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by fakedang 1y ago
Can you ELI5 what formal methods are and how not the industry standard apparently? As a complete noob, from what I'm reading online, they're pretty much how you should approach software engineering, or really any sort of programmi
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by fakedang 1y ago
Give back to others who are in your position as you were when young. I always go through every cold contact email or message from any university student who messages me out of the blue, simply because a McKinsey Senior Managing Partner took
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by fakedang 1y ago
It's funny how the father of communism was basically an intellectual who leeched off of his wealthier capitalist relatives (the family behind Philips NV).
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by fakedang 1y ago
This is funny (in a good way) because there's a YC company that actually does the same: https://www.flowtrip.app/
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by fakedang 1y ago
What I've learnt is that it's for businesses to productize SME solutions unless they're dirt cheap or free, but getting hired as a consultant (who actually adds value) is always an option. It need not be done for compensation
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by fakedang 1y ago
As someone not in the US, I do a straight nope out whenever I see a Persona request. I advise everyone else to do the same. Afaik, it's used by LinkedIn and Doordash too.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Protestant Scandinavia and Calvinist Netherlands and Switzerland never really consider(ed) Manifest Destiny nor Capitalism as religions. And both regions are becoming increasingly atheist.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Tbf this entire administration is a circus full of entertainers from the top down. It's like these guys are taking notes from a Mexican soap opera, ironically.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Exactly. At what seems to be 30 USD a year, that's laughably low for most users. I'm actually impressed on the kids for finding a niche snake oil market and selling it to them.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Locally hosting models. For one, bringing down costs for local usage. Open AI could then charge prices regionally for their APIs, at a discount even - further incentivizing more companies to set up in the country. There's already been
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by fakedang 1y ago
The UAE already host AWS and Azure datacenters. G42, the semi governmental company which Open AI has tied up with, has a shit ton of imported expertise in the space. They have even developed their own LLM.
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by fakedang 1y ago
I'm pretty sure at least a third of the Chinese (more than the population of the US), aren't looking at the US right now and saying, "Yeah, we want some of that."
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by fakedang 1y ago
Your statements are kinda unrelated? Or what do you mean by participating in democracy, in autocracies? Ironically, I see a lot more leaning towards dystopian tendencies in the West, mostly the US, as technology advances to the point of sin
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by fakedang 1y ago
Most of the declarations of that sort are usually just spin for their people by the government when they make plans to buy out some high-tech company. We saw this with Global Foundries, we're seeing this with Resilience, and we'll
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by fakedang 1y ago
And software development to India.
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by fakedang 1y ago
> It starts getting more competitive when you are at the highest tier at ElevenLabs ($1320/month), but because of their pricing structure I'm not going to invest the time in finding out if it's worth it. They do have a gra
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by fakedang 1y ago
Supabase. Big part of why they're heavily adopted. The only issue is that when their client gets big, they usually tend to leave Supabase for more proprietary hosting.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Haven't tried it, but it does an Arabic-accented English somewhat okayishly.
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by fakedang 1y ago
> But in the end OpenAI's biggest feature is that it's 10x cheaper and completely pay-as-you-go. (Why are all these TTS services doing subscriptions on top of limits and credits? Blech!) Is it so, after all the LLM and overhead
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by fakedang 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those anti-nuclear types. I'm just saying that the West has simply forgotten how to build nuclear powerplants without significant cost. It's so bad that when Abu Dhabi were choosing pla
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by fakedang 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by fakedang 1y ago
ElevenLabs v2's accented voices are still much stronger than any of its competition. And I've tried it with Arabic, French, Hindi and English.
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by fakedang 1y ago
My point was comparing conventional nuclear reactors to SMRs. We used to build them for cheaper till we decided to fumble around (and in Germany and Austria's case, shut them down).
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by fakedang 1y ago
I mean, this website is also home to the famous Dropbox comment, so it is to be expected.
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by fakedang 1y ago
It's a 300 MW reactor for CAD $7.7 billion. For context, we used to build GW scale reactors for 3/4th that amount (inflation adjusted). We can build GW scale solar for a third of that amount already.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Oh definitely, Mistral Code beats Deepseek for coding tasks. But for thinking tasks, Deepseek R1 is much better than all the self-hostable Mistral models. I don't bother with distilled - it's mostly useless, ChatGPT 3.5 level, if
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by fakedang 1y ago
I use Mistral often. But Deepseek is still a much better model than Mistral's best open source model.
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by fakedang 1y ago
LoL, every boardroom in Europe is filled with talk of moving out of Microsoft. Not just Azure, Microsoft. Of course, it could be just all talk, like all general European globalist talks, and Europe will do a 360 once a more friendly party t
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by fakedang 1y ago
And ironically because OpenAI is actually ClosedAI, the best self-hostable model available currently is a Chinese model.
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by fakedang 1y ago
Doesn't matter when your workplace is going to use AI monitoring, self-hosted or cloud-based. Unless you're your own boss.

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