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by devsda 2y ago
Or an attacker gaining control of a specific device to make kids do stupid/bad/illegal things. We can teach children not to trust a stranger offline or online. How do you teach them to be on guard about an interactive emotional su
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by devsda 2y ago
So, there's a physical product out there utilizing LLMs, the company secured funding from some well known VC funds. Yet, this company failed to secure additional funding at the last minute in an atmosphere where Gen AI is the buzz wo
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by devsda 2y ago
I'm referring to my own comment, but I think they are suggesting something close to this[1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devsda#42385023
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> For the bidding market, they will have to displace the existing cartels first. No kidding, these are often controlled by a superhobo, (in my hometown he now owns a house and a nice Tahoe) who “owns” all of the good corners in town. Idk
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by devsda 2y ago
I wonder how the oss community will react if the sequence of events were a little different. 1. Redis Inc creates a fork of Redis and names it say RedisNext or anything else(xyz) without a reference to Redis name at all. 2. Announces that,
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by devsda 2y ago
I don't understand LLMs enough to know if this is a silly question or not. Is it possible to build domain specific smaller models and merge/combine them at query/run time to give better response or performance instead of one
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The problem with that is some ridiculous edge cases. Young book author agrees to a profit share agreement with publisher and works most of the time. Has an accidental death at launch party, his work is in public domain now, and the publishe
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by devsda 2y ago
I think it should be proportionate (& increasing exponentially) to the revenue(not profit because hollywood accounting). Big coporations like Disney can hold on to the material and pay the sum with profits from other ip if it's fix
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by devsda 2y ago
Get ahead in terms of what? Do you believe that the material in public domain or legally available content that doesn't violate copyrights is not enough to research AI/LLMs or is the concern about purely commercial interests? Chin
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by devsda 2y ago
An independent Chrome company will start with an established & proven product, huge userbase and a marketplace for extensions. That's a huge advantage (and liability too). If FF can get millions for its default search option, Chrom
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Its actually sometimes more than 40% and that's not even for luxury cars. Here's[1] an example for a car costing a million INR, taxes are more than 300K. That's not the final landing price. Final price adds up extra road tax
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by devsda 2y ago
I don't know if it's because we are conditioned by our interaction with TV and mobiles, but active LCD screens feel like they are screaming for our attention and an always on display will mostly be a distraction. E-ink displays d
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by devsda 2y ago
Had the same thought but then I remembered coming across this. Can't say if it is due to burn-in but some manufacturers do recommend refreshing the display image periodically like every 24 hours [1]. See precautions #4 https:/&#x
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by devsda 2y ago
From the wifi-setup documentation, connecting to hotspot requires a reboot. Is that to be inline with other IoT devices UX, or is there a technical reason like esp devices cannot be in AP mode unless initialized at boot?
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by devsda 2y ago
It somehow feels like the serious tone of first and last paragraphs is masking the sarcasm in the middle.
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For those who are not familiar with morse, a more hardware tinkering free and expensive (and over engineered) solution that might work is 1. Use one of those handheld landline phones with numbers. 2. Connect it to asterisk via an ata/v
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by devsda 2y ago
> The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to ri
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by devsda 2y ago
Emacs org-mode is one of the better organization tools with batteries included. For someone who is disciplined, organized and feels limited by their current tooling, Emacs will probably work great like these anecdotes. If having the discip
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by devsda 2y ago
Having two separate apps has additional benefit of acting like insurance against any automated/manual playstore review surprises.
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Yeah no. Your annual bonus and stock options is between you and your employer. Your end customers don't pay for it directly, they are paid for within the cost of whatever product your employer is selling. When tipping is no longer cus
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by devsda 2y ago
Why do you think it has to be narcissism when there are other valid reasons to write a blog post after leaving? OpenAI seems to always be in the public eye for one or the other reasons and after the CEO firing episode, any staff departure(
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by devsda 2y ago
Samsung still uses qualcomm in US markets and exynos outside US even for their flagships.
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> One of the most important roles that titles play in the tech industry (at least the US-centric tech industry) is to help evaluate compensation. I think there are some hints left by management and HR. We often hear excuses around apprai
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by devsda 2y ago
I (mis?)understood one of the features for 1.0 "Cloud document storage" as some sort of custom storage server, webdav or other remote filesystem support. If there's no plan for that or if its limited to usual suspects like GD
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by devsda 2y ago
Adding to the above, in a way this can also be self hosted and is a candidate for the awesome selfhosted list [1]. 1. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
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I wish and I'm sure Rust will get there some day but is there a no-brainer usecase today where it's really important to use Rust, one important enough to overlook the initial learning curve, developer scarcity and evolving ecosyst
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Apart from development, one of the main reasons someone would want to have linux on android is to work with data on your mobile like sms, camera images or interface with apps using popular or custom linux apps. Given the way Google has been
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Going through the code, I couldn't find a server but only usage of ssh client. May be I missed it. But I think GP was looking for usecases where its helpful to run an embedded ssh server using a go binary. Ansible facts can probably b
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> I'm usually very good at hitting the ground running, but I am just as much bad at "keeping the pace", i.e. diving deep into stuff At a beginner level, rustlings[1] is an excellent resource for following along with any b
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> Having long invaded Asia (Russia, India, China, etc.), e-waste from Europe and the United States is arriving in extensive quantities in the ports of West African countries such as Ghana, in violation of international treaties. This is

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