mrngld

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by mrngld 8d ago
HN crowd: Check out my Plex server and 132TB media collection! Also HN crowd: Reading publicly posted information on the open internet is morally outrageous theft of the highest order
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by mrngld 9d ago
Why wouldn't it be desirable? Is knowledge beyond that a child can understand undesirable because the child can't understand it? I think not, same with anything AI figures out that we can't easily understand ourselves. If GPT
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by mrngld 9d ago
That's tedious. Can't believe nobody mentioned Parachute Backup yet. It had a moment in the sun earlier this year or last year when it first started getting traction. I have a Mac, so not just an iPhone, so I use Arq there, it mat
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by mrngld 9d ago
PBS's situation is entirely PBS fault. If you've got 50TB of data to backup it's either worth $300 to $400 a month to you to do it properly with a reputable vendor along with on-site storage, or ... just accept you'll l
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by mrngld 11d ago
> they had no way to evolve past this stage of development That infantilizes them, in my opinion. Their state then was an early state of many people around the world that made different choices that lead to different results. They made c
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by mrngld 12d ago
PureRAW can now output linear DNG's compressed with JXL. It's amazing the first time you use it seeing 25mb RAW files go in, get made linear, and pop out 8mb or 9mb, then toss them in your RAW developer of choice and still find al
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by mrngld 12d ago
The camera's I've owned (Canon and, in more recent years, Olympus/OM System) all could do RAW, JPG, or RAW+JPG, or in some cases cRAW+JPG, with several quality settings available for the JPG side. But remember, on a camera yo
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by mrngld 15d ago
People keep saying this without attribution. Meta and others got caught, and brought into court, over using torrented files. But those models trained on that data have long since been retired and replaced with new models based on new from-s
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by mrngld 15d ago
How does it erase the notion of competition driving down prices? Endpoints are largely compatible, so the code change required to switch from one to another is trivial. Don't load 6 months' worth of credit in an account, keep it t
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by mrngld 15d ago
I really don't think time in this particular type is a factor. None of what I've heard or read has anything to do with familiarity with its unique systems. Everything sounds like sloppy flying. Sounds like he, the PF/PIC&#x2F
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by mrngld 15d ago
Makes me think of my boy John Adams; "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Moral relativism is emptiness all the way down, we're reaping wha
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by mrngld 16d ago
Not even remotely true. US cities are spread out because they could be, because the landmass is beyond the comprehension of someone if they never left the UK or western Europe. It takes nearly a full day of high-speed driving to cross Texas
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by mrngld 16d ago
The negative externalities? On net the benefits are enormously positive, which is why every community around the world down to the very poorest, even illiterate societies (ancient civs were mostly illiterate and still built extensive road n
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by mrngld 17d ago
The political left has really decided to go nuclear over Flock, but I'm not understanding the fundamental principle from which this view arises. Libertarian sorts don't like it either -- but that's entirely consistent with th
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by mrngld 17d ago
Not at all true of your average Chinese. Remember, the Great Leap Forward and it's enormous famine and death and violent social upheaval is all within living memory. A few small pockets of the country had only minimal starving thanks t
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by mrngld 17d ago
Your local trailer park was never going to be able to afford sponsoring high energy particle physics experiments projects that hollow out a mountain and use up a ton of xenon to try to detect a stray particle. High end science has required
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by mrngld 17d ago
If you mean move to products with ZDR policies, OK, very fair and I agree. If you're talking the equivalent of carpenters should give up pneumatic air guns because hammers are more authentic, then that's silly. These are tools, an
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by mrngld 22d ago
You're right, but no need to be conspiratorial, demand is just so high if you ordered one today you might be lucky to see it in 2028.
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by mrngld 22d ago
Someone on horseback probably said that after seeing a car broke down on the side of the road for the first time. Well, cars only got better. We're going to be talking about how to leverage this new tool for many years to come.
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by mrngld 22d ago
Because your 32gb card isn't running this at 1500 token/s. Serving these things at scale with the enormous context windows real use demands and doing some with usable performance takes a lot of expensive hardware. Yes, their margi
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by mrngld 24d ago
Here's the thing that's a little different about data centers; we can tell from Anthropic and OpenAI that they're capacity constrained. Inference demand is there. I notice Cerebras doesn't offer much directly any more, a
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by mrngld 26d ago
I get that the guy needed to write a paper on something to get his PhD (in psychology, which might explain some of this as well, I thought standards were a little higher in the hard sciences), but don't know why it deserves a high prof
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by mrngld 26d ago
You don't have to go to the HuggingFace incident! Go back in time to the New York Times legal brawl where NYT lawyers started being able to scoop up all their logs not covered by a ZDR. That's what keeps me from giving OpenAI acce
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by mrngld 1mo ago
Long term it's irrelevant. The only relevant thing is that there's lots of money in chips that can do high performance inference. You see all kinds of competitor products in development or already on the market even here in the US
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by mrngld 1mo ago
Chinese labs are so used to manipulating benchmarks to try to flatter inferior models that when they finally have one that's really pretty good I think the official announcement here undersells it. https://deepswe.datacurve.
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by mrngld 1mo ago
Ya'll are talking lawsuits and organizing protests, but the reality is probably just that no one (outside the Bluesky/HN bubble, which is tiny) cares. Very few probably care what their local government is babbling about today in g
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by mrngld 1mo ago
It's not just about big tech. It's about what enables highly productive societies in general. Without IP, I suppose everyone could share to some limited extent what is already known, but why would anyone ever sink big dollars or t
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by mrngld 1mo ago
Sounds bogus, there's free payment services in the US as well, that's nothing special. What makes more sense in the India context is low value of volume per customer where even the minimal operating costs are difficult to cover. I
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by mrngld 1mo ago
I won't do your homework for you but there's people that have done the work of reporting out the numbers it takes to operate a clean government bathroom. It's not just "reasonable wage" territory. It's "ci
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by mrngld 1mo ago
I do know that. For a time I was GM for a convenience store. I started requiring people to come ask me or the manager on duty for a key to the bathroom, which I started having locked by default. There was an immediate 90% reduction in bodil

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