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I almost lost it, didn't realize it was satire until I came back to these comments

It's so fishy, I spent the morning reading sam'AMA and it's a classic whitewashing act. OpenAI is claiming their setup is stronger and that DOW has agreed to their red lines but read the agreement below, it only says use in compliance with laws and executive order.

Anthropic wouldn't have walked away from a multi million contract if their two redlines could be respected. OpenAI on the other hand is a fast, willing and ready company. I would love to see Anthropic's proposed contract

In our agreement, we protect our red lines through a more expansive, multi-layered approach. We retain full discretion over our safety stack, we deploy via cloud, cleared OpenAI personnel are in the loop, and we have strong contractual protections. This is all in addition to the strong existing protections in U.S. law.

We believe strongly in democracy. Given the importance of this technology, we believe that the only good path forward requires deep collaboration between AI efforts and the democratic process. We also believe our technology is going to introduce new risks in the world, and we want the people defending the United States to have the best tools.

Our agreement includes:

1. Deployment architecture. This is a cloud-only deployment, with a safety stack that we run that includes these principles and others. We are not providing the DoW with “guardrails off” or non-safety trained models, nor are we deploying our models on edge devices (where there could be a possibility of usage for autonomous lethal weapons).

Our deployment architecture will enable us to independently verify that these red lines are not crossed, including running and updating classifiers.

2. Our contract. Here is the relevant language:

The Department of War may use the AI System for all lawful purposes, consistent with applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols. The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities. Per DoD Directive 3000.09 (dtd 25 January 2023), any use of AI in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing to ensure they perform as intended in realistic environments before deployment.

For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities. The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.

I hear you. What platform would you recommend? Is discord a blocker for you?

The OG is obviously - https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ by ink&switch.

Hello folks, I want your help curating awesome local-first content (posts, videos, etc.). We are updating our local-first content feed for https://LoFi.so.

We are looking for content worthy of your bookmark bar.

That's just nuts, I'll look into it. I know the guy that built strut and I run the lfw site.

Nice

Adding some relevant links

* https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/pull/91

* https://blog.notesnook.com/getting-started-react-native-jsi/

Checkout https://github.com/OP-Engineering/op-sqlite if you haven't already, it supports a variety of extensions for use with sqlite in react-native.

Party maybe, your company hard no.

I love fs.blog, a relevant one for this is the chauffeur test from https://fs.blog/two-types-of-knowledge/

Love the passkeys & Sqlite setup, I'll be giving this a try. What did you use for the passkey integration? We just shipped https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lo-fi/webauthn-local-client to help people do in browser auth.

You can play with our demo experience at https://vella.ai/auth

We are launching https://vella.ai so folks don't have to resort to crazy solutions like these.

Folks from the local-first movement https://lofi.software are coming together to do something special and we would love your feedback on our landing page & value prop.

See below > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445887

We are actively looking for a solution, drop a line in the thread

I'll add to this gratitude thread.

Martin has had a material impact on my career. I don't think I would have gotten my job at LinkedIn if it wasn't for his book, Designing Data-Intensive book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...

I learned how to build a web application with FE, BE, DB, and distributed workers for my first job. But it wasn't until I read his book that I understood the enormous gap between building web apps and planet-scale web applications. The book saved me from bombing my interviews.

Well said. After linear.app showed the jump in UX for local data ('moving databases as close to users as possible') it became really easy to answer the questions below by saying checkout linear.app

* Why do we need local-first? * We don't need offline support * Google already has all my data, don't care about data ownership (a little orthogonal)

Will keep an eye out

ElectricSQL folks are crushing it, by far the most impressive solution for 'collapsing the stack'. Checkout https://electric-sql.com/blog/2024/02/05/local-first-ai-with... for a sneak preview of the in-device ai talk

I know, this has come up a few times. We will have a matrix bridge soon. Do you have any leads for a peer first community software with good adoption?

I have a short list that I'm testing but none of them have the features we need: 1) Live video 2) # channels and 3) adoption

Even moving off Twitter has been a challenge but I am optimistic about bsky

Yes, it felt like the right vibe. We usually kick things off with a LoFi playlist.