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Which is more important, the rights of the infringed or of the funded and hyped business?
classic HN, ignoring the Billions of users who find chatGPT, Gemini, Claude not only useful but life changing, including some of the poorest. So that they can fight for Disney, Record Labels and Trust fund Williamsburg friends
meta_ai_x commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
I'm constantly tempted by the idealism of this experience, but when you factor in the performance of the models you have access to, and the cost of running them on-demand in a cloud, it's really just a fun hobby instead of a viable strategy to benefit your life.
As the hardware continues to iterate at a rapid pace, anything you pick up second-hand will still deprecate at that pace, making any real investment in hardware unjustifiable.
Coupled with the dramatically inferior performance of the weights you would be running in a local environment, it's just not worth it.
I expect this will change in the future, and am excited to invest in a local inference stack when the weights become available. Until then, you're idling a relatively expensive, rapidly depreciating asset.
This is especially true since AI is a large multiplicative factor to your productivity.
If Cloud LLMs have 10 IQ points > local LLM, within a month, you'll notice you'll be struggling behind the dude who just used Cloud LLM.
LocalLlama is for hobbies or your job depends on running locallama.
This is not one-time upfront setup cost vs payoff later tradeoff. It is a tradeoff you are making every query which compounds pretty quickly.
Edit : I expect nothing better than downvotes from this crowd. How HN has fallen on AI will be a case study for the ages
meta_ai_x commented on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I would be interested in reading about how people who are paying for access to Google's top AI plan are intending to use this. Do you have any examples of immediate use-cases that might benefit?
Is Google using this tool internally? One would expect them to give some examples of how it's helping internal teams accelerate or solve more challenging problems, if they were eating their own dogfood.
I'm guessing most Ultra users are there for Veo 3, where it has monetary benefits if your 3s video go viral on TikTok/Reels/Shorts
meta_ai_x commented on How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America · Posted by u/la_joconde
If Remote Work is incredible and extremely productive, you can literally arbitrage away and create remote-first companies and crush your competition who insist on WFO. According to the logic of WFH backers, it should be incredibly easy to attract the highest talent and that talent should be working at peak productivity and should have no trouble in beating competition.
The fact that none of the companies can do it, means WFH is a massive productivity failure. The reasons are aplenty
- Self-Reporting Employees or Researchers simply can't measure productivity that matters.
- WFH research is typically done and funded by WFH-friendly entities skewing it's benefits. There are no neutral social science research.
- Startups, which are a better unbiased WFO/WFH study (because all startups have the same starting conditions allowing us to control more variables), clearly show that teams (both technical and sales) sitting in room can crush/outrun Startups that are remote-only.
- Productivity measures done by these studies are almost always individual, but team productivity and firm productivity are emergent properties and hard to measure
Popularity =/= quality.
That being said, obviously the Librem phone is missing functionality.
Most computer users are goo goo ga ga level users. Most people in the US use iMessage, for example.
It's not the best messenger, not even close. It's not the most ubiquitous either - doesn't even break top 5 globally. Doesn't have the most features. Not the fastest. Not the most secure. Not the easiest to use.
They just use it because it's already installed and right there. That is how deep their understanding and comprehension can go.
For Operating Systems and Ecosystems, Popularity == Quality. The more popular a software is, the more edge cases it encounters and solves issues. More people will write software, plugins, tools for it.
meta_ai_x commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul
dot-com bubble companies were not good companies. They either built something that was not novel so it could be copied, or had insufficient value to monetize. We'll see the same with current AI.
Similar to the invention of the web, AI is not a bubble. Real value has been created.
how so? Many internet companies that went bust like Webvan and Pets.com have successful equivalents in Instacart and Chewy?
I'm pretty sure many internet companies would be given a longer rope to survive now. E.g OpenAI and Anthropic will probably take years to get profitable but investors are OK with it
lots of wealthy families have dysfunctional internal emotional patterns.. A quick stat is that there is more alcoholism among the 1% wealthiest than the general population across the USA
Wow! Wanting to work hard at building cool things == dysfunctional internal emotional pattern
Sums up western workforce attitude and why immigrants continue to crush them
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...