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by hedora 4mo ago
It’s not just the US. Honda recently announced they’re not able to make internationally competitive (=== high quality and affordable) cars anymore, and abandoned their entire EV line. I guess they’ll just milk the ICE assembly lines until
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by hedora 4mo ago
Also, IPO prep work. The whole industry is speed running enshitification. It’s not just the models. Try copy pasting stuff out of the claude app, or sharing a conversation. It’s completely broken now.
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by hedora 4mo ago
The printing press gave us the renaissance, even though the church argued it was too dangerous to give non-clergy access to books. Even things like universal access to guns was a net positive. It led to the end of feudalism and rise of dem
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by hedora 4mo ago
It would be nice if there was a rule allowing unwanted books to be destructively scanned and put online in the public domain. Maybe publishers could have the right to purchase the books back at current list price or something if they want t
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by hedora 4mo ago
Until they mandate open firmware, it’s basically a moot point. The most severe problems modern cars have are software problems with the ADAS systems, where the car increasingly becomes erratic with age. (Slamming on brakes when there’s a
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by hedora 4mo ago
Unless I’m missing something the “early access” benefit is just plain evil. They’ll expand to new cities, but not allow residents of those cities to use the service. Instead, you need to be from SF or some other place they operate, and pay
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by hedora 4mo ago
My current rule of thumb is 1GB gets you 1B parameters with a big context. (Qwen 32B fits in 32GB with 200K+ contexts) That’s with heavy compression of the weights and the context, of course. I haven’t gone through model evaluation + shoeh
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by hedora 4mo ago
Two counter-examples: - Arnold bought a fleet of mobile hospitals that would have been perfect for covid response, but the next governor didn’t want to pay 1% the fleet cost per year to maintain it, so he scrapped it. - Under Obama, SARS v1
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by hedora 4mo ago
They implemented both those things, but only apologized for the first. They’re doubling down on the second. My limited experience with fable over the last few days suggests (1) I can’t see any improvement in output, and (2) it is useless f
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by hedora 4mo ago
They did get a bunch of investment grants from Trump, so your tax money (and power bills) are subsidizing them. They also arranged for ETFs to eliminate consumer protection rules to force everyone’s retirement to buy SpaceX/Anthropic&
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by hedora 4mo ago
In fairness I completely agree with 99% of their comment. I was nitpicking the use of the word “moat”. For it to be a moat, it’d need to be more expensive to traverse than to build. Instead, the big AI firms are trying to create a monopoly
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by hedora 4mo ago
That’s a factor of 10-20. You can get an SoC that does 126 TOPs (strix halo) in tablet form factor, which is a factor of two. (I’ll count them as equivalent ops, since software couldn’t low precision floating point back then). So, not qui
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by hedora 4mo ago
That’s only two order of magnitude software optimizations, a bunch of plus delta’s, and one order of magnitude on hw. I’d give that over 50% odds of happening in the next few years.
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by hedora 4mo ago
Also, it’s definitely diminishing returns, by weight, at least. Architecture / biological structure matters more. I’d expect weight and wattage to be proportional for animals, at least.
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by hedora 4mo ago
You can still run devuan. I highly recommend it, though FreeBSD got really good over the last few years, and is even more insulated than devuan is. I currently have one systemd infected machine, two devuan machines and two freebsd. Next s
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by hedora 4mo ago
So, heavier than running docker in qemu?
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by hedora 4mo ago
“How do I get my security hardened CD pipeline to 2FA?”
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by hedora 4mo ago
Most packages don’t need it, but I imagine a large percentage of users do since most projects pull in an insane number of packages. Still, “default off” is better. It would be nice if there were a lightweight way to fork upstream packages,
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by hedora 4mo ago
The rules: - Breaking fiduciary responsibility is (almost) the only way you go to jail. - At acquisition/merger/bankruptcy, data, customers, employees (chattle) are assets to be sold off to pay debts. This takes explicit priority
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by hedora 4mo ago
Or, worse: - It says your safety hypothesis is true, you incorrectly ship, killing lots of people. - It proposes dangerous experiments.
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by hedora 4mo ago
No; once the LLM switches to this new saboteur mode, it’ll be very hard to detect. Sabotage is an asymmetric weapon. The ratio of damage to effort is nearly unbounded, and any decent saboteur knows that the key trick is to make your output
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by hedora 4mo ago
How do local models work? I’m specifically interested in things that run in the 32-128GiB space. (I don’t care about bio specifically; just trying to track when local models start surpassing cloud ones in some practical dimensions).
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by hedora 4mo ago
I think it heard. A 128GB strix halo was $1400 at launch. Now they’re $3299. That 7 months of claude -> 16.5 months of claude.
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by hedora 4mo ago
What moat? There are multiple companies providing pareto-optimal frontier models, and it takes O(10) people to build one of these things. The rest is capital intensive, and the price will approach the cost of production over time. Thinking
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by hedora 4mo ago
Yep. Demand open source approve licenses for LLM weights. The Chinese apache 2.0 models might be censored, but at least they can’t sue you in the US for finding the censorship line. OTOH, the US models are definitely censored, per TFA, a
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by hedora 4mo ago
In NYC, Trump did something similar. He built condos, then sold them way above market to Russian oligarchs, who then immediately resold them at market value to people that were not laundering money. Same grift, different marks.
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by hedora 4mo ago
And somehow do more damage to the US than to Albania. I predict… just a sec… footwear and insulated wire shortages and a rebar glut [1] [1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/alb
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by hedora 4mo ago
The people supervising the help need some rooms. Epstein 2.0 would at least double occupancy on their own.
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by hedora 4mo ago
I once saw a news article with interviews of anonymous bunker tenders; essentially, there is a small industry of former special ops folks that are paid to live in the bunker and maintain it. The main point they made during the interviews:
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by hedora 4mo ago
Most people in my social circles that do not feel the US is in an existential crisis are first generation immigrants. They see the checks and balances that we used to have, and assumed those structures would constrain the administration to

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