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cpill commented on Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed to Have Nukes? currentaffairs.org/news/w... · Posted by u/shinryudbz

cpill · 2 months ago

I don't know what the point of nukes are anymore. They will never be used. You'd figure giving Ukraine long range missiles would provoke Russia into using theirs, but they haven't. What would it take other than another nuclear strike to cause Russia or anyone with nukes to actually use them?

Separately, if Israel nukes Iran, will we be OK with it? Is there anything Israel can do that would make us say "Stop"?

cpill commented on Chatterbox TTS github.com/resemble-ai/ch... · Posted by u/pinter69

echelon · 2 months ago

Sadly they don't publish any training or fine tuning code, so this isn't "open" in the way that Flux or Stable Diffusion are "open".

If you want better "open" models, these all sound better for zero shot:

Zeroshot TTS: MaskGCT, MegaTTS3

Zeroshot VC: Seed-VC, MegaTTS3

Granted, only Seed-VC has training/fine tuning code, but all of these models sound better than Chatterbox. So if you're going to deal with something you can't fine tune and you need a better zero shot fit to your voice, use one of these models instead. (Especially ByteDance's MegaTTS3. ByteDance research runs circles around most TTS research teams except for ElevenLabs. They've got way more money and PhD researchers than the smaller labs, plus a copious amount of training data.)

cpill · 2 months ago

But whats the inference speed like on these? Can you use them in a realtime interaction with an agent?

cpill commented on GIMP 3.0 testing.gimp.org/news/202... · Posted by u/wicket

wruza · 5 months ago

Compete with GIMP? One can scatter controls by tripping over a box of these and still get better ui than gimp.

cpill · 5 months ago

gimp should get an ai chat interface, then it doesn't matter how good or bad the UI is

cpill commented on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab theregister.com/2025/02/1... · Posted by u/Bender

Beijinger · 6 months ago

It is based on the formerly proprietary StarWriter, from a German company. Later acquired by Sun if I remember correctly, then open sourced.

There is another commercial German competitor from this time, SoftMaker. I used to buy the suite for Linux, just recently switched to LibreOffice. I never liked the clunky Libreoffice but since SoftMaker refuses to support LanguageTool....

There is actually a third German text processor from this time, Papyrus. Born on Atari ST.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Division

[2] https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office

[3] https://papyrus.de/

[4] https://papyrusauthor.com/

English new version of Papyrus seems to be released in a few days.

cpill · 6 months ago

a 40yo code base. Eeeek!

cpill commented on Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time andregarzia.com/2025/02/r... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

brw · 7 months ago

Massively agreed. I've had this problem for years and always have hundreds, sometimes thousands of tabs open, spread across a couple dozen windows. Memory usage is actually pretty alright with Chrome these days as the vast majority of tabs stay unloaded, and its Memory Saver feature also unloads opened tabs over time, so it's perfectly usable even with 16GB of RAM. Before that I had to use The Great Suspender to keep the memory usage in check.

I feel like I've tried every tab/bookmark managing app/extension under the sun and none of them stuck. I've also thought about creating my own, but it feels like even I don't know what I'm looking for exactly. The main problem I have is that they all have too much friction compared to simply keeping the tabs open. It would have to be something deeply integrated into the browser.

Vivaldi has some really cool tab management features and it would be my main browser of choice, but with my amount of tabs, windows and extensions its UI performance degraded to the point of becoming unusable, whereas Chrome held up just fine. Granted it has been a couple of years since I last tried it so that might have improved since. I'd still recommend anyone with similar "power user" needs to give it a try. It's a pretty awesome browser.

Tab Groups in Chrome are actually surprisingly decent as well. They're pretty low friction, and open tab groups even sync across devices, including mobile, in (near) real time now, which is great. But I do have some issues with them causing me not to use them. For example, when you re-open a closed tab group it will instantly load all of the tabs inside of it, instead of keeping each tab unloaded until visited, like on startup. You also can't add tabs to a closed tab group. So you either always have to keep the tab group open, meaning they're not much more than a visual aid and only slightly more useful than bookmark folders, or store fewer tabs per group, making them even less useful. They also have the same "object permanence" issue as bookmarks, where it's simply too easy to forget about a closed tab group altogether once I close it.

cpill · 7 months ago

I make a new window for each task in working on keeping the tabs grouped together, and more importantly, make it easy to kill them when the team is done. if I have a group of tabs open for a long time that I'm meaning to read (and I know deep down that I won't but can't admit it to myself) I'll just copy the URLs to a note in Obsidian and lay them to rest.

cpill commented on Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024) businessinsider.com/larry... · Posted by u/archagon

joshdavham · 7 months ago

This might sound overly paranoid to some, but I think that most developed nations are actually at risk of becoming surveillance states in the future.

