Could anyone explain how this can be constructed as a private solution?
I'm not familiar with Azure platform.
Is the inference processed on private instance ?
I can't imagine how it could be feasible given the hardware required to run gpt3.5/4.
So the best case scenario is:
1. A web ui runs on a private instances. So any user input (chat or files) are only seen by these instances
2. Any chat historisation or RAG is also done on these instances too.
3. Embeddings compuation may possibly be done on the private instance
4. The embeddings are then sent to the Microsoft GPU farm for inference.
So at one point my data has to leave my private network.
The problem is that the data can easily be retro-engineered from the embeddings.
The magic of obsidian is that I rarely have to actually open obsidian. As the notes are in plain markdown, I usually just do my input from vim or vscode.
The magic of Syncthing is that it's (mostly) a set and forget thing.
The setup works on my PC, laptop, mobile and VPS.
Everything is backed up daily from a single point to a S3 backend with Restic. Also a set and forget thing.
Don't you get constant sync conflicts? I set it up yesterday, and everytime I open Obsidian on iPad or PC (not at the same time) I get conflicts in two or three files (not my Markdown files, but some json files).
The article thesis about technology impact on the prevalence of serial killers doesn't really hold up against the fact that rate of unsolved homicides has sky rocketed since the 60's [1].
One could offer a lot of speculations on how to reconcile the disappearance of "traditional' serial killers with the jump of unsolved homicides. For instance, I have read in the past articles about "experts" warning about a possible epidemic of undetected serial killers...
Medieval europeans were in direct contact with Barbary macaques. On top of African animals that were exchanged through Mediterranean sea since the Romans, Iberian populations, Christians, Muslim and Jewish had direct contact with macaques introduced by Maures.
As explained in the etymology section of the dedicated Wikipedia page, the name of the sect was "Asāsiyyūn" (Meaning something like "men of principles). The name Hashishin (Hashish smokers) was a derogative misnomer by their enemies.
The whole story and legends related to it captured the imagination of modern scholars with an orientalist biais.
Among today scholars the question is settled: while the sect and assassinations are historical facts, they are surrounded by lots of myths.
> Thatcher's revolution in council housing is a cesspit of counterfactual outcomes [...] from shelter statistics [it] left 1.5 million families functionally homeless
I'm interested by this analysis. I found some web sources that seems to deal with that matter: Any specific in-depth article you could recommend?
The difference is that if you were to be held in contempt of court, your fine would probably be higher than something like 0.01% of your annual earnings.
>The difference is that if you were to be held in contempt of court, your fine would probably be higher than something like 0.01% of your annual earnings.
Fines are not based ad hoc on how much you're able to pay. They're standard and the enforcer can't make you pay more - that would be terrible.
> Fines are not based ad hoc on how much you're able to pay. They're standard and the enforcer can't make you pay more - that would be terrible.
In socialist dictatorship like…check notes… Finland and Switzerland, they are. Those countries are indeed notorious for being terrible places to live… /s
> Can you imagine a low wage earning getting away with stuff because they can't pay?
But somehow this is OK if that's rich people getting away with it…
(Sarcasm aside, nobody prevents the legislator to ad a floor to the fine, to avoid this exact issues, and unsurprisingly that's what the aforementioned countries do)
