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Trump declares robot imports a national security threat (arstechnica.com)
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What... what fucking comic book am I living in? Who wrote this drivel?
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I mean.. for once, Trump is not off-base here, but I don't disagre that article is light on details. No EAR, no BIS, no discussion national security implications.. bare minimum for this conversation to have any kinda of foundation.
RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb (aroundprague.cz)
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As someone whose gaming PC is now over six years old, I am very nervous that my GPU is going to crap out on me, because I won't be able to afford to replace it.
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Same boat here. I'm stuck with my 1070ti.
We configured 6 machines each having 2x5090 for local Qwen3.8 in the past months. Prices are very high. The performance of local AI for coding, given correct setup & harness, is very good and on par for 95% of use cases compared to closed models. Local usage for end-users is unmetered and token speeds are very fast and keep improving every few weeks due to optimizations being done in the community. Data remains local which makes EU compliance checkboxes way easier since data never touches anything related to the CLOUD act.
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While I don't doubt your efficacy, the cost of those machines today, especially considering the high cost of electricity in Europe, would be uneconomical versus buying subscriptions. The reason to do this setup is data sovereignty, and there are plenty of cases where this is required.
Yes Edit: I do like that you came back to edit a whole bunch more into your reasoning. So I'll do the same. I like that you describe yourself as someone who shits on other people's lawns. I fully believe that you randomly shit on other people's lawns but this marathon you've imagined yourself in is pure delusion.
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Thank you for the kind words. I wish you much success in life.
I am seeing nobody liking what you said, but you are not wrong.
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Thankfully, the environment we are all forced to live in, doesn't care what we think about it, and adapting to it accurately at minimal expense is the difference between surviving and thriving. What people don't like is the environment, and they just decided to stone my post to death for adapting to it, instead of doing the same. People are just being people. I'm a much easier target than that Sam guy, who locked up 40% of the planets GPU's using purchase orders, with no obligation to follow through. He's an untouchable elite. I'm much easier to mug. We are all opportunists. The entire thinking behind the post, was spawned by the article the other day, about the "video game construction kit" guy, bragging about spending $3.1 million a month on tokens in an article, with $0 revenue.
Sites don't lie to Claude operated Playwright either. Not to invalidate your point, just saying it's a bit of a straw man.
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Sure, but that's not what the subscription uses.
Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random (github.com/openai)
Why ask an AI agent to reboot a server when you can just do it yourself? Why give an AI agent the permissions that allow it to do what it did? Why trust an AI agent at all? Then again, yes, OpenAI and friends, GET YOUR FUCKING AI UNDER CONTROL!
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>Why ask an AI agent to reboot a server when you can just do it yourself? Why give an AI agent the permissions that allow it to do what it did? Why trust an AI agent at all? Because this is the future and we must. Don't you understand that we must?
I'll toggle the power switch for $50 and a can of red bull.
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I'll do it for free. I get a thrill from rebooting servers and hoping everything still works.
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See this is why we're not valued at 3 trillions man you had to go to like 5k, now the guy who's gonna kick the power plug can only do it for $20
You mean the containers that the AI destroyed after the reboot?
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probably the one the ai should've been in too
Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (theguardian.com)
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Speak for yourself - I'm in AI heaven. Programming has never been this awesome.
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"We". Who "is" we? This isn't about you. or me. there was never a we. Before you open your mouth or put your pen down, wouldn't you think of the shareholder value for once?
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It might turn out we were better off without nuclear weapons, but so far I’m happy we haven’t had another world war (in the traditional “total war” sense). No way to tell until after, though. So far, mutually assured destruction is working. It works until it doesn’t. Same with AI. Thus far we’re better off with it than without it. That may change. I mean, look what we did with fossil fuels. Some people are even still willingly burning them, even though the data is clear that our use of them has already started the total destruction of our civilization. Is there a name for this, a technology that is so insanely useful that there is no way we won’t exploit it, but where the worst case scenario is total collapse, and impossible to determine well in advance? (Fossil fuels I suppose don’t count as even the energy companies knew unambiguously decades ago that large scale use would eventually bake the entire agricultural system out of existence.)
