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by osmarks 5y ago
It's not exactly "almost free"; you need a powerful GPU, which are extremely costly right now. But apart from the cost of that and power, free.
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by osmarks 5y ago
You might be safe now in relatively okay Western countries. Consider the possibility of places like China using these features, or just future Western governments which are worse.
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by osmarks 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351 says they got $927/month some time ago, which is a decent amount of income I think. It seems to be less now.
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by osmarks 5y ago
It would probably kill the battery to do that constantly, as the processor would not be able to sleep ever. Although relying on energy efficiency to not improve is not a good long term situation.
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by osmarks 5y ago
You can't check what's in the database. Someone could extend it to other things.
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by osmarks 5y ago
This is why it's a problem - this is the most defensible usecase for it, and any upscaling later will just get seen as a natural progression.
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by osmarks 5y ago
They made hugely exaggerated/false claims while raking in lots of Patreon money.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Perhaps it would be better to not gate by whether you happen to have visited a website fast enough relative to other people. For auctions, at least, there is a simple solution in the form of extending the auction timer whenever someone bids
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by osmarks 5y ago
Buy an eGPU enclosure and put a NIC in that?
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by osmarks 5y ago
You're assuming things unreasonably, and in any case more privacy is good even if it's not total.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Lua does the same thing as JS. It's basically "dofile" with some indirection and extra path resolution logic.
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by osmarks 5y ago
If they're using something like GPT-3 on the backend, which they probably are, it probably can't provide any explanations or context (unless the output is memorized training data, like this); the output can be somewhat novel cod
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by osmarks 5y ago
This is probably impossible. Web APIs are too complex now.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Why does the particular set of people matter instead of just the difference in numbers? If the Y people happened to be a subset of those who would die without the technology, is that better? If you somehow move all the deaths caused by a th
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by osmarks 5y ago
I rechecked some random internet articles, and the brain contains about 10^15 synapses. They operate at about 10Hz (~10 PFLOPS). If we arbitrarily assume that each synapse operation is equivalent to 1 floating point operation on a computer,
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by osmarks 5y ago
Humans are hardly perfect drivers either.
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by osmarks 5y ago
The brain has hyperspecialized and hyperoptimized single-purpose hardware. Human AI systems run on more general-purpose machines with a few decades spent improving the hardware. Blaming the software is silly.
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by osmarks 5y ago
The fly has a really efficient specialized "computer" for the neural network thing it's running, while human ones are more generalized and don't have the benefit of hundreds of millions of years of power consumption opti
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by osmarks 5y ago
Generators are basically coroutines, aren't they?
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by osmarks 5y ago
Why is the transpilation step an issue? You can set it up to happen whenever the file is changed with most things.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Possibly, but it's not the sort of competition which leads to more choice and better outcomes for consumers.
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by osmarks 5y ago
A filesystem is a hierarchical key-value database, which is not what many applications actually want, and plain text is not a data format for anything except structureless human-readable-only, well, plain text. While you could then put some
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by osmarks 5y ago
They do not compete with each other (potential competitors just get bought out), and already do lobbying in vast quantities. And there's nothing about inter-country communication which requires Facebook's data mining, inasmuch as
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by osmarks 5y ago
It matches identifiers style-insensitively so you can actually use other conventions if you want. Although the online docs are still camelcased.
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by osmarks 5y ago
I can't see that being very popular. Even if it doesn't actually cost you much in absolute terms, billing per page will make people a lot more reluctant to explore new content.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Presumably an alcohol use disorder is quite bad. Is the benefit of drinking alcohol really enough to offset the fairly significant risk there?
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by osmarks 5y ago
It seems like the model in this is assuming the conclusion of the post.
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by osmarks 5y ago
Two versions behind is actually better than the majority of Android phones in the wild.
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by osmarks 6y ago
How do you solve deepfakes with asymmetric cryptography, without just trusting the person the videos purport to be of to say (cryptographically) whether something is real or not (which is not a good solution)?

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