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by pradn 2y ago
The price seems entirely reasonable. $200 is about 1-2 hours of a professional's time in the USA. It's in everyone's interest for the company to be a sustainable business.
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by pradn 2y ago
Cookie banners are just one more reason why it's so painful to use the web. They are nothing but required pop-ups! Making it painful to visit sites hurts the internet ecosystem. Might as well stay in walled-gardens, where ads are occas
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by pradn 2y ago
Twitter used to have an app, Periscope. You could start a livestream any time, anywhere. And viewers could fine live streams on a world map. For a few months, it was possible to feel the incredible simultaneity and richness of human lives.
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by pradn 2y ago
Honestly, for any serious query, the links serve mostly so you can double-check the AI. That's a useful function however. I think we're going to see even fewer site visits as a consequence of AI search engines. The internet's
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by pradn 2y ago
Well the whole point of this product is to link back to websites. There’s no necessary link between the text and the links, which are chosen after the fact from an index. That’s different from traditional search engines, where links are dir
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by pradn 2y ago
Valve is trying to obsolete Windows, so they can prevent Microsoft from interfering with Steam. Apple could team up with them, and help obsolete Windows for a very large percentage of game-hours. There will always be a long tail of niche Wi
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by pradn 2y ago
Anyone know how well this works with Godot?
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by pradn 2y ago
That's great to know - business customers require a lot more stability, I suppose!
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by pradn 2y ago
I suppose business customers are savvy and will do enough research to find the best cost-performance LLM. Whereas consumers are more brand and habit oriented. I do find myself running into Claude limits with moderate use. It's been so
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by pradn 2y ago
Great progress from Anthropic! They really shouldn't change models from under the hood, however. A name should refer to a specific set of model weights, more or less. On the other hand, as long as its actually advancing the Pareto fron
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by pradn 2y ago
Advanced civilizations get good at using unusual materials like lead and mercury. Some of these come with unforeseen consequences. Plastic and oil are the two substances most like these for us in present day.
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by pradn 2y ago
I've stopped carrying my over-ear noise-cancelling headphones for this reason. They take up like a quarter/half of a normal item-sized backpack. I can sleep with plane noise. But I always bring a sleep mask, because I can't s
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by pradn 2y ago
The paper is at [1], and the summary chart is at [2]. The top chart shows which of the three bodies escapes the system given initial starting conditions. The bottom one makes it easier to see patterns by reducing noise. It uses the k-neares
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by pradn 2y ago
I wonder if you could just madvise the entire address space. My hunch is that it's for performance reasons only - fewer pages to scan, hash, and de-duplicate.
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by pradn 2y ago
Ah, good to know! Thank you for explaining. I guess much of this is why its hard to use shared libraries in the first place.
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by pradn 2y ago
It's possible for the OS to recognize that several pages have the same content (ie: doing a hash) and then de-duplicate them. This can happen across multiple applications. It's easiest for read-only pages, but you can swing it for
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by pradn 2y ago
You can still download specific files from torrents of many files, yes. You can pick a subset of files to download. In theory, you could extend torrent clients to support archiving some subset of the files. You just tell it to keep around 1
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by pradn 2y ago
I like IPFS, and want it to continue improving, but it is just too slow, uses too many resources, and is often unreliable. https://annas-archive.org/blog/putting-5,998,794-books-on-ip...
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by pradn 2y ago
You’re talking about possible sibyl attacks. Yes that’s a concern but there’s a large literature on how to reduce their threat. This might be a place where “proof of x” concepts from crypto land work. But we don’t need to go all the way to
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by pradn 2y ago
The critical thing here is that regular people can help. The archive is already split into many O(GB)-sized chunks. We need to ensure each chunk has many, many copies. Torrents are a widely-understood, robust way to mirror large files. But
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by pradn 2y ago
The use-case for having isolated objects with parameters, much like classes in Java, is to be able to a) share code, b) hide internal details, and c) have object behavior be governed solely by a constrained set of inputs. So the point isn&#
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by pradn 2y ago
How has Systems Theory changed how you think? Is there a good book you recommend on the topic? Thank you!
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by pradn 2y ago
Graphs are inherently "chatty" because there are more shapes in which you could store them. The same goes for querying. Similar to "degrees of freedom". Even storing a graph in memory, you're going to have load a lo
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by pradn 2y ago
This isn't all so unusual if its written into the job description. SREs in tech companies are expected to respond within a few minutes if they're paged in the middle of the night. They are usually compensated for their oncall time
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by pradn 2y ago
If image sensor / lens system quality are orthogonal to the final megapixel output, why bother with 48MP output JPEGs? They take up more space, so the practical benefit to smaller files is there.
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by pradn 2y ago
The optical zoom on the Pro is so good! I often zoom in 3-5x and still get great results. I've gotten comments from people saying they thought photos of far off building features, etc, were taken with a DSLR. It's a no-brainer to
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by pradn 2y ago
Thank you, that's useful!
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by pradn 2y ago
Pretty cool you got to see this stuff in the real world! Questions: 1) Was the problem able to be solved with one machine? 2) Was the problem reliably able to be solved within a time-bound, or was it "spiky"? 3) Was the solution a
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by pradn 2y ago
> Distributed systems are different because they fail often The key here is not just the rate of failure, but the rate of failure in a system of multiple nodes. And - "distributed systems problems" don't only arise with se
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by pradn 2y ago
> Google here uses SD 1.4, as the core of the diffusion model, which is a nice reminder that open models are useful to even giant cloud monopolies. A mistake people make all the time is that massive companies will put all their resources

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