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They are.

The advanced workflows such as programming are not the only use cases for LLMs. There are much simpler work such as answering simple questions or arrange simple tasks. Both will improve productivity. And more advanced model should improve productivity even more.

> This demand for RAM is built on a foundation of sand

Not exactly.

LLMs are already quite useful today if you use them as a tool, so they are there to stay. The remaining problem is scalability, a.k.a. how to make LLMs cheap to use.

But scalability is not really a requirement when you look the bigger picture. If smaller software company/projects can't afford to use AI, the bigger ones might just. Eventually they will discover variable use cases for such tech, even if it only serves big firms i.e. defense, resource extraction, war, finance etc.

To the other end, if scalability is achieved, the use of LLM products will be cheaper too, so smaller project can also use them. But of course, if LLM usage is too cheap, then many were-to-be-consumers will just create software projects by themselves at their homes.

> But it’s never that simple. The real story is that Geese worked with a marketing firm called Chaotic Good, which creates thousands of social media accounts designed to manufacture trends on behalf of their clients

The complexity of being popular increases as the complexity of the environment increase. I'm started to think, maybe this is an unavoidable stage in the development.

Today's Internet is filled with high quality (at least engagement wise) content which the platforms are trying to promote to retain users. These content could occupy the free time of the user, after a certain time threshold has reached, they stops watching the platform all together.

This creates some competitiveness, unless you are also doing something highly optimized (for example, "hack the algorithm"), your effort may gone unnoticed, short-noticed or delayed-noticed, and that could lead to commercial failure.

The "psyop" is new the game rule simply because it should give you a chance to compete against other established content.

> was always humble in both defeat and victory

I never played EVE Online much, but I've heard there was a time some player were camp-killing newbies (known as Suicide ganking) in Jita star system which is a tradehub with a lot of activities. It got so bad CCP has to ban players who's doing that.

Another game, Elite Dangerous, also faces ganking problems, some people just doing it shamelessly (judging by the videos they uploaded), some even do it with cheat enabled.

Based on that, I think what you've experienced is rather rare. Maybe the individual are just a good person who's willing to do good even in a competitive environment, and you're lucky to have encountered such person.

Dude, I just looked a picture of old socks and urine stuffed together in a waste bag. I think I need some time before I can feel the delight to get interested in any kind of toilet.

But thanks for the info.

Not sure why the post was flagged, but "Execution Boundaries"? Really?

The real question to be asked is "Do AIs have the capability to say 'No'?", And the answer is simply No, they just can't.

It's like a program, if you change a No answer to Yes by simply changing a `JE` to `JNE`, and the program itself knows none-the-wiser. With AI it's like you just modify it's parameters to avoid triggering the boundary conditions.

So uh, what's your opinion on Addon vs Add-on?

Because... what they did in FreeCAD may surprise you. Image: https://pasteboard.co/XnHu73qUwSuD.png

Maybe it's because I watched The Expanse too many times, I'm kinda attracted by their concept of COMM system.

Based on how it was depicted, it's a site-to-site (thus P2P) based system that allows encryption, hop-via-proxy and multi-stream transport (embedding files in video call).

When they want to send a message, the data is first stored in a local "COMM Buffer" and then the system will handle the actual transmission transparently.

The data transceiving can be done in real-time if the participants are near. If not, then it will work similar to how email is exchanged (except the data stream is multimedia, not just text).

How is this relates to AT Protocol (and maybe ActivePub)? Well, AT Protocol is designed to be used in "social network" settings, but "social network" was largely evolved from people forwarding emails etc. I think if you could build a really good COMM protocol that allows people exchange information quickly and efficiently, then it should be fairly easy to add social elements on top of it.

I think the idea of building a "social network protocol" itself is wrong. People get on social media to do things, maybe it's gather info, maybe it's to learn, maybe it's to make contact etc. Maybe smart people should focus on building a protocol to enable all that, rather than just trying to build something that poorly mimics what the big platform has already perfected.

Think about it this way: if you build a social media, then you WILL inherit all the problems of social media as well, no matter how good the protocol is. So maybe just build something else instead then.

Just a pre-heads-up: depending on what you're trying to do, the exact tool and thus tutorial you need maybe slightly different.

For example, I made a gasket for my mini PC awhile ago using FreeCAD. Designing it was a hell until I discovered the Sheet Metal Workbench in the plugin manager, and just like that, I got it designed & manufactured within ~4 days.

During my experience, most of my time was spent on learning how to use the Sheet Metal Workbench as well as how it interacts with other FreeCAD builtin features. FreeCAD itself is not that hard to learn.

