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New comment by version_five in "Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016)"

version_five — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:21:37 +0000

That seems awfully harsh, the comment I replied to had done the usual "let's find some reason this is discriminatory" thing and I was pushing back on it. I'm happy to stop commenting.

New comment by version_five in "Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016)"

version_five — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:19:14 +0000

Right, much better for everybody to be screwed in the name of equity.

New comment by version_five in "Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016)"

version_five — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:17:22 +0000

Lots of decisions in the last 50 years have made "the system" more fragile. This makes me realize that outsourcing trust is another one. This would never happen now because businesses have no connection to their customers, either a payment provider or credit bureau does the vouching which becomes meaningless when things don't operate as usual and human judgement is needed

New comment by version_five in "MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones"

version_five — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:55:26 +0000

I have an emergency radio with crank for power outages. I know it probably takes a lot of cranking to charge a phone, but I think that would reduce complexity and make it more universal than having to occupy a specific kind of bike sharing bike

New comment by version_five in "[dead]"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:50:38 +0000

The Haskell version is the best one imo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI

Ontario man eats 50 Carolina Reaper peppers in record time

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:47:02 +0000

Article URL: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-man-eats-50-carolina-reaper-peppers-in-record-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720681

Points: 2

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New comment by version_five in "South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:54:05 +0000

Is there a precedent for locking people up for being victimlessly deviant? Maybe drug use?

New comment by version_five in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:41:51 +0000

That's not logically consistent. Someone selling solutions to a nonexistent problem is a swindler.

New comment by version_five in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:38:15 +0000

I think I mostly agree, but what kind of credentials or track record would be automatically credible in "AI safety". There are conflicting views and not an agreed upon body of practice for what it means, so yes there are charlatans but also just different viewpoints. Arguable the charlatans stick to some of the more mainstream stuff (if your model passes a "bias" test it's good to go). Whether someone is good or bad at AI safety is still much more of a holistic assessment. Whereas in established industries it would be obvious.

New comment by version_five in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:06:58 +0000

"AI" doesn't work reliably enough to be used for most stuff. Safety from that perspective is real.

There are grifters who talk about existential risk, which is pure BS and people who play up identity politics and call it safety.

New comment by version_five in "Stable LM 3b4T, 20B LLM performance in 3B"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:20:02 +0000

Why do you have to share your contact information to download the model? Otherwise it is licensed under cc-by-sa (gpl-style, changes must be shared) which is a good choice.

New comment by version_five in "A scientific curiosity that happened to me"

version_five — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:36:07 +0000

(Sorry just rereading and I meant demodulation, autocorrect got it the first time)

New comment by version_five in "A scientific curiosity that happened to me"

version_five — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:10:23 +0000

To receive AM you just need a non linearity and the x^2 term iirc will do your rectification. So any element that electrically provides some kind of nonlinear behavior (ie is not a pure R, L, or C) should give some sort of modulation.

The case for doing (almost) nothing about climate change

version_five — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://nationalpost.com/feature/the-case-for-doing-almost-nothing-about-climate-change

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688082

Points: 2

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New comment by version_five in "Ask HN: How much to believe Glassdoor and Blind reviews of a company?"

version_five — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:03:41 +0000

It's complicated. Startups are always dysfunctional, and it gets magnified by people who aren't used to it. What they say on these sites it almost certainly true, but it's relative, not absolute, so it's hard to get a sense of how outside of norms it is.

Like if someone says none of the execs know what they're doing, it's going to fall apart any day, are they a new grad, someone who's only worked at big companies with everything formalized and an established business, or are they startup veterans. You don't really get that context.

So the best you can do is try to judge it based on your experience. If you find those comments concerning, maybe it's not a good place for you. If you think "yeah everyone says that" then maybe it's ok.

New comment by version_five in "Open Source does not win by being cheaper"

version_five — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:49:48 +0000

Your company needs the maturity to manage that engineer. Companies with products have customer success and sales etc and their own engineering management and product hierarchy to translate your end user issue into a software fix. That doesn't happen automatically by staffing and engineer in house. How would a company even figure out the profile they need?

New comment by version_five in "Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud"

version_five — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:15:42 +0000

Alignment is also a distraction, its OpenAI marketing and something people who don't understand ML talk about, not a serious topic.

Like I said, discussing model politics have a place but bringing it up every time a model is mentioned is distracting and prevents adult discussion. It would be like if every time a company comes up, the thread gets spammed with discussion about the worst thing that company has ever done instead of discussing it in context.

New comment by version_five in "Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud"

version_five — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:05:35 +0000

To be fair, it's a stupid distraction from discussing the model. If every thread just turns into politics it would not make for good discussions. People can start threads about specific ideologies that language models have and they can be discussed there (and have been). Bringing that up every time a model is discussed feels off topic and legit to flag (I didn't flag it)

Edit: but now I see the thread has basically been ruined and it's going to be about politics instead of anything new and interesting about the model, congrats everyone.

New comment by version_five in "The Llama Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future"

version_five — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:52:40 +0000

> This reminds me of a comment elsewhere I also replied to today

Right, looks like you made fun of / were condescendingly dismissive of my comment in another thread, I wouldn't have replied here if I'd realized you were the same person.

New comment by version_five in "Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud"

version_five — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:04:55 +0000

I briefly played with this a couple months ago and it looked promising. Have there been more developments?