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manquer
2y ago
You cannot really have government intervention against open source and weights successfully. the attempt in cryptography with PGP and export controls made that clear. Even if DS specifically is banned (and even effectively), a dozen other
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manquer
2y ago
Lambo (all sport cars) owners tend to take speed limits as suggestions, it might actually be going twice as fast if not legally, still people being driven around, would prefer a Rolls. Rolls and Bentley are normally driven slower than even
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manquer
2y ago
You can sue a lawyer giving certain kinds of bad advice and occasionally win . That is what the guarantee is about
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manquer
2y ago
> Lockheed Martin Government contractor would be closer i think. Lockheed Martin Space employs quarter of their total workforce and does both, they built the Hubble, and now working on Orion and so on. Key components of Hubble did come f
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manquer
2y ago
Perhaps for Jared Issacman type of billionaire . Rich people prefer the Rolls or Bentley when being a passenger, Sport/ performance vehicles are only fun if you are driving, I would expect the G650/800 style jets would be the pref
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manquer
2y ago
> you are not going to be able to buy a ticket You probably want to say i cannot buy a ticket and fly on it as a commercial passenger? . I agree second part is impossible to achieve in <5 years. Just buying a ticket though, on long d
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manquer
2y ago
Yes, Arab Phoenician and Egyptian empires all are classified as early colonizers and/or slavers. I added the qualifier European/Mediterranean hoping to signal i covered them as well, but that doesn't seem to be coming across
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manquer
2y ago
> you had to do the really expensive o1 training in the first place It is no better for OpenAI in this scenario either, any competitor can easily copy their expensive training without spending the same, i.e. there is a second mover ad
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manquer
2y ago
> This is not a sideproject. OP means to say public API and app being a side project, which likely it is, the skills required to do ML have little overlap to skills required to run large complex workloads securely and at scale for public
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manquer
2y ago
> West has been much too kind in this regard Genocides in Americas, Australia and elsewhere of first nation people notwithstanding i suppose > laws, ethics and technology we gave them Unasked and unwanted "civilizing" by E
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manquer
2y ago
Colonialism is not that same as imperialism. Historians do not consider mongol or Inca empire colonial . I would say mongols were probably polar opposite of colonizers they were extremely open and integrated extremely well into every region
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manquer
2y ago
I didn’t mean to say They had enough to mean they were satiated , it was supposed to mean they had enough in their own regions to fight , win and enjoy over they didn’t need to go overseas to acquire riches . Neither region is a utopia in h
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manquer
2y ago
We are talking ancient history ? Not Japan post Meiji restoration trying to be copy and catch up to world powers after stagnating during the Tokugawa shogunate for centuries. After the sengoku jidai[1] the failed imjin wars under Toyotomi
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manquer
2y ago
Why would they want to colonize anyone? Only european powers had the urge for colonization, no other civilization in Americas, Africa or Asia really ever want to colonize, expand perhaps but not really colonize. There was no economic need t
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manquer
2y ago
Yet. it takes time there are plenty of lawsuits flying around that incident . Even if they win all the suits without settling or loosing, customers will negotiate far stiffer penalties and controls on next renewal or get steep discounts or
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manquer
2y ago
I think it will have an adverse affect to funding ecosystem. The inevitable haircut all the funds are going to take in OpenAI and other AI startups when revenue fails to materialize[1] will herald a bust cycle and lot more circumspection in
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manquer
2y ago
Why is this a dilemma at all? Appreciating a piece of music is purely on its own merits of its content not if it was easy to create or not. The background, ethics, skill or even creative process of the people behind it have no bearing on wh
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manquer
2y ago
Are we really free not to be part of it ? This administration is also creating a sovereign wealth fund, which trump will exercise significant control over, I would be shocked if crypto and his coins specifically are not included. We are pay
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manquer
2y ago
Easy to say that at 45, you can afford to do so, college education costs have increased in multiples since your generation graduated. Younger founders today have to factor in rents in bay area, cost of health-care and insurance and cripplin
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manquer
2y ago
So many resources are large , the last deepseek model was 700Gb, games can easily run into hundreds of gbs these days. Just updating Xcode can be 10Gb High speed internet opens up new use cases open up , for example, if I had a 10 gig symme
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2y ago
I don't have any qualified source and this metric would be likely be quite confidential even internally. It is just an educated guess factoring costs of running similar/comparable models to 4o or 4o-mini per token, and how azure c
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manquer
2y ago
> they aren’t even profitable Depends on your definition of profitability, They are not recovering R&D and training costs, but they (and MS) are recouping inference costs from user subscription and API revenue with a healthy operatin
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manquer
2y ago
Securities fraud suit incoming I suppose. Shareholders will sue Oracle for not disclosing the risk and exposing company to the fine
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manquer
2y ago
I think OP is saying there is always scope for improvement until it is 100% not that 100% or bust .
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manquer
2y ago
Yes I understand, what you describe is something I would definitely consider as a security issue. However just like how say the DoS using SYN floods was not treated as an important issue by ISPs and other network operators for a long time,
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manquer
2y ago
I meant that the learning from doing actual build outs aren't going to translate in other geographies and regulatory climates, not that the work is less difficult or not interesting and important. Also people doing the build outs of a
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manquer
2y ago
While it is more complex to actually build out the center , a lot of that is specific to the regional you are doing it. Thy will vary by country, by state or even county , setting up a DC in the Bay Area and say one in Ohio or Utah is a ver
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manquer
2y ago
While others (and OP) give good reasons, beyond passion and interest, those I see are typically doing this without a bounty to a build public profile to establish reputation that helps with employment or building their devopssec consulting
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manquer
2y ago
Starship is an orbital rocket, and will achieve actual orbit in few months, but I don’t think they are ready for a customer anytime soon, particularly an external one. That is entirely by choice, they want to focus their attention on itera
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2y ago
I thought it was pretty impressive for a first attempt . SpaceX and RocketLab had loads of practice, their early streams were not particularly impressive . Also these days SpaceX has the benefit of Starlink so their capability is far ahead
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