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by btbuildem 1y ago
I've recently put together a setup that seemed reasonable for my limited budget. Mind you, most of the components were second-hand, open box deals, or deep discount of the moment. This comfortably fits FP8 quantized 30B models that see
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by btbuildem 1y ago
It's Safe and Secure!
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by btbuildem 1y ago
https://login.microsoftonline.com/ is down, so that's fun
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by btbuildem 1y ago
> incapable of achievement because what else remains to be achieved What a shameful lack of imagination. There is a million ways you could help others.
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by btbuildem 1y ago
The worst part of it is they'll dig in their heels and absolutely refuse to admit to their mistakes -- doubling down on this UX downgrade for years to come. On the phone, sure, whatever -- but on a work machine?! It's infuriating.
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by btbuildem 1y ago
This holds true for product documentation as well. Too often docs are just a litany of detailed feature descriptions, which field and button does what, etc. Feature-list type documentation is orders of magnitude less useful than workflow-ty
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by btbuildem 1y ago
This is because they're trying to reduce the wrong headcount. The largest inefficiencies in corpo orgs lie in the ways they organize their knowledge and information stores, and in how they manage decision making. The rank and file gene
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by btbuildem 1y ago
I am still of the conviction that "reducing employee head count" with AI should start at the top of the org chart. The current iterations of AI already talk like the C-suites, and deliver approximately same value. It would provide
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by btbuildem 1y ago
A great hack/shortcut for solving this "memory" problem is to have a rolling RAG KB. You don't fill up the context, and you can use a re-ranking model to further improve accuracy. Aside from all that, using npm for distr
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by btbuildem 1y ago
This would be much more interesting if it didn't just capture one "dumb" point cloud, but actually discerned the separate and unique objects -- eg, giving the user the ability to interact with them in VR as one would IRL.
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by btbuildem 1y ago
It's the provincial governments of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan that have been abusing the notwithstanding clause to further their political (conservative) agendas. The feds have not once reached for it. The career loser P
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by btbuildem 1y ago
Let's not defend the konvoy agitators here, these were legit seditionists who were given far too much leeway to start with. Cutting off their access to crowdsourced funds was too little too late, they should have been shut down more fo
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by btbuildem 1y ago
That's an absurd overreach. I can't figure out what the real motivation for this is. > hostile state actors are stealing information and gaining access to systems that are critical to our national security and public safety If
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by btbuildem 1y ago
Does it work with ~legacy~ software? Eg, early 2000's Windows WhateverSoft's Widget Designer? Does it interface over COM? There's a goldmine to be had in automating ancient workflows that keep large corps alive.
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by btbuildem 1y ago
> the real reason which is that it's what consumers want Consumers want what they're told to want by a constant barrage of commercial propaganda. Devices are large and non-serviceable because this way they can be sold with a hi
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by btbuildem 1y ago
> prominent influencers onboard with your decentralized social network That's sort of a contradiction, no? Or at least it assumes transplanting the same mechanisms into a new milieu -- which I argue is something to leave behind, bec
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by btbuildem 1y ago
> 8 billion people should have their own domain name That is something that could be feathered in gradually -- your country, region, city, neighbourhood, etc could have their own domains, and you could be anon237@milan.italy or whatever,
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by btbuildem 1y ago
Given how many accounts online are bots or anonymous, will they ever be able to shake out which real people which personas belong to? Or will it be a case of "we said this is you, so that makes it you"?
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Took them an hour to fix it, good job!
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Exactly. Early on their adoption curve was like nothing I've ever seen before. I am such a miser, I skimp, steal what I can, use the free alternatives majority of the time. If they got me to pay, they've got everyone else's m
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by btbuildem 1y ago
This is one of these scientific endeavours I cannot get behind. Sure, in theory, it would be amazing to live a thousand years -- but it reeks so strongly of the genie's bottle, I don't think we should pursue it. It would likely on
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It's more like a fluid/shapeless orchestrator that fuzzily interfaces between human and machine language, arising momentarily from a vat to take the exact form that fits the desired function, then disintegrates until called upon a
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They're really playing loose with copyright: you have to actively opt out for them to not use your IP in the generated videos [1] Tangentially related: it's wild to me that people heading such consequential projects have so little
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> minutiae was always borderline irrelevant, the skill was always making somebody money That's extremely reductive, and a prime example of why everything is enshittified today.
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Ah it's too bad they can't flag just the off-topic subthreads
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It's interesting this thread is flagged, given that the scenario is a direct consequence of advances of technology, AI, and worship of wealth -- seems very core HN. Entities with this level of resources and influence have very little i
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by btbuildem 1y ago
> a chronic dilemma for any online community: scale, topical breadth, and discussion quality form an unstable triad I always wonder about the scale part -- why do we want a community to grow? Is it to reach more like-minded people, to en
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Colour me cynical mauve, but you would have to pry the current business model out of advertisers' cold dead hands. What is most likely to happen is the so called Answer Engines will embed advertising into their results -- except in a m
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> is a corporation that is anti-democracy Aren't a vast majority of large corporations inherently undemocratic? They all seem to be organized much more like authoritarian dystopias, with power held by a shadowy cabal (the board), th

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