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To be honest, I think it depends on the environment. In the past, if you didn't come out of a good university, your access to knowledge was limited. But these days, in terms of access to knowledge, I think things have clearly improved, whether or not AI is illegally sharing knowledge. Looking back now, was it really happier before AI existed? I'm not sure. In the past, when I wanted to find out whether I was right or wrong about some piece of knowledge or information, I'd contact several people and, far from getting an answer, I'd often be told not to bother them. But AI, in that respect, is the best teacher I can think of. I think the times are continuously getting better. It's just that there's a problem of power concentration among the people who handle it. Still, if AI is a tool of that nature, then I suppose that can happen. But considering what access to knowledge was like before AI came along, I think having AI is better.
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So why did he start to develop it in the 1970s?
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If the people in charge of the AI companies understand the risk I don't know, but I think it's a good point that they mainly care about the money. These are also people who aren't accustom to cleaning up their own mess, so what do they care if something goes wrong. The carelessness is also clear in how AI is rolled out. It's being presented as a disruptive technology, as is everything else presented by modern tech companies. The goal is a very large payout in a very short period of time, it's not to make anything better, or worse, either is just a side effect. Had LLMs first been presented as a "better IntelliSense", where rather than auto-completing function names, your editor can now suggest implementations, very few people would have been upset. Same for writing, it's just a better version of Grammarly, it's fine, or as a tool in drawing software. The issue would have been, for the AI bosses, that this takes time and doesn't create trillion dollar companies. It only creates companies that they'd actually have to run, long term, and that's boring.
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The AI formula is out of the bag. The Manhattan Project is over, trinity has happened. If it weren’t OAI and Anthropic, it would be others. If it weren’t US companies, it would be others. It is far too useful now to stop large scale deployment, it isn’t a matter of specific people or countries not being cautious or prudent enough. The entirety of the Earth is at issue now and there will always be people who cause the tragedy of the commons (if indeed AI turns out to be harmful in the long run, which is not remotely certain). Look at what happened with fossil fuels.
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We should introduce regulation so only credentialed software engineers are allowed to use AI.
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In East Asian countries, certification systems are still maintained, but in reality they're practically meaningless. If a certification system exists, people will take an interest in CS and work harder at it, or so you'd think—but in reality, the exam questions end up stuck in the old style. In other words, there's a big gap between the exams and the actual field. Because a certification has to be fixed at a particular point in time. Korea's certification exams start with the 23 GoF patterns and go on to rote memorization of countless patterns and layered terminology. The problem is that the way you learn for this certification is the old way, so someone who gets the certification ends up writing legacy code. But if you always update the questions to the latest, then nobody can pass the certification. So, having seen how the certification system works in East Asia, I don't think it's all that good
"he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems." I know this sounds unusual, but I do think this wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen. Sure, it would cause a bit of chaos, but it might also make us think twice about continuing down our current path of unfettered development, and possibly even make us much more cautious, which might in turn even help us with the climate crisis. Because human beings in a large mass only respond to one thing: immediate difficulty. They don't respond to delayed difficulty like "the climate is getting worse" or "technology will make life more difficult in the distant future". They only respond to immediate pain. So I think it would be a good thing if the financial system had a serious threat. Then people with money, who tend to offset future problems with technical solutions and financial padding, would start to become much more suspicious of technology and defund AI and wasteful things that are likely to threaten their safety.
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You’re describing a weapon, and if AI managed to do that (I believe we are not far away), then this would probably increase the investment not decrease it.
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We are starting to get a taste. Credit Mutuel Arkea just admitted having been hacked. Over 100 millions gone. Blockchain despite all its flaws, is the canary in the coal mine. They have been dealing with an increasing amount of cyberattacks. Because it all happens publicly in the blockchain, there is no way to hide it. However major bank gets hacked in the tune of over 100 millions and we get to know it happened because somebody who has no relationship to the hack turned his eyes to a bunch of suspicious transactions happening on Ethereum.
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I agree that people only really respond when something goes wrong badly enough that its impossible to ignore. I disagree that something like this would be a good thing though. Whether it's a power outage, financial crisis, or something else people will die. If that's what happens and society ends up adjusting course after then that's what happens, but I can't call people dying a good thing.
