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by wongarsu 2mo ago
My transmitter shuts down after a certain amount of time. At the latest when the solar panel is heavily degraded. This is due, among other things, to strategic considerations
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
In your scenario the device shuts done when the battery runs out, but at the latest after 10 hours. That's different from "at the latest when the battery capacity is exhausted". Instead the implied mode of operation is that t
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
"Our transmitters shut down after a certain period of time, at the latest when the battery capacity is exhausted. This is due, among other things, to strategic considerations." Among other things. And this was the most sane part o
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Doesn't the universal approximation theorem apply to typical LLM architectures? LLMs solve for the shape of the input data, as well as they can approximate it in the constraints of their architecture, the optimizer and the amount of co
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'm not sure I agree that LLMs solve for the statistical mean But more importantly: isn't what you call "intent" just a series of optimization goals? You want your code to satisfy the constraint of being correct™, while
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
> Isn't it "interesting" how do many of these EU regulations always have these side doors that allow the very practices they promoted to adress You mean it's "interesting" that enforcement of EU regulations
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
As MoE with 5B active parameters it's pretty fast. But you still need a lot of vRAM, or have to run small quantitations. Qwen models just gave you more bang for your buck, and the gap became worse with every qwen release
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Sometimes? Depends on how transformative your effect is, and how much creative effort you put into it That doesn't necessarily negate the copyright claim by the author of the original though. Just like me pressing the shutter button wh
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I get incredible utility out of $200 per month It's hard to put a number on it, but even accounting for all the time in meetings, talking with stakeholders and developers etc I'm over 10% more productive overall. I earn substantia
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Yes, Windows doesn't overcommit memory. In the default config Windows is allowed to grow the page file as much as it wants, and empty pages are cheap to reserve in the page file (no need to actually write those zeros, you just need to
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'd also say that gitlab runners are the biggest failure point in gitlab and take some work to micro-manage. If I was setting up from scratch I would consider gitlab for source control, but some hosted service for CI
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
It turns it into a kind of prisoner's dilemma where all guards rebelling means everyone dies, while only some guards rebelling means the guards that rebelled die while everyone else (including the billionaire) get to live It's inc
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
loaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure enterprise customers can also negotiate lower rates But OpenAI and Anthropic obviously wouldn't give better rates to a reseller. If the service is operating legally (no stolen accounts or the like, just breaking To
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Some of that will be electricity usage that otherwise wouldn't happen, but a lot of it will be shifting load from times where electricity is carbon-intensive to produce to times where there is a surplus that would otherwise go to waste
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
At $work we still have some places using Opus 4.5. Even places using Qwen 2.5-VL, which is now 18 months old. It works, and upgrading is work (we'd have to validate the new model performs comparable in all the corner cases that current
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
There are lots of papers on the topic. I think the best summary is "it's complicated". Typically models perform slightly better in English, typically best in either professional English or very rude English. Though this varie
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
And we fixed the ozone hole by taking decisive action internationally banning the worst ozone-destroying gases
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Based on the location I got it guesses the location from the IP. The accuracy of that varies wildly by country and ISP. The US is a place where it is usually accurate to the city level
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Silent alarm is an awesome feature. But it scales with battery life: on a watch with ~48 hours of battery you want to charge daily. And the most convenient time for that is in the night, which kills the silent alarm feature Once you get to
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I wouldn't want to abolish software copyright completely, but we would all benefit if the copyright duration was much shorter for software. Something like 20 years. That would keep source code leaks of current software toxic, but make
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
But $800M in USD is worth only about $1.2B today. Keeping the money invested in Apple is convenient if you're already paid in stock, but beyond the lock-up period we have to keep in mind that it's just one of many things he could
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
One subtlety that is worth considering is that what a company is inherently set up to do is maximize shareholder value . Value can be quite complex, especially while the number of shareholders is small. Value can include the legacy or repu
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Even in the west, Nvidia's dominance is bound to weaken. There is a notable uptick of articles on HN about people running large models on AMD hardware. And while I don't know official sales figures, I know we have trouble getting
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
They literally replace \n with the unicode symbol https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon/blob/main/src/mcptoo...
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
The counterpoint is that we already exploited a lot of the cases where simplifying the problem helps. We've spent approximately two centuries doing that. That leaves a lot of processes left over where that kind of specialization was ei
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Spiders can't reach as high. Unless you make them really big, but then they take up a lot of space Humans are very space efficient
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Counterpoint: the number of product lines in the space shows high customer demand, but the existing products are all pretty bad. If OpenAI can deliver a better product with a business model that works that's a huge market opportunity
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
People don't have to actually follow through with the trend to buy the product, only think they want to. Same as selling fitness products to people who end up doing very little fitness
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
The description makes me think that it's targeted at the "screenless" trend. Especially among young people there is a trend to cut down on smartphone usage. This device would fit right in with that: no screen, status display

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