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by skissane 3mo ago
> I mean when your IPO is kind of hitting the ground face first, it might be better to concentrate on that than on your hobbies. It is still trading above the IPO price. It could have gone better, but other IPOs have done significantly w
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America is destroying itself. It's no surprise(theguardian.com)
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by skissane 4mo ago
> I don't see any ethical connection Trust isn’t about ethics, it is about individual judgement of how much risk some actor poses to your own interests. Trust is context-dependent There can be unethical actors whom you have good rea
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by skissane 4mo ago
> And if you don't know which parts were generated by LLM, you can't safely reuse the code. I speculate this could be a real issue in future copyright infringement lawsuits. The plaintiff bears the burden of proving that the co
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by skissane 4mo ago
It would be hilarious if Musk merged SpaceX and Tesla, and then decided to call the result Twitter
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by skissane 4mo ago
Alternative take: if a SPCX-TSLA merger proposal is publicly announced, that will create market enthusiasm (quite possibly irrational) about “unlocking synergies” which will temporarily pump both stocks, thereby making Musk (and all the oth
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by skissane 4mo ago
> The implementation does not often differ run by run. If you use a cluster, or even multiple clusters, and they have non-identical hardware, then two consecutive runs could end up being routed to nodes having different GPU models with s
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by skissane 4mo ago
> That is not a problem for LLMs, because in practice floating point inaccuracies (in particular after exponentiation) prevent values from being exactly equal Any two tokens ending up with the exact same logit is very unlikely, but not i
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by skissane 4mo ago
> It would be extremely heavy handed but the administration has sanctioned the International Criminal Court judges That's sanctioning specific individuals for specific acts they performed which the US claims contravene its interests
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by skissane 4mo ago
> They could ban payment processors from processing payments to any hosts of GML 5.2 Can they actually though? Do they have legal authority to tell a payment processor that it has to block transactions of a legal US company, just because
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by skissane 4mo ago
> GLM export controls incoming? I predict Commerce will force OpenRouter, HuggingFace to take some open models down within the next few months. I’m sceptical they could find the legal framework to do this even if they wanted to They have
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by skissane 4mo ago
Maybe it's buggy or something? Unreliable? Use causes overheating or RF interference issues? Maybe IBM added it for project X, and then project X got cancelled, and everyone else forgot it was ever there...
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by skissane 4mo ago
> I sort of agree with this in the abstract. The problem is that concretely, these LLMs are being used to decide whether you receive healthcare, government benefits, or whether your job/agency gets cut. So they have already had real
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by skissane 4mo ago
I think it is a pity they’ll likely never open source any of this stuff Of course, financial institutions have a lot of “secret sauce” - such as financial models - you’d never expect them to release. But this kind of underlying infrastructu
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Didn't know NT reserved space for per-drive CWDs and then never used it. RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS has a field “RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR CurrentDirectores[32]” (note the misspelling). And then RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR is defined a
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by skissane 4mo ago
> what's in it for a project to deal with this extra architecture You’d be surprised the number of companies who really want to run something on an obscure platform, and will pay $$$ to port stuff to it. Often the thing being ported
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Models know git because there's a monstrous amount of git in their training data. Models never heard of a new thing "for agents", so you have to teach them to use it via skills and docs. Another option: when model invoke
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Another Windows oddity: each drive letter has its own current directory For NT-based Windows: only in cmd.exe, and other apps which choose to support the same convention. The NT/Win32 API only supports a single per-process directo
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by skissane 4mo ago
> macOS supports case-insensitivity Well, strictly speaking Linux does too, since it supports mounting local or remote filesystems with this feature For a long time, the real distinction was that “native” Linux filesystems didn’t support
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by skissane 4mo ago
> That’s all how it’s supposed to work. In practice companies probably circumvent the restrictions. Ex-colleague of mine told me he used to work for this company in UAE (he told me this story 15+ years ago, so he worked there even before
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by skissane 4mo ago
It makes sense from a business perspective-SaaS firms value the ability of coding agents to accelerate development, but also worry the models will learn the secret sauce of their business and destroy its moat. So their desire to contractual
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by skissane 4mo ago
Musk didn’t invent the idea of using multiple share classes to ensure the founder(s) retain control of the company, see Rupert Murdoch, Google, Facebook, etc From the regulators’ perspective: it is a risk, but you disclosed that risk in the
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by skissane 4mo ago
> exponential acceleration in wealth inequality (world's first trillionaire anyone?) How much did Musk becoming a trillionaire move the US national (or global) Gini coefficient of wealth? If wealth inequality is significantly worsen
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Because the SLS uses left over Space Shuttle engines. Once. The reused RS-25s aren’t the same as the ones that flew on the STS-1. STS-1 used the original RS-25, Artemis uses RS-25D, and will in future use the new RS-25E. In the same wa
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by skissane 4mo ago
> It's kinda like people complaining about Space Launch System, why aren't we using Saturn V or an improved version of it. We have the blueprints and schematics and everything but it appears there's a gap between what&#x27
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by skissane 4mo ago
My point is-the purpose of console_codes is to document what control codes are supported by the Linux VT console - it was never intended as a general purpose reference to control codes in general. Yes, it does briefly mention a few codes it
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by skissane 4mo ago
> hmm, I'm torn between notes and a second new program header. I'm slightly leaning towards notes, but don't really know. This is my point-Mach-O is more elegant because it applies the “there should be one way to do it” di
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by skissane 4mo ago
It depends on the legal structure. If they set up a subsidiary in Europe, they could be held liable for actions of European subsidiary. If an independent org is stood up in Europe, with European directors, staff and funding, legally indepen
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by skissane 4mo ago
> In the movie The Thirteenth Floor, the main character breaks out of his simulation (which also contained a simulation) into 'the real world', which changes almost exactly nothing about the presence or otherwise of an afterlif
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by skissane 4mo ago
Do you know whether we live in a computer simulation? If we do, well it would seem trivially possible for our simulators to provide us with an afterlife if they wished–and we honestly could have no idea what they might wish. If you claim to

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