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by echelon 2mo ago
> Hugging Face has essentially become github for model repositories and I think nvidia wanted to snag that before microsoft does. Given that most of the weights are from Chinese labs and teams, I'm surprised China's own ModelSc
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by echelon 2mo ago
When faced with a wall of text, I make a decision to either find the homepage (which I did this time) or click back to the HN discussion. I've been bitten far too many times by low info density wall of text. I think this is many people
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by echelon 2mo ago
Nvidia's LLM hyperscaler partners are actively developing custom, non-Nvidia chips. Nvidia has a deep interest in open source models to counter the LLM hyperscalers. Nvidia also has a big bet on robotics and local AI, which requires mo
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by echelon 2mo ago
> If you really hate AI surveillance, just host it all yourself. If you think this is a solution for 99.999% of the world, I've got a Linux on Desktop fantasy to sell you. The world will never have distributed Facebook or Matrix or
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by echelon 2mo ago
I mentioned on r/technology that watermarks on AI content were bad and would lead to pervasive content tracking. Coupled with attestation and ID requirements in the US and EU, and we'll find ourselves in a 1984-type scenario where
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by echelon 2mo ago
Nobody is leaving X apparently. If anything, I see people using it more now than ever before. I also see non political people using it more. I need X for work but I don't really enjoy posting as it feels like you have to shitpost const
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by echelon 2mo ago
If there's no price tag mentioned, it's likely not generational wealth.
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by echelon 2mo ago
> The fediverse is a viable alternative Bluesky attracted socialist progressives, furries, and kink-positive folks early on. I'm not making any value statements, and there's nothing wrong with the userbase, but this is what dom
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by echelon 2mo ago
MacBook is great hardware, but I really hate MacOS. It feels perpetually cellophane wrapped, and I don't like any of the window management. Finder is particularly awful too. You should be able to deeply tweak how window management work
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by echelon 2mo ago
I used to like Python in the 2010s when it felt like a breath of fresh air relative to PHP and Perl. Now it feels like a weird PHP itself that is slow, brittle, and dangerous to write code at scale in. The loose typing, potluck standard lib
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by echelon 2mo ago
I don't trust that they'll be able to make back that $40M. This feels very much like a news agency getting into crypto or launching its own NFT line. Or IBM selling Watson. Or Mozilla chasing every which thing. They're not st
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by echelon 2mo ago
Look at what open source is doing to the market. The sand magic will be free and abundant for all. The only thing you have to worry about is regulatory capture - if Dario and Sam can convince the US government to regulate and outlaw open so
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by echelon 2mo ago
Is it literally killing the majority of Europeans? How many deaths comes from an Arduino box? Europe's smart people are going to have to move to another country to be entrepreneurs. That's going to kill Europe faster.
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by echelon 2mo ago
You can! Don't be afraid to try. You're limited only by time and imagination now.
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by echelon 2mo ago
This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile thei
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by echelon 2mo ago
And now I'm getting 10-20x as much done. I'd say the trade off is worth it. I'm struggling to scale myself even further. This tech is unreal and I have so many things I can do. For the first time, tech feels like the 90'
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by echelon 2mo ago
He's seemingly anti-AI now on Twitter and recently built a "no-AI" artist marketplace. His users convinced him to close 15.ai, so it's unlikely the model will ever see the light of day. There are thankfully a lot of high
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by echelon 2mo ago
That's a Higgsfield submarine ad. You should watch how Corridor Crew uses and evangelizes the tech, as it's far more honest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4 https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by echelon 2mo ago
Higgsfield is a very unethical player in AI video. There are hundreds of other companies to choose from: Runway, Magnific, OpenArt, ArtCraft, Krea, Martini, Flora ... In startups, there are "mercenaries and missionaries". Higgsfie
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by echelon 2mo ago
The editing is fast paced because video models prior to Seedance 2.5 do best on lengths under 10 seconds and decohere with intention frequently. A typical "scene" might cost thousands of dollars in generation expenses depending on
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by echelon 2mo ago
Very few of these people are doing this on home rigs. That's way too slow for getting any real work done. I work in this industry. I've dealt with major studios and up-and-coming studios quite extensively. (I was a filmmaker befor
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by echelon 2mo ago
China will beat them to general availability. Anthropic is overconfident, and it's going to bite them in the ass. Dario deserves it for being so hypocritical, fear mongering, and ladder pulling. Fastest hero to villain arc in recent me
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by echelon 2mo ago
I wasn't being condescending, that's just text's inability to encode delivery. You don't look at the bytecode you produce. You don't know 99.99% of your stack. You are a master of abstraction and you always have bee
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by echelon 2mo ago
I'm trying to help you by sharing and you're choosing to be dark and gloomy about it. I can only help so much. What you did a few years ago will likely dry up as a source of supporting you and your family. There is all kinds of ne
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by echelon 2mo ago
> I keel hearing psychotic chants of "don't even read the code anymore, bro!" In just these seven months since Claude got good, I'm at $5M annualized at 65% MoM growth with 30% margins and plenty of opportunity to tak
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by echelon 2mo ago
> Software engineers know system design And the models won't ever learn distributed systems? You're basing your assumptions on the current status quo. The models only started getting useful in December, and so we just assume th
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by echelon 2mo ago
The models got good at this seven months ago. Your hypothesis that your job is secure because the models hit a ceiling is based on seven months of observational history. We've been watching the models get progressively better for years
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by echelon 2mo ago
AI is ready to replace both jobs and companies. The companies you see struggling are ripe for disruption.
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by echelon 2mo ago
You're not going to get your old job back. You're a prompt engineer or you're fired. Programming will never go back to what it was before 2026.
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by echelon 2mo ago
> Who said a standard library can't make breaking changes? I don't want my language creating work for me. "Batteries included" is a feature of higher level languages. Rust is going to live for a very long time, probab

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