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Google attempted to do this 15 years ago, they got sued and stopped. It turns out that tech companies occasionally do have to follow the law, you'd think people would be happier about that...

> 1. Any cloud business essentially is "unpacking servers and plugging them in." Yet the cloud business has been exploding quarter-over-quarter ever since AWS came online. To the tune of double-digit billions cash flow every quarter for each of the hyperscalers, even before the AI boom.

No, major cloud providers are mainly a software business. They provide unique manage cloud offerings, which provides value add over raw hardware as well as lock in. People on AWS cannot just move to GCP, let alone DO. Hence amazon can charge a substantial premium over the price of the hardware, which is why they make so much money. If all you are doing is plugging in GPUs, you don't provide that value add and are going to have very slim profits.

You trust trump more than any of those three? Really?

He's also incredibly vain. See how hard he pushed back on releasing the epstein files that contained basically nothing bad about him.

> I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.

Then bad news: LLMs already use randomness in a fundamental way. Each time they go to generate a token, they first generate a probability distribution of possible tokens. Then they pick one randomly according to this distribution. The technique described can be thought of as making the random number generator pseudo random. The output it generates is one of the possible outputs it would have generated before, just now it's deterministic and will generate the same thing every time.

Those are two ways of phrasing the same issue.

Twitter has right wing and center/apolitical people on it, bluesky just has left wing people. They "cater" to them by not clamping down on those people harrassing anyone who joins who doesn't agree with their politics. A smart move, because if they did then the leftists would leave too and they'd have nobody. But the result is they can't even get the centrist/apolitical people to move.

llms prefer indents too

Programmers look at the indentation.

Why would someone make a language where the programmer and the interpreter have two different ways of figuring out where blocks start and end?

Hn has strict length limits that often force people to editorialize. They could be more careful to not alter the meaning when they do so.

Who's taking creep shots from any real distance?

There isn't such a problem, it is at best an incidental use case that has been blown out of proportion. Such glasses would only be useful for illicit purposes in instances where a person is permitted to look at something, but not to photograph it. In such a case, they can be politely requested to remove the glasses, just the same as you would ask someone pointing a smartphone at you to put it down, even if they were just scrolling instagram. It's a non problem that spiraled into a moral panic.

I don't think that product exists, and I think an ordinary trash compactor would be far more likely to be used instead. Should we blame the people compressing their garbage for all the people crushing puppies?

This is a facile and pointless discussion. The hard work in building source code is paying millions of dollars to software engineers to write it. "Open source" allows others to benefit from this expenditure. The hard work in building an ai model is spending millions of dollars on training. "Open source" models allow others to benefit from this expenditure. Regardless of whether you had access to the complete training data and architecture of a model, you would never retrain from scratch in order to make a modification to the model. You would fine-tune in whatever behaviour you wanted. Just like open source software is when you are allowed to modify it, open source models are when you are allowed to fine tune like this.

Fighter jets don't need 100%. In a war, we accept a much higher rate of casualties than we do in day to day driving. I would also imagine that while planes are harder for a person to pilot, they are easier for a computer. Most of what makes them hard is mechanical, not dealing with unexpected situations.

> What happens when "those files on a USB drive" turn into a zero day button that can harm millions of people?

We need to make sure only the chinese and criminals have that zero day button and western companies can't discover zero days in their own systems to protect themselves? Is that what you're getting at?

There's no question about it. Llm output is not copyrightable. Which is moot anyways, because training on copyrighted data is completely legal.

The "head of strategic futures" at openai stated "I don't think [kimi's] performance can be explained away by distillation". So you're premise is likely faulty.

that's not arch specific per se but touche

> I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature.

That's unlikely for two reasons, first because minecraft is closed source, and second because arch packages usually follow upstream very closely.

recommend setting up tests for your code s/t failures block deployment. can catch categories of bugs beyond typing errors

And someone choosing to pay for threema presumably trusts threema.

Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within our market" - but inevitably they would make their way outside the EU to be resold.

Could you render very close objects twice, far objects once, then composite the image for each eye?

Presumably, the GP considers intent to be the only relevant factor in determining if something is racist.

> The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead.

Why would they need to? Stalking you doesn't require a warrant. Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can't do that any more legally than the police can.

Or they were supremely overvalued as of oct '21, as were many other stocks and securities, and the decline represents a return to sanity.

One suspects that the delay was not caused by the complexity of the implementation, but rather uncertainty around the necessity or desirability of it.

A middle ground between exceptions in c++ and checking every function call for an error code in c.