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by xienze 6d ago
> The text rendering definitely is much, much better than anything else on the open weights market right now Really? Because basically everything in those screenshots is completely garbled. I didn't follow it super closely but I tho
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by xienze 8d ago
> Also, companies spent a long time telling us downloading single songs via Napster was the worst thing ever, before torrenting every book in existence themselves. So whose viewpoint is right here? Is downloading theft or not? These argu
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by xienze 10d ago
I think the models are trying to optimistically avoid doing web searches, because they're surprisingly a lot harder to do well than you'd think.
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by xienze 11d ago
> personal liability for the executives and managers at the company How cute, you think the engineers who failed to properly develop and maintain a system that can securely store sensitive information flawlessly won't (or shouldn&#x
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by xienze 11d ago
> Coloniser's mindset much? Finding out people live in a place where is not the same as discovering Penicillin. Well the people living there certainly weren't going to make themselves known to the rest of the world now were the
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by xienze 11d ago
Because you might be running something that only talks S3 and want to point it at something local.
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by xienze 11d ago
> They still need to fix the security issues everyone reimplements every time such as local file disclosure via DTDs, exploding documents due to entity expansion and so on. Who is doing this reimplementation? You're supposed to be u
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by xienze 15d ago
Yeah it's more of a concern but not "rewrite a ten year old application in Rust to save on the cost of several gigabytes of RAM" bad.
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by xienze 15d ago
Well let's start with goods and services being more expensive?
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by xienze 15d ago
> This is so untrue I still don't know how anyone can even claim this. Because it's referring to long running processes, AKA the kind of things where hot paths can be JITted into faster native code than is possible from static
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by xienze 15d ago
It's good to quantify the extent to which a lot of the stuff on there is just vibe-hosted. But I think it was always pretty apparent that this was the case. You've got numerous providers all running the gamut of: * Hardware availa
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by xienze 15d ago
Yes, the things that affect your lifestyle w.r.t. oil are contained to just you and your apartment.
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by xienze 17d ago
> Never understood why the outrage of flock in particular is so big online. Nobody really cared until they realized that it could be used to more effectively round up our precious illegal immigrants.
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by xienze 17d ago
Humans are voluntarily driving themselves to extinction through sub-replacement birth rates worldwide. That's going to play out far quicker than global warming or pretty much anything other than every country on earth launching nukes a
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by xienze 20d ago
Good point, we should also allow foreign organizations to contribute to US election campaigns and make Facebook ads because they might also believe in civil liberties as rights and ideals, uh... right?
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by xienze 20d ago
> Jan 6, didn't work, not entirely sure why you bring this up as a blueprint for anyone. Might want to let the Democrats know that. According to them the government was >this< close to being overthrown. Which is funny, because
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by xienze 20d ago
> In a few years we will have zillion dollar companies being run entirely by robots making enormous profits. "Zillion", I see you've done extensive research here. And these companies aren't making any profit, nevermin
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by xienze 21d ago
Have you considered that sometimes people buy automobiles that can accommodate multiple use cases? Just because you don't need to haul hundreds of pounds of supplies every single day doesn't mean that you don't need to do it
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by xienze 21d ago
> LLMs cannot “crawl pages” or “scrape” or do anything - it’s an offline archive with a few convenience methods. Being a bit needlessly pedantic here. I think it's well understood in these circles that such models are being driven b
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by xienze 22d ago
> for their heirs and dependents Why can't they do what the rest of us do? Earn and save money during your working life and leave _that_ for your heirs. Let copyright die with the author.
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by xienze 23d ago
Not sure a model that small is really supposed to be used for any real coding. At that size you're usually using the model to do simple tasks like summarization.
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by xienze 23d ago
They have the 32B listed as "stage 1" with the note "final checkpoint to be released." So, not finished yet. Not sure why you'd release it if it's not finished, but that's the explanation. The 7B does look
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by xienze 23d ago
> as soon as the real voter tries to vote, the system will detect a "double vote." And which of the two people are lying? Would you have to... verify ID to figure that out?
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by xienze 26d ago
> It doesn't even serve Anthropic's interests (surely better for them if it burns your token quota so you have to buy more the next morning.) Parent mentioned their $20/month subscription. It's definitely in Anthropic
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by xienze 26d ago
> I went to bed, and decided that it would stop at "3am" (it wasn't) and "not do significant work this at this late hour". Like WTF ? You're an LLM. You don't sleep. I think that's Anthropic tryin
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by xienze 26d ago
IMO local models require a substantial amount of prompt+harness engineering to get in the neighborhood of what you'd get from a cloud model. Which isn't a bad thing, you'll learn a whole lot about how these things work. What
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by xienze 27d ago
> nobody expected the result and would not have put it to referendum otherwise I think you're right, you see this sometimes where the powers that be are extremely over-confident in themselves and think "sure, let's put thi
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by xienze 1mo ago
> Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux? And Nvidia hardware was running on Linux before AI as well... > And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation Mac servers exist
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by xienze 1mo ago
All the big boy AI stuff runs on servers, which certainly aren't going to be running on Windows or Mac anytime soon. Linux _is_ what all this NVIDIA hardware is going to run on until... what exactly? FreeBSD overtakes Linux in the serv
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by xienze 1mo ago
That's highly dependent on what sites you're visiting. Take a look around at a lot of modern sites, there's a sea of divs and spans. Markdown conversion helps LLMs a lot.

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