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Except, if some of the answered tokens are opaque to me, but I pay for them, the operator has no incentive to keep their number low [1]. For all I know the model could be spinning …

Right, but my point was, I should be able to just send something like {'continue_conversation_id': 123, 'message': 'another message?'} Seems like it would be even less work for the…

It's one thing that the APIs don't return the reasoning tokens in a readable fashion. But then why do I have to send them the whole conversation every time? If they don't allow me …

Most AI alarmism benefits big tech itself. Either they want to create awe and thus demand for their products (see the recent dance around Mythos), or they want to create regulatory…

Beijing is a bad example, because all of China actually has Beijing time. It gets confusing in Xinjang, which is 2 hours in the "wrong" timezone. But that doesn't mean that people …

Isn't the problem that role tags are just part of the input stream? So a specific word in the system prompt becomes the same token as the same word in the user prompt? A clean way …

I don't get how so many people say pressing red is the right choice. Yes, if everyone presses red then nobody dies, but the same is true if everyone presses blue. But if almost eve…

JavaScript got async in 2017, Python in 2015, and C# in 2012. Python actually had a version of it in 2008 with Twisted's @inlineCallbacks decorator - you used yield instead of awai…

I don't understand that point. Why do e-bikes become better or more safe when you have to rotate your legs? Its really frustrating and silly that I have to go through the motions (…

It's like the invention of the power loom, but for knowledge workers. Might be interesting to look at the history of industrialisation and the reactions to it.

I guess technically you are right, in that NAT doesn't prevent connections, it enables connections. But in the situation where you would have a NAT, behind a residential router, an…

Nooo... I don't want something to exist that can absolutely prove that a photo is real. This only serves to enforce social norms more rigidly. These include reasonable norms like a…

LLMs are just the speech center part of the brain, not a whole brain. It's like when you are speaking on autopilot, or reciting something by heart, it just comes out. There is no r…

> this just hasn't been the case for some time now Which I find sad actually. The idea of C++ as a superset of C is really powerful, especially when mixing C and C++. A while ago I…

> Cellebrite admits they can not hack GrapheneOS if users had installed updates since late 2022. So, how do I know that GrapheneOS is not a honeypot for the really big fish? At thi…

Or 3) there are illegal immigrants and ICE is deporting them according to the law, BUT some people think this is unjust and want to do something against it. The democratic process …

I think users applies to end-users here. So you must not run the software as a service (either paid or for free) for other users. You are free to use it yourself. Crucially, I thin…

So, as there are a couple of docks coming out that work with Switch 2 and have apparently reverse engineered the protocol... I wonder if some company could make a small dongle that…

No, please do invent your own crypto, just don't deploy it! Coming up with schemes and then seeing where they fail is the best way to learn the intricacies. I think more of us 'low…

Back when I was studying physics, we frequently had to do calculations with error propagation. I tried to implement something very similar in C++ and in Python, but never finished …

Their business model might be dead, I don't know. But the latest Prusa printers are as far as I know not really open - I can't download the schematics for free and make a clone, ca…

I work at a university data center, although not on LLMs. We host state of the art models for a large number of users. As far as I understand, there is no secret sauce. We just hav…

> The reason you are using C++ in the first place is because you care about details like allocation, so to me this is a gigantic fumble. I wouldn't say that applies to everybody. I…

We have these brilliant high resolution displays, and these powerful, energy efficient GPUs that are always running and compositing frames like a game engine 120 times a second. It…

It's just a shader, so maybe not in pure CSS, but you could probably achive something like that in WebGL. About "only Apple can achive that": It would be pretty simple for MS to do…