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by xienze 2mo ago
I think you might want to download new anti-Texas talking points. Texas is number two in the nation in solar power: https://seia.org/media/16020/texas.pdf/ Texas is not at all against renewables. Maybe, just
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by xienze 2mo ago
There's soooo much stuff that such a model is still capable of doing in the pursuit of getting a better overall answer. Imagine a powerful research agent that blasts out dozens of the small, cheap models to fetch and summarize one page
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by xienze 2mo ago
> Names were given by the first white european man that "found" the plant, instead of the local inhabitants who have known and named the plants for thousands of years. I see this brought up often in all sorts of contexts. It&#x
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by xienze 3mo ago
So... why didn't the model ship this way to begin with? They just wanted to waste VRAM for fun?
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by xienze 3mo ago
I've had this debate before on HN. The excuses are generally "well it can write better code than most developers, but an LLM can't write better prose than most people" (I strongly disagree with this) and, what I think is
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by xienze 3mo ago
> There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Be careful here. Remember these are non-deterministic models at the end of the day, an
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by xienze 3mo ago
There seems to be this mentality among a large number of people who publish open data/research/software that everything is fine as long as no one else makes money using it. The second that happens, they're furious and act as
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by xienze 3mo ago
Well of course they're higher than marginal cost. But these providers have to also generate a fat return on investment.
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by xienze 3mo ago
> the interpreter that acts on those is a piece of classical code, and sits outside of the model. Correct, but it's an LLM that's reasoning about what stream of interpretable tokens should be emitted. The interpreter can certai
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Musk has sentenced hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to death by dismantling USAID. Why haven't other countries stepped up to address this pressing need? I'm sure every other western nation could easily chip in collecti
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Maybe if they taxed NW >100 million, you wouldn’t need a 50% tax on work. Don't be mistaken, it's an "in addition to" tax, not "instead of", or else it wouldn't be pitched as one of many ways to pl
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by xienze 3mo ago
What does that matter? They were sued and the group suing them accepted at $1.5B settlement instead of something theoretically much larger and precedent-setting.
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by xienze 3mo ago
You could also ask why the other side agreed to that settlement. It's not a one-way street.
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by xienze 3mo ago
> I can reorder prescriptions on the NHS app when I’m running out. They get delivered to my preferred pharmacy or if I was away from home I can specify a local pharmacy. The prescription will be delivered there. We have that too. But tha
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by xienze 3mo ago
> With those numbers, there can be sound financial reasons for wanting to just get rid of the lawsuit. Yes, of course, on Anthropic's side. Why would the other side agree to a settlement?
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5B in a settlement to avoid losing a pretty cut and dry case. It takes two parties to agree to a settlement. That the other party agreed to a settlement instead of taking it to court implies this was not the
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Does this matter? Distillation is not illegal by every definition of the word. Correct, but it at least helps answer the question of "how do they make such good models for a fraction of the price???" The answer is someone els
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by xienze 3mo ago
Please post the prompts that will reproduce the pirated works verbatim. Or even halfway.
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by xienze 3mo ago
I think it's not necessarily about being the cheapest option, but a more politically acceptable one. I don't think you're going to get people protesting a data center in space considering it won't be next to their house,
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by xienze 3mo ago
Maybe not, but I think the concerns are a bit overblown. Just like the other poster, I've had CDs and DVDs that lived for over 10 years in an attic and a fair number of them are 25+ years old. No problems reading them!
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by xienze 3mo ago
> What I use and really recommend is using systemd +/- docker Even better, systemd+podman (=quadlets). Quadlets are great, you basically can declare a compose file as a systemd unit with all the good and bad that comes with that.
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by xienze 3mo ago
> They’re great models, but you will notice a huge difference for complex tasks. Yes and no. I think where frontier models really blow small models away is in how thorough they are in order to infer your intentions and how best to accomp
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by xienze 3mo ago
I think it's extremely quantization and engine specific. I run Gemma4-31B at FP8 on vLLM and it's fantastic, no issues anymore[*]. * I will say that early on there were a LOT of issues with the chat template, across all engines. I
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by xienze 3mo ago
Knowing "what" will happen is different from knowing "when" it will happen.
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by xienze 3mo ago
So are you just repeating the parent's flawed argument? Maybe you should see what that comic looks like extrapolated out to 2026: "yo on god writing be dead, frfr no cap <100 emoji> <fire emoji>"
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by xienze 3mo ago
> things were always better in the olden days, people don't make 'em like they used to. Just because successive generations make the same observations about <X> doesn't mean that <X> hasn't actually been s
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by xienze 3mo ago
You're under the impression that your concerns matter. What matters is the end game of tying real identity to digital identity.
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by xienze 3mo ago
Smartphones are much more ubiquitous than any of those devices. Across all demographics.
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by xienze 3mo ago
Well, they really, really, really want the end game of tying (real) identity to digital identity. And they want it now, not 10+ years in the future when _theoretically_ there _might_ be some EU-friendly mobile operating system that everyone
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by xienze 3mo ago
> for example having a small widget in the footer or elsewhere on my site And next thing you know, there'd be people complaining about "dark patterns" where the small widget is designed to be very easy to overlook and (mor

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