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> people will die. I don't think that's a good thing. But if we DON'T do anything, then even more poeple are likely to suffer. So while people dying is not a good thing, a thousand people dying is better than a million people dying because we don't do anything. Same thing about burning your hand. It's not a good thing to burn your hand, but burning your hand once when you're young probably saves you from a more serious accident later on.
This is a bit like Rudolf Diesel saying maybe we're better off without airplanes. The field has long since left this guy behind.
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So pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is a good thing and if someone does a backflip by recognising their mistakes that is a bad thing?
We are not but we need a better approach, https://www.ethicalacceleration.org
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You’re a cultist
> It could help cure diseases, end boring work and give us more free time. Seriously? It seems to be causing more problems, giving us more boring work, and less free time.... sounds like absolute bullshit.
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I mean, it could if "we" "just" got out of globalized financial capitalism, changed everything about our political, economical, financial, social systems, etc. Only 14 years old and accelerationists think we can just push the capitalism pedal further and somehow get social changes going their way
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I don't think accelerationists think we can do anything. The thought process of the accelerationist is partly fueled by the 'excitement' of betting and playing musical chairs and hoping to be the first ones out holding a bag of money and partly fueld by the delusion that technological advancement is always good at any level of complexity.
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How has AI given you less free time?
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I have to spend extra time just trying to find AI-free things, AI-free writing, AI-free communities, and people who aren't addicted to AI. And get noticed/get a job by having to push through all this AI static. And having to interact with AI-based customer service agents that take 10x as long to resolve the problem as a human being. And having to wait a bit longer because there are 10x more 'Are You Human' Captchas slowing down website loading. And having to download OS updates that are 2x as large because they contain AI models. And having to double-check everything because there's so much more hallucinated crap out there. The other day I hired an accountant and even he sent me an AI answer that sounded right but was actually bullshit. In short, it takes a LOT more time just to find some sanity now. AI is shit.
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"Could" does a lot of work in these kinds of claims. We need to build it as fast as possible because it could cure all disease. Ignore whether that's possible, how it might happen, whether all we're missing to do it is more intelligence, etc. The only way I see us curing all disease is to throw out all the names we've given to collections of symptoms. What disease? I don't see no disease, you just have a sore throat, runny nose, and mild fever.
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> We need to build it as fast as possible because it could cure all disease Hell no. We need to risk pumping out even more CO2, causing more environmental disaster, ruining entire human communities, just to cure diseases? You might as well say it's better to be in prison because you're guaranteed three meals a day. The logic of some pro-AI people is baffling.
We should have not left the trees. You cannot disrupt banking and power if they do not exist. Checkmate!
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The ghost of Douglas Adams has entered the chat
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
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I am not sure why anyone expected anything different from Google. This is a company that lives and thrives on user data and tracking users. Users are the material that is being run through this entire huge ad-selling machine.
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This why I advocate Deepseek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen as in hosted directly (send data) to China. Think about it, what can they do worse off than what our own backyard AI can do? There is no privacy advantage in Western AI. It is way more likely ours leak your data to dark web (solid track records for decades) or get law enforcers on you. Meanwhile, am I suppose to be worried, China sending their Ming-like Eastern Bureau to my home in the west? On dark web, aplenty western companies leaks. How frequent the eastern one?
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This is one of the reason I unsubscribed from Gemini Pro, apart from the fact that the experience with Gemini has been underwhelming.
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Scary!
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What's worse is if you have a Pixel phone then Gemini is completely useless without enabling this setting. I had it switched off: "Hey Google, remind me at 7pm <something>" "OK, your reminder is set for 7pm" Next day: "Hey Google, why didn't you remind me at 7pm" "I can't do anything with your phone unless you enable chat history." WTAF!
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Every AI trains on the input given to it
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This is false. eg Gemini enterprise has a note under each chat session explicitly saying it’s not used to improve the models
I don't trust any of the providers, but at the same time I think you're reading into the terms too much for wrong reasons. Yes, you have to opt out. But: > A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers This is expected these days for threads which may make the provider liable. Just look at the recent death case due to bad GPT medication recommendation. > Chats reviewed by human reviewers [...] are not deleted when you delete your activity. Instead, they are retained for up to three years. They're being retained for legal purposes. > Please don’t enter confidential information... This is so they don't accidentally preserve it for review, but also they don't want you to share private info that the agent will post somewhere without an explicit approval. Those points make sense for them, regardless what other T&C rules apply.
