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3y ago
that being said, the ecological cost of manufacturing probably outweigh largely that power consumption at usage.
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3y ago
My non-domain-specific prompt is: > You are a helpful assistant to 'User'. You do not respond as 'User' or pretend to be 'User'. You only respond once as 'Assistant'. 'System' will give y
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3y ago
Fun that's not my experience of Phi-2. I use it for non-creative context, but function calling, and I find as reliable as much bigger models (no fine-tuning just constraining JSON + CoT). Phi-2 unquantized vs Mixtral Q8, Mixtral is not
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3y ago
You're right, that calling them language model is no longer accurate. But "Language Model" has a precise signification (which is that it tries to create a perfect representation of the language). Saying "multimodal model
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3y ago
You're running fp32 models, fp16 or quantized?
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3y ago
The point was that before FAANGs, people were talking together and created interoperable standards. In 2006, Bluetooth for file transfer between phones was pretty nice. Standardizing file transfer in 2010 would have given us file transfer o
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phh
3y ago
The average file's size largely increased, bluetooth speed didn't (maybe *=2 with EDR)
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3y ago
> Well, all other V1 Apple products weren't half-assed, or at least when they were, they offered something more than the competitors. The first iPhone/iOS didn't? It had no apps, no MMS, no 3G > Meta Quest 3 is better o
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3y ago
Yes, this is killing me. I have a colleague that told me "on iPhones I can super easily share files to someone else", and I'm like "20 years ago sharing files across devices was a non-issue, because we had STANDARDS (ok
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3y ago
I have no idea what CUDA stands for, and I live just fine without knowing it.
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3y ago
No worries there. Despite all the incredible technologies evolution we've got, smartphones are getting wider and thinner every year, to pack more and more. I think thinnest smartphones era was around 2014-2016 when thin was touted as a
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3y ago
> I wonder if that kind of front end was done in the age of SAX parsers? I though that XPath over SAX was a thing, and xslt was doing sax-like parsing, but turns out I'm wrong. Which is logical considering XPath can refer to previou
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3y ago
> I’ve been watching For All Mankind this month and it’s remarkable how different things could be, but we can’t muster the will to really move things forward. I love that show, but I think it's completely unrealistic. We couldn'
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3y ago
Play Integrity API passes enough for most apps, including Google Pay (the only known exception is Mc Donalds) by simply reusing the "fingerprint" of another device (the "fingerprint" is basically just a version number, e
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3y ago
> The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone leasing company. Going from hardware you don't really own, to hardware you really don't own. I'm afraid that's sadly the way to go, beca
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3y ago
Dear LineageOS and other third party Android OS users (including waydroid), Google wages a war against us using 3rd party apps as a proxy. They are pretending that Play Integrity API (previously SafetyNet) protects the user, and recommend i
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3y ago
Except wifi is encrypted
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3y ago
> I hate that I still feel bad using it as a phone (terrible audio) If there are some handcrafty people on Pinephone Pro around: try some opensource denoiser like rnnoise. If it works, then it's probably worth the effort to integrat
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3y ago
FWIW you can still get Teletext over MPEG TS (DVB or IPTV), it's just already de-modulated, but even error correction bits are still there (and are useless). In France most IPTV operators still use teletext for live subtitling because
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3y ago
As an experienced KSP crasher, you never completely cancel horizontal component, so you need a way to dissipate it. And it's easier to dissipate if you know which direction your horizontal component is, which is easier to do when its v
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3y ago
Well on my current GNU/Linux this is no longer required: > sudo ping google.com PING google.com(par21s03-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4007:810::200e)) 56 data bytes
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3y ago
AI is already everywhere. We just keep on moving the definition of AI to make it something that requires a ~ 1000$ computer. I'm definitely not eager on having LLMs in my fridge. I'll be even more pissed that their software can&#x
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3y ago
> It’s an offline attack though — they need to get logic probes between the reader and the CPU — so if the phone locks with a PIN after reboot, magic key press, or a period of time then that’s the appropriate defence. I'm expecting
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3y ago
French's "fil pilote" to control electrical radiators is quite bullet proof in this regard: No power on command wire = comfort thermostat, full power = "eco" thermostat, and there are other more convoluted signalin
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3y ago
My personal guess is that they don't put it in training data, BUT they still have human read what you send, to see 1. what are the innovative uses that they can try to copy/integrate; 2. optimize (both in score and throughput) f
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3y ago
> Making a private copy of a copyrighted material is legal in many jurisdictions, it is however illegal to circumvent DRM. I believe that Europe developers are the most prolific in matters related to multimedia, including DRM. And well,
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I find it pretty cool that you went through the length of publicly announcing it and everything for something that everyone else was doing already. That does show some integrity in face of "let's just make it work" people. No
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3y ago
Gosh yes, count me in the "I hate this behavior" group. I've hit such horrible issues, like "why does this work in chrome, I but not in Firefox and chromium?!" (ofc now that you know it's not related to the br
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3y ago
Subscriptions gets a lot of hate, including on HN, partly for good reasons, but it has the bonus points that the companies' incentive is to make their products last longer. That's especially true for dumb devices that won't g
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3y ago
> Imagine if containers were actually vm-level safe? The performance and operational simplicity of a container with the security of a VM. As far as I know, the order of magnitudes of container security flaws from memory safety is the sam
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