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by snek_case 5mo ago
Not to downplay their accomplishment but Llama 3.1 8B is a terrible model. It's really outdated at this point. It's cool that they were able to accelerate a model with silicon, but it also feels wasteful since llama 8B is such a u
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by snek_case 5mo ago
It's not just the UI... It's that producing content is much easier on a laptop or desktop, with an actual keyboard, or video editing software available. The rise of mobile contributed to a shift where the internet was split betwee
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by snek_case 5mo ago
Yeah but they weren't as toxic. I was an early YouTube user... The platform used to have no ads, can you imagine?
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by snek_case 5mo ago
I can sympathize... I got to the point where I was sleeping only 5 hours a night, having digestive issues and tinnitus.
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by snek_case 5mo ago
Make it a personal goal to beat every game and expansion pack on nightmare.
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by snek_case 5mo ago
Nickname checks out
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by snek_case 5mo ago
> it's just making it harder for honest people to pay for what they like. I have a female friend who creates that kind of content. Her take is that this is very much intentional. There is a general crackdown on porn in the US. They&
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by snek_case 5mo ago
A lever is classified as a simple machine. Wrt the space shuttle, I would take some issue because you could say it's not just one machine, but a collection of many, for example it probably has onboard computer systems that are not alwa
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by snek_case 5mo ago
Meta's vision was worse than that. They were trying to hype doing work meetings in VR. There's a case to be made that VR games and VR universes can be fun... But work meetings?
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by snek_case 5mo ago
The metaverse is another example if anyone doubts the bounds of corporate stupidity.
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by snek_case 5mo ago
Sure, but it's probably not that easy to exfiltrate multi-terabyte datasets without being detected.
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by snek_case 6mo ago
Culture is often set top down. Look at the current US administration for a public example. People at the top will choose people who agree with them or who are sycophants. Top execs also chose this job and zuck because they have no moral iss
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by snek_case 6mo ago
I think the pivot to profit over good has been happening for a long time. See Dario hyping and salivating over all programming jobs disappearing in N months. He doesn't care at all if it's true or not. In fact he's in a terri
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by snek_case 6mo ago
Sort of. At the moment there is a fad of websites that mess with your scrolling and have very low content density. They are all trying to imitate Apple's marketing pages. Most startup websites do this. It's not at all good design,
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by snek_case 6mo ago
They're also getting closer to IPO and have a growing user base. They can't justify losing a very large number of billions of other people's money in their IPO prospectus. So there's a push for them to increase revenue p
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by snek_case 6mo ago
It probably depends what you're using the models for. If you use them for web search, summarizing web pages, I can imagine there's a plateau and we're probably already hitting it. For coding though, there is kind of no limit
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by snek_case 6mo ago
I guess there's a pretty clear incentive to nerf the current model right before the next model is about to come out.
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by snek_case 6mo ago
Maybe HN is particularly upset because they feel targeted, given that overpaid tech executives have been giddily making the claim that programming jobs will disappear any minute now. What makes it even worse is that it's very obvious t
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by snek_case 6mo ago
It made me kind of angry when I saw Dario repeatedly claiming that AI would be taking all the programming jobs any minute now. His company supposedly is working for a better future, but he's giddily talking about something that could c
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by snek_case 6mo ago
And TPUs, their own hardware designed specifically for AI, and designed to scale better to larger models.
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by snek_case 6mo ago
Yeah but the first LCD screens sucked. Poor color rendition and not usable for gaming. In the early 2000s you were better off sticking with your CRT.
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by snek_case 6mo ago
For divers, we really should be focusing on building better underwater drones. Remove the risk to human life entirely. You don't need AI either, just a remote-controlled machine with a cable that goes up to the surface. I know there is
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by snek_case 6mo ago
In general it looks like these kinds of changes are trying to make it harder for people to do this kind of basic maintenance themselves. Force you to go to the dealer.
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by snek_case 6mo ago
There probably should be a maximum legal age for the president and congresspeople (e.g. 65 aka "retirement age"). The guy is 78. It's common and expected for brain health to deteriorate, it's not a huge surprise, but the
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by snek_case 7mo ago
I feel like this is most products in the AI space lately. More marketing fuzz than substance. Hard to figure out what thing even does.
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by snek_case 7mo ago
You're definitely going to get people using LLMs running on 8x $50K GPUs in a datacenter to do the job of a bash script.
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by snek_case 7mo ago
Probably constrained by training resources. It's much easier to experiment with a smaller architecture. You may need many training runs to figure out hyperparameters for example. If each run needs multiple GPUs for a week the cost adds
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by snek_case 7mo ago
I've always thought of myself as more "centrist" (feel free to make fun of me), but seeing so many tech CEOs cheer for layoffs and destruction of the job market has been a bit of a wake up call. Also just being confronted wit
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by snek_case 7mo ago
> imbue it with the intrinsic desire to keep humans around, doing human things. It's not the AI you have to convince, it's your government and the people running tech companies. Dario Amodei was cheering for AI to take all prog
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by snek_case 7mo ago
Surely a highly innovative product that will sell in high volumes /s

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