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capableweb
3y ago
What the hell is "mumbo jumbo"? I hate it when people use words I don't understand and why should I have to lookup words I don't understand when people could just stop using those words?! I swear the world is against m
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capableweb
3y ago
Gitea have worked like a wonder for my purposes, even when running it on a Raspberry PI (although the raspberry server was for a small group of 3 developers at most). It was still very responsive and didn't feel heavy at all.
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capableweb
3y ago
> There must be more to it than I realize. PDF material comes with different information density. If you have a lose collection of 100 manuals, and you need to find a snippet of information that could be in 10 different ones, I'm g
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capableweb
3y ago
Not just about performance, but about getting a very well decoupled code base as well when using ECS.
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capableweb
3y ago
Yes, it has. But game engine adoption takes time, it's not immediately clear that it is eating some of Unity's lunch, as games have to be developed, launched and appreciated before it's obvious for the average (developer) per
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capableweb
3y ago
> Precisely how is OpenAI eating anyone's lunch? This is a serious question. Because they made, maintain and offer GPT-4 which is currently the top-of-the-line LLM available. GPT-3 was also top-of-the-line when it launched, and they
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capableweb
3y ago
First-hand source: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/1706877320844509405
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capableweb
3y ago
Considering Google been lying in their marketing videos about their AI capabilities, OpenAI seems to be falling apart from the inside and Facebook refuses to release open (not commercially-locked "open") models, there seems to be
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capableweb
3y ago
So? People are investing in Mistral too (which this submission is about), albeit smaller sums, so far.
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capableweb
3y ago
Which one? Everything on their website is still about the 7B model. 7B is the only model available on their huggingface page too: https://huggingface.co/mistralai Edit: I'm guessing this is the model referenced: "
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capableweb
3y ago
> Good luck competing with Microsoft, Facebook and Google Funny, considering people said the same thing about OpenAI and look who is eating FAANGs lunch now when it comes to AI?
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3y ago
> Can someone explain to me what they're trying to do now? > "By creating mistral.ai, we intend to train state-of-the-art models with counter-positions to closed-model current offerings. Our vision is to become a leading ac
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3y ago
> I am afraid it's still a very long way before they become for game development what Blender is for 3D modelling these days Makes sense. Blender is coming up to being 30 years old soon, and it still isn't heavily embedded into
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3y ago
> That’s no problem, city and suburbs are already full of Teslas As I said, I'd be very happy about it being classified as a tractor because then it won't come close to any pedestrian-heavy areas like cities, which this machin
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3y ago
> I can see some enterprising Tesla lawyers propose that because of weight and towing power its actually a tractor if they just add some special legal connector. That be great, tractors are banned to be used within cities and on highways
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capableweb
3y ago
It might still be crazy impressive, but none-the-less, going forward we now know that we cannot trust Google's videos about it, as they're heavily edited to look a lot more impressive than it is.
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capableweb
3y ago
The fee goes to organise actions, like that people can strike but still get paid. How much experience do you have with Swedish unions specifically? And with Swedish industry in general? Judging by your comments, your experience seems to com
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3y ago
> The point is that it's not Tesla's employees that are behind it. Unions don't do solidarity strikes across the entire Nordics without having the support of the people they're trying to help. > It is people worki
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3y ago
> What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify The "heritage" between the three is also different. Klarna and Spotify are/was Swedish, they know what going up against a union means, and it often involves going agains
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3y ago
There are laws and there are norms. In Sweden, both are equally important and you'll get left out if you break either. It's sad in a lot of cases, as it removes some individuality, but it's how the country been operating for
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3y ago
Not only that, but the co-founder and CEO of Spotify is also Swedish which means he has some perspective on how unions work in Sweden so he can be pragmatic. Musk lacks any sort of perspective in that market, seemingly.
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3y ago
> The important detail which most people seem to miss is that Tesla's workers aren't behind this. They don't want to unionize, because there's no reason to. > The IF Metall union is striking because they just want
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3y ago
> The $26 B cash on hand should be used somewhere, instead of usual executive package and share buyback. Yup, squashing worker rights for corporations everywhere sounds like a good way of spending $26B. > Edit:- If my comment is not a
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3y ago
LinkedIn data says ~44% of the OpenAI team is "Engineering", the rest is operations, human resources and sales. So most likely, if most of the employees moved over to Microsoft, they wouldn't get the same comp, at most 44% of
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3y ago
So you mean that GDP is a measurement of the productivity of employees? And you're measuring "success" of a economic model just based on how it increases GDP? What about lowly things like "life expectancy" or other
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3y ago
What exactly you measure when you measure "amount of people X by almost X trillion dollars"? How did you manage to arrive at a number that supposedly means productivity of individual employees?
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capableweb
3y ago
As someone who has launched countless of products, services, demos and more on HN (for almost two decades now) and other places, you can't really let those overly negative comments get to you. And it happens everywhere, not just on HN,
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3y ago
> but the fact that you can only use it through Clojure is kind of sad You can use Clojure stuff from Java, if you really want to: https://clojure.org/reference/java_interop#_calling_clojure_... > but a dynamical
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3y ago
Every time I see something implemented in a non-lisp language I'm like "the problem was complicated enough, why did you have to introduce a bunch of accidental complexity?!" Then I remember that everyone's brain works di
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Denmark's largest union joins Sweden in Tesla blockade
(nyheder.tv2.dk)
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