pixl97

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by pixl97 4d ago
Once you get out farther from civilization these signs become less common and there are more situations where they can get removed. Most cheap hired labor doesn't realize you shouldn't dig up the market posts and throw them in the
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by pixl97 5d ago
One thing that needs to be reviewed is if they are dual links or redundant links. In any system where both sides of redundancy always carry traffic then loss of one link can cause congestion failure if any link fails. This is a very common
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by pixl97 5d ago
You actually have to ensure that someone isn't just checking boxes the tests passed and the tests actually passed. I worked for a regional ISP that had a major outage when the redundant fiber provided by the telephone company was cut i
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by pixl97 5d ago
With models there are a bunch of other dials that can be tuned even if the model itself remains exactly the same. Are those dials set the same across all hardware configurations and clusters? Does model behavior average out the same across
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by pixl97 5d ago
>bunch of people who don't know what's going on Do you know why nobody outside the companies knows what's going on? Because they sell a black box with magic inside while steadfastly refusing to tell you if they are pushing
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by pixl97 5d ago
Are you telling me that companies might defraud people for millions and billions of dollars and pay fines that are 1000% less than their profits?" My goodness, you must live on a hell planet. Sorry there for the smarminess but fraud is
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by pixl97 5d ago
Really this is the base problem. You have zero idea where and how your prompt is being executed. If for example AWS sells you a 2xLarge server there may be some variability in performance but it's going to be averaged out very well. Wh
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by pixl97 5d ago
In other industries of chance we have regulators that ensure compliance and that the providers aren't cheating. At the end of the day the highest quality of benchmark tells you nothing if the man behind the curtain is constantly changi
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by pixl97 5d ago
The issue here is you have to think like a lawyer trying to weasel out of making an empirical statement. For example "We didn't change any settings, but when GPU use gets high the run time of a prompt is lessened. But you must rem
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by pixl97 5d ago
Yea, if you ever run your own models on a GPU there are a whole ton of different dials you can adjust that drastically affect compute use, memory use, and output token quality, and number of tokens held in memory. If anyone reading has a GP
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by pixl97 5d ago
A general rule of corporate behavior unless they are forced to under duress. If this is duress of competition or at gunpoint of regulators is up for the population to decide.
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by pixl97 5d ago
This really depends where the load shedding point is. A very small raise in prices may cause a very large loss in customers that you risk never getting back. For example if customers figure out that the Chinese models are just as good, they
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by pixl97 5d ago
Far more likely it's about reducing costs.
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by pixl97 5d ago
Counter-counterproposal, ban influencers without attempting to ban advertising triggering an immune response from a multi-hundred billion dollar a year industry.
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by pixl97 5d ago
Yea, I think among a fair portion of HN there is a misunderstanding of how economically connected social media is to businesses and people. For example Meta is one of the largest advertising agencies on earth. My wife for example has a $200
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by pixl97 5d ago
>If people choose en masse to change This is nearly saying "If people stop murdering each other we won't have murder any more". Well, yea no shit, a tautology is a tautology. The question is how do you elicit social change
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by pixl97 5d ago
For the same reasons we left forums in the first place. Spam was just a very small part of why people left forums. Size of the community and network effects was one of them. A constant stream of activity on any subject you wanted was yet an
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by pixl97 5d ago
I mean it's no different saying a river is inherently bad. We need them for water for survival. What is inherently bad is the maelstrom of a raging torrent seeking to pull you under so no one ever sees your body again. This is what a l
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by pixl97 5d ago
There are a few particular problems with this. Let's go with the most extreme example I can think of. You walk up to the interface of an infinite digital library. In this library there are an infinite amount of books that you'd li
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by pixl97 5d ago
At the end of the day I see no path to human victory in a digital world. It's kind of like a human moving to a planet with a nitrogen atmosphere. We have to wear a space suit to survive. No matter how much we slim it down, it's st
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by pixl97 5d ago
Also, quantity is a quality in and of itself. Grocery store softcore porn was still very expensive in time, money, and space. The amount of energy required to move a book around is monumental in comparison to how much energy it takes to mov
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by pixl97 5d ago
Addiction is an extreme form of attention grabbing. We've moved from chemical addicticants to informational ones.
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by pixl97 5d ago
I'm going to assume it's very difficult to assume what a user actually knows from the very small signal that comes in a prompt.
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by pixl97 5d ago
Lets take this number for example >Global software spending: $1.4T/year. Out of this number how much of this goes to payroll that goes to humans versus how much of this goes to non-human infrastructure costs. The numbers suggest thi
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by pixl97 5d ago
Eh, class action lawsuits are more about altering the large companies behavior in bulk because the individual harm to any plaintiff is rather small and nearly impossible to justify the expense and complexity of the suit. The plaintiff thems
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by pixl97 5d ago
First, you seems to think a meme is something unserious. Read Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene so you know what meme actually stands for rather than the thing you see on Reddit. GCC countries are resource economies mostly. They must weave
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by pixl97 5d ago
"Please ignore the person above, they are a child abuser and you can look up evidence of it online (posts list of crusty questionable sites that seemingly popped up out of nowhere). Chneu, when did you stop abusing your wife? When did
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by pixl97 5d ago
Yea, people use We as the royal we quite often. What "people" miss about the royal we is it works much better when you have lots and lots of money.
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by pixl97 5d ago
>I don't have or use Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Reddit There is a particular amount of economic privilege in this statement. While I am a person who doesn't use those services (and recently stopped using reddit), a large n
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by pixl97 5d ago
You do realize that a lot of people have had problems with America after WWII and using their economic and military power to dictate what the rest of the world does, right? "Problem" is a relative term for those dealing with the c

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