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by echelon 7mo ago
> add more RAM and GPU to the next iPhone and it's not a toy anymore We're not going to get more RAM and GPU in consumer devices. All of the supply is going into data center build outs. As the hyper scaler gamble on the future
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by echelon 7mo ago
A "market" is hypothesized to be "efficient" at price discovery. An efficient "prediction market" would more quickly resolve to its expected outcome due to not only skin-in-the-game bets by experts, but also th
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by echelon 7mo ago
"0.6 t/s" This is a toy. We need to build open infrastructure in the cloud capable of hosting a robust ecosystem of open weights. And then we need to build very large scale open weights. That's the only way we don't
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by echelon 7mo ago
These models haven't been very good for long. To assume progress stops here is silly. I'm already growing tired of prognostications using the current status quo when the current status quo isn't even six months old.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> When you're done spending millions on tokens, years of development, prompt fine tuning, model fine tuning, and made the AI vendor the fattest wad of cash ever seen, you know what the vendor will do? They'll hire the person wh
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by echelon 8mo ago
Regardless of how we (mis?)align on social and economic issues, we should align on dislike of authoritarianism and surveillance. It is our common enemy. ---- Edit: I can't respond to comments anymore (HN rate limits on downvotes and co
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by echelon 8mo ago
Don't give up! If you think the heat has started, you're mistaken. We're not even in the fire yet. It can and will get waaaay worse. We've been able to push back against these efforts time and time again. Don't st
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by echelon 8mo ago
The Epstein Island isn't just a fantasy playground for sickos. Every single one of those people has a noose around their neck and is being told what to do. They have a gun to their head now. The intelligence apparatus has been exploiti
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by echelon 8mo ago
Here are just some of the things you can do with tracking: - Dox, coerce, blackmail, and ruin political candidates, powerful CEOs, and wealthy people. If they watch a category of porn that is embarrassing or have an affair, suddenly you hav
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by echelon 8mo ago
That was fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Are you the same "you" that went to sleep last night? (Thought experiment: what if we die every night we go to bed? Seriously consider this for a moment.) Are "you" a "you" at all? What if "you" is ju
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'd be even happier if everyone adopted the old school Lotus 1-2-3 password behavior. I was much too young to use it myself, but I saw other people log in and it was amazing. The glyphs denoting hidden password characters changed on ev
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by echelon 8mo ago
That's cute to think that they're unrelated, but open source is fundamentally about freedom. The walls around us are constantly being built up and caving in. Hyperscalers are trying to own more and more of the commons. The web is
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by echelon 8mo ago
I need speakerphone when I'm home alone and attempting to be on a phone call while doing other things. Some of those calls are even about instructing me to look for something, so it necessitates me to be moving about. Speakerphone is a
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by echelon 8mo ago
I love seeing an `AGENTS.md` in open source projects. It's now my #1 heuristic to know if the team is on the right track. (I need to start adding them to all my projects.)
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm sick of open source "purism" too. It's almost all caused by the OSI. The OSI is owned and operated by the hyperscalers, who benefit from this in-fighting and license purity bullshit. Is the only open source free labo
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by echelon 8mo ago
Fuck this blog post. I'll say it. This author is being an asshole and punching good people when they're down. We live in a land of goddamned hyperscalers and megacorps trying to minimize how much they pay us (or get rid of us). Tr
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by echelon 8mo ago
This is a terrible suggestion. Rust is accessible to everyone now that Claude Code and Opus can emit it at a high proficiency level. Rust is designed so the error handling is ergonomic and fits into the flow of the language and the type sys
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by echelon 8mo ago
We're rarely going to need to attest anything is "real" or "human". It's basically only going to matter in civil and criminal court, and IDV. We don't need to attest signals are analogue vs. digital. The w
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by echelon 8mo ago
- OR - it's about lock-in. Build the single pane of glass everyone uses. Offer it under cost. Salt the earth and kill everything else that moves. Nobody can afford to run alternative interfaces, so they die. This game is as old as time
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by echelon 8mo ago
As if there will be hiring in the fullness of time. There will come a day when you can will an entire business into existence at the press of a button. Maybe it has one or two people overseeing the business logic to make sure it doesn'
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by echelon 8mo ago
Install the "Brave" browser. It has ad blocking built in and you don't have to configure anything at all. https://brave.com/ The button will take you to the correct download for your mobile device or desktop&
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by echelon 8mo ago
> If they deliver, this might actually make startups in europe a bit more common Just in time for AI to make startups no longer possible for labor capital to undertake as financial capital alone (plus the hyperscalers) take the reigns. O
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by echelon 8mo ago
Signal and information are not grass. Grass and property require upkeep. Radio waves and electromagnetic radiation do not. I don't want your dog to piss on my lawn and kill my grass. But what harm does it cause me if you take a picture
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by echelon 8mo ago
At this point, you can train on anything without repercussion. Copyright doesn't seem to matter unless you're an IP cartel or mega cap.
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by echelon 8mo ago
It's a shame that Python 2->3 transition was so painful, because Python could use a few more clean breaks with the past. This would be a potential case for a new major version number.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> EU’s eIDAS 2.0 offers privacy-preserving age verification with zero-knowledge proofs that protect personal data. I'm on a short phone break and this is the first I've heard about this. Commenting to ask if anyone can explain
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by echelon 8mo ago
> practitioners are exploring how to make incorrect code unrepresentable. I'll say it again and again and again: Rust is the best language for ML right now. You get super strict, low-defect code. If it compiles, that's already
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by echelon 8mo ago
If you filter the commits to the past five years, four of the top six committers are Meta employees. The other two might be as well, it just doesn't say that on their Github / personal website.
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by echelon 8mo ago
> what the rest of the world finds attractive People want to watch local. Local people, places, settings, and situations that have meaning to them. Hollywood could never deliver this. Content and distribution used to be hard and capital

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