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Reminds me of some code I saw running in production. Every time we added a new entry, we were pulling all the UUIDs from this table, generating a new UUID, and checking for collisions up to 10 times.

I was waiting on the update [1], thanks for publishing the code, I'll take a look.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586878

Given that providers of open source models can offer Kimi K2.5 at input $0.60 and output $2.50 per million tokens, I think the cost of inference must be around that. We would still need to compare the tokens per second.

There's a program called Hilo [1] in Québec where it's using the Hydro-Québec Rate Flex D [2] to automatically stop the heating during peak demand.

> With Rate Flex D, you can save quite a bit of money, since most of the time in winter, you’ll be charged less than the base rate, except during occasional peak demand events, when you’ll be charged more than the base rate.

[1] https://www.hiloenergie.com/en-ca/ [2] https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/customer-space/rates...

The website performance on mobile is terrible. Seems to contradict their message of performance.

Kiruna Church is moved as the mine cracks from the ore mining in Kiirunavaara are getting closer to the church.

"User" here is most likely people being forced to see the Gemini output on Google Search.

Nice idea! It would be great if we could see how the app works on the landing page.

Do you happen to have a blog? This type of investigative journalism is really interesting and would love to read more.

There's a John Oliver episode about the chocolate industry, you can check it out on YouTube.

Of course there's no logo saying the chocolate is made with child slavery, I hope you didn't mean to be snarky here.

There are initiatives to try to alleviate the problem, the only example I have in mind right now is Tony's Chocolonely (which explains the problem and their solution on their website) but I'm sure others could come up with other initiatives.

The trends from top companies of chocolate is that they try to do as little as possible to alleviate the problem of child slavery in chocolate production.

But this hasn't applied for self-driving cars, there has been huge amounts of money poured into it and very smart people working on the problem and yet the results have not really been up to the level.

It's not listed anywhere, but they've done the same in South Africa and list the companies here: https://www.4dayweek.com/sa-2023-participants

It seems to be a limit on the input length of the elements, if they have a larger name then it does not work

You can read around [1], but getting a visa in Germany right now takes multiple months, which is probably too much for most companies. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37566992

There is good content that is being produced in Quebec, you just have to look out for it and not expect Hollywood quality production. Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée (rip), Monia Chokri and more, all started their career in Quebec thanks to legislation around creating French content.

The "90% bad TV" also happens everywhere, especially in the US. The number of CSI spinoffs must be really high.

One of the dangers from YouTube/streaming platforms in regard to French Canadian content is that the economics is just not the same. For example, Linus Tech Tips have a global reach since it's English content. M. Net (now defunct tech show in Quebec) or something similar would not even be closed to compete monetarily.

We've seen GPT-3 comments being banned from Stack Overflow. I also saw some people just copying the answer from ChatGPT to answer comments on Reddit. The good thing is that they all follow a certain structure that internet comments mostly don't follow, so they are easy to spot.

In the article:

> Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law.

Actors are much more than just talents, by which I mean being able to carry emotions, being charismatic and delivering lines in the way a director wants it.

There is an undeniable human aspect to it that AI won't ever be able to replace. Sure, it'll probably be an important part of the industry, but saying all future media is going to be 24/7 AI generated content like that Seinfeld twitch stream is a pretty bleak view of the future.

We watch movies because we try to connect with people and share our feelings with humans. I can't relate to an AI.

The Titanic cost $7.5 million to build, which is $200 million in today's money (as of 2020) [1]. I'm pretty confident this is not the cost of the average flat in London.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/titanic-facts-construction-pass...

Even if it's just 10%, you don't abandon 10% of your market. That's 8 billions for Apple just last quarter.

I don't get these kind of comment. What are you trying to say? That the reason this person see this content is their fault? They secretly want to see these type of videos?

There are a lot of articles and videos showing that sometimes watching just one video will suggest a ton of videos related to it, no matter if you are not interested. Machine learning and deep learning is not perfect, and sometimes the goal of the companies is not clear and may not align with your goals.

Sure, your experience will vary on Reddit, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok based on the people you follow, that's the goal of hyper-personalized feed. But you still get a trend, a social effect of the network.

For example, on Youtube, you need "clickbait" thumbnails. So even Tom Scott, who 's content is educative and entertaining, needs to follow the "trend" of Youtube to get views.

But I see these comments every time someone is blaming the weird content they are seeing on their feed: "Oh me I only see nice stuff, stop watching weird stuff". I think we can have a deeper conversation than that.

You can see from the transcript where the model made some errors, for example:

> We distribute as a free software the source code for our models and for the inference [...]

Should be

> We are open-sourcing models and inference code [...]

Another example

> We establish that the use of such a number of data is such a diversity and the reason why our system is able [...]

Should be

> We show that the use of such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness [...]

At the bank I worked at, any payments made on the account that were above the due payment were applied directly on the account. But then you had people complain when they missed a payment because they put more money in the account to not miss the payment. You can't please everyone.

Banking is hard because everyone is doing it differently, and everyone is doing it. So you have to please older people that are used to calling or speaking to a bank teller and also please the younger generation who want to do everything online and not deal with humans.

The easiest way is to call when you want to do something the system is not expecting, because we had to manually adjust the final date of the loan, the amount due, and things like that. Terrible system and way more highly susceptible to human errors (trust me, I've seen a lot).

There were also a lot of silos (different departments) to do specific tasks, so you would get transferred a lot until somebody knew exactly who could handle your case. Most people were new recruits from University working part time, so they didn't know enough to answer most questions and when they did they usually had their degree so they switched jobs.

But the "traditional" art market has been successful for thousands of years. Comparing selling a tweet for millions to the Mona Lisa is pretty weird. People are ready to pay the museum fee to see the real art, while I'm sure nobody would pay to access a tweet. So the ownership is meaningless.

I'm sure NFTs have a place in today's art market, but it won't totally replace everything, so no, don't invest all your money on somebody's auto-generated monkey.

Cities around the world did something similar (and didn't just trolled) during the pandemic. A lot of people had the same idea while seeing all these empty buildings.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/07/15/downtown-hotel-tu...

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-requisi...

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/dartmouth-hotel-to-be-converted-...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/10/12/toronto-has-2500...

I would guess a lot of people, maybe more non technical people think that. Every console generation the file size of games gets bigger because of bigger textures, better models, etc. So it's easy to make the relation between huge file size and quality, which isn't always true. The difference between 5GB and 80GB should be noticeable, but now with 150GB games I don't think it's all content and more bad file optimization because it's cheaper this way and people don't (really) care.

Incendies is his first movie that got him a nomination at the Academy Awards. The budget is smaller than Dune and it's in French and Arabic, so the mass appeal isn't there, but it's well worth the watch. To quote Denis Villeneuve: "[it's] a modern story with a sort of Greek tragedy element".

The movie is filmed in Jordan and Montreal, which have a similar feel to Dune, and I would say that he probably took inspiration from his Incendies days to make Dune.

The movie is based on a play by Wajdi Mouawad, who now works at the very prestigious théâtre national de la Colline as the director.

How can he write:

> Therefore, a recession is now inevitable.

And two paragraphs below:

> Nothing is 100% certain in the markets or the economy.

Pretty sure it's a KaiOS phone, which comes from Firefox OS.

Quebec was pretty disconnected from France for a long time, and it was not until very recently with Charles de Gaulle that the friendship started again.

Now Quebec is more influenced by the European way of living, but there is still a very "American" way of life.