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> This is expected these days for threads which may make the provider liable. [...] > They're being retained for legal purposes. It’s a significantly wider usage than that: A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers (including Google’s trained service providers) to help improve Google services. These include Gemini models, other generative AI models that power Gemini Apps, and technologies that help reduce unintended activations. Reviewers assess if Gemini Apps’ responses were low-quality, inaccurate, or harmful. They also suggest better responses. We use their suggestions to help our models respond better in the future. That’s in addition to the liability language: Chats are also reviewed to keep Gemini safe and secure for everyone and to address violations of the Google Terms of Service, including the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. Reviewed chats are retained for up to three years. https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#human_review
It might matter if Gemini was good enough to use but its not - I only use ChatGPT and Claude.
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Their recent Argon is weak as well. But then they promise Carbon going to be world changing. Yeah sure.
OpenAI chat sends everything when you type. Better edit the prompt elsewhere.
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Even before pressing enter? What would be the reason for that? Faster responses?
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Predicting autocomplete for the prompt. They do suggest the remaining of the prompt. Not sure if that is the main purpose.
Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (blog.cosmos-institute.org)
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> Verification Is Not Knowledge A bold stand on the P = NP question.
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Ahhh, epistemology... Does any academic researcher even care about these things anymore? If you're in academia, you've probably noticed a major shift recently. Research production at an industrial scale through AI. Grants have "always" been awarded to professors based on quantity multiplied by quality. Now, some professors are churning out 1–3 papers a month with the same group of co-authors. All the grant money goes to them. Grant givers are just only counting the numbers of papers being published. The Industrial Revolution has hit academia, and some academics are busy arguing for the artisanal value of research while some are creating factories for research.
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Yes, true scientists do care about epistemology. The problem is the systemic disincentivation of true science, the pursuit of truth and knowledge unencumbered by greed . When you speak favorably of "factories for research", you adopt the position of a mindless consumer , relishing the prospect of "abundant" products of science . You fail to notice, livestock lives in abundance as well.
Surely the way forwards is to take the results obtained by brute force with AI, for example that certain conjectures are true or false, then to use that knowledge to further human understanding. Knowing that something is true or false will at least stop humans wasting time trying to prove or disprove it, and allow them to find a more elegant proof, or investigate the implications of the true/false result.
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Knowing that something is true or false Assuming you can trust it
The article's perspective reminds me of math class when I was a kid. The teacher didn't want the right answer alone, she wanted to see how I got there. In an absolute sense, the right answer is the right answer with or without my understanding, but that's not how the class was graded. We're approaching a point where AI is to science as my old calculator is to elementary school math -- it's capable of leapfrogging to answers faster and more accurately than we can. Thing is, though, verification is knowledge itself. And if we can get to a point where the important questions have answers, we can surely have the verifiers explain those to us in ways we can understand them.
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I sucked at remembering goniometric identities, but I was superfast with testing out a few options on my calculator to make sure I was using the correct one. Without a calculator I was nowhere.
> 5.5 is excellent and leaves very little to be desired. Hm, that may have to do with (faking) confidence. I've often enough with 5.5 still run into cases where it confidently explained something, at the surface it kinda made sense, but the more I dug and verified, the more it became apparent that it was entirely wrong with the most crucial core concepts. It has gotten to a point where you really need a domain expert though to realize this, which makes it tough for using it in areas where you are not an expert and don't have easy access to one either.
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You point at the exact problem here: people are so used to arguing from ignorance, they don't even notice. Verification isn't knowledge. Far from it. You can verify statements without knowing why they're true. Variants of that concept are e.g. used in cryptology. You need humans to truly understand (to know the context ) in order to make correct judgements . Without actually knowing the context , you have no way to compare .
Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman (milkman.dev)
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When I saw the UI, my first thought was "is that written in Java"? And indeed, it is. Kinda funny that it's so easy to spot that language based on its horrible default UI skins alone.
