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albert180··on French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
If you tried the abomination sold in German Supermarkets as "Camembert" you would suddenly highly appreciate your "crappy" Camembert
albert180··on First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
We already have something like this for at least a year in Germany. Even my Family Practice is equipped with one. So where is the big news? This is hardly a new product. But they charge only 5$ per Scan not 199$ for 5 Scans lol. This is ridiculous
albert180··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
Nah I'm a end consumer in Europe. Most of the bullshit companies write in their ToS isn't applicable at all here, because Lawmakers know that nobody reads them anyway I doubt that even in the US they wouldn't sue if they weren't 100% of winning. They wouldn't like to have a precedent that you can use it to train other models, where right now they can scare away most people from doing it
albert180··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
Then they cut off the API Process and I just make a new account. Who cares? I doubt they would sue, because the Risk of Loosing would give a precedent. It's much easier and cheaper to scare people away from doing this and writing mean letters. Those ToS would also probably be unenforceable in many countries outside the US beyond terminating an account
albert180··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
If NYT wins that will sink probably every LLM model out there
albert180··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
I don't see anything unethical. OpenAI doesn't care about the copyright of the people who have generated their training data. Why should I care about theirs?
albert180··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
So what? New York Times also didn't consent to being used for the training of OpenAI models
albert180··on Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
Not very surprising. Ireland's entire economy is being based on being a cheap low tax mailbox provider for US Multinationals, trying to bend laws as much as possible in their favor just fits in there That's why there is a big push on minimum tax rates in the European Union, nobody wants that race to the bottom
albert180··on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
I've once read an article in Harvard Business Review about how this company works, it's also awful. It's like they are all "self employed" and can associate with other employees to form a mini company inside Haier. They are all competing against each other, the fluctuation between the teams is very high and of course if their mini companie is successful, the company takes the profits and credits for it, if you don't make your money worth you get canned quite quickly
albert180··on If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source
I think the biggest issue is with publishing the datasets. Then people and companies would discover that it's full of their copyrighted content and sue. I wouldn't be surprised if they slurped in the whole Z-Library et Al into their models. Or Google their entire Google Books Dataset
albert180··on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
Isn't it XCode that blocks you from developing for older versions at some point?
albert180··on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
Do you seriously believe this? It's Apple that's blocking you from installing any apps or updates when you don't receive iOS Versions Updates anymore, while Google Play doesn't care about it, as long as the app itself is still developed for that version. Also they make more than enough money from the Hardware itself, they just take the profits off the software purchases.
albert180··on Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
Panasonic and CATL do research on battery chemistry and cells, and Tesla buys them to build battery packs for their cars
albert180··on Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
There are many contributors in the GitHub Issue that claim that they never signed a CLA nor received any compensation
albert180··on Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
He thinks that he doesn't need to care about external contributions since he wrote over 90% of the code lol
albert180··on Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools
I doubt that F-Droid would accept their code, also the Adware Toolkits would all need to be also GPL Licensed, otherwise it would be a license violation
albert180··on Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
"Tesla Battery Tech" is called Panasonic and CATL Battery Tech
albert180··on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
Main Character Syndrome in full effect lol
albert180··on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
There are many news articles about Boeing's shoddy manufacturing quality out there, that have nothing to do with software, and they already got many times in trouble with the regulators for it.
albert180··on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
Maybe people getting paid a decent salary just care more about the product and the quality than people getting paid shit wages
albert180··on Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
You build that route through nothing. There is no need for tunnels, and I don't see any positives, that you couldn't remediate much cheaper. For animal movement you can just build huge animal bridges every few hundred meters. Weather is rarely a problem for train operations, tunnels create also a whole lot of new "Negatives". You need evacuation systems, ventilation systems, maintenance etc...
albert180··on Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
Freight trains run usually at 80-120km/h on railways with at-grade-crossings (for higher speeds you would need better brakes, and more energy which doesn't really make sense for freight). At least in Europe you only need to eliminate at-grade-crossings if you want to run trains over 160km/h
albert180··on Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
Some people love reinventing rail, but just worse, more expensive and less efficient.
albert180··on Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit
GDPR says Hi
albert180··on Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
Because it's stupidly expensive boring a Tunnel when you can just do it on the surface. Also Railway lines take up considerably less space than every Street. Weather also rarely impacts rail
albert180··on Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
It's a dumb idea, we already have standardized cargo containers and the technology to load/unload them efficiently. Putting a ship on 10 Train Tracks will require the development of new technology and will make every bridge (weight allowance) and tunnel (the profile would need to be big enough for the whole ship) prohibitively expensive. With normal cargo trains, which are a very efficient and cheap way to transport a lot of goods, you can just use cheap off the shelf stuff.

Also transporting ships with their huge tanks of heavy oil is a huge health and safety hazard.

albert180··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
At least their planes don't fall out of the sky, because some morons cheaped out on the software and they don't have to get special inspections every other week because Boeing forgot to put a bolt in the Rudder, Door etc...
albert180··on Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
Nope, I guess they use some algorithms during sign up to decide if they would like to have additional data or not
albert180··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
The whole shit happened because Boeing only used only one sensor for the system because then it wouldn't be seen as safety critical and wouldn't need to be mentioned extra in the manuals
albert180··on Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
Only if you triggered some risk checking systems. I didn't need to provide anything when I signed up this year.
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