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by thayne 5d ago
That is a first party mechanical rewrite from one language to another. And I'm sure a significant part of the motivation was as a publicity stunt to increase demand for Anthropic's products. If anthropic hadn't acquired bun a
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by thayne 5d ago
I think Kickstarter and similar are a great model for creating open source software. It's more problematic for maintaining it. It could work for some features and bugs, but it doesn't scale down super well (maybe have campaigns fo
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by thayne 5d ago
Yes and no. It isn't about ownership of the project as a whole, but it is about ownership of your copy of the software.
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by thayne 6d ago
There are occasionally more obvious tells as well, if you look closely. Some examples that I saw: - A boat cast a shadow, but the mooring rope didn't - A bench leg was out of perspective, and didn't touch the ground - In a pile of
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by thayne 6d ago
Interstingly it is the same in german, you would say "Er ist Arzt" not "Er ist ein Arzt". Which makes me wonder why english uses an indefinite article there, since it doesn't seem to be either germanic or romantic
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by thayne 6d ago
IDK, it seems reasonable that railway companies, some which had significant wealth and influence, used the decline of superstition as a superficial reason to get rid of laws that were inconvenient to them.
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by thayne 8d ago
I think it is accurate to say that it is poorly understood by the general population, and probably the majority of operators using LLMs. Although I agree that is partly the fault of the companies making LLMs and related products.
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by thayne 8d ago
But his family inheriting his ownership of the company contradicts his statements about estate taxes in that article. And passing the chairman position to his son may even be part of a plan to pass wealth to him that avoids estate taxes.
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by thayne 8d ago
> All elements remain valid at all times. free does not release any memory and does not end any lifetime — it adds an index to a freelist. The slot is still a live, well-typed Item afterwards, and it still belongs to the pool, which stil
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by thayne 8d ago
Say you wanted a map of some key to growable arrays (or maps), where the number of keys isn't known until runtime. It I understand correctly, you can't really do that because the number of growable stacks nees to be known at compi
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by thayne 8d ago
Project valhalla allows more things to be on the stack but doesn't get rid of the heap.
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by thayne 9d ago
It is what people in control of the US government seem to want. Which is not the same as what the American population wants (although there is a subset that wants it). As an American, it is absolutely not what I want.
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by thayne 9d ago
> which is not necessarily free Not just in terms of service costs, but in time and complexity. In many cases building out that complexity is complicated and difficult. And sometimes the functionality you need isn't supported in the
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by thayne 9d ago
Firefox is already using small local models for a few things, like tab grouping and link previews. I assume that this is for cases where a reasonably sized model isn't adequate.
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by thayne 10d ago
They also have a lot more money than you do to spend on lawyers
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by thayne 10d ago
And changing the commit history to change the authors goes even further than modifying a manifest file.
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by thayne 10d ago
It depends on the license, but for many open source licenses, that probably violates attribution requirements.
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by thayne 12d ago
> but it does make it so the applicant is more fairly compensated for accepting a more abusive work environment How so? It increases the cost to the employer to hire an H1B employee, so they might hire less of them. But it could also me
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by thayne 12d ago
It depends on your network speed, how big the image is, the compression rate of the image, and how fast your hardware is.
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by thayne 12d ago
I don't think raising the fee fixes the abuse problems. Unless maybe most of the fee goes into eacrow and is paid back to the employee if the employer terminates employment (maybe without a good, documented cause?). But that could prod
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by thayne 13d ago
And this is code that will (hopefully) almost never run, so you don't want it to take up much space in you your program, and especially cache lines.
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by thayne 13d ago
IMO, if the model is too dangerous for everyone to have access to, then no one should. I do not trust a for-profit company to be good stewards of such technology. Nor do I trust the government, any government.
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by thayne 13d ago
They just exert pressure in different ways. "You want this big juicy government contract? Then you'd better follow our gag order."
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by thayne 13d ago
It isn't just the proof. It's everything that leads up to that, including the interchange of ideas with other mathematicians.
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by thayne 14d ago
In math, the journey is often more important than the destination. The process of developing a proof may uncover new mathematical techniques, some of which may have practical applications in other fields. Even an attempt that ends up as a d
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by thayne 14d ago
But solving math problems is not the same as increasing understanding of math concepts.
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by thayne 15d ago
Using AI to find a vulnerability is not a work of authorship. Using the AI generated text as your bug report would be, but if you use AI to find a bug, then write up a report yourself, I think that would be fine.
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by thayne 17d ago
> The dairy ban covers whey protein, invert molasses, cane molasses and non-alcoholic beer, per notices on the White House's website. I think the authors of this ban are a little confused about what dairy is.
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by thayne 18d ago
I can think of several reasons why an average person might be opposed to a merger (ex. less competition and the things that go along with that like higher prices and lower quality, and fear that products and services will be discontinued af
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by thayne 18d ago
Authentication is precisely the problem DNSSEC is supposed to solve. And authentication is part of transport security. TLS usually does provide authentication. The certificate is signed by a chain that leads up to a trusted CA, and content

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