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blks··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
This is possible. Also it’s possible that there was a big human involvement. Or that there was something less exciting, but the pr department and hyping grifters at the company blown it out of proportions.
blks··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
More likely that a person did that, with a use of LLM.
blks··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
> we are lucky that it wasn't a case of an agent running a virology lab benchmark that decides to hack a lab and tries to synthesize something

This is just laughable.

blks··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
Has anyone published any actual evidence, or just hardly believable marketing stories?
blks··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Lossly storing IP in LLM itself, and using IP for training (so it’s lossly stored in LLM), without licensing these works or otherwise following license agreements (eg GPL) is infringement. Using then this product for commercial activity is a smoking gun.
blks··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
They add value on top of other people’s work, often against licensing, and then commercialize this product, ie profiting from making a product out of other people’s IP.
blks··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
Considering that LLM are created using stolen content or against licensing, it’s only fair to distill and open source them.
blks··on Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Capitalists love to socialize losses
blks··on Codex Resets
Does the company actually gets any value close to your salary + benefits + ~15k$ you gonna burn this month?
blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
So how the “assimilation” looks like to you? If you ever have kids, are you going to be speaking French only with them? Do you try to catch up with vast cultural background that people experience since childhood in France? Do you plan to change your name to sometime more French-sounding?
blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Now you’re being some “immigrant enclaves” into the mix to support your point. I think you show vast arrogance about how modern (high-skilled) immigration looks like and how it integrates into western society.
blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Parent comment called for “assimilation”. Assimilation implies replacing your own culture with another, like by Webster definition.
blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Why do you want people with foreign backgrounds to “assimilate”? If you were to move to France, are you going to abandon your own language, culture, and play-pretend to be a Frenchman?

If you live somewhere long enough, know the country, work and handle daily life without issues, have social connections with other people in this society, understand at least some language - in my opinion you are as integrated in that country as needed.

blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Travelling somewhere is not the same as living. It’s pretty common among people without immigration experience to have a certain idealistic idea about it, that does not work in reality.

This person lives in a very international city where they speak English at work. For some people it’s not as easy to get to B1-B2 levels while working full time, having children and using English to communicate daily without issues.

In many EU countries requirement for a permanent resident status is just 4-6 years of residency, plus sometimes certain income/language level. And there is always EU permanent residence permit that just requires you to reside for 5 years.

blks··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
That is not true for many countries, especially in EU, and especially when you move as a skilled worker.
blks··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Codeine is still sold in many countries otc, as part of weak pain killer combination or as part of cough medicine.
blks··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Safety ratio as you present it is a bit misleading, numbers for hard/soft drugs are usually for a single dose.
blks··on Resetting Xbox
I thought it was 150M per quarter?
blks··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
With how seriously rise of LLMs damages schools and university education, and thus next generation of comp sci graduates, at least we can hope to secure our arcane knowledge jobs for long.
blks··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
“Pure AI” so you haven’t used any LLM at all, or just partially?
blks··on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
In my field that sometimes involves some applied mathematics, it definitely help with busy work, giving raw ideas or writing some chain in latex so I don’t have to spell everything in details myself in the doc
blks··on AI children's books, body horror edition
Well, it will never be 3500 books. One book often lasts longer than one day, and kids love rereading the same story over and over and over and over again.
blks··on I built a GPU back end for Emacs
Only on Linux it seems. The fact that it makes rendering slower on lower resolution is a big concern.

I’m all for speeding up Emacs as a long time user, but I share emacs maintainers stance on not accepting llm code.

blks··on AI children's books, body horror edition
Not sure why author doesn’t like to openly share his thoughts on the exact model used and book titles - one book is named, but the rest are blurred?
blks··on I built a GPU back end for Emacs
The feature is LLM generated, and also doesn’t bring any speed ups, only slowdowns
blks··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
25k requirement doesn’t protect anyone, just prevents regular contractors from easily registering limited liability company.
blks··on California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business
USA seems to have a lot of automatic guns, but still succumbs to authoritarism and masked goons terrorising population.
blks··on Sakana Fugu
Did you make those money back?
blks··on Sakana Fugu
What are you getting out of it at $4000/month?
blks··on Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
I think by “community” he meant the whole community of a particular game, where you communicating with people, consuming same content, get influenced, etc
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