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by esjeon 2y ago
I don't get why Americans are hating on hydrogen fuel cells so much, but in Korea, half of the eco-friendly bus market is basically on hydrogen (note: the gov uses all kinds of weird terms and stats, so I really can't nail down th
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by esjeon 2y ago
Yup, port forwarding is always a big win over any VPN, for real. No random stutter, no random disconnection, no random DERP fallback. It's just that ISPs are killing home port forwarding with CGNAT.
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by esjeon 2y ago
That will be a real deal. Recommend the exact medical services you need. It can potentially optimize the medical supply chain, reducing cost and waiting time for everyone.
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by esjeon 2y ago
I think professional services will continue to use OCRs in one way or another, because it's simply too cheap, fast, and accurate. Perhaps, multi-modal models can help address shortcomings of OCRs, like layout detection and guessing unr
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by esjeon 2y ago
Zig is unsafe, but, instead, it encourages more strategic approaches for memory management. Period. In case of Bun, it's kind of mixed bag, as it relies on JSCore from WebKit. A lot of its issues are from the the engine.
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by esjeon 2y ago
AFAIK, the merge was for the sake of change, not like he fully agreed with the adoption of Rust nor prioritization of Rust. The point is to have actual discussions, rather than pushing things with 10-feet poles just for being new and differ
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by esjeon 2y ago
No. At the time, it was about GPGPU, not AI.
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by esjeon 2y ago
Yeah, I agree. I do respect the effort itself, but it always feels like a huge waste of talent. Imagine what could have been created with all that time and energy. I believe the best solution to proprietary hardware is not to buy them in
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by esjeon 2y ago
> The other 75% is the stuff you actually have to think about. I’m pretty sure the actual ratio is much lower than that. In other words, LLMs are currently not good enough to remove the majority of chores, even with the state of the art
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by esjeon 2y ago
Factory must grow.
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by esjeon 2y ago
> Similarly, just because the Nobel for literature goes to a niche literary author you don't know/like doesn't demean whatever your reading preferences are. You know how things work. The media starts to chant about how gre
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by esjeon 2y ago
Fairly common. A lot of things can happen during accidents, and cars sometimes run into guardrails at angles greater than 45 deg.
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by esjeon 2y ago
Upgrading all guardrails isn’t terribly difficult - it just takes long. Guardrails usually last 20-30 years, and governments will not replace them until they fail. Also, this experiment also means that BEVs can inflict bigger damages to oth
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by esjeon 2y ago
In older days, platforms were new and few, and people consumed the platform itself. Nowadays, platforms are common and technically insignificant (i.e. no differences b/w services), and we now consume networks.
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by esjeon 2y ago
Yeah, true. It's either terrorism or borderline-terrorism at least. But people still gotta talk if they're not willing to wage another war against each other. We clearly have too many wars going around, so politicians will have to
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by esjeon 2y ago
Yeah, but, again, it was a large scale attack right in the middle of general population. It wouldn't be problematic if this attack was targeting few key members, but thousands certainly intimidate normal people unnecessarily.
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by esjeon 2y ago
Yup, Netanyahu is certainly taking advantage of the situation to secure his position, at the cost of innocent lives and the expense of the United States. As long as Israel remains committed to its purely-Jewish-state ideal, the conflict wil
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by esjeon 2y ago
I hope people discuss using more precise terms. UN Security Council Resolution 1566 outlines what is generally considered as terrorism: "criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bo
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by esjeon 2y ago
UN Security Council Resolution 1566 outlines what is considered as terrorism: "criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to pr
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by esjeon 2y ago
> You can't get any more targeted than that. We can nuke a dictator. It's going to blow up everything within miles, evaporating millions of people, but it can't get any more targeted than that. Deal with it. Seriously, tho
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by esjeon 2y ago
Ah, you are informally inquiring about a formal description concerning the informal nature of formalization of informal questions. Joke aside, this is about the nature of the formalization process itself. If the process of formalizing infor
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by esjeon 2y ago
It's not about USB. It's about executables , and syncing-over-cloud is equally dangerous w/ executables . Perhaps, syncing is worse than USB, because it will write executables right into your home directory, which isn'
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by esjeon 2y ago
I'm also curious about the actual usecases. This seems very highly niche. This can also lead to security issues, as it encourages the use of shared folders or USB drives for carrying around executables. You should never reuse executabl
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by esjeon 2y ago
One thing is that I was referencing the old popular quote on Lisp: "Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it," so there’s a little bit of exaggeration there. Still, it’s true that Nix Flakes is a kind of dynamical
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by esjeon 2y ago
Telegram has always been just one slip away from this kind of stuffs because it's a centralized service. Depending on how laws are read, it could be seen as complicit in various crimes, and it's politicians who decide how to read
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by esjeon 2y ago
These days, I've been working on a small tool to run GUIX as an unprivileged user, so that you can use GUIX profiles as a dev environment builder. I didn’t do any market research, but AFAIK there are similar tools using Nix. Honestly,
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by esjeon 2y ago
I was expecting a rant, but, wow, it was far better than that. This is a well founded criticism. CORS is an afterthought that never carefully integrated into the ecosystem, which resulted in bad DX. It’s so blunt that applying CORS always f
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by esjeon 2y ago
> I make a lot of tests on how well LLMs get categorization and data extraction right or wrong for my Product Chart ( https://www.productchart.com ) project. In fact, what you're doing there is building a local semantic da
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by esjeon 2y ago
AlphaGo is an optimization over a closed problem. Theoretically, computers could have always beat human in such problems. It's just that, without proper optimization, humans will die before the computer finishes its computation. Here,
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by esjeon 2y ago
I think the point is that it's practically impossible to correctly perform RLHF in open domains, so comparisons simply can't happen.

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