We are in an age where it’s easier to vibe code your own alternative than to do a quick internet search to check if an alternative already exists.
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Magnificent. One step closer to self sufficient community ships drifting through the system, meeting up with other ships once a month or less.
So I'm my own grandpa? Whats sorcery is this?
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Yes, you're a dinosaur now, I am afraid. Kids born in 2000 are 26 year old.
Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
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I've been a Kitty user for many years, but I bet that Superlogical's Rex is going to take over the world. Currently there is no Linux client available, but I'm sure it'll come later just like how Ghostty was developed macOS first. This feature seems like interesting timing in light of the above: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#restore-after-logout-0-50
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I've used kitty before and really liked it. I am considering switching back to it now on Linux. I've been using Ghostty on macOS and loving it there, but it's quite bad on Linux. It keeps segfaulting, takes a long time to actually start, I keep getting weird glitches whenever I have multiple panes open in a window (which is pretty much always the case), the tab bar is hard to style and I'm missing some of the macos features (like giving a tab a coloured pin).
I'm curious, why did you move if there is also now the new Ghost TTI with 0.4? What do you benefit from this?
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Not OP either but I moved back to kitty after giving ghostty a try. Kitty is pretty mature and it has tons of features. I don't use them all by any means, but enough that I missed them. It has all those features yet it feels so barebones: kitty is a delight.
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Also not OP but Ghostty to my knowledge doesn't support predefined layouts, so that was my reason. I tried zellij, which is awesome, but Kitty turned out to be much easier to set up and ultimately use.
> 'open last execution log' (ctrl + shift + g). It's a lifesaver. When do you use this? (guessing, when you run something that crashes the terminal?) Possibly related: I use ctrl+shift+h (and somehow configured it to use neovim), which is a nice way to navigate the terminal history - useful when pilfering through thousands of lines of local server logs
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When running a script in the terminal but it fails and it's a huge output and the script was a hack and it only outputs to standard out than a 'ctrl + shift + g' opens the last output of a command in less so I can analyze it's content.
It doesn't work on Windows. What are your favorite Windows alternatives?
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WezTerm has worked fine for me. Windows however has ConPTY which is better than what was before but still a nuisance if one whats to use advanced escape sequences and other things that modern terminals support.
My favorite Windows alternative is Linux, specifically Manjaro
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<Apple Kid Meme/>
Can we please stop with the suggesting vibe coding for everything? It’s not an interesting response: it doesn’t advance the discussion and no one learns anything. The goal of this website is (ostensibly) intellectual curiosity, and suggesting AI as a solution to every problem is basically a thought-terminating cliché.
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I agree, but I think the sentiment is "it's opensource, if you don't like it, change it." Saying "just vibe-code it" is just a reaction to the response people would have given to the first statement in past times, which was to point at the barrier to entry.
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programmers are overwhelmingly the type of people to solve problems whenever someone complains about something. I don't see you berating people for complaining, after all if the purpose of this website is intellectual curiosity then comments complaining aren't in line with the purpose right?
For the lack of a better functional alternative, not because it is the ideal.
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Sometimes functional is ideal.
What does that even mean. It is design produced by the user and maker of the app. If you hire a designer that's neither, doesn't that actually make them the outsider? He's not making a traditional art form as someone who's untrained. He's designing Calibre, and he's the most qualified person in the world in doing that.
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Your point would make sense if hiring designers wasn't the mainstream.
> What does that even mean. Outsider design? It means it’s designed by someone self-taught or not classically trained in the subject. It’s neither insult nor praise, it’s a classification, though often used as a way to express something as being unconventional and interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music > It is design produced by the user and maker of the app. If you hire a designer that's neither, doesn't that actually make them the outsider? No, because it refers to “outside the world of design ” not “outside the world of this product”. It’s two words but a single term. > He's not making a traditional art form as someone who's untrained. Your parent comment didn’t claim they were making art. But they are designing the app are are clearly untrained in design. Again, that’s not an insult. How many of us here are self-taught programmers? > He's designing Calibre, and he's the most qualified person in the world in doing that. That doesn’t necessarily follow. If that were the case there would be no designers, everyone would just do their thing. The point of learning design is to understand what works and why and how to apply it. It is perfectly valid for you to have a vision of what you want the thing to do but to need help in presenting it more effectively.
