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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> What gap is Kotlin fulfilling? Being a more fun-to-use Java? That's probably a big reason why it's done so well on the Android front AFAICT. But as you said, maybe JVM isn't that hot on HN > Kotlin does not produce ma
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> But then, so what? Sometimes an answer is an end in itself.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> initially with a super shady royalty license I'm surprised this opinion still persists. Royalty-based licenses have been used by major game engines [0] for a long time, so that's not unprecedented. [0] https://www.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> it seemed like a lot of people thought they wouldn't kill GCP I'm one of them. Cloud services is a large opportunity Google will be stupid to ignore/give up. I anticipate the service evolving, but I don't see an out
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Ah yeah, thinking about it a little more carefully, I see your point, especially on the topic of slavery. Although the ancient Romans were absolutely big on ethnic/racial discrimination, the specific institution of slavery was not base
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
How long until the "don't trust Google to not kill a product" feeling becomes so widespread it begins to hurt them? I don't know any historical precedents...
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> I'm not sure that race was even an attribute that the ancients felt worthy of mentioning > Wikipedia [0] seems to agree ("skin tones did not carry any social implications") When I read this comment (before your edit)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I had the opposite idea: colloquially, "human" is us, homo sapiens, and hominid would be our ancestors and closest relations.
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Tell HN: The Job Search Sucks
11 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|6 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
No, but to benefit from the ggml ecosystem, yes. Someone's taking a stab at it: https://github.com/nikisalli/falcon.cpp
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I don't think many will be rolling their own from scratch, because fine-tuning is cheap and effective, and there's value in owning your LLM stack.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
"It's just pattern matching" Is there a name for when someone says "X is not really Y, but it is rather <mentions lower-level mechanism employed by X to achieve Y>"? Because that's what I'm seeing in
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Had the same reaction. I was just about Googling it when it hit. Funny how the brain can work out a random acronym given context.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> the concern is about agential models that employ LLM elements, not LLM models on their own. Rather? I'd imagine concerns about autonomous agents running amok is further into the future than the digital content manipulation potenti
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I'm looking forward to a BLOOM 2.0 that is actually competitive with SOTA. Commoditising LLMs at that scale will be so disruptive right now.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
A lot of the recent comments about AI safety are about generative AI models, which looks like a specific enough classification for this subject.
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UAE’s Falcon 40B AI Model from TII Is Now Royalty-Free(tii.ae)
14 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|1 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Indirectly. Uber "accepts" cash in some countries, as do major online retailers in those same markets like Jumia. It's essentially cash on delivery, but it works AFAICT. I've only used my card with Uber a handful of time
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> It's cruel and the bullies want him to overreact so that they can also sue him in court Can't he pre-empt this by suing them instead? What's preventing that? I assume his state or the federal legal system has some way of
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
It's a smart move on their part to bake this in, as they have a pretty large brand with a good distribution channel. I saw this sentiment somewhere on HN or Twitter, but the recent generative AI advancements will (in the short term) be
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but this comment lacks so much nuance it actively repeats the wrongs it means to correct. Churchill was a significant leadership icon (WWII). He was also a poor leader (WWI). He held racist views. He was
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Why do all of our private communications flow through corporate servers? Because the alternative will be to maintain private servers for them to flow through, and there aren't that many people interested in going through that hass
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Thank you for your contribution to this amazing game!
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Fair point. On my part, I like to think of them as "ever-green" projects. So they're never "done", they just keep evolving at whatever rate the community can manage, and people check out and check in once in a while
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I figured out the basics before bothering to read the docs, so anyone who played classic RTSs will get off to a good start. Some specifics about this game that make it unique: 1. You cannot build anything any where. There's the concept
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
It works very well. I used to run the Alpha 23 on my old Windows 10 device, but I got Alpha 26 a few weeks ago for my Intel Mac. No noticeable bugs affecting my single player gameplay, except a few quirks with ship movements (they tend to o
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Well, she's technically right. Facebook, like most corporations, are not democracies. I'm not buying her argument. Facebook has no power if actual governments don't work with it for their own ends. It's just a company th
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0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years(play0ad.com)
619 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|180 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> What's the media bias of Reddit? A couple of ways you could answer this: 1. Where does the Reddit user community lean, taken as a whole. That shouldn't be hard to compute or guesstimate. 2. Where do the owners of Reddit lean
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
After labouring through the article, I wonder what compelled The Verge to publish it, if it was going to be so childishly negative about practically every single fact of the matter. It's okay to be critical of Elon and Neuralink's

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