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The AI rigs cost money, sure. But no one is talking about regulating those. We are talking about regulating models, which do have zero cost of reproduction.

It’s like banning the leaked DeCSS key. Good luck.

The first token on a new AI rig costs $X (full capex cost) then every token after that costs virtually zero. Over time the cost/token trends towards zero (modulo opex). That said, AI does have higher opex than general SaaS so it can’t get as close to zero.

But that’s kind of a different question, the running of some service. The “product”, the model, is a collection of files. The “manufacturing” required to add another customer is “send them the files” and has ~zero marginal cost.

I can understand (not necessarily defend) protectionism for products with nonzero manufacturing cost and some required physical size and such.

I am befuddled when the same policies are applied to products with marginally zero manufacturing cost, no real physical size, and such. Regulating ideas is hard folks.

No, the court case you’re thinking of was when someone tried to say the AI itself had the copyright ownership. That’s not allowed (at least in the US), the copyright owner must always be a human. This doesn’t mean that a human cannot copyright AI-directed works.

If you’re processing N things at a time and your “scalar tail” is N-1 why can’t you put in a dummy value for the last entry, run one last SIMD iteration, and discard the dummy return value?

Very good point. It’s nontrivial but not impossible to determine this, I am very curious!

One nightmare scenario is a 3-bit error being detected as a correctable 1-bit error upstream, resulting in data corruption. I agree it’d be really nice to know that could never happen!

> they could just use a regex to change Claude to Kimi in their distillation pipeline!

Jean-Kimi Van Damme would like to have a word with you.

“No surprises” is an effective shorthand for “manage expectations”

Folks who don’t understand that are either not hired or don’t last long. Pedants won’t get past the phone screen.

Yes, if the Cro-Magnons had guns they’d say “wow, hunting meat is WAY easier” and then experience massive-scale death in the future. But that kinda happened anyway in various places, just using much more primitive tools. Humans gonna human.

+1 good call out. Definitely I love some SomaFM stations!

yes definitely, don’t even need a VPN. I can stream/listen from anywhere in the world on radio.garden

I’m sorry the UK cripples your streaming. That really sucks.

> radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony

Do tell more, I’m very curious— am I unaffected in the US? I haven’t noticed a big change in the past several years. What happened?

for electronic music di.fm has some great live sets. I wish they had more tho

how many live local shows have you been to in the last month?

it’s only less diverse at the top.

go down a couple of layers and various genres of music are experiencing renaissance’s like you would not believe.

pop music has always (mostly) sucked

[EDIT] Bring on the downvotes. You never bothered to explore. If you take what’s given to you by those who are selling, you’re in the seller’s market. Your downvotes are pride to me.

Similar experience and I would never trade it in a lifetime.

For the “me” today, new music discovery is all about live radio. and I don’t mean pop/satellite/corporate programmed radio. I mean radio where a human still cares.

I mostly use radio.garden (sometimes TuneIn) and find crazy local stations around the world.

K-Pop from Seoul, Parisian hiphop, live EDM from clubs in Ibiza, weird/fun island music from the remote pacific, random college radio. It’s all out there, live, amazing!

when I hear something I like, I “shazam” it, then add it to my library later. and I’m always smiling when shazam can’t find any match.

yeah that’s the “different frontier LLM” I mentioned.

Frontier LLMs are decent at making powerpoint files, but can I point it directly at gdrive and tell it write a slides doc? a slides doc I can open on the web, share, etc? maybe if I mount my gdrive locally with something like rclone?

something to try next, but why oh why does google have to make it so hard. This feels like dealing with Windows in the 80s/90s

Watch if there's a carve-out for business apps, or it only applies to consumer apps. Then watch as your enterprise apps adopt infinite-scroll sidebars of "useful" stuff...

HN hug of death? seems to be back now.

fwiw, expo seems solid; the uptime of expo.dev won't affect an app built with it.

Yeah, can't disagree, but at least that guy had a prominent "DO NOT" warning tattooed on his forehead.

Oh got it. Very fun, great work.

Fun game! How do I “eat” on mobile? I tried tapping the # on the tail, to no avail

You’re definitely right — the tech stack travels through time along what’s called a “path dependent” trajectory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence

We have microwave ovens. They’re pretty safe. Imagine something as safe as that. We can do it.

But I can’t disagree that it’s more exciting to imagine terror dreams.

It’s everywhere. It’s in the shed in your backyard. Nobody knows it’s there. Lots of people have them. It’s an appliance.

The worst thing an evildoer can do is blow up your own house and the few around it. and no one does that because you go to jail forever.

The worst thing you can do is let it melt down, which means it quietly shuts itself down.

have you never heard of tamper-proof containers? mess with it, it’s useless and you go to jail for a long time?

Plus, they’re ubiquitous, you don’t know who has one, max damage is minimal even worst case — go fish!

Around the time that I became a parent, I remember a friend’s wife emphatically telling me why one should never ever give fruit juice to a child. Later in the evening, she recounted an anecdote where a bout of constipation was cured with prune juice. I could not help myself from commenting “but isn’t that fruit?”

somehow this thread reminds me of that conversation.

have you never visited a rural neighborhood? or an affluent neighborhood?

there are still many neighborhoods where people leave their doors unlocked because it is actually that safe. not every location is rife with criminal activity, and many are well protected.

Cheap ubiquitous distributed power systems will change the world in many weird ways. Watch small modular nuclear offer home installation for ~$reasonable and getting cheaper every year.

Fast forward 20 years from the advent of essentially infinite energy results in WWIII and a new “Great Detente” but only after all the assholes have wreaked all the havoc they can.

There are dark days ahead but ultimately a brighter future. Sucks to live through that transition phase though.

The cost of code production is trending to zero. Therefore, the things that come before it and after it become much more crucial.

On the “pre” side, the specification of the problem becomes much more important. On the “post” side: QA and verification that the change has its desired effect, and no ill effects, also becomes much more important.

Sure, these are the next things to be automated, and people will try, but it’s easier on the backend (testing/verification can be automated) than the front end (the spec will be human-written as long as someone cares = forever for brands that matter), there will always be a need for humans on the specification side.