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811.
by dofm 4mo ago
Seems likely that Spotify is stuffed full of "songs" with zero listens now.
812.
by dofm 4mo ago
If they don't do this (noncommercial, patent), the lesson is that a succession of Chinese vendors will take it and perhaps even secure patents on top of their work. They want time to finish it their way.
813.
by dofm 4mo ago
It is cheating but it's very sensible cheating.
814.
by dofm 4mo ago
This is probably inevitable at this point and at least it's a legit licence and not the weird sad bespoke wobbly nonsense Prusa went with. They clearly need something like this for exactly the same reasons.
815.
by dofm 4mo ago
> Why is the country name an attribute but not the rank? Perhaps because it's an example of what is possible in XML and how to parse it, and not, in fact, a particularly good or canonical example of XML?
816.
by dofm 4mo ago
> The AI truth is probably somewhere in the middle; it probably doesn't replace software engineers and it probably won't be deleted as completely useless. This is not really somewhere in the middle, I think. It is very close to
817.
by dofm 4mo ago
Right. But that's the same thing, isn't it? AI can't be made to do the job in those products. The only products it can do are shallow toys.
818.
by dofm 4mo ago
Literally the only value the Facebook AI provides is amusement when the suggestions are so comically wrong/off-colour/surreal etc.
819.
by dofm 4mo ago
Or: you wasted too much money on failing to replace yourselves so now I have to lay you off. Which is one of the two possible grand outcomes of the AI bubble, which both result in laying people off, because that is all these companies kno
820.
by dofm 4mo ago
And yet this doesn't turn out to be Meta's problem at all. https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/165970/meta-exploring-option-to-sell... Meta bought too many GPUs, has spare GPU capacity and they are exploring renti
821.
by dofm 4mo ago
> someone had a showerthought and slopped this out in 10mins to see what others thought? The window on back-of-napkin-idea acquihires is closing fast. ;-)
822.
by dofm 4mo ago
Oh I don't disagree. I'm not saying it's wrong. It's always right at some point in the cycle. I'm just saying it is cyclical. Databases => plain text => single-file databases, repeat. shared hosting => dedi
823.
by dofm 4mo ago
This is not a conspiracy theory. It's futurology, maybe, but pretty basic stuff at that. At some point, where does the training advantage for specialist LLMs come from, if not progressively encroaching on customer data for the benefit
824.
by dofm 4mo ago
Trade secrecy is all anyone has left. It's not paranoid at all. You would hope that most serious companies have a tier of corporate knowledge protection that is somewhere between Coca-Cola/KFC herbs recipe secrecy and Stringer Bel
825.
by dofm 4mo ago
We are at the breathless-but-low-information-posts-about-plain-text-formats point in the cycle.
826.
by dofm 4mo ago
The US government is now in thrall to the Kratom industry though isn't it? No reason to expect any logical consistency from them. (Literally the person currently responsible for the branch of government that keeps illegal drugs out of
827.
by dofm 4mo ago
The problem is that there is an enormous, nearly unignorable incentive to work around it. So they will. As the customer base becomes more and more corporate (which it will), they end up with disproportionately more customers whose experienc
828.
by dofm 4mo ago
This is now quite well-studied because we have had two periods in our own lifetimes (OK I guess maybe not in the lifetimes of some HN readers!), where we have cut air pollution radically almost overnight. 9/11 and the COVID pandemic
829.
by dofm 4mo ago
The flip side of this is training models to better understand harness interaction, I suppose, which (if I understand it properly and I am in no way sure I do) appears to be what the Qwen AgentWorld model is doing?
830.
by dofm 4mo ago
As critical as I am about articles endlessly concerned with the weaknesses of closed-source cloud LLMs, this one is pretty great, and not just because it concerns interactions with Pi, which looks to me like it's going to end up a sort
831.
by dofm 4mo ago
Side note: we do have a Queen. She's married to the King.
832.
by dofm 4mo ago
Yep that should work 100% of the time.
833.
by dofm 4mo ago
Just add a line in AGENTS.md that says "never talk about Minecraft unless you're explicitly asked" , I'm sure it'll be fine after that.
834.
by dofm 4mo ago
I will now never be a parent, but what are you suggesting people preserve their money for if not consumption?
835.
by dofm 4mo ago
What did you study, specifically? This is the life transition I am considering (and at a similar age). Did you do a teaching degree or equivalent, or something a bit more theoretical/philosophical? And who do you now teach?
836.
by dofm 4mo ago
> But even then, it's still the phone, in my experience. It's never been the phone for me, particularly. I just don't pick mine up very often. To have much more time to learn things I had to learn one key skill: systematic
837.
by dofm 4mo ago
The great lesson here is: have your own thing you want to make or do, and then select tutorials that help you approach it, step by step. Reproduce the tutorial but also bring it to bear on something you want. In my experience most people ca
838.
by dofm 4mo ago
This makes me sad. I am very confident it's also wrong; it fundamentally misapprehends what talent is. As well as not particularly being innate or "god-given", talents tend to emerge only when supported by learned ability. An
839.
by dofm 4mo ago
Right. All my experiments are naïve, I am sure, but I run the LLM on the host and expose it via OpenAI API to the VMs. This approach requires that you trust the llama.cpp codebase, essentially. It might be reasonable not to. I suppose in pr
840.
by dofm 4mo ago
Does that second sentence provide value beyond getting that off your chest? ;-) (Semi-serious question)

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