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by echelon 2mo ago
> albeit intentionally The model was "accidentally" released. Meta was giving it to approved researchers only until someone leaked a torrent. Whether that was a researcher, an insider, or Meta's plan all along, we don&#x27
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by echelon 2mo ago
They ran production on-prem inference for millions of users on one of my older projects, but I've moved on from that and they're impractical for my current work.
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by echelon 2mo ago
I ran a popular gen AI audio website on them as an on-prem GPU cluster. 6.5M MAU with $650k ARR at peak. Half the inference happening locally. We got destroyed by bigger players (ElevenLabs, Suno, and more recently Fish) that fundraised and
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by echelon 2mo ago
Cloud > Local I have a stack of ten or so 3090s sitting in boxes, but it's not worth the hassle to use them. You can easily run models as cheap as water in the cloud. Sitting around 15 minutes for local Minimax is stupid when you&#x
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by echelon 2mo ago
If you start counting since WaveNet or BERT, it's been ages. Especially when it feels like decades of advancements happen every single year, and rival labs are always trying to one up each other.
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by echelon 2mo ago
There has been a long history of AI model releases made shortly before or after a major planned release by another company. Almost always to upstage or steal thunder. Just recently, Minimax H3 released as open weights on the eve of Seedance
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by echelon 2mo ago
Is ATProto federated, P2P, or a protocol flexible enough to build all kinds of things? Is it opinionated about which type of system to build? Skimming this page, it looks like ATProto is a schema for the ontology, and despite saying "P
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by echelon 2mo ago
They are so clumsy! They slowly fly and collide into everything. There are so many "smart" insects with highly evolved predator avoidance. These are not those insects.
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by echelon 2mo ago
The idea is to provide protection for incubating a local industry in what's deemed a key strategic sector. But that's not the best way to do it. See what the Jones Act did to US shipbuilding. We should make foreign companies manuf
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by echelon 2mo ago
I grew up in the South Eastern US, and bug and lizard cages were common educational toys. I used to catch grasshoppers, lizards, fireflies, and "June bugs" (Popillia japonica). One summer, there was a particularly bad outbreak of
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by echelon 2mo ago
Partial and annular solar eclipses are interesting. Total solar eclipses are magical . The sun turns into a gleaming jewel and all of nature around you enters another dimension. The animals freak out, the temperature of the air around you
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by echelon 2mo ago
Real estate has little to do with this. Our peers in other countries can live with dirt floors, no climate control or running water, and tarp roofing. And they have no problem having kids. Until they get the smartphone (which is now startin
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by echelon 2mo ago
It's still dopamine. Dopamine + freedom. It starts with access to tv, movies, leisure travel, and disposable income. These things take you out of the evolutionary algorithm. Boredom, uncertainty, low dopamine, mind not preoccupied = ha
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by echelon 2mo ago
The reason we have declining birth rates is phones. It's not the economy. People have overwhelmingly been historically poor. Our ancestors ate rotting and festering meat and they had plenty of kids. Your great great grandparents went t
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by echelon 2mo ago
It feels sickening to watch, because you can get a sense of where this is going. They're cutting AI off at the legs for everyone else, then building the new tool to sell AI enablement. They'll probably let their customers pay to b
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by echelon 2mo ago
Yeah, this whole thing is bullshit. Bring back older cars with poor safety and high energy costs? Seriously? Distrust medicine and agriculture? Wtf is this doing on HN? This is the author : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by echelon 2mo ago
Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? App stores should not exist in a world where only two phone operating systems exist. All apps MUST be installable via web. Come on, EU. Help us out here. Free us from distribution
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by echelon 2mo ago
I have never been happier. I flipping love AI. This is literally what I dreamed about as a kid. I feel like we might get to witness the singularity, and that's exciting. To live and die under cellphone incrementalism is what's dep
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by echelon 2mo ago
Yeah, but now we can hire the Chinese instead for 1/100th the cost. It's an even better deal. Plus we get to own, keep, run, do whatever with the model. We don't feel trapped. Moreover, it's something we can truly build
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by echelon 2mo ago
They're a public company with a $50B market cap. That's not going to happen. The direction would be the other way around. Axon is showing that they want the market, that they can build the tech themselves, and that they can levera
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by echelon 2mo ago
> the fact that the universe is consistent We don't know this either. We are very limited in detection. Our energies are small. How "standard" are standard candles and other references? Are the facts that stand as the basi
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by echelon 2mo ago
You don't know any of that. We are primitive apes. We are all uniformly dumb.
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by echelon 2mo ago
I think a fragile world hypothesis is more interesting and scary. Instead of a superintelligence killing any emerging intelligence, superintelligence is so smart that it can perturb spacetime in ways that easily kill itself. Kind of like th
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by echelon 2mo ago
We're going to be able to dump phone firmware soon and reverse compile with LLMs. This will become an assailable salient soon and by 2036 we should have dozens of competing phone operating systems and vendors. We're going to do th
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by echelon 2mo ago
> Every change is linked to the agent conversation that produced it. From any line of code, find the conversation. From any message, jump to the code it touched. This is how Zed leapfrogs the field and becomes a centicorn. If you can tra
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by echelon 2mo ago
You can't imagine OpenAI being a multi-trillion dollar company? Open weights will drop costs, but distribution matters. OpenAI has that. Costs will come down. Deep entrenchment will not.
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by echelon 2mo ago
I appreciate your extremely thoughtful answers. It greatly improves my perception and attitude about this. I'll check it out. I'm still anxious about the Cloudflare angle (and that's hard to shake), but beggars can't be
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by echelon 2mo ago
Workers is a product and you're paid to develop and sell it as an employee. I 100% understand the hustle. I do the same thing. I just don't trust a giant like Cloudflare that has done several things to weaken the open web and esta
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by echelon 2mo ago
This is far too Cloudflare flavored to be interesting to me. It's using Workers (capital W) and the core Cloudflare primitives. I don't feel safe building on this or touching this. I'd be happier if a startup or neutral party
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by echelon 2mo ago
I'm not interested in a single super vendor. Especially not one that blocks AI scraping yet wants to be an AI power player - they're setting themselves up to be the gatekeepers. If some non Cloudflare entity builds this, that migh

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