Readit NewsIf AI is a highlander market, then the survivor will be able to eventually aquire all those assets on the cheap from the failing competitors that flush their debt in bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, highlander hopefuls are spending other peoples money to compete. Some of them with dreams of not just building a tech empire, but to truly own the machine that will rule the world in every aspect.
Investors are keen on backing the winner. They just do not know yet who it will be.
Until China sees it valuable to fund open weights SOTA-ish models, even the winner might struggle. There is very little capture - protocols are mostly standard so models are mostly interchangeable and if you are trying to raise prices enough to break even on the whole operation, somebody else can probably profitably run inference cheaper.
SirHumphrey commented on A Love Letter to FreeBSD tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I personally have been itching for a NixOS-style BSD or Illumos derivative. My main machine is currently NixOS with root on ZFS, but I would love to be running something where ZFS isn't an afterthought, I could use dtrace, the kernel has first class OS virtualization, and so on. I think that the declarative approach to package management is obviously the future, but I wish there were a non-Linux option.
I would run something like that if it would exist - illumos zones sound quite appealing as does a more native support for ZFS.
SirHumphrey commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor
I don't always use OCaml (meme coming in 1...2...3) and maintaining a fork is a significant undertaking.
More importantly, being able to debug native OCaml binaries and actually see source code, values of variables, etc. is something that's useful to everyone.
Looking at assembler instead of source code sucks unless you are reverse-engineering.
Why are you submitting a PR if you do not use the software? You could just as easily donate the money that you spent producing 13k LOC to the project and they would spend it to use Claud on things that need to be fixed or just pay themselves to fix things manually.
This way there were hours, kwh, and dollars wasted on something that will be of no use to anyone.
Emphasis on current market conditions. Relations with uranium mining countries and environmental opposition to uranium mining could shift conditions.
The truth is that nuclear power is not that financially attractive at the present and would the price of uranium rise enough that breeders would become economically viable most countries would just stop bothering with nuclear power altogether.
and also by ‘some countries’ they mean about 4% of the earth’s population, or 1 in 25 people.
But 26.3% of the world’s GDP.
SirHumphrey commented on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/... · Posted by u/smartmic
I would caution against reading too much at this stage, even though the researchers were very careful to talk about only correlation, a lot of people here seem to read causation. This are population studies so the variables are not independent.
The argument became a bit unpopular because it has been (ab)used by smoking companies and gambling establishments but while an addictive substance can addict anybody, who gets addicted is not random. Watching of TikTok reals is a time wasting and dopamine inducing behavior - while I don't doubt they are bad and I avoid them, you may also be selecting for depressed or lonely people.
This I only write because people sometimes get in to an obsessive social media cutting frenzy spending effort that would improve their lives much quicker spent fixing diet or exercise.
SirHumphrey commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
This is my worry. What is cloudflare exactly? What regulations are they under? Am I and my privacy protected? How much of my privacy do I need to give up for whats essentially part of a protection racket, be it intentional or not. What happens when I use their SSL, can they sniff my packets? What intelligence and law enforcement do they work with? As someone with vulnerable and targeted identities its a lot harder to hand over my autonomy to what's essentially the modern 1980s IBM or whatever. This is a closed for-profit company that exists to maximize shareholder value, not protect me.
Its incredible we took a decentralized model and centralized it with things like cloudflare and social media. I think we need pushback on this somehow, buts hard right now to see how its possible. I think the recent talk about federation has been helpful and with the world falling into right-wing dictatorships, this privacy and decentralization is more important than ever.
Cloudflair is what happens when a platonic idea of the internet clashes with market realities. All the questions posed are very important but most websites are run by businesses with motives about as pure as Cloudflair’s.
As for people… A programming club I attended is filled with people who run homelabs, use Linux and generally dislike anything corporate. The project to switch communication of discord is now more than a year old. I do feel sometimes that resistance against corporate internet is futile.
SirHumphrey commented on Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729 borretti.me/article/linux... · Posted by u/ibobev
Last I heard asahi ran pretty well on M1/M2. Is that not the case?
It runs well but battery life is quite a bit worse than on macos.
They'll then spend the first few years of their career unlearning this and attempting to write as directly and clearly as possible with as few words as possible.
The problem is that teachers stop pushing complexity for complexity’s sake way to late.