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by deisteve 2y ago
the sweet spot is $9999 USD for 512GB unified memory but that seems like an M5 maybe even M6 Currently its $5000 USD for 128GB on M3 I believe. There just isn't anything good LLMs to run with current unified memory limits, especially 4
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by deisteve 2y ago
but if Japanese developers are brilliant it doesn't make sense that there hasn't been wide success outside Japan like American software has. I also used to think it was a cultural issue but I realized that consumer adoption cannot
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by deisteve 2y ago
Games or selling to consumers is a totally different line of business than enterprise software which Japan lacks talent or incubation for. There is just no upward mobility and little regard for software profession. Line was made by Korean e
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by deisteve 2y ago
i've personally seen many hires out of China with red flags that my employers refused to acknowledge out of fears being labelled a racist or going against DEI policies. all in all its a stupefying situation to see such a powerful indus
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I-mode: Japan's early 2000s mobile internet service [video](youtube.com)
1 points by deisteve 2y ago|0 comments
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by deisteve 2y ago
did we watch the same video? hardly the main point as those instances of piracy of IBM software was due to lack of proper trade laws video points to cultural issue of not valuing software engineers due to many competing engineering fields a
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by deisteve 2y ago
k
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by deisteve 2y ago
still relevant as little has changed
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'Our prosperity was based on China and Russia': EU foreign policy chief says(finance.yahoo.com)
12 points by deisteve 2y ago|3 comments
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Labour Market Impact Assessment Map in Canada(lmiamap.ca)
1 points by deisteve 2y ago|0 comments
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by deisteve 2y ago
You are in Europe so you may not be aware of the situation in North America especially Canada and the government mandated surge of migrants from India and the tensions it has created. > Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or
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by deisteve 2y ago
Correct.
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by deisteve 2y ago
would be great to see one for HN and as I feel the like the same pattern holds based on my A/B testing there seems to be a fluctuation in terms of what submissions are allowed Usually during US working hours, the submissions are overwh
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by deisteve 2y ago
is that what you tell yourself? mine was aimed at the notion that salaried compensation especially if its very large implies an asymmetrical return for the company. for one, it would buy loyalty. Not many Googlers stood up when they realize
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by deisteve 2y ago
I agree the human cost of producing pornography is too much for the individual but thats exactly why people are drawn to it there is something about seeing shame, humiliation and violence in pornography that makes people tick a big reason w
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by deisteve 2y ago
Google that creates monopoly on top of the scraped data and uses third party content to do so? LLM just places that ability at the ends of the user (local LLM strictly speaking)
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by deisteve 2y ago
in South Korea you are required to enter your civil identity number. it was invented during the 60s to counter north korean espionage. almost all korean websites require this 8 digit number to gain access to walled off gardens. are you sugg
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by deisteve 2y ago
False. I can't get into details but testing is going to become the next copywriters.
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by deisteve 2y ago
Rest assured FE developers are no different than artists the end product, the UI, is limited in terms of edge cases the backend however, there is no limit. business logic, automation, all of these are endless edge cases. if any FE engineers
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by deisteve 2y ago
but what if you can't tell? what if it was AI generated pornography?
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by deisteve 2y ago
I'm sorry I can't as I've signed an NDA but if you think these new generation of AI tools are some innocent augmentative processes you are gravely mistaken. What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were
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by deisteve 2y ago
but the work that Googlers do most of HN can do its the proximity, pedigree, profile that you have to fit to get in to Google I'm happy for those that made it. Not everybody gets to work for Google. But the work they do are no less cha
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by deisteve 2y ago
Same. But I somehow doubt that Elon paid a premium of 1000% for Twitter for free speech. Its more likely that after he scared away all the advertisers, him doubling down as "champion of free speech" was the only face saving act If
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by deisteve 2y ago
Fascinating. Wonder if this is related to these "sky trumpets" reported around the world usually near forests and mountains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081FuoN8K40 https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by deisteve 2y ago
cynical part of m says X is doing this to reduce operating costs as revenue is down significantly rough 95% since Twitter went private and advertisers pulled out X premium revenue has been disappointing. Elon paid $50 billion for a company
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by deisteve 2y ago
It's already the case, at a few companies I've involved with we've already laid off much of the content creation roles. The first to go were written content, then drawn content and now corporate stock photographers/video
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by deisteve 2y ago
I don't think is realistic because there is no way to verify the intent of someone who is validated as a human without reading their minds. So this proposal of closed internet and heavily walled gardens doesn't really work and it
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by deisteve 2y ago
We don't live in the 90s anymore. The bandwidth CPU cost is moot unless you are spinning up thousands of GPUs to render an HTML page. Also the claims of someone else's labor and profiteering is exactly what Google does
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by deisteve 2y ago
i just don't get why people use web scraping as a battleground for moral ethics its bizarre just like equating copyright infringement to theft of property. where does this moral high ground come from? nobody scraping is thinking "
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by deisteve 2y ago
if a paper releases code in PyTorch im not going to sit there and complain Jax is more efficient its like fretting about how everything should be written in C++ instead of Python/Javascript I don't care.

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