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  • Fuck Nvidia: Stock Exchange Edition

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  • Kinda seems like a huge mistake to devaluate nvidia because of deepseek. Deepseek has proven that LLMs can be run much more cheaply than previously thought, the nvidia cards can now do much more than previously thought possible. What am I missing?

  • Elon Musk tells German crowd to be proud and move beyond the 'sins of their parents' during video appearance at far right event

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  • Only way for him to end up not rich is probably by kicking the bucket.

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    It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!

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  • woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf... wow this guy sure knows his UNIX!

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  • There's also a link confirming this for the Biden administration. Here's one for the Obama claim too.

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  • Seems this is a common thing. Found this and also Claude (the LLM) tells me it goes very far back and kinda got very big around Reagan's time. Allegedly Obama had some restrictions on his first term, but these were lifted on second term, but I haven't bothered to verify that.

    However, the answer is yes. Just that it seems to be nothing new.

  • TIL that Canada had anti-fraudulent witchcraft laws, and they were repealed in 2018

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  • Maybe they were promised to be turned into a dragon or something?

  • Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

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  • Took me a second to realise the title's refering to "AI slop", my inital reaction was something like "I know, it's always been slop".

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • They didn't make a video about it because they thought it was a problem for creators, not a problem for consumers.

    Which is true. Influencers are great at making their thing your thing, because that's kind of their job, and we've seen it many times before. Just look at all the outrage about the YouTube algorithm and such, it doesn't matter to anyone except influencers but somehow it's made to be everybody's business.

    This feels very similar. Scummy business practice, good on them for suing, but to the rest of us it should only be a curiosity.

  • Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings

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  • Isn't this kinda what the controversy around the ElastiSearch licensing change was about? I think people have had similar frustrations with HashiCorp software, but I don't know the details.

  • Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate

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  • I think you're spot on with LLMs being mostly trained on these kinds of tasks. Can't say I'm an expert in how to build a training set, but I imagine it's quite easy to do with these kinds of problems because it's easy to classify a solution as correct or incorrect. This is in contrast to larger problems which are less guided by algorithmic efficiency and more by sound design/architecture.

    Still, I think it's quite impressive. You don't have to go very far back in time to have top of the line LLMs unable to solve these kinds of problems.

    Also there is no big consequence if they don't and it's probably possible to bruteforce (which is how many programming tasks have been solved).

    Usually with AoC part 1 is brute-forceable, but part 2 is not. Very often part 1 is to find the 100th number, and part 2 is to find the 1 000 000 000 000th number or something. Last year, out of curiosity, I had a brute-force solution for one problem that successfully completed on ~90% of the input. Solution was multi-threaded and running on a 16 core CPU for about 20 days before I gave up. But the LLMs this year (not sure if this was a problem last year) are in the top list of fastest users to solve the problems.

  • Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate

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  • I hardly see it changed to be honest. I work in the field too and I can imagine LLMs being good at producing decent boilerplate straight out of documentation, but nothing more complex than that.

    I think one of the top lists on advent of code this year is a cheater that fully automated the solutions using LLMs. Not sure which LLM though, I use LLMs quite a bit and ChatGPT 4o frequently tells me nonsense like "perhaps subtracting by zero is affecting your results" (issues I thought were already gone in GPT 4, but I guess not, Sonnet 3.5 does a bit better in this regard).

  • Biden is rushing aid to Ukraine. Both sides are digging in. And everyone is bracing for Trump

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  • Why are they doing this? Seems detrimental to Russian businesses and also sours relations with their only "friend" in the whole world?

  • Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts

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  • Also not an issue if you're in the rich part of the world, or just one that has a lot of water. Fortunately I don't think water is gonna be what makes Russia invade, don't know what their supply looks like but I can't imagine it's not enough.

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  • I know there are some very loud and dedicated haters out there, but "that no one wants"? Bro needs to get out of his bubble.

  • X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit

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  • Plato

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  • It's named like that because it was what he thought was an ideal relationship, though? No?

  • I use Debian btw

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  • Since 2024

  • "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries

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  • I don't think there's any clear path for the petitioner here to land such a deal if the proposal was accepted, it's just a very short petition urging development of an EU linux distro?

  • Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts

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  • Ashamed to ask as an EU citizen, but did UK have some kind of special founding member privileges or something before? Didn't think we had that in the EU, only the vote by population size stuff.