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vander_elst
·9일 전·discuss
We did this by using the ASTs you can go quite far without embeddings and the result is easier to debug and follow what's going on.
vander_elst
·9일 전·discuss
I implemented this for a large monorepo last year, it runs as an analysis during code review and it shows what are possible similar snippets wrt the code under review. It was a very nice project. It also allows to see across the repo what are the most common constructs for the different languages. This could also be helpful to see if some code has been copied e.g. from open source projects.
vander_elst
·지난달·discuss
The kind of issues that you might face if you have dependants could be something along the lines: well Timmy, we'll need to cut your leg instead of trying solution x that might save it, because I preferred not to accept a job that would have allowed to pay for that, due to the fact such a job didn't follow my ethical standards.

This is of course a very extreme and hopefully rare case, but I think that there's a large range of cases where unfortunately money does make a difference I a significant way. Additionally, I think that it also does make a huge difference if you are the only one affected by you decisions or someone else is.

I think when going for a decision for such a position, these and other points that consider the more practical implications might weight in.
vander_elst
·지난달·discuss
The salary gap in Europe is *huge*, at Meta and other big tech you can easily make 3x (after taxes) of what you'd earn in a European company for the very same position, same amount of actually worked hours. It might not be fair or might not be ethical, but in particular if you have dependants, such a gap *does* make a difference.
vander_elst
·지난달·discuss
Someone high up said something along the lines that they want to see some progress and someone down below looking for a promotion pushed this. This has always been happening but I think before it was more difficult to justify something like this as one would have needed to show the results of an algorithm, now it's easier to convince someone higher up that AI will solve it no worries
vander_elst
·2개월 전·discuss
Very surprised to see German there. Any way that I can learn more about this? Does anyone happen to have sources or links?
vander_elst
·4개월 전·discuss
It would seem in this design that all the tools should be called through a wrapper that understands the vault and provides the credentials to the tool in the right way. How otherwise can curl use the credentials? Curl has no idea that there's a vault somewhere
vander_elst
·4개월 전·discuss
What's crazy here is that a government I'd requiring de-regulation while companies are trying to keep stricter rules. What a time.
vander_elst
·4개월 전·discuss
Subscribers should be aware what they are supporting. I think that keeping an OpenAI account can be considered an active support of this decision, at least for private people who can easily change providers.
vander_elst
·4개월 전·discuss
> I don't see how OpenAI employees who have signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter can continue their employment [...]

Sometimes money is more attractive than morality. So I guess money is the answer here.
vander_elst
·5개월 전·discuss
I would have said that this is covered under vanity sizing. I have the feeling some consumers might be more inclined to buy a product if it has size M instead of XXL, even if the product is exactly the same. So my take is that, in the name of profit, companies lie about size.
vander_elst
·5개월 전·discuss
> bring it to your neighborhood tailor. Most alterations are simple and not very expensive.

I think, this is a misconception, some "simple" things like resizing a shirt, when done properly, might require multiple hours + a decent amount of skills and the alterations might be cheap because they are performed by underpaid workers. Nonetheless, I like the idea of supporting local tailors and I'd be in for paying premium for a local premium product.
vander_elst
·5개월 전·discuss
I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait for them and just want to go out and drive, fast, even if everything points towards the fact that that's not a good idea. If someone really wants to touch the fire after everyone stated multiple times that they shouldn't do it, I guess it's ok to let them go fo it.
vander_elst
·5개월 전·discuss
I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's more effective to learn like that rather than reading stuff upfront and take necessary precautions and maybe these will be cautionary tales also for others.

Thanks to the reports, hopefully, with time, some additional security measures will also be added to the product.
vander_elst
·5개월 전·discuss
I think that Google has some partnership with Deutsche Telekom where they provide the software and Deutsche Telekom Runs it because Google doesn't have the encryption keys. In that case Google even if they want they cannot provide the data. Anyway that is still not digital sovereignity as Google might decide to stop providing updates or add a backdoor...
vander_elst
·6개월 전·discuss
Thanks!
vander_elst
·6개월 전·discuss
> 504MiB shared L3 cache

What CPU are they using here?
vander_elst
·6개월 전·discuss
At least in certain countries there are high taxes on cigarettes and alcohol probably also to cover such costs
vander_elst
·6개월 전·discuss
If you kill someone when drunk driving you face more serious consequences than if you weren't drunk. There should be similar consequences here you get a disease you could have vaccinated for? You pay 4 times the amount for the cure.
vander_elst
·6개월 전·discuss
Germany is incredibly under developed in the digitalization plus the amount of red tape to do even basic things is also very large as well. Getting rid of these things takes a lot of will power and at the moment there is very little.