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I was reading somewhere that we are already fucked even if we were to completely halt greenhouse emissions today. Apparently we kickstarted some positive feedback loop (I think it …

Honestly, despite having a wife from the US (not an US citizen anymore), I agree with you. It is really weird to me that such a thing as lobbying can be legal. Or the fact that you…

On top of that, isn't Bending Spoons famous for enshittify anything they buy to squeeze every single cent they can? Meaning that their fame would push even more companies/people to…

You literally made me Laughing out Loud :D

The exact training run is basically impossible anyway. Randomness plays a role. Even if you fix your RNG seed, in a distributed training scenario like this one some weight updates …

Apparently that is what Taalas did though. Not an hardware person, so take this with a pinch of salt

No, if you burn your model into the silicon you don't need memory as the output of a layer flows through circuitry directly into the next one. No I/O to memory of any kind. You sti…

You don't need memory because the output of the previous layer flows directly into the input gates of the next. So no I/O to/from HBM or similar You still need some memory for the …

I believe part of the LLMOps (I don't like the term, but it is what it is) should be building a failover plan with proper testing that check tools trajectories and such. If you hav…

Good thinking. Didn't think of that approach. Gonna start sending huge walls of text to DOS them then if this thing lands

How do they scan e2e encrypted messages? Will they force apps/OSes to have master keys/institutional backdoors to have access to the private keys?

It is the difference between giving an LLM an epic and say "You figure it out" and giving the single tasks' breakdown you envisioned and build incrementally on top of it. With the …

If you like hiking and tough, but rewarding, trails, consider the one to the base camp of Everest, or the roundtrip around the Annapurna. I did both and they are truly amazing with…

High horse? Man, my country was under communist dictatorship and I didn't see a banana until I was 8 years old. However, despite that, I am aware of how lucky I got in life and I t…

Let's go back to have open air sewers while we are at it. I mean, if the goal is to bring back stuff that lowered life expectancy and reduce 50+ years of progress, I don't see why …

And especially terrible for the communities that have to live with gas turbines or other local power generators as neighbors. Noise and air pollution constantly [1]. But fuck them,…

Well put. I belong to the latter group as I feed small, granular tasks that I describe thoroughly to the LLM. I tried, however, to just give it a bigger scope task. Even best model…

It is not just the big cities. You go downtown even in small towns and the roads tend to be so narrow that a big SUV becomes a liability more than a vehicle. Without mentioning tha…

True, but they also took huge debts to build AI DCs and not sure if the DB part of the company can cushion such a fall. According to [1] their IaaS line of business brings 4.8B USD…

For sure there is a bit of selection bias with hackernews users. Not saying we are all geniuses, but I strongly believe we are, at least, more educated than your average Joe

I think native speakers of Latin derived languages have an advantage given the proposed words in my run. The list was overly biased that way. In fact, many of the advance and grand…

I think he was referring to hydro with all the mountains it is actually prime real estate for dams.

I think we (as in Switzerland) are preparing for a future in which there is not much snow melt/precipitations to fuel hydro production year round. In fact, if the AMOC weakens/stop…

And kill the savings of what remains of the middle class. Probably they will do it though, as it is a slow thing and is not felt by the average Joe like a tax hike or loss of benef…

As an European, yeah, we probably are doing really good with basic science, but what about innovation when it comes to productivity? Why there is no AI lab (apart from Mistral) in …