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That objection is completely orthogonal to my point. The people who want open weights models are not so concerned about mass data ingestion. You are, but I guess you also don't want any good models to exist (to be clear, which I think is a valid opinion, even if it's one I don't fully agree with) since nobody has figured out how to make a good AI model without trampling on other people's feelings regarding data usage, or violating licenses or copyright.

To the people who demanded completely open source licensed software, or that complained about "they shove Wayland/systemd down our throats", I've said many times that this is a supply/demand problem. Open source licensed software exists because there is a lot of excess software production capacity, e.g. there are many volunteers. Non-systemd distros are rare because such production capacity is low, e.g., there are few volunteers willing to do this work. To those people I've said: stop complaining about others not doing it for you, if you so want your non-systemd distro or FOSS-licensed whatever, you gotta do it yourself and contribute to the community, or fund an effort.

I got super angry reactions.

Now, the same thing is happening with open weights models, but in on a much more extreme scale. They exist because of excess capacity for whatever reason, and they will cease to exist when this excess capacity reduces. There is no use complaining about something not being open weights. What is productive is funding an effort.

Unfortunately, most complainers want others to do things for them, for free.

Or the answer is even easier. There is public data consisting of chat transcripts with ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek, and all AI providers train on that data. You don't need distillation for the text "I am ChaGPT/Claude/DeepSeek" to often appear in your trraining data.

I don't get it even after reading the guide. How do you deal with backups when using YubiKeys? The private key is stored on the YubiKey with no ability to export it, ok... then what do you do when you lose the YubiKey?

Are you supposed to have multiple YubiKeys (multiple private keys) and then ensure that all your systems accept the matching multiple pubkeys?

The guide's Backup section is... super vague. It says exporting keys, of which some are private keys, which I thought shouldn't be possible?? And then it goes off about partitioning and filesystems?

What is "wrong" is that they have a culture of being conversative when it comes to 0-1 innovation. Everything is set up to reward concrete results. With 0-1 innovation you have no idea whether it's viable, so few people have the risk appetite and would rather pursue proven venues.

But westerners also underestimate the importance of 1-10 innovation. Scaling manufacturing and iterating on existing concepts are not at all trivial, and are also very valuable.

0-1 and 1-10 are complementary. Unfortunately, many people deliberately turn this into a pissing contest by accusing the Chinese of "only being able to steal" while ignoring how their own country is unable to produce basic goods like masks on a large a cheap scale, and can't fix a brige for less than xx million.

It doesn't, at all. Unlike the US (and to a lesser extend, Europe), Chinese do not have a majority of their wealth invested in stocks.

Besides, the Chinese st9ck market has been atrocious since.... pretty much forever. You'd think they still live in mud pools if you think the stock market is representative of overall development.

Have you looked at China from 15 years ago? It was also said to be in a depression and youth unemployment was also high. Just look at articles from back then.

What people don't seem to understand is that China is developing in stages. Every 10 years there is a new stage, a new revolution, with different winners and losers. Maxxing out on the previous growth engine was already forseen 10 years ago. That's why they bit the bullet and decided to pay the price to transition to the next growth engine. All transitions are painful.

Besides, these are Chinese we're talking about. They'd even complain about the economy being bad even when it's growing 10% and they drive away in 2 luxury cars. When they say they're "barely surviving" they mean their savings account isn't growing.

When you look at the bad economy in China, are you looking at the costs, or are you looking at the development goals? Development goals have costs, not paying those costs to reach goals has even bigger costs pater on. The Made in China 2025 goals have already been largely achieved.

Deepseek never subsidized their plans. At some point they dropped pricing, then after a while they raised them, but that's because they had capacity issues, not because of dropping subsidies. They don't want your money, they'd rather have fewer users.

OpenCode is building their own inference and they've independently stated that DeepSeek's old (cheaper) pricing is achievable without subsidies.

Ok fine. But again: any repeatable way to prove your thesis or disprove the trashing-code-pages thesis? And how to do this when the system is freezing up?

So you're saying processes are stuck for minutes on end at trying to get memory from the kernel? I find this implausible because relatively simple processes such as ssh and bash shouldn't be getting memory from the kernel at a continuous basis. Unless they're suddenly processing a lot of new data (like me trying to cat /dev/urandom), they should be spending most of the time working with the memory they already have. Especially when all I'm doing is pressing keystrokes in ssh+bash, not even hitting enter. Note that malloc doesn't ask memory from the kernel at every call. Glibc malloc is (in)famously stubborn with caching memory it has gotten from the kernel, hesitant to release it back to the kernel.

Any repeatable way to prove your thesis or disprove the trashing-code-pages thesis?

Then why are AI plans still so super expensive, and AI spending going through the roof, while all the subsidies are ending?

