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Yes but that’s irrelevant as Mt Gox would not have had 850k BTC in their wallet at current valuations.

Isn’t this usually defined by “open” vs “free” ?

I think this is really splitting hairs, they just want to give people the ability to self-host (which is awesome) yet still make money off it for cloud based hosting.

But then again, I also always understood that startups want to prevent AWS from capitalizing on their source code as well and sympathize with Elastic, MongoDB, etc so perhaps I’m an outlier here.

Businesses should be able to release things to the public yet still be able to control who makes money off of it.

The money earned with Firefox should have gone to Firefox but went to vanity projects instead. Firefox OS, Mozilla Social, Firefox Send / Persona, acquiring Pocket, etc etc. And all of it failed.

Nevermind the controversies of silly ad campaigns and CEO salaries and whatnot.

Mozilla should have just reinvested all the money into Firefox. Heck, they couldn’t even finish their rust-based rendering engine.

I blame how things turned out more on Mozilla being distracted and forgetting about their own user base, to be honest.

Chrome was pretty great as well, it was desperately needed.

The same was true 15 years ago when the cloud started hyping up and Google missed that in similar ways as well, so I’m not sure whether the “Google of yesterday” is who you think it is.

This is the Google of yesterday, they didn’t change.

That seems like an overly negative caricature of Google’s corporate culture, and unlikely to be the case here, given the stakes and enormous investments in AI.

It’s more likely what the grandparent was saying, I’m reminded of Steve Yegge’s rant from 15 years ago and it seems like not a lot has changed.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Haven’t OpenAI and Anthropic had these offerings for a year or so already?

To be honest, git deferring to the OS is the right thing to do. It's macOS that's the problem, not git.

"Ten days later, macOS and all applications that rely on it still trust the compromised eMudhra certificates" would have been a better title.

Isn’t that equally subjective as, say, the price of the iPhone?

It just depends on what you value. A MBP with 32GB memory and 2TB disk is much more expensive than a Dell equivalent.

(I say this as someone who owns a MBP)

Well yeah but that’s the case with all Apple products, not?

Interesting, I have used Samsung 5K displays for a year or two with my Mac Studio, and recently bought an Studio Display after one died. I am SO much happier with the studio display, it powers on so much faster, the black is much more "black", etc. The built-in camera is also really good.

I'm almost considering getting rid of the other two Samsung displays and replacing them with Studio Displays because it's just so much better.

It’s more nuanced than that, but yes that’s the biggest factor.

Engineers use vanilla SSH for SSH, Tailscale SSH is more focused on enterprise stuff where you can have an audit trail of all commands executed and enforce ACLs.

I'm more worried about all PRs being reviewed and accepted by AI as well.

What makes you say that Anthropic has multi quarter slowdowns?

Oh that would make a lot of sense, basically supply limited.

So then how is OpenAI using Cerebras? Or are they not?

Or, from a different perspective: who is using Cerebras for what purpose?

YouTube definitely provides recommendations based on your watch history and overall profile.

Exactly, which is why it’s so incredibly fast. And expensive.

Compared to what, all the open source projects having exploits this week?

This is a silly argument to make. By pretty much any standard, the iPhone has really good security.

“Docker was famously bad at commercializing anything, we open sourced so much (maybe too much) and still people complained that we were not open enough”

Developers are a tough market to please, especially when your business revolves around open source software.

Unless you have an option to do private cloud hosting (like all these databases and other platforms do), it’s incredibly difficult to monetize.

In the case of docker, I think it’s in the nature of the product that it’s difficult to monetize. Best you can do is enterprise support contracts, but those aren’t good enough to justify all that VC funding.

A lock factory that’s supposed to make unbreakable locks, yet all of the locks/keys are identical. Suddenly everyone can use such a key to open any door of the internet.

Not 100% accurate, but conveys how stupid and incompetent all this is.

And not a single mention of the actual weird decision, a client / server model which complicates permission management by at least two orders of magnitude.

Yeah, but I also don't think it's that deep. E.g., by the same line of thinking, TSMC should be doing what Nvidia / Apple / AMD are doing, and ASML what TSMC is doing.

NVidia is good at making the shovels, and sticks to that.

I thought NVidia was the one selling shovels here, not OpenAI.

When renting Airbnbs, owners frequently put explainers in the rooms what each of the star ratings is supposed to represent. Similar problem.

Isn’t caching much more nuanced, with different tiers (DRAM, local disk, remote disk, etc), and isn’t filling these caches something that happens asynchronously (ie while the GPU is still working on the previous batch) ?

I think reality is much more nuanced than what you’re sketching.

Isn’t the KV cache a huge component of the overall costs, and wouldn’t this make this problematic? Cache writes are an expensive part of LLM tokens, even more so for caches that have a long expiration time.

You’ll have a much better time asking Claude to search for it.