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by dragonwriter 7d ago
From the benchmarks deep in the document, TIN is much faster than built in text search (tested against GIN, which is itself much faster than GiST for text search.)
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by dragonwriter 7d ago
> Postgres has had search for more than a decade. More than two decades (it moved to core from contrib in version 8.3 in 2008, but it was available in contrib since 7.4 in 2003.)
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by dragonwriter 7d ago
It has FTS built in and has had it for a VERY long time.
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by dragonwriter 7d ago
If you read deep into this, they claim much better performance than the built in search; they also imply that the built-in search is missing features they provide but don’t make clear which ones (I think it is just support in the same index
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by dragonwriter 10d ago
> The whole political course of Ukraine in the last ~20 years is mostly about teaming up with EU and NATO, isn't it? Not, on the NATO front at least, the part between NATO bending to Russian demands not to extend Membership Action P
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
You. Assuming that not having a brake that automatically sets is considered a product defect (it generally is not today, but one can imagine a situation in which it would be), you had bought the car new through normal channels, and your car
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
> I've seen two theories as to what's going on. One is the theory you've espoused This theory is just what the AI firms have concretely asked for from government and described themselves as doing voluntarily in the same
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
This is a civil case not a criminal one, and just because it is the same broad act does not mean courts apply it the same way in civil and criminal contexts. And Amazon LOST at this stage in the linked appeal, with the 9th Circuit finding
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
The US companies talking about “pacing” aren't actually talking about slowing down their own development efforts, they are talking about slowing down competition. That is, specifically, they are seeking to have government, on the prete
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
> In the physical world, it seems like when an tool/device/instrument causes harm (or is used to cause harm), we assign blame to either the user of the tool or its creator. Software executes in the physical world, and is genera
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by dragonwriter 14d ago
No, literally a small-f fascist, the broader far-right authoritarian ideology named by reference to the Nazi’s Italian ideological cousins but which includes the Nazis among is defining examples, but not literally a member of the Natio
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by dragonwriter 14d ago
> Many people working at frontier labs came out this week with estimates of 10% chance of catastrophic harm or greater. The only reason people with P(Doom) of around 10% are even noticed these days because we've run out of new voice
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by dragonwriter 14d ago
> Intentionally viewing what you think is child porn is a crime The entire argument for why verification was even an issue is that the allegedly the scan is not sufficient reason to actually believe that something is child pornoography.
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by dragonwriter 14d ago
> In quite a few countries, a false positive can lead to someone getting put in prison That can only happen if it is either (1) used by government, or (2) used by private entities in a process flow that includes reports to government. &q
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by dragonwriter 15d ago
“We can’t fight child porn on our platform because it is less moral to run a scanner that may produce false positives and either accept that this may result in blocking some content that isn’t child porn OR pay someone to look at content an
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by dragonwriter 17d ago
> I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective). Taste is literally the thing which the concept of subjectivity exists to explain!
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by dragonwriter 17d ago
IME, most users of the term “AI slop” use it for all (identified) uses of AI because they believe that use of AI is itself inherently an indication of poor taste and low effort that invalidates the work independently of what quality the wor
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by dragonwriter 20d ago
Sure, sounding damning is kind of the point of this kind of statement. But its also cheap and easy since there is no requirement that any of the claims are justified by any facts.
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by dragonwriter 20d ago
> $60 gaming PC's are doable if you buy an "untested" Dell Optiplex and get lucky. Yeah, but a $60 lottery ticket that pays off in an X if you win isn’t a $60 X.
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by dragonwriter 22d ago
The amendment add verbiage which is irrelevant when the purpose for which it is being referenced is almost any purpose other than interpreting an RFC in which one or more of the specified words appear in lowercase in a place relevant to the
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by dragonwriter 22d ago
> I don't think people are against it Every time national ID gets moderately serious discussion it is revealed very clearly that yes, the people are against it. RealID—which was simply national standardization of state issued ID (
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by dragonwriter 27d ago
> Imagine that suddenly each US state gets more sovereignty and they just... make different decisions. California adopts Spanish as second official language, New York adopts metric system, Alabama permits sister/brother marriages, U
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by dragonwriter 27d ago
> Did someone configured his own system to work this way and decided it is a good idea to ship it as a part of an "opinionated" distro??? Isn't that the entire selling point of Omarchy?
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by dragonwriter 28d ago
My understanding is that the performance issues it has are more big-O issues of the problem space than issues that would meaningfully be resolved by the multiplicative speedup of moving to a more efficient language (the point at which they
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by dragonwriter 29d ago
> I wonder to what extent this is the result of suboptimal RLHF versus the inherent intelligence of the model making its language more intricate and difficult for humans to easily parse? Its not the latter; its just excessively verbose w
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
That would make sense if it was third-party content, but its not.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? No, its not just a repo/index (they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software), and ev
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
NVidia has been expending energy helping improve local models and inference platforms for them targeting NVidia GPUs; good free models that users can run locally rewards Nvidia’s investment in product lines for local inference (DGX, RTX PCs
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
They have various paid services that relate to AI—paid inference hosting; paid accounts aimed at AI development with GPU rentals [credits plus paid overages, I believe], more private storage and public storage than free accounts; and many o
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> From what I've seen they do care quite a bit about gaming, but not to the point where they're willing to actually do much about it If they aren't willing to do much about it, they don't—however much they might prete

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