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It's a shame there isn't a well-standardized, free and open protocol for delivering email that could be run on inexpensive modestly provisioned hardware.

Assuming AI agents are not the cause of the incident.

It's cool, and it's nice to see people rebelling against the "hardware I bought held hostage to a subscription" business model, but if you use an AI to do this and don't understand what it's done, you've just traded one subscription dependency for another.

Yes, and that's exactly why all the services offer more than simple VM/container hosting. They want you and push you to use all the other stuff that traps you within their moat. The last thing they want is for a competing service to be an easy substitute.

TFA specifically said volume is the last thing a ship operator wants to sacrifice. Volume used for batteries is volume that cannot be used for cargo.

The service has redundancy, better than individual operators could provide on-prem. From the customer standpoint though, the service as a whole is a single point of failure: it either works or it doesn't.

In cases like that you also will generally have three (or some odd number) of sensors and require a majority of them to agree to determine what your input is. Still not guaranteed to be correct, but the odds are better.

> the idea of LLMs producing synthetic data to contribute to new models

This never made sense to me. Seems analogous to inbreeding in biological organisms.

Nice analogy. We know what the end result of people worshiping false gods is.

In addition to the practical challenges, this would also be highly vulnerable to sabotage.

> ... This process protects Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games

Does Nintendo use LLMs to write games? AIUI, LLM output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. I guess maybe there's an argument for their older catalog.

They do say "Not every onsite includes these new rounds yet, and when you come on-site we’ll give you a heads-up about what to expect."

So that implies that they are testing this, trying to determine if it works better than the current process. Whether they are doing this in a scientifically rigorous way is unclear, however.

> might know plenty of git, but haven't worked with Github

That seems very unlikely. Github is the entire reason git is so popular, vs. any of the other distributed VC systems.

Edit: I'll refine that, after a moment of thought. Git is popular because of Github. But, I guess that now maybe there are people who are using git because it's the popular/default version control choice, but they might not be using Github. They might be using another forge, something homegrown, or just manual builds.

People at this level get intoxicated with their power. They think they are invincible and can do whatever they want. Often they can. Sometimes it all comes crashing down, here for example, or the case of Eric Swalwell. But they never think it will happen to them.

Apple and Nvidia could hardly be more different here. Apple is a consumer brand, with basically zero presence in data centers. Nvidia is the opposite. They do make GPUs for "consumers" but it's for a small niche of hardcore gamers and basically irrelevant compared to what they make for data centers. An "app store" model would never work there.

Because labor takes no risks. You work an hour, you get paid a wage. Investor might lose everything they put in. See the dot-com crash or any startup that goes bankrupt.

If investors could not profit they'd just put their money in a vault.

A common piece of advice for businesses is to fire your problematic customers. After a point they are just costing more than they are worth.

Amazon allowed that third party seller on their website.

They don't even mind it really because they overbook.

What about over the last 10 years or so?

Likely cheaper than owning a car in a food desert though.

Specifically I believe the concern is pension funds.

Your 401K is invested however you choose, but the people with pension plans don't get any input on how those are invested or what risks they take. They have historically been cesspools of fraud and shady deals.

People who got paid for their work/time?

And who invested in everything that made the productivity gains possible?

Sounds like he was living quietly out of the spotlight, or his family kept news of his death private. He died back in July.

Sure, it has value to you, I'm the same. My main workstation is 10 years old. But try to sell it.

GPUs are holding value longer, for obvious reasons. But even a 5 year old PC or server will be out of warranty, full of NLA components, and will get pennies on the dollar of its original cost on the salvage market. Most businesses will have fully depreciated them and maybe expect to sell them for enough to cover the costs of disposal.

I have one of those Frontiers, with a manual transmission. Absolutely flawless drivetrain. Rust is another story. The cargo bed is full of holes and I've had to replace parts of the suspension due to rust so I'm not sure how much more life I can get out of it.

REO[1] is supposedly coming out with a basic manual truck in a few years.

Slate is another option, but in the prototype videos I've seen it looks like it has about a 4' bed. That's too small for a utility pickup truck. (Edit: I checked; it's 5 feet).

[1] https://reotrucks.com/

Four year old hardware has almost zero value.

> We wanted receipts, so we invested heavily in eval infra to help us hill-climb, but also to identify when knowledge is common enough we can prune our guides.

Good god.

Remeber, the features you don't use are the ones you don't have to support, or scramble to replace when they are deprecated.

Keep your effing websites simple.