froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

the astute reader may note a certain part of my comment addressed a particular aspect of this

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

this brooks no argument and it’s clear we should immediately throw all available resources at ai so as to get infinite improvement!!~

(I even heard some UN policy wonk spout the AGI line recently 🙄)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

as one of the people representing the “hero group” (for lack of a better term) your comment references: eh. I didn’t start out with all this knowledge and experience. it built up over time.

it’s more about the mode of thinking and how to engage with a problem, than it is about specific “highly skilled” stuff. the skill and experience help/contribute, they refine, they assist in filtering

the reason I make this comment is because I think it’s valuable that anyone who can do the job well gets to do the thing, and that it’s never good to gatekeep people out. let’s not unnecessarily contribute to imposter syndrome

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

programming.dev: statistical sampling excellency (worst edition)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

it doesn’t appear you’re tall enough for this ride

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I could make more people both know about, and understand, Goodhart’s law

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

aww, is the widdle deweloper mad it can’t go pollutin’ the codebase it has to work with others on?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

had a quick scan over the blogposts earlier, keen to read the paper

would be nice to see some more studies with more numbers under study, but with the cohort they picked the self-reported vs actual numbers are already quite spicy

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

now now, it's not HP it's ~~Proliant~~ ~~HPE~~ HPE Aruba...

coming soon: HPE Aruniper?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The extreme hypercentralisation really does suck :|

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

afaik the meme format didn't start there, but otherwise agreed

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

the model-based screening (which we've occasionally remarked on here before) has become enough of a thing that it's hitting news

 

archive.org | and .is

this is almost a NSFW? some choice snippets:

more than 1.5 million people have used it and it is helping build nearly half of Copilot users’ code

Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this year, the company was losing on average more than $20 a month per user, according to a person familiar with the figures, who said some users were costing the company as much as $80 a month.

good thing it's so good that everyone will use it amirite

starting around $13 for the basic Microsoft 365 office-software suite for business customers—the company will charge an additional $30 a month for the AI-infused version.

Google, ..., will also be charging $30 a month on top of the regular subscription fee, which starts at $6 a month

I wonder how long they'll try that, until they try forcing it on everyone (and raise all prices by some n%)

 

The Mistral 7B Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanism. We’re looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments requiring moderated outputs.

“Whoops, it’s done now, oh well, guess we’ll have to do it later”

Go fucking directly to jail

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demoscene: area 5150 (www.pouet.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
 

my comment over there just made me recall this

this demo is the next one in a long arc of people doing absolutely remarkable things to the original PC. that series went 8088 corruption (pouet) -> 8088 domination -> 8088 mph and if you've never seen them before, you absolutely should

area 5150 has a recording of the production as well as an audience reaction recording from share day

it's astoundingly awesome

something I really enjoy about the scene is that the more you learn (about the technology, the math, the methodology), the deeper the appreciation of it gets

 

a friend linked this to me earlier today: nitter (someone else maybe archive it? I don't know what tusky has done to birdsite and how to make wayback play nice)

in one lens/view one could see this as just more of the same (if people were already gunning for YC track shit, there's other things already implied etc), but even so: just how bad is(/must) the "belief" (be) for young people to feel this intensely about it?

I'm over here just watching the arc of likely events and I can barely fathom the anger and disappointment that may[0] come about in a few years after this

[0] - "may" because it seems a lot of folks have their anger redirected far too easily; remains to be seen if it can remain correctly directed in future

 

Halm, who according to his social media profiles just graduated from Harvard, tweeted that he’s simply in the arena trying stuff.

"I just wanna buuuuuuuuilllddddd" goes the annoying little fuck even before he's asked any questions about social impact and such

“The goal is to create the most addicting & personalized image recommendation system. V1 is as simple as possible. Future versions trained on current data will enable even more personalized images & user interaction in image generation."

just fuck right off

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restic (restic.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
 

I've been using it for a good while now, but figured it's worth a shoutout incase others don't know it. one of the few pieces of Go-ware I don't substantially hate.

I've previously slapped together a tiny set of shellscripts for my use of it which you're welcome to steal from. also recently seen backupninja as something that can use this, but haven't tried that

 

content: image of google "moderating" (i.e. eliminating, permanently, without apparent recourse) an entry in a user's URL collection/bookmarks. the entry is for kickasstorrents. (archive)

I recall seeing an example of them doing something like this to people's gdocs stuff (and iirc that was on paid account, but I could be misremembering). seems like they're ramping up the where to more coverage of their services/assets

 

The new silicon chips, made by Chicago-based p-Chip, use blockchain technology to authenticate data that can trace the cheese as far back as the producer of the milk used. The chips have been in advanced testing on more than 100,000 Parmigiano wheels for more than a year.

....honestly I don't even know what to say here

the absurdity of it is quite something

the consent problem is another quite something

this is so fucking nuts

 
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