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14u2c commented on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] github.com/deepseek-ai/Ja... · Posted by u/reissbaker

bli940505 · 7 months ago

I don’t buy this at all. If DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same? Companies making proprietary models have the advantage of using w/e is out there from the open source community AND the proprietary research they have been working on for years.

14u2c · 7 months ago

> DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same?

DeepSeek did something legitimately innovative with their addition of Group Relative Policy Optimization. Other firms are certainly free to innovate as well.

14u2c commented on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mupuff1234

Teever · 9 months ago

But enough people are given a terminal diagnosis from relatively minor symptoms that will lead to their death in 6 months.

I think it's a really good open question as to why more unhinged Americans do school shootings than healthcare insurance executive shootings.

I'd love to read a sociology paper on it.

14u2c · 9 months ago

Doesn't seems so surprising to me. Most school shootings are perpetrated by those involved in the school community in some way. Similar domestic violence, humans are a lot more likely to commit these types of crimes against those they know personally.

14u2c commented on Satellites Spotting Ships tech.marksblogg.com/yolo-... · Posted by u/ingve

robxorb · a year ago

This kind of makes sense, but to me, in a post-9/11 world, the US military would definitely be scrambling whatever they have to track a rogue airliner that's gone completely dark, yet is still verifiably flying (sat pings).

14u2c · a year ago

In Southeast Asia? The US military probably didn't even hear about it until after it was missing for a bit.

14u2c commented on First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini starlinkhardware.com/firs... · Posted by u/tosh

poorman · a year ago

The lack of DC power is rough for boats, vans, and RVs. If someone wants to put this in a backpack they really need to get a DC power supply version. There are solutions out there at this point for the standard dishy but the flat high performance has a crazy power supply with it.

14u2c · a year ago

Buy a $50 inverter. They are tiny and it's not like this thing is using enough power for the efficiency hit to make a difference.

14u2c commented on Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered futurism.com/the-byte/boe... · Posted by u/hollasch

jiggawatts · a year ago

You see, there is this barrel, and it is full of pork. You work for a guy who wants that pork. He says: Go pick up some of the pork, cut a chunk off for yourself, and bring the rest to me. You do that every day. You both have a nice steady supply of pork.

Some other person, who isn't you, and isn't your boss, or your boss's boss would like it if the barrel got into space. It doesn't, but that's okay because they have no power over you or your boss. Not to mention that both you and your boss both have some pork, so you're both happy whether or not the barrel goes into space.

There is no problem here to solve.

That's why you can't solve the problem. There isn't one. Everyone directly involved is very happy. You can't "fix" happy people.

14u2c · a year ago

Except that this was a fixed price contract. If they don't get it right the pork train does come to an end.

14u2c commented on SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency infini-ai-lab.github.io/S... · Posted by u/zinccat

spxneo · a year ago

this is quite worrying for OpenAI as the rate token prices have been plummeting thanks to Meta and its going to have to keep cutting its prices while capex remains flat. whatever Sam says in interviews just think the opposite and the whole picture comes together.

It's almost a mathematical certainty that people who invested in OpenAI will need to reincarnate in multiple universes to ever see that money again but no bother many are probably NVIDIA stock holders to even out the damage.

14u2c · a year ago

Most of the big "investments" in OpenAI are in the form of compute credits. I fail to see the downside of that.

14u2c commented on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana apnews.com/article/mariju... · Posted by u/JacobHenner

CydeWeys · a year ago

I think the ATM isn't actually dispensing cash. You're doing an ATM transaction for a certain amount of money, but what you're actually getting is weed.

It's not just "You can buy with cash, and we conveniently have an ATM available to get cash if you didn't go to your bank."

14u2c · a year ago

Nope, it's just a regular ATM operated by a 3rd party company. You get cash from it then give them the cash. The store will also often reimburse for the ATM fee.

14u2c commented on Google lays off its Python team social.coop/@Yhg1s/112332... · Posted by u/compiler-guy

seanmcdirmid · a year ago

Why is Netflix still included? They should be kicked out, I haven’t heard anything tech about the, for years now.

Then we can go with Meta Apple Google Amazon, or MAGA for short. Ok, not a good look that one.

14u2c · a year ago

Because they still pay $500k cash.

14u2c commented on Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB

pquki4 · a year ago

> Importantly, all models of the Pura 70 run HarmonyOS 4.2 – Huawei's not-Android operating system.

This needs a lot more context. My understanding is that at this time HarmonyOS is still fully compatible with Android and you can just install apk files like you would do on any other Android device. They are doing their own stuff at low level, and it is reported that "HarmonyOS Next" will be incompatible with Android (no idea what that will look like), but to say HarmonyOS 4.2 is "not-Android" means as much as saying Amazon's Fire tablets are not using Android.

And I am skeptical about the HarmonyOS Next thing and can't see how its fate could be different from Windows Phone if Android apps are out of the question. While it is true that China itself is a huge market, and there are enough users and developers to demand an "in-house" OS, there are a few obvious, big hurdles -- app ecosystem, browser etc. Of course Huawei can throw money at the problem and get developers on board, but one needs to be aware that (1) there are only about 3 big browser vendors in the world, and even Firefox and Safari are lagging in features and bug fixes (2) even in China Huawei needs to compete with other phone makers who are using Android, and developers need to support Android, iOS and Harmony OS. I am not optimistic about this.

14u2c · a year ago

> (1) there are only about 3 big browser vendors in the world, and even Firefox and Safari are lagging in features and bug fixes

Are you forgetting WeChat? Because that's all they likely care about.

14u2c commented on Namecheap Disrupting Itself with Spaceship twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/... · Posted by u/simonpure

noodlesUK · a year ago

As a namecheap customer I completely support the greenfield approach to what it means to be a registrar. However, what I want from a registrar is to be the best registrar. I don’t want hosting, email, or other services, I want a great DNS interface with an API that I can scope permissions on, and cheap and predictable name registration. That is it.

14u2c · a year ago

Why not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.