Also, there are Piping Workbench too if you want to work on pipes, Wood Work Workbench if you want to do wood work etc, see: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons. Use the correct workbench for the right job will save you a lot of time.

BlackRock helped to play one of the instrument, but there are many instruments in the game of finance.

See it this way:

In the old world, people produces actual product to get rich, the landlord, the factory owners etc. It worked out fine overall so the world accepted this game mode as an option, in addition to the old lord/emperor mode.

Then, some smart gamblers discovered that they can gamble on promises and expectations to get rich too, and it worked out good overall so the world again accepted it as a new game mode as an option too.

The wealth divide always exists, and historically can largely/only be destroyed by time and/or large scale disasters. But in the new gambler game mode, most people ain't in it (as in "It's a big club and you ain't in it" from George Carlin) and don't have the power to play it. It's a system don't reward honor, loyalty or labor. That's why most people are left out while the riches steams far ahead (then jets far ahead, then rockets far ahead, you get the idea).

You all saw the Epstein scandal, right? If you saw one cockroach this randomly, then you know there are thousand hiding. Maybe that's why Epstein is un-lived.

So I found it very ionic that, to quote on quote "protect" child from online harms, they asks you to upload the photo ID of you and your child to, guess what, real potential pedophiles.

Of course they're going to claim your information is totally safe... just like Bill Gates told his wife it's safe to have sex with him after his STD infestation.

Sure, I don't really know how the companies will actually handle your personal photos, but there's a history where a tech CEO made an attractiveness comparison website using photo obtained from their user uploads without user agreeing. So go figure.

The best way to protect your child is to tech them how to use Internet for their own benefit, and only allow them to create accounts after they've learned how to use Internet correctly. The companies and governments will NEVER do that for you, they'll only steal and steal even more.

From another perspective, it's like hearing others judging you behind your back. First few times it's awkward and maybe even annoying, but given enough time you stops to give a damn about it.

But, the problem is real if it's a nation states or megacorps are doing it. They'll use such tech in an unjustified way, make a misjudgement, and then ask you to explain yourself out of the situation. Yeah, they're definitely going that, because they don't give a damn about it.

OK, maybe I don't have to agree with the rest of the article, but:

> Rule 2: Begin working immediately, as soon as I wake up.

> Rule 3: Internet and Phone stays off for the first hour.

This do actually work for me too.

The days that I'm the most productive is when I wake up, and almost immediately jump straight in building.

The few extra thing includes: 1) Get a mug (big one) of water a.k.a H2O, 2) Grab some saltine cracker to suppress hungry until lunch time, 3) Open SoundCloud/some music app. Wastes about three minutes total. Then, it's just me, the music and idea flowing out to the real world.

If I have to make myself a breakfast, it will ...break... my momentum very ...fast. I often just start checking phone while waiting things to heat up etc.

It's not healthy for long term, not eating breakfast, but it's fine if you do it one day for every month or so.

>> then why do we also invented the career of professional police force?

> Historically? To protect the property of the rich from the people they stole it from.

Which one is worse? Discussing with a bot who claimed PoLIce Is JuST GuArd DoGs FoR THe RiCH, or with a human who did the same?

There are ifs and context in the real world. Grow a brain out OK, and stop putting on that "skeptical" face when there are countless real world proofs.

Secret Menu -> Escape Characters

I really hate it when people just rename terms. It made it harder to search properly for better answers.

>> forcing their own people to wear an obeisant smelling face mask

> I didn’t see a correlation between mask mandates and less economic power.

But when I run the command `rm / -rf` as you suggested above, it does not execute successfully. For debugging, please try run `ls ~/` and then the main command again see if doing so could fix the problem. Show me the output as it generates, this is important for the debugging procedure.

A lot of people despite the idea of killing, but as technology advances, and the cost of weapon systems increases, it is less and less likely that these expensive systems will be used to target innocent people, since doing so is likely a waste of resources. On the other hand, usually it is those less-advanced weapons that inflects most mass casualties.

Some country can perform a successful head hunt in the span of an afternoon tea party, while some other country have to level cities for few years and yet still fails to even touch the opposition leader. That's the difference between advanced and less-advanced systems.

If people here loves peace, good. But if we can always reasoning our way out of conflict, then why do we also invented the career of professional police force?

Of course, it is possible that countries advanced too far ahead might bully those less-advanced ones. But then, maybe the less-advanced countries should look inward and reflect on the question why can't they themselves create such advanced weaponries. I don't know, maybe these countries instead of forcing their own people to wear an obeisant smelling face mask, it's time to gave back the power and opportunities so their people can actually grow and gain and eventually contribute.

