The cost of the machine is proportional to the cost of labor needed to make it. Cheap labor means cheap machines, expensive labor means expensive machines.
What about resources needed to make the machine?
Readit Newslambdaxyzw commented on Show HN: Tunnelling TCP through a file github.com/fiddyschmitt/F... · Posted by u/fiddyschmitt
What's the benefit of this over netcat + mkfifo?
netcat+mkfifo does the actual transfer with TCP - so there's no tunneling involved. This solution tunnels tcp through file abstraction, so it works significantly differently.
As for the uses, see the three author listed. For example, by using a file share as transport you may evade firewall.
lambdaxyzw commented on Stop Scraping My Git Forge gabrielsimmer.com/blog/st... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Is there a reason you feel that that file will be respected?
Is there a reason why you don't? Is it just general bitterness and cynicism? As far as I know all major search engines respect rebots.txt, I don't see why LLM scrappers would be different.
lambdaxyzw commented on Stop Scraping My Git Forge gabrielsimmer.com/blog/st... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> While generally I post my code under open source licenses to others can easily use it, learn from it, modify it, whatever they like, I do not like the idea that large corporations are taking this same code and putting it into a black box that is a machine learning model.
> Corporations stealing, or using work without permission, for their machine learning models has been a discussion for a long while at this point. In general, I side with the creators or artists having their work taken.
I don't get it. How can corporations be stealing anything from an open source project? Further, it seems like several of the repos are based on other people's code. What code of the author's do they have reservations against training AI on?
>How can corporations be stealing anything from an open source project?
The code is published using some license that allows some use cases and prohibits other. For example GPL is famous for being viral. Using it to teach a LLM that spits "unlicensed" code is basically laundering copyright.
lambdaxyzw commented on Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance link.springer.com/article... · Posted by u/rogerkeays
You can just ask it, you know.
GPT-4o:
“Average wealth and income” can vary significantly by region and context. However, in the United States, as a rough benchmark, the median household income is around $70,000 per year. Wealth, which includes assets such as savings, property, and investments minus debts, is harder to pinpoint but median net worth for U.S. households is approximately $100,000. These figures provide a general idea of what might be considered “average” in terms of wealth and income."
I like that it immediately assumed the US, even though nothing in your question suggested it. I love that all LLMs have a strong US centric bias.
Btw I'm not personally a lawyer, but I've heard that GPT is especially prone to mixing laws across the borders - for example you ask a law question in language X, and get a response that uses a law from a country Y - and it's extremally convincing doing that (unless you're a lawyer, I guess).
> voting blank as a sign of protest.
This move will never cease to annoy the fuck out of me. Unless the election is somehow invalidated or recalled by the number of blank votes, it is completely counter-productive.
Would it be better if he got 100% of votes for him? He was the only candidate, nothing most people working there could go.
lambdaxyzw commented on Does anyone need a 1k Hz gaming display? arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
The analogy is strained and no longer applicable. Sure, you won't be running Cyberpunk 2077 at 1 kHz, but you'll use a 1 kHz display to its full potential of imperceptible latency and eliminated motion blur in regular desktop use, with every movement of your mouse and scroll of its wheel.
Even in gaming, less demanding games can hit 1000 Hz and console emulators will benefit from reduced latency too; you could actually beat CRT latency.
Well, maybe I'm biased - I've tested a 120Hz monitor recently and I legitimately didn't see a huge difference between 60Hz. Maybe in mouse trails when I was intentionally looking for the difference. I can't imagine how insignificant the change to 1Khz would be for me. But I'm not a gamer and I've spent my whole life on screens like this, so maybe I'm just blind and other people are much more sensitive to this - in this case I agree my analogy doesn't make sense.
lambdaxyzw commented on Does anyone need a 1k Hz gaming display? arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I mean, if it has zero safety concerns and it's possible to actually go 1000 MPH on the freeway, then sign me up! Who wouldn't want to get there faster if there were no downsides?
But there are safety concerns, and it's not possible to go 1000km/h on the highway. So there's not much point in having a 1000km/h car, because you will never use its full potential. Just like a 1khz display (supposedly).
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I assume parent's post is sarcasm, but I'm not 100% sure - I know there are people who hold similar views unironically.