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by walrus01 1mo ago
> I'm not sure why it wouldn't make sense for some of these talented engineers to work for an indigenous tech company. India doesn't have the same structure, existence and prevalence of VCs with large pools of available se
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Ask it some questions about Uyghurs.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
The answer is "it depends", here's GLM5.3 when asked about Tienanmen Square in 1989: https://ibb.co/gLgFSV0J
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if these guys just finetuned an open Chinese model and called it a day. Easy enough to find out, ask it a whole bunch of questions about politically sensitive things that would be impossible to publish on C
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by walrus01 1mo ago
But is it compliant if someone runs, for example, self-hosted GLM5.3 on euro owned and administered hardware that's located in Europe? That would remove a lot of the incentive for there to be EU labs building models.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Right, I meant "fits" in the sense of I can load the whole thing into some combination of system RAM and GPU at llama-server launch. 15 tk/s isn't useless if you can give it big tasks to do overnight, or like ask it to d
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> the state that has to buy all its water and food from its aggressive, militarized neighbour. As a complete tangent, now imagine being a Canadian and realizing how much of your fresh fruits and vegetables come from the USA (or if from M
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by walrus01 1mo ago
3.8-flash-next quantized in a "large" Q4 that just fits in 128GB RAM even more so, in how close it can get to state of the art in a number of benchmarks. Or a large Q8 version of it that fits in under 190GB. Competing against thin
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Individual Indians are very much present in companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. I have a theory that the top 5% talent of Indian nationals who are legitimately qualified and skilled, for very logical reasons would much rather take a six-
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I do not want open weight models from China to be the only viable locally hosted things (deepseek v4 flash 0731 Q8, qwen 3.8-flash-next Q8, GLM-5.3-Flash) in the under 200GB RAM class. I want to see things like Mistral and Laguna (non-CN) s
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Perhaps he took the Vancouver "nuclear weapons free zone" signs a little too seriously. https://www.google.com/search?num=10&client=firefox-b-d&hs=d...
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by walrus01 1mo ago
In addition, actual federal prison time for the C-levels would help as a deterrent to future fuckery.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Running an app store that takes some huge % off the top just for distributing a piece of software would meet this definition: "Rent-seeking middlemen: These actors insert themselves into a transaction by force, law, or monopoly control
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by walrus01 1mo ago
What Apple is doing is really just a symptom of a malaise with the economy in general, that in the last 25 years the business model of everything that possibly can be pushed that way has changed to: Rent Seeking. In the economics textbook
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by walrus01 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers
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by walrus01 1mo ago
No, I'm saying Eugene Stoner was a singularly boring individual apart from inventing one thing . Sort of an anti steve jobs.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
So I was referring specifically to this phone hardware project and to flashlights, which don't fly... But my thoughts on drones are also that it's very different if you're building consumer class things that are meant to be
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by walrus01 1mo ago
As this is all very theoretical and silly I think the only viable option would be to define some spherical or cubic volume of space with an individual star at the center, and say your unique ID number 'owns' that section of space.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
A phone can only get so big, and there's only so many viable shapes and form factors. I don't know what more innovation anybody expects in a rectangular tablet form factor that can still fit into pockets and purposes. Folding phon
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by walrus01 1mo ago
As a counter point some very boring individuals who are not jerks nor capable of forming a cult of personality have invented singularly iconic and widespread products which achieved great market share. One example would be Eugene Stoner a
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Did you restrict any of the expensive international destinations in the voip.ms control panel? I imagine you wouldn't get that many people who wanted to call really weird places and have a 2 hour conversation from the playa, but some
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I've repeatedly said here on HN that Steve Jobs was king of the assholes and a huge piece of shit, and been soundly flamed for it. A vast amount of first hand anecdotes of him being an asshole exist and are likely not fabrications by t
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Maybe we could map a discrete GUID to some amount of cubic volume of the universe and say that you 'own' that GUID and cubic volume of space. Referencing how many possible GUID can exist: The total number of theoretically possible
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Have you had any difficulty with simultaneously retrieving >1 RTSP stream from the camera at a time, 24x7? Such as full resolution video/audio to a NVR for security purposes and then a second stream to birdnet?
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's no more or less encrypted than any cellular phone making a call across your local 3GPP-whatever standard network.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
For the 21700 cell if you want to do this without spending a lot on batteries, but also be sure that any misconfigured hardware can't drain the battery below a damage threshold, use a button top protected 21700 cell. Here's a good
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> Unifi exposes an RTSP feed for each camera Do you mean an RTSP audio only stream separate from the video+audio feed you might ingest to an NVR, or combined audio/video RTSP stream? Most manufacturers of security cameras with ordi
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by walrus01 2mo ago
40k years from now archaeologists explore a former landfill, find an adult toy and enter into endless academic debate about whether it was really a dildo
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by walrus01 2mo ago
For those interested in very early human history, this 2010 documentary by Werner Herzog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Forgotten_Dreams It was filmed in 3D as was the hype at the time, but the 2D version is co
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I don't know enough chemistry to say one way or the other if it's just wildly hallucinating the precursors and processes, but it'll also do things like, write an ISIS press release, or similar. There's a data set of basi

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