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by not2b 3y ago
That isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. A C version could be similarly short, but the GNU yes implementer got carried away with efficiency considerations. If the Go program did the same, it would be longer.
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by not2b 3y ago
Anyone buying them and shutting them down won't even temporarily make the problem better, as NSO has competitors who would immediately hire the best people.
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by not2b 3y ago
Companies don't do things. People do. Shut down NSO and its skilled people will go elsewhere.
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by not2b 3y ago
It appears that the Israeli government operates the same way as the Russian government with respect to their private black/gray hat companies and groups: hacking other people is OK, just don't hack our nationals or our institution
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by not2b 3y ago
A repeat of the 9/11 attack became impossible before that day was over. It relied on the passengers and crew cooperating with the hijackers until it was too late: they would think that the plane is being diverted or held for ransom and
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by not2b 3y ago
No, because your $1 million pencil was never on the market; your hypothetical self-sale was a fake transaction. With NFTs it was often deceptively represented that someone paid $1 million, disguising the fact that these were bogus self-sale
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by not2b 3y ago
Unfortunately, many CLAs give the company that controls the code the power to take the project proprietary (and they will call this the bare minimum of what they need). It's repeatedly happened, so contributors need to be careful with
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by not2b 3y ago
CLA's required by some projects effectively require the contributor to give away all rights to the receiving organization. There are other forms of CLA that do not transfer these rights, but are still agreements (which is what the A st
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by not2b 3y ago
They also turn on warnings, so they catch uninitialized variables and the like.
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by not2b 3y ago
Beyond a few thousand words (32k tokens for GPT-4), it seems the beginning of the story will be outside of the range that can influence the output, though perhaps there are techniques to retain some memory, maybe you could first generate an
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by not2b 3y ago
Really? "school holiday"? If the primary use of ChatGPT is to help students cheat on assignments, yes, that would explain the dropoff. But if it is a world-changing tool that every company needs to sign on to, such an effect would
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by not2b 3y ago
No, I think it is mainly because it's optimized for 1024 x 1024 images, rather than 512 x 512 as the previous version was.
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by not2b 3y ago
It really isn't optional as a C developer to turn on warnings and get your code warning-free. This will eliminate the most common unbounded behavior issues, like uninitialized variables, though unfortunately not all of them.
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by not2b 3y ago
The reason for leaving integer overflow undefined was not primarily because of one's complement machines. It was for loop optimization. Consider for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_WIDTH; i++) out[i] = in[i + offset]; Assuming that i + offs
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by not2b 3y ago
That's what Android does: each app runs as a different user.
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by not2b 3y ago
This was bigger than the dinosaur-killer, which killed almost all land animals; only a tiny fraction survived. So almost everyone would die, all over the world. The shock wave would be extremely hot and kill pretty much anything that's
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by not2b 3y ago
That's the key. I'm reminded of the Helen Keller story. She was completely blind and deaf. Her teacher spent a very long time signing into her hand. It took a very long time before she realized that the sign for "water"
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by not2b 3y ago
No, I don't forget that. There's obviously a starting point, behaviors and abilities that newborns already have. The point is that the model is not static.
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by not2b 3y ago
No, a human isn't born with a set of knowledge like a freshly trained LLM, keeping the model fixed and responding to input. The analog to the model changes based on the human's experience. Just making bigger and bigger LLMs won&#x
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by not2b 3y ago
But Snowball the pig, who is presented much more positively, was clearly based on Trotsky so Eliot had a good argument that it was a Trotskyite book. It certainly wasn't a pro-capitalist book. The end was that the pigs could not be dis
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by not2b 3y ago
Computers can't represent reals, and it's closed on IEEE floating point values (with Inf and NaN).
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by not2b 3y ago
But you'd have to cram so many levels logic into that single cycle that you'd have to decrease the clock frequency to meet timing constraints, meaning that code that is not dominated by division would slow down. And a multi-cycle
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by not2b 3y ago
Do you know whether you are using the same version of GPT-4 as the authors of the article did?
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by not2b 3y ago
Cory Doctorow has been writing about this lately. It seems we are heading back to the economic system that preceded capitalism in Europe: feudalism, where almost all of the gains were taken by rentiers: people who made money based on what t
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by not2b 3y ago
No, Mastodon is the same. You get what you follow, people or hashtags, plus things the people you follow boost.
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by not2b 3y ago
People work on their own cars and have done so for at least a hundred years. Using technical means to prevent people from doing their own repairs, or from hiring someone of their choice to do the repair, is a relatively new thing.
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by not2b 3y ago
We (in the US) need a national right to repair law. There are too many legal tactics companies can use to defeat state laws.
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by not2b 3y ago
"a scenario that will not occur for the majority of cars" isn't the standard, otherwise there would be no need to require most safety features, as the majority of cars never get into a major crash. If a car runs out of charge
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by not2b 3y ago
It's great that machinery can separate out the most valuable components of trash. But ... It's not just about materials handling. It's also about the fact that there is almost no market for recycled plastic. Alumin(i)um cans,
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by not2b 3y ago
The font designer has to include a flag for each supported country. Often a given font is missing lots of flags for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the designer recognizes a given country or not, just a question of priorities;

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