31337 6 days ago • 100%
Don't know why society tolerates these dumbass parasites.
31337 7 days ago • 100%
Not sure I agree that there will be less human labor "need." Ideally, we should strive for progress, and not just survive. I think there is infinite use for human labor.
I agree with your second point.
31337 1 week ago • 100%
IDK. Rocket Mortgage seems to be experts on being responsible with money, as evidenced by this company meeting: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1alzgv3/work_meeting_at_rocket_mortgage_time_for_puts_yet/
31337 1 week ago • 100%
Haven't tried Gemini; may work. But, in my experience with other LLMs, even if text doesn't exceed the token limit, LLMs start making more mistakes and sometimes behave strangely more often as the size of context grows.
31337 1 week ago • 27%
No problem. Glad you appreciated it. Namaste.
31337 1 week ago • 40%
They indicated that they were wondering how pro-AI people would feel:
I really sat there wondering how do pro AI people feel when they get an email/SMS like that.
31337 1 week ago • 100%
This is more complicated than some corporate infrastructures I've worked on, lol.
31337 1 week ago • 100%
I usually just use VS Code to do full-text searches, and write down notes in a note taking app. That, and browse the documentation.
31337 1 week ago • 100%
Nah, LLMs have severe context window limitations. It starts to get wackier after ~1000 LOC.
31337 1 week ago • 25%
I'm pro-AI, but not pro-AI in the sense of, "turn these bullet-points into a verbose email," and not pro-AI for personal communication like this. I hope this kind of stuff doesn't become common. It's like going in the opposite direction of "SMS language" (which I view favorably).
31337 1 week ago • 100%
Python is quite slow, so will use more CPU cycles than many other languages. If you're doing data-heavy stuff, it'll probably also use more RAM than, say C, where you can control types and memory layout of structs.
That being said, for services, I typically use FastAPI, because it's just so quick to develop stuff in Python. I don't do heavy stuff in Python; that's done by packages that wrap binaries complied from C, C++, Fortran, or CUDA. If I need tight-loops, I either entirely switch to a different language (Rust, lately), or I write a library and interact with it with ctypes.
"Fossil-fuel billionaire Kelcy Warren is about to land a knockout punch on Greenpeace..."
31337 1 week ago • 100%
I don't think anyone is advocating for a "slap on the wrist." The U.S. criminal justice system is the most draconian in the West, and doesn't do "slaps on the wrist," unless you're in a particular economic or social classes.
IMO, ideally, he would be sentenced for as long as it takes to rehabilitate him. Could be 5 years, 10 years, 30 years, or never, IDK, I'm not a psychologist. But, the U.S. prison system isn't really designed for rehabilitation either.
31337 1 week ago • 80%
Production AI is highly tuned by training data selection and human feedback. Every model has its own style that many people helped tune. In the open model world there are thousands of different models targeting various styles. Waifu Diffusion and GPT-4chan, for example.
31337 1 week ago • 100%
I think you have your janitor example backwards. Spending my time revolutionizing energy productions sounds much more enjoyable than sweeping floors. Same with designing an effective floor sweeping robot.
31337 1 week ago • 62%
AI are people, my friend. /s
But, really, I think people should be able to run algorithms on whatever data they want. It's whether the output is sufficiently different or "transformative" that matters (and other laws like using people's likeness). Otherwise, I think the laws will get complex and nonsensical once you start adding special cases for "AI." And I'd bet if new laws are written, they'd be written by lobbiests to further erode the threat of competition (from free software, for instance).
31337 1 week ago • 100%
There's plenty of open source projects that distribute executables (i.e. all that use compiled languages). The projects just provide checksums, ensure their builds are reproducible, or provide some other method to verify.
In practice, you're going to wind up in dependency hell before pypi stops hosting the package. E.g. you need to use package A and package B, but package A depends on v1 of package C, and package B depends on v2 of package C.
And you don't need to use pypi or pip at all. You could just download the code and directly from tbe repo, import it into your project (possibly needing to build if it has binary components). However, if it was on pypi before, then the source repo likely had all the code pip needs to install it (i.e. contains setup.py and any related files).
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
The search engine LLMs suck. I'm guessing they use very small models to save compute. ChatGPT 4o and Claude 3.5 are much better.
31337 2 weeks ago • 66%
C# is actually pretty nice. Ecosystem, not so much, but D doesn't really have one anyways :)
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yeah, the image bytes are random because they're already compressed (unless they're bitmaps, which is not likely).
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
I think I've seen calculations that we could explore every star in the galaxy with self-replicating probes in something like a million years; and other civilizations could do the same.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Donation, patronage, gift economy, mutual aid, or whatever you want to call it is fine by me. People can pirate a lot of proprietary software as well, yet people still pay.
AI firms propose 'personhood credentials' to combat online deception, offering a cryptographically authenticated way to verify real people without sacrificing privacy—though critics warn it may empower governments to control who speaks online.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yet, people still pay for it.