The technology is already here, and there would also be clear upsides, especially for private citizens trying to protect themselves, but the end result is that we end up in a surveillance state. Arguably, we may already be in one.

cpill · 7 months ago

this is fine for countries that have governments that look after it's citizens, like Europe where it is already relatively safe. for the US, where the wealth disparity is rapidly increasing and only an uprising is going to change anything, I'd say it's an oppressive till of the rich to micro-police the less fortunate.

cpill commented on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948... · Posted by u/gradus_ad

swyx · 7 months ago

we've been tracking the deepseek threads extensively in LS. related reads:

- i consider the deepseek v3 paper required preread https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

- R1 + Sonnet > R1 or O1 or R1+R1 or O1+Sonnet or any other combo https://aider.chat/2025/01/24/r1-sonnet.html

- independent repros: 1) https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason 2) https://buttondown.com/ainews/archive/ainews-tinyzero-reprod... 3) https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1883154611348910181

- R1 distillations are going to hit us every few days - because it's ridiculously easy (<$400, <48hrs) to improve any base model with these chains of thought eg with Sky-T1 recipe (writeup https://buttondown.com/ainews/archive/ainews-bespoke-stratos... , 23min interview w team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrf76uNs77k)

i probably have more resources but dont want to spam - seek out the latent space discord if you want the full stream i pulled these notes from

cpill · 7 months ago

could someone explain how the RL works here? I don't understand how it can be a training objective with a LLM?

cpill commented on It's not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net/2025/01/2... · Posted by u/keepit

djoldman · 7 months ago

It appears that the crux of the article is that a lot of price fixing is going on through the use of programs that suggest or encourage pricing among a few players, to the advantage of all the players and the disadvantage of the customer.

Crackdowns do take time in the US but there is hope. See e.g.:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realp...

cpill · 7 months ago

The New Deal, which Bernie was resurrecting, was meant to break monopolies up, to promote completion and make price fixing impossible. the democrats voted against that as they are controlled by the big companies too. this is easy MAGA exists, and won.

cpill commented on AI founders will learn the bitter lesson lukaspetersson.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/gsky

timabdulla · 7 months ago

I think one thing ignored here is the value of UX.

If a general AI model is a "drop-in remote worker", then UX matters not at all, of course. I would interact with such a system in the same way I would one of my colleagues and I would also give a high level of trust to such a system.

If the system still requires human supervision or works to augment a human worker's work (rather than replace it), then a specific tailored user interface can be very valuable, even if the product is mostly just a wrapper of an off-the-shelf model.

After all, many SaaS products could be built on top of a general CRM or ERP, yet we often find a vertical-focused UX has a lot to offer. You can see this in the AI space with a product like Julius.

The article seems to assume that most of the value brought by AI startups right now is adding domain-specific reliability, but I think there's plenty of room to build great experiences atop general models that will bring enduring value.

If and when we reach AGI (the drop-in remote worker referenced in the article), then I personally don't see how the vast majorities of companies - software and others - are relevant at all. That just seems like a different discussion, not one of business strategy.

cpill · 7 months ago

Chat models make UI redundant. who will want to learn how to use some apps custom interface when they are used to just asking it to do what they want/need? Chat is the most natural interface for humans. UX will be just trying to steer models to kiss your butt in the right way, eventually, and the bar for this will be low as language interaction problems are going to be obvious even to teen-agers.

cpill commented on The Future of Htmx htmx.org/essays/future/... · Posted by u/polyrand

wg0 · 8 months ago

Very anti React person went for Svelte but the kind of modularity React offers, HTMX can't hope to match especially on larger projects.

Modern React is too simple. A component is just a pure function taking arguments and returning UI as JSX. The only other thing you need to know is few hooks.

cpill · 8 months ago

try passing state around the component hierarchy and see how simple it is. HTMX makes it easy but centralising the state in one place ie the server. try coming back to your code base in a year or two and see how simple it seems then :D