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69 points·by x3ro·hace 7 meses·47 comments

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x3ro
·hace 10 días·discuss
Who says anything about „this far in the future“? It’s enough for Anthropic et al to realize this one or two model versions ago, see it as a strategic advantage and push for that behavior.
x3ro
·hace 10 días·discuss
In my experience, even if the code is not worse, there is so much more of it that people quickly stop understanding what is going on. Now you could argue „the LLM knows“, but that comes at an insane token cost, even if it works well.

This is in the interest of big AI companies: if they quasi-monopolize the skills entire sectors of the economy need in order to function, that will be great (for them).

Everyone keeps comparing this to compilers, but I don’t need a multiple-hundred dollar subscription to use LLVM. And people didn’t stop understanding how computers work either, just because they used C. And yeah, maybe local LLMs will become the norm, and I hope so. But market forces (hardware prices) certainly are working against that right now.
x3ro
·hace 11 días·discuss
> because that's the information they had

That has always been and will always be the excuse for these kind of rights violations by the police. "Oh it's just what we were told, sorry".

And yes, it's worth bringing up e.g. Palestine or climate activists being beaten, arrested etc. in this context, because it's where the limits and tolerances for this kind of behavior are being tested.

Police, at least in Germany, always justify their transgressions with arguments like: "well we had to beat up these demonstrators because they were engaging in criminal behavior", the "criminal behavior" being "chanting a slogan they don't like" or "carrying an umbrella" (I kid you not).

TLDR: If we continue to allow law enforcement to justify their actions with "well that's just what I was told", we are in for a very bad time, because, it turns out, anything can be justified this way.
x3ro
·hace 14 días·discuss
Hey Peter. I know this is super unrelated, but I’ve used the contact form and sent an email in order to understand what the hell a conductor license costs for self-hosting. So far i’ve only gotten automated requests for feedback as a response.. That’s certainly not encouraged me to dig deeper into using dbos.
x3ro
·hace 28 días·discuss
Sadly german law enforcement is definitely on the Palantir train..

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-...
x3ro
·el mes pasado·discuss
> Comparing the holocaust with the invasion of Gaza stripe after 8. October

So, first of all, the comment you're referencing didn't make that statement, so you're making things up. This seems like it would stop any insightful conversation in its tracks before it can even begin.

That being said, in the eyes of many, Israel is very clearly committing genocide, and Israeli officials have resorted to eliminatory and genocidal rhetoric many times [1]. This is not a fringe opinion but a well-backed argument, and most certainly not a "huge red flag".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_and_incitement_in_the_G...
x3ro
·el mes pasado·discuss
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. It's not unreasonable to assume that increased militarization, coupled with increased nationalistic sentiment, could lead to inner-european conflicts escalating into wars. Sure, right now Russia is the enemy, but who knows what'll happen in ten years. And the military machinery is not just going to be scaled down immediately.

If he's being downvoted for his "selling weapons to Israel" comment, I just want to highlight that even a majority of Germans is against it, with 80% not wanting to send weapons [1]. Of course there are different polls, and others find that "only" 30% say "stop them", plus another 43% saying "limit them [2]. Either way, only a small minority is pro "send all the weapons".

[1]: https://www.plan.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/detail/80-proz... [2]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1615302/umfra...
x3ro
·el mes pasado·discuss
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x3ro
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Is that worse than VC-backed loss leaders? :)
x3ro
·hace 2 meses·discuss
If you want people to have children make it an attractive life choice, or even a viable option. A centrally located apartment in a desirable city with the space to house a family of 3-4 is out of reach for a very large part of the population, financially. That’s _before_ you even consider all of the other costs of having children. Meanwhile our chancellor talks of 70h+ work weeks, while spending hundreds of billions on special military budgets, and also cutting health care funding..
x3ro
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Ah yes, the "barbarians" couldn't possibly manage delivering a packet by themselves, after having their country looted for centuries (ongoing).

There's no doubt this laptop would've been delivered frictionlessly if Uganda had never suffered under colonial rule :) And who knows what the UK would be like..
x3ro
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Chrome is used by about 3.8 billion people [1]. So, if this is rolled out to every chrome user over the next year or two, this would generate about 15 Exabytes of traffic. It's difficult to find accurate, useful numbers on this, but lets assume 29 grams of CO2e per GB, this would be about 450k tons of CO2e. This in turn, equates to average household CO2 expenditure of almost 300k households.

So make your own judgement, but this seem pretty significant to me.

[1]: https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/global-chrome-user-base/ [2]: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-str... [3]: https://www.anthesisgroup.com/insights/what-exactly-is-1-ton...
x3ro
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I'm curious, do you think that this also applies to stable diffusion? Are these models "creative" too?
x3ro
·hace 3 meses·discuss
> He wasn't appointed to his position in life through bloodline or familial connections. He made insane wealth through business dealings, much of it through negotiations with sharks.

Uhm, no.

> Donald actually received $413 million from Fred over the years [1], [2]:

And as to whether he is any good at investing, he is literally worse than average S&P500 [3].

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/donald-trump-received-... [2]: https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67 [3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/11/its-off...
x3ro
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Yes exactly, just like the.. uhm.. the British Empire could not have possibly declined? Your point is that, because the U.S. has big companies and wealth, it can't be a sinking ship? Because to me this seems like a straw-man.

What I'm saying is that the U.S. is currently in decline, and many will agree with me. Where this leads your (I'm assuming) country, nobody knows. But to me, it doesn't look great.
x3ro
·hace 3 meses·discuss
What's performative about not wanting to go down with a sinking ship? Or are you under the illusion that the U.S. is doing particularly well right now? It appears that the "we have the bigger stick" strategy is finally meeting some resistance, and I am happy to see it.
x3ro
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Funny that's what Israel kept saying about Hamas too. "We'll have killed all of them any day now". But really they were mostly blowing up civilian buildings and , well, civilians. But I'm sure in the case of the US its not propaganda /s
x3ro
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Source? [1] states 12% for macOS and 3% for Linux.

[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
x3ro
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Please take your propaganda elsewhere. If Hamas or any other group in the region perpetrated any of the war crimes that Israel commits on any given day, every media outlet would be writing about it for weeks. In the meantime, Israel can bomb Gaza literally every day since the so-called ceasefire and nobody bats an eye. Israel just now acquitted its soldiers caught raping Palestinians in custody on camera. No coverage, no outcry. Israel is very objectively a bad guy, armed with nukes.
x3ro
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Let's call it what it is, a massive wealth transfer from the general public to companies, and transitively (primarily) to the super-rich. Just because it's legal that they are robbing us blind does not make it right.