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by davemp 5mo ago
Kind of goes to show how out of touch and insular the tech exec sphere can be. Almost everyone I interact with in reality has a deep distain for LLMs and their touted trajectory.
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by davemp 5mo ago
It’s not a public study though. We’re not going to get trust worthy numbers about labor or token cost.
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by davemp 5mo ago
So they can get training data I assume.
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by davemp 5mo ago
I think it’s becoming hard to ignore that the Internet has fundamental flaws from a game theoretical view. I hope that we can skip the step of having Google as the feudal lord who saves us from anarchy though. How about we start with some a
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by davemp 5mo ago
The FCC or whoever is almost 100% just looking at power/time/location. Those 10 devices will look like 1 device.
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by davemp 5mo ago
> What -apart from cost- prevents a user who wants more bandwidth from installing 10 devices in parallel and alternate each radio so none of the radios exceed their allowed transmit duty cycle? Folks with badges knocking on the user’s do
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by davemp 5mo ago
I’m not sure how you could suggest starbucks and mcdonalds outcompete based on product quality or ambiance. Have you been to a random mom&pop coffee or burger spot recently? Chairs aren’t magic, we know roughly what’s good or not. You d
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by davemp 5mo ago
I'll start of by saying I really hate C (also love it), and welcome improvements; but I have a few criticisms: - Sensor agent is such a rancid name for a remote sensor that I feel a need to public say so. Please don't use marketin
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by davemp 5mo ago
Good for you? I’m glad you have languages that fit your needs. In the realtime/high assurance systems world, where garbage collection can be a huge source of non-determinism and overhead; we don’t have great options. Zig is really the
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by davemp 5mo ago
> It's not by writing syntax that you get there. It's by creating software and gaining the experience of seeing it go wrong. I’m not sure there’s any data to support this statement. Maybe if you hedge with “not by syntax alone”
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by davemp 6mo ago
> The argument that training AI on scraped data is "fair use" and the resulting model outputs are "transformative works" has held up in courts. Nope. Nope. Nope. That has explicitly not been ruled on yet. Transformati
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by davemp 6mo ago
> Under that logic is a free trial a bait and switch? How about a 1-month free deal? How about what Adobe (and many others) do where they license to the school and students get it free until they graduate? No. The key difference being tr
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by davemp 6mo ago
> The big tools that won on collaboration (eg. Google Docs) have understood that low-friction sharing is critical to becoming the default choice. Google docs is a heavily subsidized product and not representative. Also tool pricing seems
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by davemp 6mo ago
> Tell me you know nothing about web development without saying you know nothing about web dev This Twitterism really bugs me. You took the time to write a really detailed response (much appreciated, you convinced me). There’s no need to
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by davemp 6mo ago
I’m a decade+ linux power user and I still do insane things like pipe outputs into vim so I can copy paste without having to remember tmux copy paste modes when I have vertical panes open.
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by davemp 6mo ago
Sounds promising honestly. One of the scariest parts of the big AI labs is all of the exclusive training data they get through their UIs. (It’s unclear whether distillation is a feasible way to close the gap). If there were another party in
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by davemp 6mo ago
I intentionally said “modern civil society” instead of the USA to avoid talking about specifics. Whether the USA has a sufficiently functional justice system is another topic. My intuition is also that, in the presence of a disfunctional so
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by davemp 6mo ago
> Across a thousand runs through our scaffold, the total cost was under $20,000 Lots of questions about the $20k. Is that raw electricity costs, subsidized user token costs? If so, the actual costs to run these sorts of tasks sustainably
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by davemp 6mo ago
I’m falling into the Socratic hole [0], but in a modern civil society there is a justice system through which people seek recourse. This has all sorts of desirable effects for societies. Please educate yourself on the basics or at least put
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by davemp 6mo ago
Yeah a company causing mass death or other disasters is maybe the single clearest signal that they should go bankrupt and someone else should take over (if the tech is really that important).
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by davemp 6mo ago
“Very likely yes”, I reply to an account that <1yr old with mostly comments in AI topics many of which violate the HN guidelines (including the one I’m responding to).
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by davemp 6mo ago
> We're well past the Turing test now Nope, there is no “The” Turing Test. Go read his original paper before parroting pop sci nonsense. The Turing test paper proposes an adversarial game to deduce if the interviewee is human. It’s
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by davemp 6mo ago
Interesting. That seems to suggest that one would need to retain the prompts in order to pursue copyright claims if a defendant can cast enough doubt on human authorship. Though I guess such a suit is unlikely if the defendant could just AI
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by davemp 6mo ago
Eugenics is a taboo because there is a tempting trap to over simplify and make assertions that are not actually supported by the data. We know that IQ is hereditary to an unknown degree. We have some evidence that IQ relates to intelligen
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by davemp 6mo ago
I always have a problem when folks bring up idiocracy because the of the eugenics angle. It’s extremely unlikely that people are getting inherently stupider, just less educated. The former is some sort of prophecy of doom and the latter is
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by davemp 6mo ago
Easy to spot in a contrived example is not: > impossible to express in Rust I’m not going to argue with Rust folks who misrepresent the language.
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by davemp 6mo ago
let foo = [1, 2, 3]; unsafe { *foo.get_unchecked_mut(4) = 5; } Not sure why Rust evangelists always seem to ignore that unsafe exists.
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by davemp 6mo ago
I appreciate the detailed reply and that there’s subtlety here. I read the linked Bartz case. It’s disappointing that it seems limited to only the copying of books into a data set and not the result of training LLM on protected works. This
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by davemp 6mo ago
Yet you still wasted your own time and everyone else’s time with a reply that has even less substance. I was making an argument based on quotes from the actual legal code and you’re saying pions who don’t use the exact correct terminology s
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by davemp 6mo ago
I replied to someone saying that it’s fair use, which presupposes that it’s a derivative work.

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