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senko
3y ago
It's a crutch to minimize the user annoyance at having to wait up to a minute for the response. It sure beats the spinner but it's still a crutch.
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senko
3y ago
For context, you're reading this on Hacker News, a forum hosted by YC. What Google didn't tell you is that SAFEs were invented by YC ten years ago in order to provide better angel/seed investing framework than the then-curren
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senko
3y ago
You've proved the parent's general point. From that page: > It is a spoof of American super-hero comics that sends up French national attitudes.
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senko
3y ago
There's "hard real time", where a system must respond within a specific time (eg. vehicle or rocket control, or PLC systems you mention, etc) and "soft real time" meaning the response should be quick but nothing cat
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senko
3y ago
The term sheet potentially had a clause that (a) prevented him from soliciting other offers, and crucially (b) disclose any unsolicited offers immediately. (I don't have a ton of experience with m&a, but we had something similar in
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senko
3y ago
Blog post from Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf Webinar on the same topic (from same HF folks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MBJOuVq380&t=496s RLHF as used by OpenAI in InstructGPT
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senko
3y ago
I am sure you're right, but "if you know what you're doing" does a lot of heavy lifting here. We could just as easily say "hosting your own email can be set up in a few minutes if you know what you're doing&quo
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senko
3y ago
For comparison, these were generated using Stability.ai API: https://postimg.cc/gallery/MQfkgP7/ce388adf I used stable-diffusion-xl-beta-v2-2-2 model, copypasted prompts from the blog post, one-shot for each promp
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senko
3y ago
Yeah, also apparently the premium (paid) members have priority for name picking, meaning someone can subscribe to Discord for a few months, squat the name and cancel. This makes a complicated situation even more annoying as it paints the th
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senko
3y ago
> Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues. Yet. Give it time (and clout). They're going to try to move and expand that's for certain, and then it'll be time to become profitable / sellable. As others co
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senko
3y ago
Not a sin, I don't want to diminish in any way the awesome work that's being done! It's just that these packages/libraries/frameworks are often in what I'd describe as "proof of concept" phase, not ve
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senko
3y ago
Cthulhu is an equal opportunity destroyer.
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senko
3y ago
What's barely believable in that article? From what I can see around myself, it's more or less the same except you can whatsapp someone instead of leaving a message on their voicemail. Oh and it's a lot easier to sync up, no
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senko
3y ago
Ah, I see I've been ninja'd by about 17 hours: https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/releases/tag/v0.2.... :-D
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senko
3y ago
Nice! Totally agree with the project goals, it seems too many other packages are created by people who are researchers (or enthusiasts) first and software developers second, and it shows. I see you're using Pydantic. I've recently
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senko
3y ago
Absolutely. The gun culture in the US is barbaric. The lack of a social safety net is downright evil, to say nothing about the healthcare costs. -signed, a European
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senko
3y ago
From the first sentence in the article: > Inflationary pressures mean businesses have faced price increases of up to 24 percent from tech vendors attempting to claw back margins. > the additional profits are not making it to the emplo
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senko
3y ago
The organizations that release the models already provide (brag about) their model performance. They could simply include in the same report the info about the energy spent doing the training/finetuning/inference, per X tokens. T
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senko
3y ago
In comparison, the Inflation Reduction Act, an one-off act, is 750 pages long.
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senko
3y ago
It's still an useful metric, why not measure and report it? Especially for models that are being deployed on mobile phones or desktop apps. And looking ahead, the future where IoT devices will have a mini-neural-net is not inconceivabl
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senko
3y ago
The same way people went from "everyone should be equal" to Stalin. In comparison, Jira's not so bad...
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senko
3y ago
I almost didn't the article because wth can NYT tell us about agile software? Some thrice-washed-down generalization for the masses, full of holes? Turns out it's from their dev blog and it's an interesting read.
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senko
3y ago
I see just one primadona in this story and it's not (one of) the mods. Unless you only use Reddit in a Google-result-and-bounce fashion, your reddit experience is directly shaped by the mods (unpaid) work, especially on the larger subs
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senko
3y ago
(Strategy) consulting in general is basically telling clients what they want to hear and backing it up with complex Excel sheets and slick corporate slide decks.
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senko
3y ago
Kagi user here, very happy with them so far. I honestly use maybe a third of their features (lens and boost/block are great ones that I'm too lazy/forgetful to use). They also recently announced search AI (I think powered by
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senko
3y ago
To save non-Apple users the trouble, as of May 3 '23: > Cross platform support is still very much on our radar and we’re dedicated to support both Windows and Linux in the future
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senko
3y ago
It would seem not, as the official documentation mentions the arguments may be hallucinated or be a malformed JSON . (except if the meaning is the JSON syntax is valid but may not conform to the schema, but they're unclear on that).
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senko
3y ago
They do try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324118 But keep in mind that EU legislature (and "government", such as it is) is as dysfunctional as the US one, just in different ways, don't expect much e
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senko
3y ago
HTTP GET is an API. All you have to do is not block well-behaved scrapers.
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3y ago
> People understand that a T-Mobile customer can send a text to an AT&T customer. They understand that a Samsung owner can call an iPhone owner. That was a hard-won victory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsb
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