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AustinDev··on Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'
You're best off just running a socks proxy to aws.
AustinDev··on Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'
Not if you're in Senegal, Zimbabwe or South Africa. They've already outlaws or are on their way to outlawing Starlink from what I've read.
AustinDev··on Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog
Just tried a 1-shot on Grok3 - Thinking and it couldn't get past the start button. Throws an error: | "<a class='gotoLine' href='#67:39'>67:39</a> Uncaught ReferenceError: startGame is not defined"

Scope issue.

No barking or dog player model but pretty similar in style to Claude's output.

What's interesting to me about playing with AI Codegen is each model has specific and sometimes overlapping output errors. Claude 3.7 really like to solve errors by returning dummy data as a 'fallback' when doing client or server calls. A little prompting can reduce this but not eliminate it. 'The tests always pass if you return dummy data'

https://jsfiddle.net/aL3ugtj1/

AustinDev··on Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation
QwQ 32B has replaced Sonnet 3.7 for me for quick hack apps I write like. 'Service that converts youtube tutorial videos into step by step instructions with timestamp references for each step.'

And I can run it locally!

AustinDev··on Agno: Agent framework 10,000x faster than LangChain
I mean, both companies are just things I could have cursor do in a few hours. So probably not.
AustinDev··on QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
Check your context settings on ollama if that's what you're using to run it and override the proper environment variables. By default, its 2048 iirc.
AustinDev··on QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
I tried the 'Strawberry' question which generated nearly 70k words of CoT.
AustinDev··on Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
Pure RL NN 'solved' simple games like Pokémon years ago. I think added challenge of seeing how well LLMs can generalize is a noble pursuit. I think games are a fun problem as well.

Look how poorly Claude 3.7 is doing on Pokemon on Twitch right now.

AustinDev··on California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'
Jungle primaries make this nearly impossible.
AustinDev··on Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?
Is this response AI generated or are you lost?
AustinDev··on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
Can't you just run the test again instead of doing a full follow up? 1/1000 * 1/1000 = 1/1,000,000
AustinDev··on Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
Brendan Greene made the ARMA Battle Royale mod before he PUBG. ARMA BR, H1Z1, then PUBG.

https://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2q7xie/hey_folks_this...

AustinDev··on EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink
11B to launch 300 sats. Starlink costs SpaceX about $1M on the highest end for construction and launch per sat. True cost is likely lower by 20-30% for SpaceX and Starship will drop this further. Given the history of the EU, I think it's likely the environmental laws in will end up killing this before they can build a proper constellation, regardless of cost.

I think they got a bad deal.

AustinDev··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
A jury isn't involved in a default judgement afaik
AustinDev··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
All these cited claims seem political and extreme to me. I can't find a non-political example where the judgement this extreme.

Depp v Herd defamation was around $10m.

AustinDev··on Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures
I don't know if this is a tongue-in-cheek joke but there is an AI security system startup named Sauron.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241209ny74705...

AustinDev··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
People do put a lot of spin on this topic. Your initial reaction is completely understandable.

Thanks, hopefully they'll be home soon. I've been mowing his grass for nearly 3 years, hardly a commensurate sacrifice I must admit.

AustinDev··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."

You're right that there are men still living in Ukraine, Zelensky is still alive after all. However, the manpower situation has been pretty bleak for a while. [1] I'm in regular contact with people in theater and I'm not far off in saying 'there are no men left'. Russia is still advancing albeit slowly. We'll likely have new borders in a few months. Almost time to update your globe.

[1] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-03-16/ukraine-v...

AustinDev··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
Just 5 years ago Europeans were laughing in derision when this was pointed out.
AustinDev··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
>Ukraine is losing (very very slowly, and can still win),

This is not remotely true, Ukraine can't retake what it's lost they have no men left. If it were true Zelensky wouldn't be contemplating ceding territory to Russia. It sucks but Ukraine lost in 2014 when the world let Crimea get annexed with no response.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/zelensky-says-for-first-...

AustinDev··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ is a great community for this sort of thing as well.
AustinDev··on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning
This seems like a fun attack vector. Find a service that uses o1 under the hood and then provide prompts that would violate this ToS to get their API key banned and take down the service.
AustinDev··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
That's a fair point my knowledge of explosive chemicals only stems from conventional missile-based warheads and propellants. It's very possible a different explosive was used.
AustinDev··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
20 grams that's wild. You could only produce these kinds of effects from a 'military grade' explosive like CL-20 or similar.
AustinDev··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
The death toll isn't the goal. They're after the 2nd order effects, now there are ~3,000 operatives that are marked by a scar that is relatively distinctive. They also have substantially disrupted their communication protocols and caused psychological damage.
AustinDev··on Ditching EVs for Hybrids Is Already Paying Off for Automakers
It's not a clear choice. I drive 3,000mi round trip once a year. I like to do ~900 miles one day and ~700 miles the second. I stop once on the 900 mile leg for lunch and to stretch legs and use restroom which takes about 20 minutes. I'm not adding another 1-2 stops to that trip. As it'd push that driving day out to >12-13 hours.

For my daily driving I'd probably use little to no fuel at all with a plugin. I have not upgraded my car in 8 years as I'm waiting on a good plugin hybrid. I'd have a hybrid and an EV but not an EV as my primary. Gasoline still packs way more energy per unit volume and is easier to store than electrical charge.

AustinDev··on Researchers build a solar-powered hovering drone that weighs only 9 mg
Why do you think a shaped charge is the correct ordinance type in this hypothetical?
AustinDev··on Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse
A Zionist influence campaign targeting western governments and public opinion with the aim form an Israeli state predates WW2 and has been going on for over a century. Not sure you're referring to with your scare quoted 'they'.
AustinDev··on Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse
There is evidence to suggest this has been going on since before WW2[1]

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...

AustinDev··on Elon Musk's $56B Pay Package at Tesla Approved In Shareholder Vote
Questions? I have many. Where do you get the majority of your news?

We don't engage in flaming here, so I'll leave it at that.

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