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omeid2··on Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc
Direct Install, or better yet, Owner Controlled Install.

Lets call it what it is.

omeid2··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Can HN have a tag for open-weight vs closed-source models please? The progress is nice, but if it is not released at least in papers or open-weight? These are just ads?
omeid2··on We are not going anywhere
It is helpful not to make unbecoming remarks. I know it is hard times for a lot of people in tech but it is important to remain mindful and separate your disagreement with the message from the messenger.

Despite your very poor remark in a sibling comment, I will respond with benefit of the doubt that you're just unhappy with the message and don't intend to be a prick.

You ask how are the numbers derived? Well, the numbers are not derived. My point is that an equilibrium exists where business is happy to pay y/x for 99.99 instead of y for 99.999; what is the actual value of x depends on specific enterprise and markets. What we know is that such x is no longer long term, let alone a theoretical proposition, but something approachable in the short term.

So to answer your question. The numbers are not derived.

omeid2··on We are not going anywhere
Personally, based on over a decade of professional software engineering experience at all sort of organisations, from small startups, Government, big tech, financial services of all scale.

In terms of literature, you can look into "enshiftication" as a starting point into research around cost savings and value extraction in business.

Also, about 7 years ago, I had some ideas about how AI will pan out, and here is the releveant excerpt from it:

> [S]oftware development industry, the very workhorse of automation and tools of efficiency is eating itself away. The outward image may look very different with the software development becoming an integral part of more and more industries, yet, the number of developers required for a project of given complexity is reducing at unimaginable rate.

https://gist.github.com/omeid/9a180f9acccc8409d6c5f3e7fa1a77...

omeid2··on Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
This list is entirely incomplete without mentioning Java Card.

There is a tiny Java Bytecode VM in an insanely large list of places, you can find some of them here:

https://github.com/crocs-muni/javacard-curated-list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card

omeid2··on Do not download the app, use the website
What does "desktop class browser" means in practical terms? What is it in the mobile version of Safari that holds you back?
omeid2··on US AI Action Plan
The idea is that you change leadership with those who have genuine alignment with subjects' preference for certain policies or ideas, it is not about electing kings who may demand "machines must agree that the Emperor is not naked".
omeid2··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
The problem with local vs remote isn't so much about paid. It is about compliance and privacy.
omeid2··on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
Your subtle idea that the comprehension and understanding is the shortcoming of political apparatus is overlooks the million issues as basic healthcare not being addressed. The problem is not understanding, I can assure you of that.
omeid2··on Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
As someone who uses AI everyday. People who wish to restrict the use of their code by AI should be allowed to do so, but they should make sure their LICENSE is aligned with that. That is the only issue I see.
omeid2··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
The mass production discount must not be overlooked, whatever most people want becomes the most cost effective, and it appears that most people want cheap, and so anything beyond the absolute minimum costs a lot more relative to the quality.
omeid2··on “Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
I am always fascinated by this degree of assurance and absolute lack of scepticism.

In what way, do you think, a show can have no room for critical viewing? Does being related to "reading or books" sufficient for such unquestionable and noncritical acceptance? Or was something else about it that makes it so cocksure good?

omeid2··on Google's widespread tracking across the web
Query parameters are hardly voluntary, just about every linked acquired via "share" button on various platform includes tracking query parameters, including google search results. Combined with the fact that query parameters are has legitimate uses, the distinction complexity becomes indistinguishable from "legitimate WebGL usage" vs "WebGL fingerprint".

It is scary where we are, but you can't solve it by dismissing it as FUD.

omeid2··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
The new generation is far more anti war than the 90s hippies. The social media might have set society back on some fronts, but on some fronts, like cross-border understanding and humanisation, it has been a blessing.
omeid2··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
At least for Linux distros and the likes of Brew, you will need to have Go to have Siso, and so on.
omeid2··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
I was going to say operate it under a non-profit but then I laughed in Altman.
omeid2··on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
This is really bad news for Linux on Desktop.

Many developers I know don't use MacOS mainly because they depend on containers and virtualisation is slow, but if Apple can pull off efficient virtualisation and good system integration (port mapping, volumes), then it will eat away at a large share of linux systems.

omeid2··on AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
> The problem is that models are shipping that inherently make it easy to reproduce copyrighted works, and apply specific styles lifted from single author's copyrighted bodies of work. > I am very strongly against this. > Note that prohibiting copying of a recognizable specific single author's style is even more strict than fair use limits on humans. Stricter makes sense to me, because unlike humans, models are mass producers.

This sounds like gate-keeping rather than genuine copyright concerns.

> Models that make it trivial to create new art deco works, consistent with the total body of art deco works, ok. Models that make it trivial to recreate Erte works, or with an accurately Erte style specifically. Not ok.

Yeah, again, sounds like gate-keeping more than an economic and incentives argument which are, in my opinion, the only legitimate concerns underpinning copyright's moral ground.

Every step of progress has made doing things easier and easier to the point that now arguing with some strange across the world seems trivial, almost natural. Surely there are some arguments to curtail this dangerous machinery that undermines the control of information flow and corrupts the minds of the naive! we must shut it down!

Jokes aside, "making things easier/trivial" is the name of the game of progress. You can't stop progress. Everything will be easier and easier as the time goes on.

omeid2··on AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
It seems like your concerns is about how easy it is going to be to create derivative and similar work, rather than a genuine concerns for copyright. Do I understand correctly?
omeid2··on AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
> There are very few laws that are not giant ambiguities. Where is the line between murder, self-defense and accident? There are no lines in reality.

These things are very well and precisely defined in just about every jurisdiction. The "ambiguities" arise from ascertaining facts of the matter, and whatever some facts fits within a specific set of set rules.

> Something must change regarding copyright and AI model training.

Yes, but this problem is not specific to AI, it is the question of what constitutes a derivative, and that is a rather subjective matter in the light of the good ol' axiom of "nothing is new under the sun".

omeid2··on The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
"A single text" is an absurd reductionism.

People suffer worst than death over words all the time, even in the West. Some folks adhere to honour, some to political groups and ideologies, some religion, some to their social views; there are words that are treated as violence and responded to accordingly in every context.

omeid2··on The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
It might seem like an overreaction from a western point of view, but the accusations in the context of Central Asian culture is something so extremely sensitive that people from all walks of life, from nobility to the poor kill and die over it. It is just a different frame of mind.
omeid2··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
Yes, Microsoft has a rather large portion of corporate and business email, a very large portion of it.
omeid2··on EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
No, because KYC is about the customer, not product. In the same way that you're not required to sell only trackable microcontrollers for example, only that you can show who you sold them to, not where they went onwards.
omeid2··on EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
The Cookie law works great. Every time you click "Essentials only" you're denying to be tracked.
omeid2··on Third party cookies must be removed
In theory it is by possible by "blind attestations" by a 3rd party, in an indirect way, that is what you get by Cloudflare, where they monitor traffic from an "agent" using their own heuristics for identity, without sharing that identity with you.
omeid2··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
Penitentiary? Maybe it is as a your-state thing?

Never heard of it down here in NSW, and I worked with Police, Justice Department, Juvi, and the rest of police to prison pipeline.

omeid2··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
"serious business" and "serious stuff" still happens over email, and in the same way, even "more serious business stuff" happens over snail mail still.
omeid2··on New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
You have no idea how common Orange Pi is in low MOQ custom devices that comes out of China.
omeid2··on ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
Supply-chains are more complicated than merely the unit price. Things like existing stock, talent, software, product design, certifications (both chip and products based on chip), and hundreds of other things play just as substantial role.
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