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by hnfong 6mo ago
IIRC, CS majors in universities grew a lot over the past 2 decades in particularly past couple years. It can be argued that the demand for graduates in other industries might have stagnated or even dropped, and it's "spread over&q
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by hnfong 6mo ago
The 35B MOE will run faster, but 48GB RAM is more than enough to run the 27B dense model as well. It's just that token/s will be on the lower side.
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Isn't there a (admittedly messed up) possibility where some crazy API user would depend on the strict behavior and expect your API to return an error, but after the upgrade the parsing check is relaxed and it breaks that user'
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by hnfong 6mo ago
The "or later" is a separate issue, I think. IIRC, the FSF generally insists on getting assigned the copyrights on all GNU software, so the FSF can re-license any new version of their software under any license they choose to, whi
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by hnfong 6mo ago
> no longer updating the GNU stuff I think that was mainly due to GPL 3.
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Strangely, even more annoying than the "I I I I" articles that reeks of narcissism.
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by hnfong 6mo ago
> at some point sooner or later you'll get pressure to support IPv6 I've been told that for 20+ years. Nothing has changed.
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by hnfong 6mo ago
That's the core of the issue, isn't it? If you're not willing to do the filtering and judging, you depend on somebody else to do it, and those somebodies probably don't have your best interests at heart, nor would they s
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Given that DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi etc have all released large open weight models, I am personally grateful that Qwen fills the mid/small sized model gap even if they keep their largest models to themselves. The only other major player in
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by hnfong 7mo ago
Nah it was kinda a tongue in cheek snipe at the EU which may or may not be justified. Appreciate the counter-point.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
> It’s time to accept regulation actually does work when you have a competent government. Given that it's the EU making those regulations, it looks like the government only has to be semi-competent. Maybe the only requirement is tha
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by hnfong 7mo ago
I would speculate that, if a couple goes to a professional for help, they have much better chances than asking on a random forum online...
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by hnfong 7mo ago
In my local(?) community (like in my city, not my industry) there is a saying "if you had to ask for relationship advice, then you probably should break up". There is some rationale to that. People tend to hold onto relationships
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by hnfong 7mo ago
Your response is... interesting. I thought I agreed with most of your original comment that I replied to, and here you are ready to fight. I'm not even sure what you're fighting, and I certainly didn't have in mind the things
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by hnfong 7mo ago
I think it's generally accepted that Turing thinks soul doesn't matter when we try to determine whether things have intelligence/ability to think.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
It's kind of interesting in your original comment you used the words "doubter" and "believer", as if AI was some kind of messianic event of some sort and you are deciding whether to "believe" in it. I mean
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by hnfong 7mo ago
> Turing's test is a famous example Ironically, the Turing test is the OG functionalist approach. The GP's comment basically sums up with the Turing test was designed for.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
There are already people dealing with AI intelligence scientifically. That's what benchmarks do. It's the "it's just a stochastic parrot!" camp that's doing the theological work. (and maybe also those in the Si
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by hnfong 7mo ago
> distinction between deductive and inductive knowledge There's also intuitive knowledge btw. Anyway, the recent developments of AI make a lot of very interesting things practically possible. For example, our society is going to wa
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by hnfong 7mo ago
Apologies to others for the offtopic comment, but thank you so much for neovim. I started using Vim 25 years ago and I almost don't know how to type without a proper Vi-based editor. I don't write as much code these days, but I wr
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by hnfong 7mo ago
Generally the perplexity charts indicate that quality drops significantly below 4-bit, so in that sense 4-bit is the sweet spot if you're resource constrained.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
AFAICT, you retain the copyrights to your comments, but YC has a license to essentially do whatever they want with them. So, you could additionally give a license to the world to use your posted comments freely. That doesn't mean HN ca
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by hnfong 7mo ago
I don't know whether I'm an infinitist, but I personally think "real numbers" is the most ingenious marketing term created by mathematicians...
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by hnfong 7mo ago
What do you mean outlawed? It will simply just happen in a jurisdiction that does not care about it. If they can't find a way to tax it, they won't find a way to cost-efficiently identify people participating in it.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
I'll add that rocks are, if needed, objects that can exhibit quantum behavior. In classical computing, we design chips to avoid the quantum behavior, but there's nothing in theory to prevent us from building an equivalent quantum
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by hnfong 7mo ago
One thing about Turing Machines that some people might miss is that the "paper tape, finite alphabet and internal states" thing is actually intended to model a human thinking out loud (writing their thoughts down) on a piece of pa
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by hnfong 7mo ago
> can tell in an instant whether or not the document is correct Speaking of "correctness"... It seems to me people almost never mention that while schema verification can detect a lot of issues, in the end it cannot replace act
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by hnfong 7mo ago
In your situation, I would blame the developers, not the tools (JSON) or fashion. Even if it's fashionable to do the wrong thing, the developer is at fault for choosing to follow fashion instead of doing the right thing.
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by hnfong 7mo ago
I'm not sure what the author means by "(XML) was abandoned because JavaScript won. The browser won." The browser supported XML as much as Javascript. Remember that the "X" in "AJAX" acronym stands for XML,
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by hnfong 7mo ago
If we accept the Church-Turing thesis, a philosopher can be simulated by a simple Universal Turing machine. If one day we are able to create a philosopher from such a rudimentary machine (and a lot of tape), would you consider that very muc

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