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Comment · 5 days ago
Why don't the cops and soldiers in our world do the same? Who's going to stop them?
Comment · 5 days ago
>involvement of security forces

does this mean they were ordered to take them down by the government? what can they do in that case?

Comment · 9 days ago
There was no embargo. If there's an "embargo" but parties not subject to the embargo know about it... there's no embargo.
Comment · 19 days ago
Not necessarily kill, just stop further AI development.
Comment · 1 month ago
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...
Comment · 1 month ago
> 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.

Comment · 1 month ago
You trust trump more than any of those three? Really?
Comment · 1 month ago
He's also incredibly vain. See how hard he pushed back on releasing the epstein files that contained basically nothing bad about him.
Comment · 2 months ago
> 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.

Comment · 2 months ago
Those are two ways of phrasing the same issue.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
llms prefer indents too
Comment · 2 months ago
Programmers look at the indentation.
Comment · 2 months ago
Why would someone make a language where the programmer and the interpreter have two different ways of figuring out where blocks start and end?
Comment · 2 months ago
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.

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