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And that's fine. Not everyone has someone to vouch for.

> I don't want to be constantly worried about my own reputation. That is why you must think carefully who you vouch for. Like in a house party. If you bring someone who does not ac…

Basically, any copyrighted material should do. This only covers not ablated LLMs though. Ultimately, a web of trust where someone whose humanity and integrity you trust AT THE COST…

> Having no principles itself eventually loses you a small minority of users... and those were your core supporters and evangelists If pleasing that minority doesn't help Firefox g…

> Simple: allow those users to be lost to preserve the product. Lose the users lose the funding. Firefox can't live out of HN as its sole userbase. Have you checked how much it cos…

> We're choosing to call LLMs (and the little "harness" programs that query them in loops and execute their output) "AI", even though it doesn't make much sense. Most people are la…

> When you used google 10x a day, you saw, at a minimum, 20 ads/day That's assuming a user with no ad-blocker which is an ever diminishing number of users

> Does anyone want to use a tool that is capable of disguising an ad as a geniune recommendation at anytime? It depends on the economics and usefulness of the tool. Google Search g…

> (I want to spend no more than $10k. And I want to run a model comparable to today’s SOTA.) The question is, will you want to run a model comparable to today's (meaning 2026) SOTA…

I would imagine no mainstream model allows this easily and at scale for obvious reasons.

I am calling it now. LLM hosting is the new web hosting. You will have a market of hosting providers offering you access to LLM compatible hardware (the Hetzners of the LLM world) …

It's Proof of (human) Work. Much more useful than having a sticker saying "Done by a Human".

Yep, this tracks. Open source models seem to be getting more and more attention.

This was inevitable. The better question is if AI related hardware costs drop after the AI bubble implodes, will Apple drop the prices? My answer is negative.

The economic reality is that none of the social media websites would pass the test without a significant hit to their profits. If you want to see the long-term economic projections…

How so?

Those 2 browsers used a rendering engine developed by Google. It would not be wrong to consider them partial chromium reskins with all the technical dependency it entails.

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I would guess because "so good" does not equate with 100% and presumably the user's needs fall in that 5%. Linux has been usable for non proprietary software for decades now. The f…

That isn't relevant

> Most people listen to music in their car. Most people don't have cars

>Why not just try and see? There is a difference between trying something and performing a test whose results are meant to be representative of most setups. A lot of people (in tec…

Digital systems don't necessarily deteriorate immediately after the causal factors. Like technical debt, issues grow unnoticed and become visible gradually.

The constant deliberate conflagration of LLMs with general intelligence is so grating.

Successful and profitable are not the same thing.