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> To make that concrete - if Mark Zuckerberg found out about the above activity and was appalled and sacked everyone involved that would send out a very strong signal. We know from another case that the opposite culture is true: when tol
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by benterix 1y ago
Tangentially related: in the announcement (and in the AppStore) they promote Assassin's Creed intensively. I tried it on M1 Max with 64 GB RAM and the performance was subpar. What is the minimum config to have it run smoothly?
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> How do you connect that 3090 to a MacBook? This is probably the easiest problem to solve, isn't it? Most tools offer a n API endpoint setup that you can use locally and also expose on a local network easily.
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Claude is not good for thus, try Mistral OCR. I'm using it on a daily basis on English and non-English texts and it works very well.
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> * Try to get some amount of physical exercise in the day and get out of the house. I find it's much harder to fall asleep if I didn't have a full-feeling day. This is the most improtant point that works for me. It's simp
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by benterix 1y ago
I'm afraid that 1) you are not going to get a definite answer, 2) an objective answer is very hard to give, 3) you really need to try a few most recent models on your own and give them the tasks that seem most useful/meaningful to
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> will our super AI also fix all the slowness and bugs in current software? If the OS you are using is open, then yes, that's doable and we were doing that also before the AI era. With a closed OS, the only thing you have is hope.
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by benterix 1y ago
> Google gave you incredible monetizable traffic for two+ decades. You forgot to add "for free" /s (I mean, really? Google made billions on being a better browser than Yahoo!, AltaVista, AOL Search and whatever was there.
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by benterix 1y ago
Although as a fan of Elixir I agree somewhat with some of the conclusions of the article, it deserves flagging as a HN submission because of flawed methodology, lack of numbers and clickbaity title (yes, clickbaiting is passe).
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by benterix 1y ago
I agree with you in general - it seems supereasy to pressure them into blocking CC payments via (potential) lawsuits etc. However, as for crypto and banks, I don't really blame them they don't want to have anything to do with thes
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> This isn't really saying much. On the contrary, it's saying a lot about sheer data size, that's all. The things you mention may be crucial why Redshift and co. have been chosen (or not - in my org Redshift was used as st
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> Oh, just what I needed to raise my RUMs and send my Hashicorp bill through the roof! out of curiosity, what are you paying them for? most orgs that use tf dont
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whats the point of writing tf if you never mean to apply?
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Absolutely beautiful, I wish I could see his face!
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> No, “but the big websites do it” doesn’t make it right. Also, it's only partially true, e.g. Amazon doesn't force the language at all, and while it presumes the country of delivery (which makes perfect sense as not all produc
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I see your point, but the risk is that instead of the most motivated ones you get the most desperate ones. It is not the same.
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> If you care about your work enough that you're willing to come to the office every day (or even move cities/countries), then you'll be extremely engaged. Or extremely stupid (if for the same money you get WFH without the
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by benterix 1y ago
> The AI label itself commands a price premium. In the minds of some CEOs and VCs, maybe. As for consumers, the AI label is increasingly off-putting.[0] [0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1936
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by benterix 1y ago
> It's hard to find a specific number, but that seems like it's even more than "traditional" taxi companies take. It's incomparable. I talked local taxi drivers and they told me they just paid a flat monthly rate
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by benterix 1y ago
Legal issues aside (you are the legal owner of that code or you checked with one), and provided it's small enough, just ask an LLM to write a script to do so . If the code base is too big, you might have luck choosing the right parts.
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For daily work - neither. They basically promote the style of work where you end up with mediocre code that you don't fully understand, and with time the situation gets worse. I get much better result by asking specific question to a m
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Everybody has their own preferences, what worked for me was Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksK-XzkSQlk
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As for hyperparameter tuning, the existing solutions such as Optuna or Katib (in KubeFlow) also use metaheuristics, e.g. CMA-ES.
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> to generate and optimize possibilities within a set of domain-specific constraints Well, yes, we've been doing this for several decades, many people call it metaheuristics. There is a wide array of algorithms in there. An excellen
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Actually S3 is a good example - it became the new de-facto standard for object storage management, and is used both by open source projects like minio and other clouds alike. This benefits the users/customers as switching from AWS S3 t
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Good, so go host your stuff wherever you want, it's a free world. We're talking about those people/organizations that made the decision to host in the EU.
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This is actually a known tactics. I remember in the 90s thieves often did similar things like triggering an alarm on a parking lot every night. At first many people were alarmed and went down to check on their cars. But after a few false al

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