31337 2 weeks ago • 96%
I think a lot of it is because there's so many more well-funded right-wing influencers/grifters than genuine liberal or left-wing influencers. It's much more profitable to take advantage of young men's anxieties and insecurities (to sell fungus pills, get-rich-quick plans, or whatever), than to genuinely discuss things from a liberal or especially left-wing perspective.
31337 2 weeks ago • 90%
Toilet paper, trash bags, paper towels. If you go the absolute cheapest, they're arguably defective, but the second cheapest is usually ok.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
The problem is that HP writes drivers and software for those things for Windows, but not for Linux, so Linux depends on random people to write software for those things for free (which often involves complex reverse-engineering). With Linux you need to make sure you use widely-used hardware that someone has already written support for (this is mostly applicable to laptops and peripherals, which often use custom non-standard hardware). There may be a way to fix your problems, but you'll have to search forums or issue trackers for the solutions, and they're probably pretty involved to get working correctly. The router crashing thing is probably just a coincidence though, or the laptop is using a feature that's broken on your router.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
There's also Delecta Ltd, which is an Australian sex toy maker and a mining company.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
There's a trade-off, depending on the hobby, I guess. For some hobbies, very cheap gear won't even work properly. "Buy once, cry once," is something I hear often.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Higher quality, more expensive gear does not necessarily contribute to waste. Sometimes, it can just be more expensive because their workers are paid good wages and materials are ethically sourced. Some very cheap gear can break much sooner, ending up being more wasteful.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
This is good, IMO. People don't have to smoke as much, so less damage is done to their lungs. Vapes, edibles, and concentrates that are not combusted are probably even less damaging.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Both times I've received ChipDrops, the loads were an entire dump truck; ~20 cubic yards. I just used a wheelbarrow, a many-tined pitchfork, and a garden rake to make multiple large mulched beds, and a small pile in my back yard. I now have multiple large mulched beds, use it to cover food scraps in my compost bin, and use some in my vegetable beds/paths. It's about a full day's work to handle it all. I think ChipDrop also allows people to notify other users you're giving some away if you can't use it all, or you could try something like Craigslist.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
If you're talking about naive bayes filtering, it most definitely is an ML model. Modern spam filters use more complex ML models (or at least I know Yahoo Mail used to ~15 years ago, because I saw a lecture where John Langford talked a little bit about it). Statistical ML is an "AI" field. Stuff like anomaly detection are also usually ML models.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Michigan hasn’t conducted widespread testing at other farms, partly out of concern for the economic effects on its agriculture industry.
This is fine.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
camelCase for non-source-code files. I find camelCase faster to "parse" for some reason (probably just because I've spent thousands of hours reading and writing camelCase code). For programming, I usually just use whatever each language's standard library uses, for consistency. I prefer camelCase though.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
I've heard high velocity rounds (such as rifle rounds) send a kind of shockwave through your body. Dunno if it's true or not.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
OSMC's Vero V looks interesting. Pi 4 with OSMC or Librelec could work. I'm probably going to do something like this pretty soon. I just set up an *arr stack last week, and just using my smart TV with the jellyfin app installed ATM.
My PC running the Jellyfin server can't transcode some videos though; probably going to put an Arc a310 in it.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Looks like NPR was on Mastadon for a little while in 2020: https://mstdn.social/@NPR
31337 2 weeks ago • 94%
I think most projects left Sourceforge after they started putting adware into they're downloads.
31337 2 weeks ago • 100%
Democrats playing on the xenophobic tendencies of being "tough on the border" is such a bad strategy. Why would people vote for fascism-lite when they could vote for the original. Are they going to have a competition over how inhuman and dehumanizing they can be to migrants?
31337 2 weeks ago • 75%
“She would be my age in 2047. How much of the Earth would still be habitable then?”
I thought the timeline for large changes in habitability was longer than that? I guess that's around the time we'll hit the 1.5C threshold?
I use Google Shopping (the “Shopping” tab on Google) to see if local stores carry certain products, what they cost, how far away each store is, etc. It seems to mostly search national or large regional chains, but it was still pretty useful. Is there any alternative to this (in the US)? The “nearby” function has unfortunately got shittier and shittier over the past year or so. It's gotten less “deterministic," just mixing results from local stores with e-commerce stores, further reducing usefulness.
31337 3 weeks ago • 90%
Democracy was a failed form of government about 2000 years ago.
I don’t remember how I heard of it, but just binged-watched it over the past few days. Ratings seem a little bit above average, but I found it very enjoyable. I liked that the mood oscillates between modern comedy and tragic comedy; and that it seems to implicitely critique modern society. The series almost feels like an allegory (or perhaps I’m reading too much in to it).
