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Asraelite
·3 घंटे पहले·discuss
No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.
Asraelite
·21 घंटे पहले·discuss
> The vast majority of processors are optimized for floats now and some operations (e.g. division) are actually faster.

This seems backwards. Hardware is optimized for floats because people use floats. If people used fixed point, hardware would become optimized for that instead.

Given an equal number of transistors, I'm pretty sure fixed point would be a lot faster on equally optimized hardware for almost all operations.
Asraelite
·21 घंटे पहले·discuss
Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.
Asraelite
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
Backdoors are often (almost always?) designed to look like incompetence so that there's plausible deniability.
Asraelite
·6 दिन पहले·discuss
> Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures.

When this started happening to me I realized that I can't rely on Github as infrastructure anymore. I now vendor all the repos I need.

Self-hosted forges like Forgejo make it pretty easy to mirror repos so you have everything locally. You don't get issues though.
Asraelite
·21 दिन पहले·discuss
Discounted doesn't necessarily mean at a loss. It could just mean a smaller profit margin than normal.
Asraelite
·पिछला माह·discuss
It's active voice. Intransitive verbs cannot be put in the passive.
Asraelite
·पिछला माह·discuss
> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it.

How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent.

In any case, I don't think you need to defend this. It's not about humans never using that pattern, it's about how frequent it is relative to LLMs. Individual counterexamples do not disprove a trend.
Asraelite
·पिछला माह·discuss
It's not "we should live in the same environment we evolved in to be happy", it's "the things that make us happy are a product of the environment we evolved in, and we should take that into consideration".
Asraelite
·पिछला माह·discuss
I hate that this discussion is about OpenAI vs. Anthropic and not OpenAI+Anthropic vs. Google.

Google put up so little of a fight against the DoW for their use of Gemini that we didn't even hear about it. They are clearly the worst of the evils here, but OpenAI is the one getting all of the negative press.
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
You are conflating obnoxiousness with directness.
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
> GPU-friendly? Scalable? Energy-efficient? Reliable? User-friendly? Maintainable?

Nobody uses "performant" to refer to any of those. It usually means either high throughput, or some aggregate of high throughput + low latency + low memory usage.
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
> Widespread vulnerabilities discovered

This is a good thing
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
> Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project

Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
> You can use your imagination to come up with many reasons these result in more chargebacks than normal purchases.

No I can't. Can you elaborate?
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Where is the source code?
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Corruption does not necessarily mean a politician receiving a kickback. It can be a lot more indirect and subversive.
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Something similar is the lost wallet test:

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ijboze/study_of_civic_h... source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101602/https://www.rd.co...
Asraelite
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Secure boot doesn't provide security, just control for device manufacturers.

Physical access always means the device is pwned. You can install a keylogger or something similar.
Asraelite
·3 माह पहले·discuss
> for productive national conversation (and some digital services) at scale to happen online identities need to be verified

That is the exact opposite of what you need. Loss of anonymity creates chilling effects that stifle conversation.

AI bots/spam are a problem, but don't solve it by creating an even worse problem.