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by not2b 3y ago
The danger with "be skeptical of all sources" is that it puts all the sources, including the trained scientists, the cranks, and the corporate shills trying to spin things their way on the same level. They wind up saying what ever
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by not2b 3y ago
Yes, it means that they are not biased against non-binary people. If that's how some of the songwriters identify, and they are doing statistics by gender, of course they would include it. In any case, omitting those songwriters or arbi
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by not2b 3y ago
An LLM is more like software than it is like media. The GPL defines source code as the preferred form for making modifications, including the scripts needed for building the executable from source. The weights in this case are more similar
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by not2b 3y ago
My favorite example of this is "average" vs "normal". People want to be considered normal but do not want to be considered average.
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by not2b 3y ago
You'd have to have enough RAM to hold the whole model in memory or performance will be awful, mmap is just a way to get faster startup (if the mmap'd file looks exactly like the in-memory representation) and easier sharing (the mm
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by not2b 3y ago
Not Facebook hardware in this case, it would be their model running on QCOM hardware. If people can write apps in which the model is used locally and no information goes to the net (to Meta, Google, or anyone else) that's a huge privac
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by not2b 3y ago
These days, loss of smell is most likely to be long Covid.
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by not2b 3y ago
That's very broken; more usual practice at the time was to have large numbers of tests, aiming for good code coverage. I've sometimes seen too many full-tool tests and few true unit tests (tests that just test functions for correc
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by not2b 3y ago
Reminds me of Ted Chiang's controversial piece "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web", which as I recall HN didn't like much, but it raised some good points. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t
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by not2b 3y ago
They could do that just as easily without federation (and in fact they already do: they've been found to create "shadow users" from people who aren't even Facebook/Instagram users from the tracking cookies they&#x27
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by not2b 3y ago
Even though Threads isn't federated yet, you can find any user's public messages via https://threads.net/@username (which is identical to the scheme Mastodon and other fediverse sites use). Anyone's public po
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by not2b 3y ago
The fight over whether or not to federate with threads might actually cause more decentralization, as people move off instances if they don't like the policies the admins have chosen, and different admins make different choices.
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by not2b 3y ago
The terms of service on Facebook require that real names be used, and anonymous users aren't permitted. I know, many ignore that, but they occasionally demand a user's real name or proof that an unusual name is a real name. Instag
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by not2b 3y ago
Meta (when they were Facebook) had a rule that members would use their real names, that their users consented to as part of the terms of service. Apparently they used that as justification to find out someone's real name who was using
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by not2b 3y ago
If someone on a different instance decided to follow a famous celebrity, and Meta tried to attach that celebrity's name to an ad without their permission, the celebrity would sue and it would be a slam-dunk win. Meta can't use som
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by not2b 3y ago
But if Tumblr does the same, they're just as complete. And public scraping can approximate "when did X like this post?" by just running it frequently. And you haven't mentioned the moderation costs to Meta. They'd h
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by not2b 3y ago
For Instagram, an ad is essentially a post from someone you don't follow. It seems you're suggesting that they'd make an advertisement and pretend that some friend of yours posted it. They never do anything like that on Insta
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by not2b 3y ago
An ad would have to be a post to get into the metaverse, and for it to be pulled in someone would have to be following the account that posted it.
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by not2b 3y ago
I think it might have more to do with regulatory concerns, maybe they think that appearing to be more open will make them seem less monopolistic. On the other hand, they aren't launching in Europe because of their troubles there.
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by not2b 3y ago
Threads now has 100 million accounts, Mastodon has about 13 million (2 million daily active users, daily active users on Threads is probably a similar ratio). I don't think they care about slurping up everything. In fact, I think that
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by not2b 3y ago
That's what uuencode / uudecode were once used for.
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by not2b 3y ago
Sorry, no. I saw a demo of a Xerox workstation at PARC in 1982, probably not that different from the demo Steve Jobs got. It was a lot more advanced than suggested by this article, which seems to miss that office applications were written o
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by not2b 3y ago
That reminded me of this story which might have been the one you were thinking of: https://medium.com/@christian.dobbert/the-missing-bullet-hol...
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by not2b 3y ago
Except that search engine providers used to think they were in the business of providing accurate, quality information in exchange for ad revenue (before they took one step after another to degrade this in pursuit of revenue growth). People
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by not2b 3y ago
If someone sends you a DMCA takedown request for URLs that aren't even valid, then you can reply that you've complied with their request and taken the (nonexistent) material down: you are no longer serving content from those URLs
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by not2b 3y ago
I regularly post photos from my hikes to Instagram. I've never used the story feature. But I've been accused of being a nobody before. I might consider importing them to Pixelfed, but only a few friends are in the fediverse now, a
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by not2b 3y ago
It would appear that you assume incorrectly. Instagram will let you dump all your data into a JSON. All Pixelfed is doing is reading that JSON. Pixelfed has no contract with Meta that would block them from reading in that JSON.
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by not2b 3y ago
In the early 90s I was a grad student and research assistant with a desk in Cory Hall at UC Berkeley, where I spent a lot of time for 3.5 years. That building has the distinction of being the only place that Kaczynski (we didn't know h
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by not2b 3y ago
64 bit integers are just as cheap, and that's where everyone is going.
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by not2b 3y ago
I am no expert, but the /r/blind people appear to disagree about whether this is adequate, they evidently think a screen reader for the web site or the Reddit app is much worse than the apps they are currently using.

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