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teiferer
1mo ago
Or it tells the burglar there is sth valuable that's being protected and to make sure to cut the fiber before they do anything.
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1mo ago
> knock on your front door to see if anyone’s home, when no one answers, they’d kick in the backdoor. So now your front camera has somebody with an unidentifiable hoodie knocking and your back camera has somebody with an unidentifiable h
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teiferer
1mo ago
Would they have continued with just the lights and without the camera? We don't know, but you assume so.
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teiferer
1mo ago
Anecdata is not helpful. Actually statistically significant numbers that are not presented by a home security firm. Everything else is just somebody trying to sell you stuff.
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teiferer
1mo ago
1. You over-engineered this, so you don't get to complain that it's over-engineered. 2. Buglary risk reducing when you install a camera is a myth. A very convenient myth though for those selling you any of the components in your o
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teiferer
1mo ago
Could you elaborate on which aspect you consider to be destroying social mobility?
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1mo ago
> I’m looking forward to inheriting some of my parents furnitures and getting rid of some of the ikea crap.. I think you are confusing the perspective of the GP here. Your perspective is that of the "kid". You like the parents&
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1mo ago
> I don’t want to work somewhere where I don’t have choice over my tools. As long as there is no cost involved there is little reason to restrict such tooling, but expecting your employer pays non-trivial sums is likely to raise question
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1mo ago
And the security folks will have tons of fun with this enormously leaky abstraction too.
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1mo ago
> run a sum over megabytes of data like for accounting It's been many decades since the last time somebody ran a sum over megabytes of data for accounting and though "damn that's a bottleneck I need to optimize". >
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teiferer
1mo ago
BTC in a retirement portfolio. That's when I closed the site again.
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1mo ago
The german military is a joke. I'm not sayin that lightly. Over the course of 20 years they have killed of the ladt pieces of credibiliyt they had left. They got consultants which sucked all the money out of the budget, leaving hardly
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teiferer
1mo ago
It is also down now.
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teiferer
1mo ago
Do the US then also sanction themselves? Cause the numer of people they have killed in that region of the globe since 1984 easily exceeds that number by orders of magnitude. And the platform hasn't done any killing. They merely provide
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teiferer
1mo ago
> we could easily run an A/B test I'd object to "easily". It's already hard to measure whether AI is generally worth the cost. Let alone compare models in such detailled ways. It's mostly handwaving and gut
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teiferer
1mo ago
Yeah so maybe a general purpose humanoid robot in your home with autonomous decision making power that can kill you is just not rhe best idea. People only want to run Claude in Sandbod. Understandable. Seeing Optimus roam in their household
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1mo ago
Why does a laundry folding bot have to have the physical strength to be able to kill somebody? The principle of least privilege has been a hard learned lesson in cybersecurity. Why do we again need to first go through disasters to re-learn
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1mo ago
A friend of mine told me earlier today that they had a discussion at work (a coding shop) about "downgrading" to luna from sol for cost reasons and that many were quite unhappy about this because they didn't want inferior tec
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1mo ago
> Naw bro. These pets are domesticated. They are evolving via natural selection to be suited for living in houses, they already pretty much can’t live in the wild Natural selection has little to do with how pets are bred. The criteria th
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teiferer
1mo ago
Even facts can be stated in many different ways.
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teiferer
1mo ago
It doesn't become more true if you claim that multiple times around here. X under Musk is well documented to censor widely. It's just that the direction of censorship has shifted under him, so your particular bubble might get more
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1mo ago
How come twitterwebviewer.com is still up? What do they do differently? Or is it official?
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1mo ago
Free and open until Elon Musk doesn't like what you wrote.
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1mo ago
Don't believe that all pet animals are having a great life. Many people with a dog don't get that as a pack animal it's cruel to leave it alone indoors all day, they overfeed them and keep them alive well beyond the stage whe
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teiferer
1mo ago
Exactly. Apologies if that wasn't clear.
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teiferer
1mo ago
That's commendable! Though we agree that the term isn't typically used that way in the LLM context, right?
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1mo ago
Dude, the source of an LLM is the training data and the training algorithm. Those are not open, so stop calling it open source. Open weights correspond to "binary available" for software. Nobody would call that "open source
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teiferer
1mo ago
Well if you find that obvious (I also do) then why do you not find their motives in acquiring HF onvious or that this move would be bad for the ecosystem as a whole? Cause it's all kinda the same thing.
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teiferer
1mo ago
Because it sounds cool/sciency. Just like everything AI is a "model". It's actually not, but it sounds cool/sciency.
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1mo ago
"lab" vs "company as a whole" They might be right w.r.t. openness about LLM at the moment, but w.r.t. general software openness they are definitely the opposite of open.
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