I've recently noticed this opinion seems unpopular, at least on Lemmy. There is nothing wrong with downloading public data and doing statistical analysis on it, which is pretty much what these ML models do. They are not redistributing other peoples' works (well, sometimes they do, unintentionally, and safeguards to prevent this are usually built-in). The training data is generally much, much larger than the model sizes, so it is generally not possible for the models to reconstruct random specific works. They are not creating derivative works, in the legal sense, because they do not copy and modify the original works; they generate "new" content based on probabilities. My opinion on the subject is pretty much in agreement with this document from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/document/eff-two-pager-ai I understand the hate for companies using data you would reasonably expect would be *private.* I understand hate for purposely over-fitting the model on data to reproduce people's "likeness." I understand the hate for AI generated shit (because it is shit). I really don't understand where all this hate for using public data for building a "statistical" model to "learn" general patterns is coming from. I can also understand the anxiety people may feel, if they believe all the AI hype, that it will eliminate jobs. I don't think AI is going to be able to directly replace people any time soon. It will probably improve productivity (with stuff like background-removers, better autocomplete, etc), which *might* eliminate some jobs, but that's really just a problem with capitalism, and productivity increases are generally considered good.
As the energy transition inches through the ‘issue attention’ cycle, a wiser approach should emerge.
Any tips on growing corn in central Texas? Is it even practical? I sowed some corn in February, and they only grew 3ft. and looks like I might have a few very small corn cobs. The last time I tried to grow corn was in Ohio, and used the 3 sisters method, which worked pretty well. But idk wtf to do in central Texas.
Summary: Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is investing billions in Nvidia's H100 graphics cards to build a massive compute infrastructure for AI research and projects. By end of 2024, Meta aims to have 350,000 of these GPUs, with total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion. This move is part of Meta's focus on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), competing with firms like OpenAI and Google's DeepMind. The company's AI and computing investments are a key part of its 2024 budget, emphasizing AI as their largest investment area.
I'm out of room for breakers in my main breaker box, so would like to add 6-breaker sub-panel to install mini-splits, an outdoor electrical outlet, lighting, etc. What's the correct way to mount an exterior sub-panel on a house with lapped hardie-board siding? I suppose the easiest thing would be to drill holes in the siding then attach the panel with screws to a stud and the exterior sheathing, but I don't know if that's a proper way to do things. I also suppose I could somehow cut a rectangular hole in the siding and mount the subpanel directly on the sheathing. I'm not sure how to prevent water intrusion in that case (is some kind of flashing needed, or is just cock ok?). Seems like it would be hard to cut a clean rectangle in lapped fiber-cement siding on a vertical surface.
I'm working on a prototype application, and for my use-case DeepFloyd IF gives me the best results by far. I was using replicate.ai, but the reliability and cold start times are unacceptable for my purposes (and DeepFloyd IF cannot be used in commercial products). I think what made IF so good for my use-case is that it starts by generating a very small image. I need images generated with a single subject taking up most of the image and minimal background. I think IF is biased to these kinds of images since it starts with a very small image. Currently using Dall-E 2, which is ok, but not nearly as good as IF. Stable Diffusion sometimes produces very weird images (haven't tried SD XL yet).
I recently read an article about OPEC, and how oil prices will likely rise for the next year or two. The article said this will cause a significant uptick in inflation indicators, so the Fed will likely raise rates. I can understand raising rates in response to monetary inflation, but it doesn't make much sense to me to raise rates in response to supply-side shocks. It also seems cruel since the goal seems to be to raise rates so more people become unemployed or underemployed so that can't afford to buy gas.
I'm seeing strange behavior when I click on a post, then click the "back button" in my browser. Sometimes if I'm on the "subscribed" tab, click on an article, then press back, it seems to show me "all" or "local" posts. Sometimes it shows me a different list if I'm on the "all" tab, click on a post, then press back. Same behavior on Firefox mobile and desktop version. Haven't went into in-depth testing, but I can't be the only one seeing this right? Guessing it's something to do with browser, CDN, or server-side cache?
Trying to gauge if I'm going crazy or a little too much "online." I currently live in Texas, and moving has been on my mind a lot lately as the Republican party and Texas itself seems to be slowly moving toward fascism. I don't know when the slide toward fascism will stop, and how much more authoritarian the state will get. I do not feel very good about my tax dollars going to support this state. I am a middle-aged cishet white man; middle to upper middle class software engineer. I have leftist opinions (libsoc/ansoc), but I'm not an activist (I am very introverted, probably a little bit on the autism spectrum, and pretty much a hermit right now). I do seldom indulge in marijuana consumption, which is illegal here. I really don't have much tying me down here. I have no close friends, no family in the state, and no current romantic partners. Last year, I moved within the state for a job, but the company was bought out, and everyone was layed off. I have very high autonomy at my current job, and could probably work fully remote if I wanted. Moving would be expensive (I am in an upside-down mortgage), but I have enough savings to take the hit. I am personally feeling very isolated here (Texas suburb), at this point in my life, and am thinking about moving into some sort of intentional community (eco-village, cohousing, or land trust; not a commune) in a blue state (or even in Canada if I could pull that off). Also, the weather in the last 2 years has been absolutely oppressive, and I have a hard time keeping anything alive in my veggie garden :) Am I being over dramatic? Should I just stick it out here, and try to rebuild my life in a state that doesn't align with my beliefs? Also, I've heard arguments that libs should stay or even move to red states, but I'm not convinced. The state rules with an iron fist, and pre-empts anything progressive Texas cities try to do. And the district I live in is already pretty solidly blue. Not to mention, red states put families that contain females or lbgt people in danger.