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by otterley 4mo ago
If a person lists himself as the author but an LLM produces the work, they’re defrauding the government, which is a crime.
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by otterley 4mo ago
The US Copyright Office disagrees. No work produced by a mechanical process, which includes LLMs, can be protected by copyright.
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by otterley 4mo ago
In real life.
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by otterley 4mo ago
> To compete in that direction, USG needs to learn from CCP to "seize the means of production" No they don't. The U.S. Government is free to launch their own AI labs if they wish -- and even compete with the private sector
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by otterley 4mo ago
> Others like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are mostly just competeing with each rather than keep innovating around the clock. They compete with each other by innovating. The innovations result in more utility for the customer, but the te
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by otterley 4mo ago
The stopwatch starts when a request arrives and stops after your processor sends the response. You’re not charged for idle time. For low-demand services, it’s a bargain. The tradeoff is a bit of extra latency for cold starts (i.e. when a re
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by otterley 4mo ago
I don't think it's that complicated, but yeah, it's not as simple as $X/month. The primary difference is that with Lambda you pay by the second, not by the month. According to my math, the break-even point for a 8GB allo
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by otterley 4mo ago
Click on the "MicroVMs" tab of the pricing page: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
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by otterley 4mo ago
Yes you can.
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by otterley 4mo ago
It's in the very first body paragraph of the article: "A new class of multi-tenant applications has emerged that all share the need to hand each end user their own dedicated execution environment in which to safely run code that t
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by otterley 4mo ago
Only the bed length is listed there. It’s insufficient data to determine whether a full size sheet of plywood will fit.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Bezos is just an investor; he played little part in its design or engineering.
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by otterley 4mo ago
> Information is worth nothing anymore What do you do for a living? For most of us in the tech industry, information being worth something (because it takes creative and intellectual labor to produce) puts food on our tables.
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by otterley 4mo ago
My guess is that this person is using multiple HN accounts and is getting them mixed up.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Taalas encodes the model into the hardware itself. The two are inextricably coupled. It’s like buying a CNC router that can’t be reprogrammed to build anything other than a specific predetermined kitchen cabinet. And the model used inside i
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by otterley 4mo ago
Cerebras is not that. Cerebras isn’t tied to a particular model like Taalas is. The latter is even faster than Cerebras.
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by otterley 4mo ago
The question isn’t whether it works (it does); the question is whether there are buyers for hardware that is obsolete the day it ships. Models evolve much more quickly than hardware can keep up.
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by otterley 4mo ago
I truthfully don’t know the answer, but if I had to guess, his connections and positions provide him with an unusual amount of knowledge and perspective. Another might be that his opinions often are correct in hindsight.
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by otterley 4mo ago
As the article said, Reid Hoffman is on Microsoft’s board and is an investor both in OpenAI and Anthropic.
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by otterley 4mo ago
What kinds of controls are you referring to? None of the examples I provided was made up.
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by otterley 4mo ago
That’s not what this was about. It was in response to a dramatic hysterical exhortation that we shouldn’t “normalize...surveillance” as though it’s not already normal and well tolerated in our society, particularly in the context of employm
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by otterley 4mo ago
Somehow I don’t believe that is true.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Without evidence of this “special arrangement” I don’t see why anyone should believe you. You made a claim that is directly contrary to WhatsApp’s published materials and they have a lot to lose if you are correct. On the other hand, if you
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by otterley 4mo ago
Can you post a link?
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by otterley 4mo ago
Do you believe that police should have their activities monitored at work? How about child care workers? Nuclear power plant operators? Bank tellers? And if those are ok, what makes them different?
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by otterley 4mo ago
I’m not sure the terms of their employment changed; being subject to monitoring has been in practically every employment agreement written in the past few decades. What did change is the culture and environment. While that term was always i
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by otterley 4mo ago
Knock it off. Nobody wants to read your braggadocio, and it’s insulting to people who are having real challenges finding work.
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by otterley 4mo ago
I would assume that if we were banning the uncontrolled release of its combustion products, we’d also be banning the uncontrolled release of methane into the atmosphere.
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by otterley 4mo ago
That last one’s going to need some substantiation. “In the ordinary course of providing our service, WhatsApp does not store messages once they are delivered or transaction logs of such delivered messages. Undelivered messages are deleted f
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by otterley 4mo ago
Which alternative are you thinking of?

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