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Venezuela hit by 7.5 magnitude earthquake(apnews.com)
10 points by oofbey 3mo ago|0 comments
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by oofbey 4mo ago
As somebody who has spent a lot more than 10 minutes trying to figure out why CORS was blocking what seemed legitimate, I sympathize with people doing the wrong thing, and disagree with your assertion that it’s not that complicated. Maybe I
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by oofbey 4mo ago
I think there’s a reasonable argument that a burst bubble will cause prices to drop. Prices are very high because they’re trying to justify these trillion dollar valuations on IP alone. If that fantasy goes away then prices will fall down t
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by oofbey 4mo ago
Correct. We used to think that because NN optimization is non-convex there are all these local minima. Now we know that once you get past the very early parts of training from random init, the loss surface is fairly smooth, and not really
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by oofbey 4mo ago
That’s a lot of negatives!
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by oofbey 4mo ago
Nice breakdown. But data centers are increasingly responsible for their own electricity. As in Colossus.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
It’s definitely for hardware reasons. They have been aggressively improving the vector math capabilities in their chips, but as anybody who has tried to run a local LLM will tell you, newer hardware works better and you’re always limited in
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by oofbey 4mo ago
Omg that is brilliant. I am so using this.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
I cannot fathom why he brings up CPU SIMD as a potential comparative weakness on the NVIDIA Spark when it has teraflops of CUDA sitting right there.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
Understanding and deciding to rely upon are not the same. Complexity is one of the biggest challenges in real world software systems. Keeping a subsystem’s responsibilities simple can do a lot for a system’s reliability. Most teams have ext
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by oofbey 4mo ago
You could. But then you’re also building from scratch HA failover, backups, replica management, monitoring, etc - cloud vendor managed RDBMS come with lots of niceties. All of which are possible to set yourself. But a hassle, and difficult
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by oofbey 4mo ago
You underestimate the egos involved.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
I love this. For anybody not getting the joke, it’s riffing on the classic 1990s essay “They’re made out of meat.” https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by oofbey 4mo ago
They clearly have an agenda, but also openly acknowledge that public surveillance is a two sided coin, balancing public safety and convenience with privacy. Some of the risks they identify are real, but others are unabashedly exaggerated.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
Correct. All major OSes stopped broadcasting the preferred SSID list by 2017, with Android and Linux being the last. Apple stopped in 2014. Windows by 2009.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
I’m sorry you are used to working with out of touch leadership. Not all companies are like that. Even big ones can have smart, empathetic leaders. Although very often money gets in the way of empathy.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
GPT 5.5 still invents facts rather than looking them up, and manages to come across both as condescending and sycophantic. It feels like talking to a used car salesman.
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by oofbey 4mo ago
In many cases “I don’t know” is the correct answer - for questions about events that happened after the training cut off, if it doesn’t have web search, that is undeniably the correct answer. You’re forcing it to guess unnaturally. That rea
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by oofbey 5mo ago
Willful ignorance. "No indication" meaning they haven't seen any evidence anything was compromised. Could be because they've been working very hard not to look at any evidence or analysis of what happened. "I&#x2
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by oofbey 5mo ago
Classic Google problem: nobody gets promoted for maintaining anything. Promotions require doing Something Big. Convince everybody that your new feature is so much better than the old experience that it’s worthy of nuking the old experience,
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by oofbey 5mo ago
As a former Googler this doesn’t surprise me at all. Dealing with customers directly is literally seen as failure. Everything at Google is about scale, and automation. If you have to do something manually - anything - then you’re doing it w
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by oofbey 5mo ago
Railway deserves a lot of blame here. Deleting backups along with the database is a lot like not having backups. Moronic design choice.
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by oofbey 5mo ago
After reading about how their delete database API also deletes all the backups, I concluded they are not to be trusted.
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by oofbey 5mo ago
Yeah this whole post reads like Anthropic said “make sure you say how awesome Mythos is” but really what they’re saying is that it’s just a better harness.
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by oofbey 5mo ago
They probably built it just for themselves. More the first person in the post title.
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by oofbey 5mo ago
I’ve always thought of the definition of “expert” as reliably knowing the difference between what is known, what is speculated but unproven, and what is unknown. People claim expertise in all sorts of things that they aren’t experts in. Bu
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by oofbey 5mo ago
This app has legitimate uses (custom tune performance on their engines) and also makes it easy to do illegal things. (Defeat emissions controls and roll coal.) The people who are using it to do illegal things are crying “privacy!” People
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by oofbey 5mo ago
Training an LLM from scratch involves carefully curating the data first. The idea that it just memorizes the whole web is a nice simplified mental model, but glosses over huge amounts of hard work to decide which websites are authoritative
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by oofbey 5mo ago
The README claims that it costs 50-100 bytes per token when rendered to UTF8 text and wrapped in JSON. Citation needed please? JSON can be inefficient if you have lots of keys or use pretty whitespace. But UTF8 is very efficient. I don’t s
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Apple settles lawsuit admitting Apple Intelligence isn't here yet(reuters.com)
5 points by oofbey 5mo ago|1 comments

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