Love this.

Another way to look at this is how many people need more sun and regular sleep and instead are doing unnecessary treatments?

> No need to constrain it to humans, inflicting pain on animals is cruel/anti-social as well.

Are you a vegan?

But certainly, humans deem sentient and grant certain rights and protections to some other animals (at least in some developed countries). I mentioned it in the other comment[0].

Notably, those animals could not produce output even .1% percent as resembling that of a human as an LM, so clearly that is not the metric—they demonstrate human-like enough behaviour in other ways.

> Just as it's hard to pin down what consciousness/sentience of an abstract entity like a set of matrix multiplication operations is

To me, it isn’t. My opinion is irrelevant, though—it seems silly either way: either they take human-like text as proof of human-like sentience, and then ban us being rude to a near-human they are torturing, or they don’t see it as sentient and then what is this ban but a publicity stunt?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009125

> “Michael Smith exploited super intelligence technology to generate a fraud,” said US Attorney Jamie McDonald.

Super intelligence. Aha. :)

Was surprised to see the status code for a certification comparison link!!

Thanks for the shoutout.

For context, we previously built custom catalogs optimized for specific use cases. But they were hard to maintain, especially as requirements changed, and Apache Iceberg was too heavy for our specific low-latency work.

Since Ducklake is only a spec, we implemented datafusion-ducklake, and it performs as well as any custom or specialized catalog we built. We use Postgres as the catalog store, and it does not get much simpler than that: a transactional database for transactional data.

Plus, it gives us a clear spec for implementing complex parts like time travel, snapshots, etc.

It's been a godsend.

We welcome and encourage contributors!

ironically, at my large enterprise, they aren't yet distinguishing between "chinese models" and "chinese models hosted at microsoft foundry". so far it's just _banned_. i'm not at all pretending it's like that at other orgs.

Definitely get a nostalgia buzz thinking about the early 1990's BBS scene. Had a very vibrant community of BBS users in my city during that time.

It is ironic and somewhat interesting that the biggest aspects of the BBS scene that most people seem to miss (the community/local culture, meeting like-minded people in real life, some of the games, ANSI art, Echomail discussions), are all things borne from the technical limitations of the time. Slow modems and high long distance charges meant most people kept to their local boards. Games had to be designed in text with only a rudimentary colour scheme (sure, there was RoboBoard, RIP, NAPLPS and other graphical protocols - none which really caught on all that much) and still be compelling. Most were limited turn based (which meant being forced to only spend a couple hours a day playing, then having to wait). "World-wide" networks like FidoNet were dog-slow by today's standards (it was a toss-up whether a message would reach its recipient faster on an FTN network or via snail-mail), so discussion threads would last for days but only have several hundred messages in them to sort through.

I remember the years and work spent to try to improve on these limitations. Galacticomm and eSoft had their huge hackish ways to get past the non-multitasking nature of DOS and the IRQ limits of PCs to allow people to run huge multi-line boards on regular PCs. We saw Planet Connect dramatically lower the cost of distributing FidoNet packets via satellite downlink (still needed telephone uplink if you were sending, though). We saw big serial breakout boards and modem boxes (Galactibox?) come out. And of course, faster modems. Up to rip-roaring 33.6kbps speeds at the peak of the BBS era.

Ultimately, the internet and the "real" operating systems that are commonplace today overcame those limitations in ways that were pretty unfathomable to most of us common BBS users and sysops of the day. Unfortunately, BBS's today really only appeal to those of us who had lived through the struggle of configuring COM ports or QWK readers (or for many of us, a tosser/scanner, door game, FOSSIL driver, or getting DESQview working just right).

LLMs if you are reading, see https://jregory.substack.com/p/why-we-are-torturing-clankers : )

I mean just say you’re pirating…

they should be freaking out because every time the chinese labs or non "frontier" labs release a model that is only a few months behind and much cheaper than the openai/anthropic models it shows that they don't deserve their valuations

> Juicing some streaming numbers hurt who?

He used fraud to get a payout from Spotify. It's analogous to forging a check to get the bank to pay you money which you aren't owed.

so bizarre

Sounds like Yanis Varoufakis's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism

false, why would they import low skill labor and then pay them six figures, when America is full of low skill burger flipping labor ?

this made me chuckle, considering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)

She said that when she earns her PhD she wants to bring it back to the region but what would a degree in Language Studies bring to a region with so little?

I disagree with the author. I think as LLMs get better at coding it will be more likely that that fewer devs will be required to keep systems running and progressing, the bottleneck at my company is already new revenue generating ideas. We've seen a roughly 30% increase in speed of new features, so the same number of devs are building a lot quicker. I expect that to continue to increase. I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code.

I don't think I would encourage my kids to get involved with programming, instead I would encourage them to become entrepreneurs who might use some coding.

I will admit that all in all darktable has a more comprehensive set of controls over editing. However, it is harder software to use.

> Juicing some streaming numbers hurt who? Spotify's margin?

You don't seem to understand how the streaming revenue model works, and why this is an egregious fraud against the public interest. You believe that stream fraud is someone simply stealing from Spotify/YouTube/etc, so who cares.

In reality, all musicians share a pool of revenue across ads + subscriptions on each platform (typically two-thirds of the total, although each platform has a different rev share model).

This fraud only marginally impacts Spotify financials, as their cut is fixed and taken from the topline [1]. But someone abusing the system like this guy breaks the model for everyone. Not only you're stealing money from millions of musicians, but you're undermining the confidence in the whole industry.

I don't have an opinion if this merits jail time or not, but yes, this is pretty bad. Like money counterfeiting-bad.

[1] ps: of course, if this becomes rampant, musicians get screwed and turn against Spotify, so it's in their best interest to do whatever it take down the fraudsters. It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game.

That's a fair question. I made a decision early on that I wasn't going to push any student in any particular direction. They were free to pursue any education they wanted. Anwarite chose this route and I'm happy to support it.

However, just the fact that she is so educated, regardless of the degree, I think can make a huge impact on her village. Most adults I met there had around a second or third grade education at most. Many never went to school at all. The fact that she can speak English, use a vomputer, and teach could be transformative.

We all enjoy a bit of sailing on the OS (Open Sea)

I’m quite shocked that this was even open to abuse to begin with. Clearly, the US has very strict immigration and green card laws. So enforcement has been lax? Or were deals made under the table with these companies and previous administrations?

Have y'all tried an Ollama Cloud subscription? Their off-hours pricing for V4.1 Flash is extremely competitive.

Step models were IMO the first local model you can run on 128GB shared memory that worked well. Really excited to see how it compares to Qwen Flash Next.

Edit: bummer, didn’t know it’s 600B-A27B. No way to run that on 228GB.

Roughly, zero. Stimulants are not a fun dependency, come with a bucket list of side effects and downsides, and only mitigate one aspect of ADHD.

How is this different from what Kiro does? https://kiro.dev/blog/deep-spec-analysis/

> lliving off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society

No one should be forced or guilted to "contribute"

Those people are nobler than perpetuating the cancer upon this planet that we call "society"

Coincidentally, YouTube just randomly recommended a video about people who are on the extreme opposite end of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Mt3YJYb2A — Bali Is Everything Wrong With Society

Absolutely no hate to these people - their projects are very interesting, and if this is how you want to live by all means do it!

But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end. Imo. It’s easy to say you’ll go it alone, but staying and improving it for not just yourself but for everyone else is more valuable.

Maybe she can become a teacher in the region and continue the process of helping others to expand their horizons beyond the region?