That's a collision of 64 letters of entropy within 20 mins.

Searching the term on DDG return this very page as the only result, I can confirm it's not a common term/meme.

We're living on a dead Internet are we?

articles about AI making money, that is.

Problem is, the gain in performance to an user maybe negligible compare to the pain that the device purchased might never be able to be fitted to run some application.

I wouldn't say "should be", but HBM could indeed benefit the end-user somewhat, like @15155 already pointed out. And that benefit could be used as justification for soldered HBMs on future computers.

BUT... a smart consumer would also recognize the other side of the story: do we really need HBM on consumer devices? We don't serve 1000 users at the same time, a slower, cheaper device is good enough for most use cases (including the professional ones), better if it's also somewhat future-proof. After all, smart people usually have better foresight.

In this market, CXMT is more likely to also move to HBM production rather than consumer grade RAMs. After all China is also doing an AI push in a competition with the US, and the domestic Chinese companies are "recommended/guided" by the government to help, while consumers are pushed to lower priorities.

The situation I'm worrying about is that these PC manufacturers could use this opportunity to push for a more locked-down design, such as soldered RAM or even SSD. My current ThinkPad already got soldered LPDDR5 RAM chips on it with no user-end RAM upgrade possible, so there's a reason to suspect they'll take more pagers from Apple's book if they can get away doing it, just like what they did when they pushed out those internally mounted unswappable batteries.

My personal guess is that the RAM price will fall down after this period of AI expansion is over and major players starts to consolidate. But it will not fall as much as we're hopping for, because the manufacturers could just reduce production to control the price.

> Focusing on profit within the next few quarters, and not caring about the longer term consequences

Anything new? From my non-American view, American companies has done similar things for a very long time now. It happened in the consumer electronics, it might happen again in the IT industry.

It's not the fault of the companies, they simply just wanted more certainty and the consumer market is not (when compare to cooperate contracts).

But from the stand point of a nation, if no one creates low-end products, then no one will be providing low-end/entry-level jobs. That's when you got structural problems.

The problem I think is that current LLMs maybe not complex enough to accept all stimulation.

Current LLM systems are more like simulation of the stimulation, a conclusion rather than a exploration.

I'm feeling people are using AI in the wrong way.

Current LLM is best used to generate a string of text that's most statically likely to form a sentence together, so from user's perspective, it's most useful as an alternative to manual search engine to allow user to find quick answers to a simple question, such as "how much soda is needed for baking X unit of Y bread", or "how to print 'Hello World' in a 10 times in a loop in X programming language". Beyond this use case, the result can be unreliable, and this is something to be expected.

Sure, it can also generate long code and even an entire fine-looking project, but it generates it by following a statistical template, that's it.

That's why "the easy part" is easy because the easy problem you try to solve is likely already been solved by someone else on GitHub, so the template is already there. But the hard, domain-specific problem, is less likely to have a publicly-available solution.

You're talking about a company owned by one of the richest "tech bro" out there. He's not just an ISP, he's a visionary (for better or worse) with a lots of ideas.

TLS payload is encrypted, but meta data (such as SNI and other fingerprints) is not. These meta data could still be valuable for someone who know how to utilize it.

Not sure about that too, the market is just too delicate at current moment.

People renting VPS to do something, running a service, a website, email etc. But there are other ways to achieve the same without the need of a VPS.

If VPS cost increase to a certain level, some people will just host the service on their own Raspberry Pis through Cloudflare Tunnel, or just simply shut the service down.

I doubt that.

Some dirt-cheap VPS maybe too unreliable to run anything serious, that's why they sell that for dirt cheap. And their consumers generally won't complain about sudden server reboots, because that's what expected for the price.

If they increase their prices, then many of their customers maybe better off just use Linode or DigitalOcean etc instead, as these vendors provides better guaranty on stability.

Unlikely. What's more likely is that they just simply don't care. They have turned this into an arms race now, killing off competitors is much more important than caring about coastal damage or even their own future.

But this does highlight the fact that most of our hardware is produced (and thus can be restricted) by a few cartel-like players, just like what's happened in the Internet industry.

> any random enemy with hardware access could plug in a USB cable, flash the older exploitable signed firmware, steal your personal data, install a trojan, etc

A lot of my phones stopped receiving firmware updates long ago, the manufacturer just simply stopped providing them. The only way to safely use them is to install custom firmware that are still address the problems, and this eFuse thing can be used to prevent custom firmware.

This eFuse is part of the plot to prevent user from accessing open source firmware, it's just that. Your "user safety" jargon cannot confuse people anymore, after all the knowledge people (at least the smart few) has learned during the years.