It's the explanation that I've read when scouring forums for reasons why it happens. I'd love to hear alternative explanations and how to measure/verify them. But the measurement tools also become unresponsive so I can't check anything.

But frankly, as a user I don't really care what the real technical reason is. I just don't think the system should become unresponsive for minutes on end during memory pressure. Just OOM-kill earlier, when it's supposed to.

> The active code pages are specifically excluded from being discarded during the reclaim process.

This is not true, or the system wouldn't grind to a halt due to having to reload code pages (even those that are recently in use) from disk over and over.

For example, key presses and output streaming in SSH become unresponsive. The code pages for handling key presses and output streaming are obviously in use — I just used them!

I wish this is true but evidence is against you. Just try testing memory pressure on a no swap system. You will see that the system grinds to a half for a few minutes before you even get to an OOM event.

While I've seen systems grinding to a halt due to evicting code pages, the idea that disabling swap distributes load between code pages and data pages makes no sense to me. Data pages are also disk backed, so they could also be evicted at any time. Why would data pages be written to swap if they came fron the disk in the first place?

So that only leaves anonymous data pages, i.e., regular data in memory, that could be swapped. Ok but you're not easing the load on code pages, those still get evicted during memory pressure whether you have swap or not.

I heard that is mostly a myth due to misunderstanding what life expectancy means. It's an average over populations, pulled down mostly by enormous infant mortality. If you made it to 15 then there was a good chance you'll make it to 60.

I find Luna vs Terra more clear. I know what a haiku is only because it hss some sort of hype factor among certain crowds. But I have no idea what a sonnet is, I heard of the word but never seen or written one. Opus vaguely reminds me of something in Greek mythology but also no idea what that, let alone the apparent implication that it's supposed to be longer than a sonnet.

I find those (Italian?) names super confusing as a non-Italian. I automatically read "tall" in English and think "ok it's tall as in high so this gotta big" -> "wait, what is 'grande' then and how is that different from tall?" -> "venti? Genshin Impact character??"

? Footguns as a synonym for "caveat" or "gotcha" were in use long before LLMs. I hate Claude speak too but there's no need to knee-jerk blame everything on LLMs.

Going faster... until now. It's screetching to a halt. And they want us to get off gas in a few years while also being unable to handle the electrical load. I'm gonna buy a gas boiler thank you very much.

China's plan to be self-sufficient in semiconductors was a failure before western sanctions, because all the Chinese chipmakers found it too easy to buy western chipmaking equipment or to fab through TSCM. No Chinese company wanted to buy from other Chinese companies. Nobody was incentivized to develop self-sufficiency. "Because the government wants it" was not enough incentive.

Western sanctions have succeeded in achieving China's self-sufficiency goals where their own government failed.

The "abysmal" yield using DUV is an overblown statement by western commentators who don't look closer at the development. Certainly yield is worse than with EUV, but after multiple iterations of development, yield has become pretty good, within economically acceptable bounds, still making scaling possible. Volume is still ramping up. A lot of capacity will come online in 2027. The removal of western middlemen such as Mediatek actually improved the economics. Further yield improvements are still coming. Volume is already so high that domestically made phones and NPUs are making a real impact, yet are also selling like hot cakes.

The point isn't whether you pay for art when no AI alternative exists. The point is whether you would be willing to pay premium for non-AI artwork, vs whether you'd just continue to complain about AI usage while expecting non-AI at no additional charge.

This is about paying for better-than-AI human artwork, not any human artwork. Would they pay premium for non-AI? That matters much more than whether they pay when they have no choice.

None of those things are battlegrounds for AI art complaints since AI usage is still minimal there. The AI complaints are about anime, posters, YouTube videos, etc.

There was recently an anime in which they used one AI generated background in the ending theme, which spurred countless complaints. It's common knowledge that anime animators are badly paid and work on insane schedules, so they used AI to cut corners. How many of those complainers proposed better wages and less pressure for animators, vs demanding free replacement of the background at no cost on their own? This is entitlement.

When a significant amount of movie scenes are AI generated, let's see whether viewers are willing to pay premium for non-AI scenes, or whether they only complain that they're not getting non-AI at no additional charges.

No, this is merely about what is sustainable, not morals. The supply is shifting towards increasingly AI generated. Almost all of the complainers are consumers and do not change the supply side of things. Until they do, the ultimate result is clear: they will die on a hill.

If you want to die on a hill while feeling morally superior, be my guest.

Which critic is proposing funding better artwork, made by good human artists? Sometimes, silence says more than words. Non-decision is also a decision.

Do you think the vast majority who criticize AI pays for good human artwork? Now that is a bizarre stance.

You're really overestimating how many people can draw something "decent" in Inkscape. Most likely they will take a template. That's not necessarily better than AI either.