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by ls612 4mo ago
Is it a coincidence that both MiniMax and Z.ai are releasing frontier open weights models right as the USG is trying to impose a cap on model capability offered to the public?
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by ls612 4mo ago
I think that the events of this evening (really of this past week) are almost unprecedented in the history of tech. Sometimes a clear and concise message is more important than nuanced analysis.
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by ls612 4mo ago
??? The government had passed a law appropriating funds to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in the US and spent some of it buying intel stock. How is that the government seizing Intel at gunpoint? I mean aside from the libertarian argu
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by ls612 4mo ago
The main reason the Chinese labs are releasing models as open weights is because they don't have the compute necessary to provide all of the inference. For the US frontier models something like 80-90% of the lifetime compute required f
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by ls612 4mo ago
Call it open weights if you must. But even with OSS just because you have the source code doesn't mean your machine is high performance enough to run it usefully this has always been true.
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by ls612 4mo ago
They bought the shares on the open market. They didn't seize the company at gunpoint.
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by ls612 4mo ago
The only lesson I'm taking away is that we are still very early in the AI era. AI workflows look entirely different today than they did 18 months ago and I wouldn't bet on them looking the same in 18 months from now.
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by ls612 4mo ago
Oh to be clear I don't think Gemma 4 is suitable for real work. It runs at 10 tps and is somewhere between 4o and o1 in quality according to my subjective judgement. But Claude was happy to correctly tell me how to get it running and h
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by ls612 4mo ago
I had Claude walk me through getting local LLM models running on my Mac a month or two ago and so far as I can tell it was intentionally helpful. I even stated the reason was to have an uncensored model for myself and it had no objection. L
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by ls612 4mo ago
And to ensure that only USG-approved entities are allowed to secure their code.
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by ls612 4mo ago
In TFA they say they intend to restore Fable 5 to subscription plans some time after June 22. That is what "take them at their word" means.
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by ls612 4mo ago
The idea is that people who have politics like yours can be “visited” by the police and asked to “voluntarily” come down to the station for an interview about “hateful rhetoric” on social media. Doesn’t matter how you vote if actual politic
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by ls612 4mo ago
Heh finally the impunity of the NSA is good for once. Good luck suing them over Ghidra
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by ls612 4mo ago
It wouldn't surprise me if reverse engineering is put on the "highly unsafe" list in the near future in the same category as bio because of these interests. Can't have the cattle classes be able to control their own prop
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by ls612 4mo ago
How is this any different than Microsoft? I suspect all of the big four use AD and Windows in their enterprise yet that isn’t a dealbreaker for auditing MS’ financials.
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by ls612 4mo ago
I was trying to use Opus 4.6 in Claude Code to add some functionality to python code intended to run on a cluster and it didn't have any python environment in its remote environment. It needed to look at the schema of a parquet file to
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by ls612 4mo ago
I bought my 4090 at MSRP three years ago and now used 4090s are selling for 50%+ above what I paid.
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by ls612 4mo ago
The cattle classes can’t be permitted to have intelligence that isn’t controlled by and reporting to the ruling class.
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by ls612 4mo ago
The new Expanse was good though.
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by ls612 4mo ago
What he is describing is how Rutracker does things.
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by ls612 4mo ago
And all this has nothing to do with whether Claude+Tridge is better than Tridge alone at writing code for rsync.
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by ls612 4mo ago
AI has become a partisan political issue with all of the attendant consequences. At this point you may as well complain about the sun rising in the east :(
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by ls612 4mo ago
So given that this is widely accepted to have actually happened why has the CA involved not received the death penalty like the Kazakh one did?
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by ls612 4mo ago
Yeah I suppose the prevent part came from the Browser/CA forum giving the CA that did it the death penalty like they did for Kazakhstan's CA in 2015 but if the men with guns point them at executives of browser providers and say &q
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by ls612 4mo ago
I thought certificate transparency was the thing that was supposed to prevent exactly what this article is describing. What if anything is incorrect about my model of the world in this respect?
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by ls612 4mo ago
We aren’t talking about penny stocks we are talking about a tech giant. At the scales that any ordinary investor is operating at there will be no liquidity issues with shorting it and if it is in your index fund the short and long positions
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by ls612 5mo ago
Such a platform does not exist today in active service in any military (so far as we know).
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by ls612 5mo ago
The Russians have been trying to use attritable drones for years to break down the Ukrainian IADS and have not yet succeeded. Meanwhile the Israeli F35 fleet with no direct American support was able to crack open Iran’s air defenses at the
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by ls612 5mo ago
“Oi, you got a loicense to make secure software there?” I joke but that is the world we are moving towards. I don’t think many on HN have thought through the second and third order implications.
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by ls612 5mo ago
I’m not gonna build new until I can get a GPU and RAM as well lol. That’s gonna be a few years for sure.

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