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by xmprt 1y ago
> accompanied by a message saying that if you use it without permission you'll be fired Probably why none of the internal people cared either. They didn't want to be the person on the line in case it was determined that the usa
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Did the people who got a calendar invite know that they were getting laid off in advance?
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You could set up some hardcoded rules so that the PR is never merged without human review if it touches the github actions.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Why not create a simple app with a webview so your users are happy? I can't imagine that would take more than a couple hours of work. Google can be burdensome but that's only if you require things like payment and data collection
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> the cost of electricity used by the bulb is easily as much as the replacement bulb This point is only relevant if 1000 hour old bulbs cost more electricity to run than new bulbs. Maybe I don't understand how old bulbs worked but w
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My experience with small QR code readers like this on ESP32 boards is that without a viewfinder, they lose a lot of utility. The feedback loop that a viewfinder gives with positioning and knowing when the QR code is detected is invaluable.
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I think this is the big roadblock that I don't see the current AI models/architectures getting past. Normally, intelligence gets smarter over time as it learns from its mistakes. However most AI models come in with tons of knowled
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I wonder how well this works in practice with a more complicated project. For example, if you have something that's usually sleeping but still needs access to wifi in order to send data and can also be woken up by another sensor in whi
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They can also put you in jail for up to 30 days if they're feeling like it. Seems crazy to me but also perfectly legal for them to do.
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This only works if there are negative consequences faced by the insured parties when things go wrong. If all the negative consequences are faced by society and there are no regulations that incur that burden on the companies building AI, th
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If you think internet in the bay area is shit then you haven't seen how bad it can get. Even other large cities within California like LA and SD are worse.
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When a language allows operator overriding or doesn't have static typing, you can end up with situations like this where a single method does 10 different things for 10 different use-cases. Even Java and C++ aren't a stranger to A
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Perfect example for me is that I use beancount for tracking my finances. It broke one day because I tried upgrading some dependencies from v2 to v3. I tried messing around with the imports and some function names but it didn't help and
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Those rugged phones are also thicker and more expensive for what you're getting. Mainstream companies have tried offering the headphone jack in some phones and every single time, those phone have undersold their jackless competitors.
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"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
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Better for individuals in the short term but worse for society as a whole.
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> Get out of the cities... This is a terrible public policy if it's the plan. And while I think selfishly it might be better for individuals if they did, I don't think it's actually helping anyone. Cities used to be a plac
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I don't know what kind of backwards logic that is. Banks help first time homebuyers purchase their house. Builders build houses and add supply that helps meet demand (everyone needs a place to live). Real estate agents help navigate th
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> it only counts as truly committed if the child repo's commit is referenced from the parent repo This is a big problem in my experience. Relying on consumers of your dependency to upgrade their submodules isn't realistic.
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> I was a dumbass not to capture (heck, even print) a few of those when I had the opportunity. On the other hand, given how Apple deals with confidential data, you probably wouldn't want to be caught exfiltrating internal documents
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by xmprt 1y ago
This is a strawman argument. If a developer writes code that does something malicious then it's on the developer. If they install a program then the accountability is a bit fuzzier. It's partly on the developer, partly on security
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by xmprt 1y ago
> Using apis I am familiar with but don't have memorized I think you have to be careful here even with a typed language. For example, I generated some Go code recently which execed a shell command and got the output. The generated c
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Using KV in the caching context is a bit confusing because it usually means key-value in the storage sense of the word (like Redis), but for LLMs, it means the key and value tensors. So IIUC, the cache will store the results of the K and V
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Later they mention that they have some kind of rate limiting because if over ~15 requests are being processed per minute, the request will be sent to a different server. I guess you could deny cache usage but I'm not sure what isolatio
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That link explains how OpenAI uses it, but doesn't really walk through how it's any faster. I thought the whole point of transformers was that inference speed no longer depended on prompt length. So how does caching the prompt hel
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How are LLMs cached? Every prompt would be different so it's not clear how that would work. Unless you're talking about caching the model weights...
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As far as I know, this law has been a thing for a couple of years now. How has your company been dealing with it so far? You say "this law WILL" but if it's already in effect, then it means that you would have already had to
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by xmprt 1y ago
I think unemployment is a poor metric if it's the only one you're looking at. Unemployment says nothing about the quality of the jobs. For example, if 90% of the country was employed in a minimum wage job, then the unemployment me
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On the other hand, I'm skeptical if that has any impact because these models have thinking tokens where they can put all those comments and attention shouldn't care about how close the tokens are as long as they're within the
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Historically, every company has failed by not adapting to new technologies and trying to protect their core business (eg. Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, Intel, etc). I applaud Google for going against their instincts and actively trying to

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