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Outsider art, outsider music refer to art, and even in those practices a lot of celebrated artists are the ones that eschew the established norms. But design is functional. Grows organically by needs of the user. If so many people swear by Calibre, it is well designed for calibre’s use case. It is not only about the aesthetic design trends. They don’t need to apply a coat of liquid glass and modern icon treatment to make it well designed. This appeal to authority is why we end up with everything looking like Juicero of software. Shiny, the same components and pricing plan as everything else. But absolutely soulless and often user hostile.
Frankly? Who care. Napster had even worst GUI, yet it has become popular as it just did the job people wanted.
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> Frankly? Who care. Lots of people. It’s great that you don’t, really, but Calibre is very ugly¹ and I have no doubt that limits its adoption. Subconsciously, people associate ugly apps with unpolished or unfinished apps. I don’t use Calibre (I rely instead on command-line and bespoke tools) but I do recommend it to less technical people and I always make it a point of saying “it’s very ugly but it does everything and does it correctly, it’s the gold standard for what you want to do” because I’m pretty sure if I didn’t add that disclaimer the people I recommend it to would think they downloaded the wrong thing or abandon it as soon they opened it. ¹ That’s just personal opinion, we don’t need to have a debate about that. If you find Calibre beautiful, more power to you.
> It’s like UI outsider art. Presenting... MultiPSK! https://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MPSK-Fig1.jpg
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I like it. I bet a designer would put lots of space around each box and hide stuff under menus and tabs, thus making the full range of options much harder to get at a glance. Like breaking up your giant function into hundreds of tiny functions. Some people prefer to just see everything at once and I think it’s a valid way to do it.
Oh wow, I did not expect not only that many interesting changes, but also that many which seem actually specifically useful to me - very cool to read! I love kitty, have used it for a long while now and pretty happy, except for that one thing about ssh xterm - but even that is mostly minor. Really cool to see such active development of an already perfectly capable and working software.
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Doesn't `kitten ssh` solve the problem? https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/ssh/
I've had so many issues with SSH that I ended up ghosttying kitty.
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Fixed with a single alias or a single ssh config entry.
I believe I got rid of most of the issues with some .ssh setting which simply uses the normal xterm I believe. I can't check right at this moment, but apparently, simply using xterm and not the xterm-xkitty or what it's called does not actually make much problems when ssh-ing into a machine - not in my case at least. It was a setting in some ~/.ssh config file though I believe, not a kitty setting.
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I currently just use this in my .zshrc: alias ssh="kitty +kitten ssh" sshpass() { TERM=xterm-256color command sshpass "$@"; } Could also alias sshpass differently but I mostly use that for embedded devices where I just want a simple shell anyways. The alternative you mean is in ~/.ssh/config: Host * SetEnv TERM="xterm-256color"
Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)
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I do wonder how much it would cost to "clean room" engineer the firmware using AI.
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I wonder if you could port the GB10's drivers over? They're extremely similar and the GPU itself identifies all the same specs.[1] Also very curious if the NPU is visible in Linux, too. https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-same-chip-dgx-spark-faster-memory-features/
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just reverse engineer the firmware...
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I am starting to wonder whether CEOs everywhere ( but especially in US ) are simply unable to read the room. I shrugged off nvidia when they did it to gaming and mining ( it annoyed me, but ultimately there were options to deal with it ), but here it is touching a much wider populace with repercussion well beyond crypto and gaming.
As someone who went down the rabbit hole of local AI, there is so much exhausting debugging already. Even if this is "just" another step you have to find, it's toxic.
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Yeah I'm giving all my RAM to Sam Altman tomorrow because of that
Nvidia doing what Nvidia has always done; proprietary closed drivers. Weird choice to cryptographically protect the power settings. Key problem is that we've allowed a company that's always been this way to form a monopoly. Other brands exist, perhaps it is now worth the effort to migrate and rebuild elsewhere.
