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bean469··on Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights
> Cheaper & easier - not by much.

I spent a total of $150 for my entire homelab setup two years ago with not a single investment made since then. Used to pay $80 per month for streaming back then, bet it would be >$100 now

bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
You decide whether or not the benefits from you obtaining the information outweigh the cost of obtaining the information. Or you convince Elon Musk to buy the book and leak the EPUB on twitter
bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
> "Well it came from a book. Check it out if you're interested."

> "What? It's not free? Hell no I won't pay!"

I am also sceptical that my burning questions will be answered in the book, thus I choose to not buy it. Also, the Goodreads reviews don't look too good

bean469··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
I would also assume the same for non-Chinese as well
bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
Since the explanation for the claim is essentially pay-walled behind the book, I will just choose to ignore it
bean469··on Grok Build is open source
Absolutely. That's why their self driving will not be allowed to roll out in the EU and other places until it works well
bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
Ah, my mistake!
bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
> That's total bullshit. Global music revenue fell by 50% because of piracy[1].

The article you linked does not provide any source and / or a methodology for how this was calculated and attributed specifically to piracy

bean469··on The lost joy of music piracy
> Public p2p sharing is pretty much dead in the West.

Orpheus and RED are going extremely strong right now, with very active userbases

bean469··on Grok Build is open source
With all of the videos circulating online of the Tesla self-driving getting itself into extremely dangerous situations (like increasing speed once a child appears on the road), I'm not really sure that their self-driving tech is there yet
bean469··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
> why exactly is the US responsible for feeding people in random countries around the world?

It was not as in not responsible, since international agreements between countries are de facto non-enforceable. Such programs though did help the US in gaining influence and soft power in those parts of the world

bean469··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
There are lots of funding possibilities with Horizon Europe projects with new proposals being approved all the time
bean469··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
> I called siriusxm to get them to turn off their stupid advertising on my in-car infotainment

I know that ads on radio always were and still are a thing, but on actual screens as well? This just gives another reason not to upgrade from my 2010 car.

bean469··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> Cursor has $4 billion annual revenue rate so $60b is 15 years of future cashflows.

This assumes that Cursor's annual revenue will be the same or higher for over a decade. It's not really like they don't have competitors

bean469··on Typst 0.15.0
Yep, usually what people do is import the template into Overleaf and work on it from there. It's only when journals and conferences will provide typst templates is when we will see wider adoption for writing papers
bean469··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Not all people need the SOTA. Also, many take into consideration speed, token / plan cost and many other factors when choosing a model
bean469··on BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
I looked, but didn't find anything. Perhaps it's too early to tell?
bean469··on BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
> The automaker has built over 5,700 Flash Charging stations in China in about a year, and as we reported earlier today, it is now deploying 2.4 times more charging power per month than Tesla adds to its Supercharger network.

Glad to hear this!

bean469··on πFS
It almost always will be, except for the extremely rare case of your string being somewhere early in the pi string.
bean469··on Can we have the day off?
> if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work. Thus we all do it and thus we all lose.

If that is the case, wouldn't the same would apply to those who work overtime and on weekends?

bean469··on Can we have the day off?
> The four day work week is a prisoner's dilemma. If everyone did it, then we'd all get a payoff, but if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work.

If that is the case, then the same would apply to those who work overtime and on weekends.

bean469··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
> if you want to work hard and actually capture the upside of what you build, it's still the only game in town

I think that this is only true to some extent. There are many successful engineers and scientists who work in Europe that earn good money and live well. Especially if you're a researcher, Horizon grants provide really good opportunities to collaborate with people from different countries

bean469··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
In some countries the speed limit can change without a explicit sign (speed limits cancelling out at intersections / changes in pavement, etc.). In my experience, in multiple instances the systems offered a speed limit that is higher than the actual one, which can be dangerous if you're just blindly trusting the clanker
bean469··on Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
Nice, an actual roguelike (as in, like Rogue)
bean469··on AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever
Why not just use Opencode with a local LLM? You don't have to move harnesses just to have access to local LLMs

Also, the website is quite clearly AI generated, as others have pointed out as well. The AI-generated image on the bottom of the page does not help either

bean469··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
> IOW You measure employees in stupid ways, you're going to get stupid behaviour as a consequence.

My favorite hilarious metric is measuring the amount of work done by counting lines of code written per day

bean469··on Starship V3
Yeah, but this is not a national project, but a private one
bean469··on Getting arrested in Japan
Although the claim is likely exagerated, people apparently break on average around 3 laws per day. If the government wants to lock you up for something, they can build up a case
bean469··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
> I don't understand why porn is such a problem and an excuse.

It's a cultural thing

bean469··on GPT‑5.5 Instant
That for sure is instant
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