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they showed a banana in the payload bay, that was the testing payload:)

they pushed the rocket to the limits in this flight

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:26AM (#38128389)
I really don't understand what's the point of putting him in prison. Wouldn't a lifetime ban on all white-collar work suffice? And being forced to pay anything he makes over a certain threshold to his victims?

It's both cheaper for the state and more humane for him. Do we really, as a society, need revenge? Because that's what this is if he gets more than 10 years in prison.

Re:LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:27PM (#37948260)
How is context-from-following-tokens implemented in the pure OAI API? I assumed there must be specialized models that have two separate context windows.
I use one with 16 GB and it's fine, 0 issues whatsoever.
Re:Apple Bricked my AirPods and now wants me to buy new ones on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:37AM (#37867863)
2 years right
Re:Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing? on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:15AM (#37567759)
I'm seeing that they just updated it today on the URL you linked
So this means now they're no longer free I suppose :(
Can you give some examples of the low-power x86 boxes? As of my last knowledge update :) none of them took off
Re:Rarbg Is No More on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:55AM (#36148843)
They _really_ should give a dump of all the torrents, magnet links and seed/leech counts...
Re:Rarbg Is No More on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:19AM (#36148686)
You can easily decentralize search, but not fetching seed/leech counts essentially
Re:OpenAI's plans according to sama on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:53PM (#36145520)
- they are working on a stateful API - they are working on a cheaper version of GPT-4

Most probably this is driven by their use of it in ChatGPT, which is on fire from PMF. Clearly they're experimenting with the cheaper GPT-4 in ChatGPT right now as it's fairly turbo now, as discussed earlier today.

Absolutely. I am guessing they quantized the model (run it not in 32-bit but say 8-bit, saves resources). Just like they did with 3.5-turbo.
It's behind a waitlist
this is GPT 3.5, the icon is green
of "usage"? I never bought that claim as it's not clear what usage they mean – on 100x8 months or 10000x8 months?
Re:PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf] on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:28AM (#35903574)
In Google Cloud Vertex AI, you can play with it straight away
Re:The Cairo Programming Language on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @11:25AM (#35803525)
I've been programming in Cairo 1 in the past few weeks and must say that the developer experience is very good for web3, where it's usually very bad.

I also believe that it's the solution to blockchain scaling – this finally lets us have the entire 'web3' have more than the computing power of one single machine.

Do they? Only in the US? I ride with Uber in Europe and always see the charge from them immediately on my card.
Re:Why Mac speakers sound so good on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:13PM (#34940544)
Oh so this is why I feel a slight tingling every time I touch my Mac while it's charging! I was looking for this info for quite some time, thanks
Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:03AM (#34300180)
Note that interest rates on USDT went down now and now it costs around only 3 % APR to short it. I've been short for a year now and will be fairly rich if Tether burns to the ground.
Re:Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday? on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:16PM (#34283360)
Now therapists are probably this job.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:58PM (#34046025)
Elon just posted a pool[1]: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll. paulg is now no longer suspended[2].

In the words of Jack Dorsey, wow

1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097 2: https://twitter.com/paulg

Re:Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:21PM (#34002720)
What did use as training data?
Re:Swedish tech startups and scaleups on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:57PM (#32460792)
You can't add 55+25 like that; VAT is 25 % of the 45 % left over. So maximum total marginal tax rate is 66.25 %
I think essentially yes, they can't bundle all their apps and services; you have to be able to install their apps and services separately in the unprotected mode. Not very sure though.
See my sibling comment. You can do a permissionless short on Tether on the blockchain for a varying interest rate difference between USDC and USDT. I've been paying approx 2 % a year for the last year now.
You don't on chains such as Polygon, Fantom, etc etc etc. Really only Ethereum is very expensive; you don't have to use it.
Yes, there is essentially no downside.

I do it; on Aave you can deposit USDC and borrow USDT against it, earning an interest on USDC and paying interest on the USDT. It currently costs me about 3 APR to short Tether. What's nice is that you can iterate the strategy, e.g. deposit 1000 USDC, borrow 950 USDT, swap this USDT for USDC, deposit the USDC, borrow more USDT...

https://app.aave.com/ offers "E-mode", which lets you borrow stablecoins worth up to 99 % of the stablecoins you deposited.

Google Drive checks for copyrighted files only if they are shared.
Re:Another Classic Case of Corporate Callousness on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:35PM (#29432679)
Do you think this would have happened if you weren't employed through a contractor?

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