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kennywinker

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    Comment #49224061

    This is just one reason I prefer zigbee for smarthome devices. There is a protocol-level isolation between them and my home network. Really sad to see zigbee devices getting rarer

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    Comment #49219320

    Is deepseek actually turning enough of a profit off inference to fully pay for training the next model? And do those profits depend on releasing model weights somehow?

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    Comment #49219310

    > DS comes out (one of, or) the most successful quant fund in China > They don't strictly need any kind of subsidies. You understand how these two sentences directly contradict eac…

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    Comment #49214537

    The only flaw i see in your reasoning is trying to optimize a creative process. Piano rolls may be technically better, but since the majority of music is made with a piano roll you…

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    Comment #49214428

    Not counting the cost of making the model, which is subsidized by… someone? The chinese gov i think?

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    Comment #49214383

    Kinda is.

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    Comment #49214351

    If you’re gonna equate copyright law being tied to a majority sense of morality, with some kind of mob rule, ya lost me. Sure i don’t think the majority get to dictate things like …

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    Comment #49210840

    Wish i had your optimism.

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    Comment #49205846

    > but that's where the debate is at the moment. Because of the rulings of a couple of judges. Is that actually what the majority of people think? > Copyright law only considers ill…

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    Comment #49205835

    I mean... that's one interpretation of the law, sure. The law was written before the idea of an LLM existed, and some judges in some specific cases decided the previous law covered…

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    Comment #49205792

    Assuming moore's law like progress, which I'm 100% sure isn't going to happen - I think we're at the top of the S curve already. But assuming dramatically increased intelligence ev…

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    Comment #49205754

    That's because the super-enthusiast will upgrade in 4 months when a better model is released. The casual user would keep it for years. A year of claude at the lowest plan is almost…

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    Comment #49203623

    As i understand it, they accepted guilt for downloading stuff illegally. They didn’t accept guilt for incorporating all of human output into their model without consent.

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    Comment #49192677

    Not just when. Also if.

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    Comment #49192031

    If it’s not open weight, i don’t really care.

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    Comment #49191962

    Tearing something out only to re-build it a few months later is classic tech industry move fast and break things hubris. Most things exist for a reason, and if you don’t know the r…

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    Comment #49179501

    Do you mean hanlon’s razor?

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    Comment #49165466

    Sure. One could. But then one wouldn’t be in control of every step of the process.

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    Comment #49164822

    This feels like a trumpian tantrum from someone at openai. If they’re innocent, just win the lawsuit. Is this quibbling over details supposed to win the public over? Because afaik …

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    Comment #49164279

    Not great for coding, or realtime agent interactions. But for background processing tasks overnight? Seems like it’d work pretty well

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    Comment #49164266

    It says very prominently in the post: 4.5-5t/s for 80b on an M5

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    Comment #49128070

    Next time we will - provided you further lock yourself into our ecosystem.

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    Comment #49098567

    So you’re counting by dollar amount. Because find me a person who thinks 25% of their income is “next to nothing” Meanwhile, a tax avoiding billionaire will double their net worth …

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    Comment #49088252

    Can’t read it. Blocked by cloudflare.

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    Comment #49086750

    That landscape you wouldn’t want is in part a product of the small government you covet.