gumballindie

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by gumballindie 3y ago
Reddit and social media are filled with low wage workers celebrating what they think is the demise of the tech industry. Not to mention ai workers who made it a mission to replace software engineers. Apparently tech workers are overpaid. Pr
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Openai's entire business model and product offerings are based on theft. Google's no saint, but the scale and scope are rather different. Furthermore, openai's shills spamming forums to defend the practice is unseen in intens
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> This ruined the shine of a Google resume, for me. What ruined it for me was interviewing ex googlers. Not the PhD levels, but IC. To be fair none passed the inteview. Perhaps it was just the UK google offices. Similar for facebook. At
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> My opinion is that google only ever presented as a new type of company - without ever being that. It was and is a factory. Like chrysler and ford before them, and the mines before them.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> Working there carried this huge cachet that few tech companies can compare to today (maybe OpenAI). Outside the bubble of openai workers, openai is not seen as a particularily great place to be at. Even here on HN that company is incre
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> great urban fires by the 19th century were mostly confined to smaller or poorer cities on the continent’s edge that hadn’t yet made the transition to brick, stone, metal, and concrete. London's Grenfell Towers would like to have a
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Didn't Microsoft just render hundreds of milions of devices useless (for Windows) a few months ago, to push for their TPM requirements?
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by gumballindie 3y ago
I am confused by your comment.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> maybe programmers will once again be valued Constant media bombardment about ai replacing them and hordes of baristas rejoicing that programmers will lose jobs seem to indicate that programmers are highly unlikely to be valued, for a w
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by gumballindie 3y ago
I am sorry what ethics? Openai is built on stolen content and your worry is people using openai’s output is the unethical issue? Whoa.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Both the left and the right in Germany are pro putin. DACH countries have a peculiar relationship with Russia for some reason. Switzerland and Austria being quite favourable despite their “support” for Ukraine. Austria being the worst.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
I think their investors should be happy about it. Once more open source models are released, a lot of ai companies will be freed to focus on other things, thus increasing the overall economy.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> So he immediately informed the vendor – and while they fixed this vulnerability they also pressed charges. Germany has an obsession with accusing people of crimes. Perhaps a projection?
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by gumballindie 3y ago
The new corpo mantra is: "put ai in it and make it lame".
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by gumballindie 3y ago
All it takes is docker compose up -d. But yes, it can take even hours if there's no prior experience. Worth the cost I reckon. Edit: turns out umbrel is even easier to install. Suppose that and a trusted remote webdav install will serv
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by gumballindie 3y ago
If your ISP is not reliable then a VPS or dedicated (budget permitted) are good alternatives. Install docker, and an office suite, file manager, pihole, and you’re good to go. Takes minutes. No need for thread rippers either. Mine’s a low s
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> Self-hosting, but as a service This is the way. As more and more ai is adopted, company and private data becomes more exposed. Businesses' intelligence getting stolen and shared with others is a no go for many rational business pe
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Right but you are not a 3D scanner are you?
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by gumballindie 3y ago
It will only get worse as they adopt ai. Quite often searching for one term yields results for a different term. Most probably hallucinations. Still better than bard or chatgpt.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Ai search is unrealiable and of low quality. It limits discoverability and reduces exposure to novel content and it is no use to businesses. Sadly google is also experimenting with ai and as such their results are of lower quality, but stil
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by gumballindie 3y ago
I can see one particular use for this device that reminds me of FufMe. Would go well with VR.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> IT on complex projects, it is better to work together in the same room/office I guess it depends. If the most “complex IT projects” out there can work without ever meeting in person so can your team.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> B. There might be an opportunity to reduce cost because we could recruit contractors in other countries instead of full-time US employees. (Which in turn is going to undermine labor's bargaining power in the US...) The biggest dri
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by gumballindie 3y ago
People advocating for on site work are people without an inner voice. They need to constantly externalise thinking. Anyway working from home does increase productivity for the individual, improves the economy due to more disposable income,
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> I am working in making, Rust specifically, 100% code generated. Generating code is trivial. Generating code that works is not. I suspect you are at around 10-15% of reaching that. All models out there are probably at 2-3% as they barel
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by gumballindie 3y ago
The movement against ip has been hijacked by those who wish to exploit creators. People advocating for the abolition of property are useful idiots. Corporations know that the biggest threat of ip is to them not to us. By being able to prote
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by gumballindie 3y ago
I dont think open source people are against open source models. Most are against work being used without their licensing respected. If models trained by companies on open source data would be open source that would be a win. But they arent.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
> creating factual statements about the work All digital content is statements about the work. Pictures are pixels with facts about colours. Books are characters describing the words. AI models are compressed versions of those. Downloadi
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Yeah by stealing things from our own people? Thats a dumb way to win.
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by gumballindie 3y ago
Havent heard of OSMAND before - thanks for sharing. Downloaded. Yeah google is likely training an ai at our expense. Not sure why they’d choose that over a deterministic approach that has been working reliably for more than a decade.

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