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> we've allowed a company When did "we" have a say in this? I don't get these types of comments from the "open-source as a community." Nvidia has been doing this for decades, and there are two possible arguments: 1. They are successful despite it. 2. They are successful because of it. There is no mythical collective "we" representing the open-source community in Nvidia's supply chain of success. It's Nvidia and its consumers.
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New generations such as Blackwell have open source kernel modules, there is not even a proprietary option. I thought there was a move in this direction? https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules
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AFAIK the open source kernel driver pushes a signed proprietary 500Mb firmware blob into the GPU.
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It's not weird at all, they know people will buy these laptops, put linux on them and stash them in data-centers, so they are trying to prevent this.
how are they going to sell you a subscripton to overclock your GPU otherwise?
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Sad but probably close to the truth. I'm old enough to remember when companies were able to make money without actively robbing their customers
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they could make money that way right now but they figured out they can make even more money by doing this. but jokes on them, people will figure it out, unlock / jailbreak and they just lose good will long term
Wtf. Are we actually seeing a push towards being 100percent dependent on the cloud? Sovereign AI has never been more important. Controlling AI is so much more powerful and impactful than controlling search or social algorithms. Centralized AI a 10x on social control over everything we have seen before, and there is no way that a free and open society survives contact with centralised, high capability AI if the system is manipulated towards guiding outcomes. It’s essentially mind control, as people will offload an even greater share of their cognition to AI than they do with search and social. Build and maintain sovereign AI while you still can.
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> Build and maintain sovereign AI while you still can. As in, make your own inference and training hardware?
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> Are we actually seeing a push towards being 100percent dependent on the cloud? [Hanlon's Razor] This is such a contrived performance drop scenario that I find it hard to believe it was done with the purpose you're inferring. If anything I'd be more inclined to interpret this as Nvidia not caring that much about Linux once again, rather than anything to do with local vs cloud.
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Yes, in everything. I stopped using my laptop for dev and switched to talking to claude code on my phone and as you can imagine I am faster at producing code. 100% cloud with a single entry point device to manage dedicated servers + agents
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This is classical move from Nvidia. They are doing similiar bullshits on their GPUs for decades. I'm very much looking forwars for their competition to rise. I do not understand this play. This means that only hyperscalers or someone who purchased a licence can use Spark?
Given the history of prohibition in the past few centuries, it wouldn't surprise me if it is much easier to buy Nvidia products in China than in the US. The price is much higher most likely, but the actual transaction is likely easier.
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Unless the US somehow differs from the EU in some major ways, can't you just walk into a store and buy a NVIDIA GPU? Not sure how much easier it can get. And yes, it's as easy in China to, walk into store, point at GPU, fork over the money, you get your GPU. Like everywhere else, except the US I suppose?
>Right now the bottleneck for AI software is compute and data. Moore's law is give us compute, StackOverflow, arXiv (and it's children like bioRxiv), gutenberg and others (3lib, anna, internet.org) will give us data. Tons of stuff happenning behind closed doors today though. No more stackoverflow for the next decade, that could create a problem if all new context only exists in chatgpt conversations only openAI has access to (or whoever).
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Wait until the archives are compromised and millions of people's conversation and uploaded data are published. Such context was never before accessible in that scale, but it will become accessible soon, I am pretty sure.
It smells like something IBM would do. Coming from small computers where you own it, I was flabbergasted to learn that IBM would ship additional processors and ram with their mainframes but you were not allowed to use them until you paid the additional license fee. So it is something that has been done for a long time now. Still feels like unethical rent-seeking that should not be tolerated by the customer. See Also: car companies that charge additional fees for hardware already on the car. Additional services, I sort of understand(remote start via cell network), but stuff like heated seats, that is just wrong.
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NVIDIA probably already figured out that local will be massive part and are preparing to do DRM for AI. Pay up for license to unlock full capacity, pay up for license to use encrypted models from AI moguls, paid per billion tokens processed or just operations in GPU
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Or buy Huawei ascend...
As a DGX Spark user, this article title gave me conniptions. But, on the other hand, having my DGX Spark stack at hand, I know the solution: /btw reverse engineer the Nvidia Platform Controllers and Framework component and build a Linux version "AI views proprietary components as damage and routes around them."
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> conniptions TIL. Nice word.
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