50 billion dollars and fewer than 10 million MAU. That's a massive failure.
A chunky portion of those dollars were spent on buying and pre-ordering GPUs that were used to train and serve LLaMa
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dlandau commented on Reflections on Distrusting xz joeyh.name/blog/entry/ref... · Posted by u/edward
Google also does code reviews for some commonly used projects (or maybe that's part of the same thing? I don't know). I went through that last year with one of my Go libraries.
The idea is good, but the entire process is so bureaucracy-heavy and time-consuming that I found it both frustrating and entertaining in equal parts; like something out of Brazil (the film, not the country). So many emails, so many video meetings, so many people involved, so much talking. And all for looking at a 4,500 line Go library.
"Here's the code; just clone and look at it, and let me know if you find something"... It's not like you need my permission to do any of this *shrug*.
Brazil the country is also known for onerous bureaucracy
dlandau commented on Reflections on Distrusting xz joeyh.name/blog/entry/ref... · Posted by u/edward
I'm here wondering why big tech companies that have Too Much to Lose didn't already massively fund a project that freaking sshd depended on it (through systemd).
Like how does it hurt Google to assign 100 people to review and investigate commits of some project as basic and fundamental as a compression tool
That's exactly what they do, though: https://cloud.google.com/assured-open-source-software/docs
dlandau commented on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input simonwillison.net/2024/Fe... · Posted by u/simonw
I called out one hallucination - "The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman" wasn't on my shelf.
I didn't bother fact-checking every other book because I thought highlighting one mistake would illustrate that the results weren't accurate - which is pretty much expected for anything related to LLMs at this point.
I don't think highlighting one mistake is enough, when these can sometimes have more mistakes than corrects. I've found use for LLMs (in large part thanks to your teaching) in cases where I can easily verify the results fully like code and process documentation, but tasks where "fact-checking everything" would be too much work are very much on the danger zone for getting accidentally scammed by AI.
dlandau commented on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Lette... · Posted by u/wut42
There’s “Stupid thing”.
And then there’s murdering your ex, hiding her body over two days, lying to your children that she’d left for russia and they’d been abandoned, and only revealing the location of the body so you could plea down to second degree murder (a good 18 months later mind, we’re not talking quick change of heart).
Oh and then filing a civil suit against pretty much the entire legal system, including the trial judges and your attorney.
And when sued for damage by your children’s grandmother (on their behalf) assert that you killed your ex to protect your kids (which you had basically never been there for, which was the entire reason your wife left you).
I’m not saying redemption is not possible, but I’d think some reflection and atonement would be the baseline, and I’m not aware of Hans Reiser having done any such work.
That he still wrote "in prison for killing my wife Nina" when she wasn't his wife anymore at the time indicates IMO that he still doesn't get it.
I wanted to have a way to type something in a meeting and display it to the person sitting next to me with as large a font as possible, so I threw together https://fullscreentext.com/
dlandau commented on Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign github.com/OpenSignLabs/O... · Posted by u/alexopensource
Not a lawyer, but I know the position in the UK is pretty simple and much the same.
The purpose of someone like Docusign is to provide a trusted third party to provide evidence.
For most purposes GPG signed email (or anything else with a similar signature) would work perfectly well provided you could prove who the keys belong to. In fact it would be better than DOcusign who can (from the few documents I have signed) ultimately only really show they sent an email with a signing link to your email address.
The last one from them has a warning:
"Do Not Share This Email This e-mail contains a secure link to DocuSign. Please do not share this e-mail, link or access code with others."
For most purposes a normal email with no signatures is fine too.
dlandau commented on Full Resolution Photo Archive aurelm.com/portfolio/aure... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I'm only assuming here but Flickr must be the source of some of the larger image training sets because they do let you filter by license. Most common license is attribution, non-commercial, share-alike (BY-NC-SA), permissive to remixing but yeah doesn't explicitly mention "digest into neural soup"
I think "allow our future AI overlords to learn from your work without royalty or credit" is a hard checkbox to sell for a lot of creators. At one point I moved all my cloud photos* from Google to Adobe Lightroom because the latter did offer a checkbox to the effect of "don't use my photos to train neural nets" (or maybe it was a more innocuous 'improve our future products', I can't recall, but it was explicit enough to make me switch)
*including photos of clouds
Bold of you to assume that the AI trainers would choose to not use material based on the licence.
dlandau commented on When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished retool.com/blog/mfa-isnt-... · Posted by u/dvdhsu
I thought I recognized the GitHub username, you contributed to my GNOME Shell extension years ago!