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it's unlikely that there is a difference

compilers are usually optimizing these kind of statements so they end up similar or identical

if you wanna be sure, make two loops running a few million times with random if else / switches and time them

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:53PM (#37070010)
your idea of cheapest is using a mac to run a LLM? are you out of your mind?
Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:54PM (#37057457)
large scale spammers are just going to use free cloud credits they got for pennies on the dollar, it won't stop anyone
Re:GPT-4 Can't Reason on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:48PM (#37055897)
There are definitely patterns that transfer across different problems, it's not random at all.
Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:15PM (#37052382)
URL, images, stuff shown after you click on a button...
Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:12PM (#37052349)
Instagram data is really valuable and they don't like sharing it, you're not dumb!

rotating proxies are the way to go with insta, you can't do much about IP blocking besides using the right IPs

although in theory if you had an account(s) you could still scrape data from a datacenter IP(aws), even though the limits were lower than a 4G proxy

you can buy/create insta accounts for less than a $ using throwaway phone numbers

Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:09PM (#37052290)
a VPN won't do anything to help you with instagram

the best of the best are 4G rotating proxies

the fingerprint needs to change also

Re:GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:24PM (#37037574)
If I read and learn from your content it's of no benefit to you either.

If you don't want others to learn from what you have to say, just talk to a brick wall.

hundred of thousand of requests monthly
do you mean detect your location or detect the fact that you're using a vpn?

because there are plenty of API that'll tell if you're using one

+if you have a huge database you can detect duplicate IPs

Re:MatX: Faster Chips for LLMs on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:45AM (#37009594)
there are already dozens of use cases that would become (more) profitable/interesting if we had chips optimized for LLMs

they were asic for BTC at a way earlier stage

+they can always pivot in a year if the market changes too much

Re:Ask HN: How to get AWS IP info on hacker on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#37007190)
i think this guy his a LLM

Ask HN: Best cheap decent LLM for handling code, social media profiles?

Hi, I'm looking for a LLM that can be used to have decent answers to stuff like: "what libraries do this code import?" "does this code follow this design pattern?" "do the variables used in this code have a meaningful name?"GPT 3.5 turbo can do it pretty well, but it's out of my budget, as I would need to make a LOT of requests.I have about 8,000$ in AWS credits for self hostingIs there any LLM...

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Re:OpenAI Startup Credits on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:16PM (#37007100)
Blackhatworld.com
Re:Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:14PM (#37007082)
Step 1. Find papers you're interested in Step 2. Open them Step 3. read them
Re:Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:13PM (#37007071)
"these tokens often compete against each other for available spots in expert buffers. " So is this also why ChatGPT is often just writing placeholders in place of functions when I ask him for some long code?
Re:Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:23PM (#36958187)
>is that primary and secondary schools that are in not very good areas are not ambitious for their pupils.

And where do you think the vast majority of immigrants live? In Boulogne Billancourt?

Re:Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:21PM (#36958151)
When I talk about these paths, I mostly mean prepas and grande écoles, but that doesn't mean I recommend them.

Yeah you're set for life if you succeed there, but the student suicide rate in those schools is also astonishingly high because of the pressure/competition.

If I were you, I'd just teach my kids to code, learn, build stuff, sell stuff, and use AI correctly. IMO school is an outdated concept, in any country.

Re:Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:18PM (#36958098)
I know people from the suburbs who didn't even know what a prep school was until they were adults.
Re:Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:17PM (#36958083)
>They believe more in the education system so they push their kids more into higher education.

No, not really, most people seems to still believe it.

>Most of the high education school in France have a somewhat fair competitive exam to filter the candidates

Yet preparatory schools are still disproportionately full of rich white kids.

Re:Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:32AM (#36956424)
The US are a younger country and it's full of immigrants/children of immigrants.

Most of the money here is old money. There are dozens of implicit rules. In France having a teacher as a parent is a better indicator of whether you'll get into a top school than being rich. Because you have to know all the tricks in the book to get anywhere. From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, applying, getting approved for a loan. In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school.

Also yes, salary plays a big role, if you're part of the top 1% of your country intellectual elite, I'd bet you'd rather cross an ocean for 6 figures than for 2000 euros a month and free healthcare.

Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:45AM (#36954168)
awesome thanks!
Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:14PM (#36951534)
so I just spent the last hour tinkering with it, I think there is definetly room for some timing attack, at least on firefox, there is a pattern
Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:36PM (#36950855)
is user input needed or can it be done without it?
Re:OpenAI Startup Credits on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:29PM (#36950789)
looks nice but it's US only
Re:OpenAI Startup Credits on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:28PM (#36950783)
You can get credits at a 95% discount on some sketchy websites google is your friend ;)

Ask HN: Do ideas never matter and should you never be afraid to share them?

I'm usually not afraid to share my ideas unless they're really ridiculous and I'm ashamed of my twisted mind.But I just had an idea that seems really great to me, and potentially really profitable, really quickly, if I move my ass to launch an MVP. There is a market for it that's 100% sure, if my product is good enough and well marketed it can definitely succeed.I was about to ask for feedback...

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Ask HN: Would you work for an EVIL company if it tripled your salary?

It's the third time I'm contacted for this job, I tick all the boxes and they seem desperate.I would more than triple my current salary, it's a one year contract.It's a polluting company(think Exxon or Monsanto on a much smaller scale), they have been fined multiple times(for pollution, fraud, discrimination).On one hand I deeply hate them and everything they stand for, I'd feel like I sold my...

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