pmoriarty

The people who own these companies have more money than they, their families, and their extended families can spend for generations. None of them have to work a day in their life no matter what happens to these companies.

Same with a lot of their investors, who will be just fine without the "insane profits" they hope for.

I'm not worried about their welfare, and won't shed a tear if their companies collapse.

One of countless mistakes made by the current administration. Decimating research funding and firing many scientists is another.

> I'm daily driving DeepSeek 4.1 flash (at API prices) and every now and then I give Opus 5.5 a try and don't notice anything missing for me.

I was doing the same (along with GLM 5.3 Flash) for months, and then gave Claude Sonnet 5.5 at medium effort a try. The difference was like night and day. Where both DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash kept making mistakes and would have to do a bunch of iterations to find and fix them, Claude Sonnet 5.5 just did it right on the first try.

In my experience, while DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash are a lot cheaper per token, they're just as or maybe even more expensive when you factor in all the extra tokens that are need to troubleshoot and fix their mistakes -- and even more expensive if I factor in my own time wasted doing the same, not to mention the frustration of having to deal with that.

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash also hallucinates a lot.[1]

I'm hoping all this improves with time, and the gap between the competent frontier models and open weight models narrows.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dTq4X8bqk

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash hallucinates like crazy.[1]

Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 any better?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dTq4X8bqk

> It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world

Do blind people not have a place in the surrounding world?

> all meaningful questions can be settled empirically

This is a logical positivist view, that not everyone agrees with.

Why would you need the LLM to be running on the device itself? Wouldn't it be more efficient for the intelligence to be more centralized? Maybe in one central computer per home, or (probably even more desirable for corporations) for the devices to phone home to a centralized server at the service provider in the cloud somewhere.

Speech also has a lack of privacy, and it can annoy people nearby.

Imagine everyone on public transport speaking in to their phones to navigate and control them.

A microphone sensitive to subvocalization could maybe get around some of these problems, but it'd still be kind of weird.

Same use case as for Discord and Slack, only it's not centralized or owned by any corporation.

> Usenet could exist only because people could behave, unfortunately. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of shitfest Usenet as a social media platform would turn into today.

Spam filtering has improved a lot since the Usenet days, but even if it hadn't we had killfiles to deal with the spam and filtering out harrasers. Doing this today would be even easier with the help of LLMs.

> Yes. usenet, however, used to be social media. It was like text-only reddit.

Except, unlike Reddit, it wasn't centralized nor owned by a single corporation.

Usenet users did not have to obey the rules and whims of any corporation and there was thriving ecosystem of feature rich, free and open Usenet clients.

I really miss having my own killfiles and regex search abilities that were common on Usenet clients, but is missing from the Reddit clients and its web UI.

> I am starting to wonder is archiving or scanning history even possible with how hostile internet has become.

Future generations are going to be looking at a historical black hole.

> I firmly believe this shortage is artificially produced and I really hope chinese manufacturers flood the market and make memory as cheap as toilet paper

I hope so too, but I'm afraid that if China ever blockades Taiwan, then current RAM/GPU prices will look like an incredible bargain.

> Utilities have to argue for rate increases and get them approved by regulators, so they’re not just dropping fees on top of everything as they please from month to month.

Do regulators ever reject rate increases that the utilities ask for?

> In general. ai capacity is being used right now today.

Not according to this article[1], which says:

"I believe we are now in an inevitable overbuild situation, one with no neat, tidy Dot-Com Bubble-style exit story. Demand for NVIDIA GPUs — and those from Broadcom, AMD and other semiconductor companies — is driven by speculative capital believing that the AI industry will become magnitudes larger than it is today, largely driven by the fact that everybody believes there’s far more demand for compute capacity than actually exists. ... NVIDIA has created a remarkable illusion perpetuated by the media — that GPU sales are a direct measurement of the actual demand for AI compute, rather than a measurement of how a few companies are willing to invest in an idea two years in advance, using circular financing as a means of creating the sense that you must buy these GPUs now, or you’ll miss out on the future. ... At the very least, hyperscalers are going to be burdened with brutal depreciation charges or onerous write-offs for years to come, whether their capacity turns into revenue or not. ... I don’t see how 90%+ of NVIDIA’s sales ever end up generating a single dollar of revenue, and considering the amount of project financing-backed data center debt deals, there’s very little that exists to protect investors if AI compute demand never arrives."

[1] - https://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

> people who downvoting have to understand that you are supporting TOS violations.

What's wrong with violating TOS?

> I do think the earlier founders were more idealistic

The original founders created YCombinator, the most prestigious startup incubator, and Hacker News used to be named Startup News.

> The legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unauthorized access of Twitter's website.

But when accessing a nitter host, you're not accessing Twitter itself, just a copy.

Are terms of service a contract?

> Terms of service have no legal binding unless both parties agree to them.

Even if both parties agree to them, are there any legal consequences for breaking the terms of service?

The biggest problem with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is all that it hallucinates a lot.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dTq4X8bqk

> People that think using AI for basic stuff like promotional posters and menus is a good idea have no idea there's a large(?) subset of the population who is instantly repulsed by it.

AI-generated images can be indistinguishable from ones created by humans.

I also doubt most people care if something was AI-generated, but it soon won't matter, because most things will be, simply because they'll win on economics and efficiency.

It's similar to using CGI instead of practical effects in movies, using typewriters (and then word processors) instead of quill pens to write, or photoshop instead of an airbrush to create illustrations.

Most people don't care how something was created. They only care about the end result, which for AI-generated content can be as good or better, faster, and cheaper than what many if not most professional humans can do (and certainly better than the oceans of human slop of every kind out there).

I had a really bad experience using OpenCode with Ox Alpha (when it was a stealth model on openrouter), with the model making countless mistakes. Then I tried omp with the same model and it was a million times better. I haven't looked back.

omp is feature rich, and it's very actively developed. I don't have the time or interest to pick and choose among the thousands of pi extensions, so the fact that omp already has a lot of useful things built it is a good match for me.

The biggest problem with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is all that it hallucinates a lot.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dTq4X8bqk

I love watching the milky way on a clear, dark night. There are so many stars. Countless stars. It makes me feel really small and all my troubles (and the world's troubles) so insignificant. I love that feeling.

Why not the timeout[1] command?

[1] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html

Because of copyright issues, countless books between around the 1930s until about 2000 were never digitized.

After around 2000 books started coming out in digital format, so at least there are digital copies of many of those, even if they are still under copyright.