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They have nice clients (e.g. for MacOS, Tizen). Ofc headscale is a thing, but if you have a company, it's also nice to have someone to yell at if your mission-critical tailnet suddenly b0rks. Imo they don't charge all that much re
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Years ago at Google, the permissions system (OG ganpati, for the googlers) was having major performance issues related to OOM in Java. IIRC there was an epic thread where folks discussed potential resolutions including, this being Java, GC
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> it's really difficult to build things to last. Having a non-user replaceable battery is a really easy way to ensure a product stops working after 3-4 years though. And the criticism is typically directed at companies like Apple, w
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> Biden and Germany didn't push too hard on either because they feared Russian reaction And this was a mistake, one that they slowly tried to reverse once they realized Ukraine wasn't going to be a pushover especially with mode
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> Support Ukraine enough so it can take all its territory (maybe minus Crimea). This may not be possible with weapons alone. This might require a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine, which effectively makes us a combatant. I actually would sup
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2y ago
> Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings Would if I could figure out how to uninvite my otterpilot ^^'
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2y ago
Cloud prices are already driven down by the fact that you can deploy with Google's cloud offerings. Also, if you weren't going to use Google's offerings you probably wouldn't be down to buy their HW either :) FWIW your P
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> It’s just that none of the stages are great. Really? Nobody uses TF but plenty of people use XLA, which is what you allude to saying that TPU in Pytorch is possible. That's arguably the most important piece; the sledgehammer that
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XLA is the compatibility layer. You train using Torch/Jax/whatever you want, and XLA ensures you can use TPU. There aren't many hurdles, most people train in the cloud anyway.
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> they're a tech. island because nobody can easily run their models on that stack You can easily train and serve models on TPU through Google's cloud services. Colab for example makes it easy to train models on TPU. > TPUs a
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Power concerns aside, individual chips in a TPU pod don't actually have a ton of vRAM; they rely on fast interconnects between a lot of chips to aggregate vRAM and then rely on pipeline / tensor parallelism. It doesn't make s
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2y ago
thanks for the context, shitposting is hard to detect!
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What's your basis for saying this? Waymo actually serves rides and has a safety record. If you work in robotics you know that eval is everything -- what's Tesla's L4 driving record? It doesn't even have one, so how can y
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TL;DR comparison of models vs frontier models on public benchmarks here https://imgur.com/a/CKMIhmm
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Label it what you want, I'm responding directly to questions you posed. > I have my opinion, it’s just not the same as yours. This is literally the TL;DR for what I wrote.
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> A lot of things AI is helping with also have good, easy to observe / generate, real-time metrics you can use to judge excellence. Exactly what I illustrated earlier: your developer productivity metrics. If you're turning code
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Tbh I used manicode once about a month ago and much preferred cline. Cline seems to find context just fine, can run terminal commands in the VS code terminal, and the flow where it proposes an edit is very good. Since it's in VS code I
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> There’s still a skill floor required to accurately judge something. Sure but it's not high at all. Your typical sysadmin is doing a lot of Googling. If perplexity can tell you exactly what to do 90% of the time without error, that
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I'd assume the person giving the praise is at least a bit of all 3. > It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs. It's a bit asymmetrical though isn't it -- judging quality is in fact much easier than producing
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There's at least one other good reason to pick protobuf over capnproto: they don't have real polyglot support and most folks are using at least two languages in their stack these days ( https://capnproto.org/otherla
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2y ago
You can just not celebrate columbus; I don't think anyone is poorer for it.
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You don't have to personally perpetrate or even succeed to be genocidal right? If your intention is "drive out the natives and eradicate them because they're pests unless enslaved" that's genocidal.
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Geez the creator obviously doesn't think this is a necessity. It's just introducing a little whimsy and fun. Nobody cares if you don't want to buy or use it.
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The approach of colonizers from the west in the new world was broadly genocidal though. Like, "we want to live here, so go on git." Killing buffalo to literally starve natives, for example. Allowing natives in occupied lands to be
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def genocidal: relating to or involving the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. Pedantic to say that Columbus subjugating entire people gro
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Why do we need "to be fair" about who we celebrate? I don't understand why anyone is arguing the point that we shouldn't celebrate people who did awful things. They also weren't all the same. Not everyone goes aroun
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Not to mention that he was hugely genocidal and enslaved the Tainos; who really wants to lay claim to that.
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Gosh this is pretty unfair to Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. A lot of infrastructure companies have benefitted from Go the same way Google has, for the same reasons. Typical HN comment writing off significant thoughtfulness as "not an inno
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Doesn't everyone ask this question about Okta, like what am I doing farming out my user login?
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Easily is the operative word. Blockbuster was easy but you had to drive there -- netflix is easier. Libraries similarly require driving (unless you use overdrive / similar) but piracy is easier for many as well. Books just haven'
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