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As a future scenario where models become so efficient that _any_ model installed on _any_ computer could be considered "a national security risk"?

IDK, I don't live in the US, and I have no idea which "possible law" this website is referring to. In any case, it could be seen as a proactive effort to keep the gates open.

As a side note, I think this is a discussion every open-source supporter should have by actively considering the risks and what actions to take if such a hypothetical law were ever to pass.

"I don't really like arguing because everyone wants to convince the other person, and in the end, everyone leaves thinking they have convinced the other person, and no one has changed an inch."

Jean-Luc Godard, 28th May, 1982

+1.

On a side note (and maybe off topic), I am thinking about food pairing which is based on the idea that two ingredients sharing volatile aroma compounds or certain molecular families may have a potential sensory compatibility (broccolis and strawberries for example). I'd love to test those ingredients and find some unknown food pairings. But .. time is what it is (for now).

While Andy Yen supports specific Trump-aligned initiatives for precise goals, such as breaking up Big Tech monopolies (which, btw, Trump won't), this does not mean he will replicate the erratic nature and global loss of trust associated with Trump and his administration.

The Cloud Act is real and transcends any single company. This global erosion of trust highlights deeper concerns: specifically, that US practices have always been coercive. Now, the world is learning and taking action.

Pardon my lack of faith but ... this article is clueless. No information whatsoever. Except:

The Journal report said the U.S. government, which became Intel's largest shareholder last year under a deal with its CEO Lip-Bu Tan, played a major role in bringing Apple to the negotiating table.

... smells what it smells.

Why "hard to bypass" would be a sufficient thing? It depends on the technology used to connect the two phones. Bypassing this process can range from "easy" to "quite complicated", but it remains possible. Once the security is compromised, the entire network loses its core value since a single interaction is enough to establish a permanent connection.

Meanwhile my religious-FAANG friend has 4 kids, lives in a community where everyone knows each other, lives much closer to family (intentional choice) and just overall sees his life, both the ups and the downs, as part of something purposeful and meaningful.

I am a full atheist, living in Switzerland. The community is strong, the neighborhood too and the city is a charm (Geneva). 3 kids, coding and spending my time contemplating humans at their best: having fun and getting on a higher ground. I don't have an answer regarding the bigger picture but I will surely think about it and get back to you.

EDIT As I wrote in another comment: confronting the truth (whatever the spirituality behind) in itself doesn't make someone unhappy, it's the sense of losing one's footing that does. In many ways, America was built along those lines.

Must be some ironic comment that I didn't get, but a simple script (curl calling steam API and sending a notification if the price is set) + cron handle the job perfectly.

EDIT: Giving the keys to an agent for such a trivial work is ... I got your sarcasm I think ^^.

Tangent and admittedly off-topic but I've come to see LLM-assisted coding as a kind of teleportation.

With LLMs, you glimpse a distant mountain. In the next instant, you're standing on its summit. Blink, and you are halfway down a ridge you never climbed. A moment later, you're flung onto another peak with no trail behind you, no sense of direction, no memory of the ascent. The landscape keeps shifting beneath your feet, but you never quite see the panorama. Before you know it, you're back near the base, disoriented, as if the journey never happened. But confident, you say you were on the top of the mountain.

Manual coding feels entirely different. You spot the mountain, you study its slopes, trace a route, pack your gear. You begin the climb. Each step is earned steadily and deliberately. You feel the strain, adjust your path, learn the terrain. And when you finally reach the summit, the view unfolds with meaning. You know exactly where you are, because you've crossed every meter to get there. The satisfaction isn't just in arriving, nor in saying you were there: it is in having truly climbed.

The economic hypothesis that has dominated the past hundred years is that economic growth is infinite because resources are infinite and (almost) free. We all know this is unrealistic and disconnected from our human condition.

Regarding "innovation", I agree with your idea. I even think that the major innovation will be to transpose models locally, using reduced infrastructures that will still be sufficient for the majority of use cases.

... and I have this little idea in the back of my mind: when companies can no longer keep up with demand and people have (albeit more limited and reduced) local capacity, minds will start focusing on techniques (more humble and modest ones) to keep part of the system running locally, without dependency.

I know it may sound ridiculous, but it could actually become a way to break away from the business models that have been developed over the past few decades. Broadly speaking, this even amounts to saying that the biggest victims of AI could be the companies that bet on AI as a service.

Yet I know my vision is way too idealistic but I'm coming to imagine that a human brain, although less efficient in the long run, remains a reliable way to control the resulting costs and could even turn out to be more advantageous and more readily available than its silicon-based counterpart.

I thought it was 3D.

A further bit of a tangent, but anyway: what really strikes me is the choice of such an image to represent whatever they're trying to convey. It feels bland, and there's a kind of underlying sadness to it... the books, the small sculpture, the shelf, the desk... it all drags me down.

I'm pretty sure the "fakeness" is intentional. The image seems designed to appeal to a specific target audience (when I look at their 'AI erase/replace tool' example I get a clear idea).

But even if they had no “commercial agreement,” Zeiler [Clarifai CEO] told the Times that his company gained access to user photos because some of OkCupid’s founders invested in Clarifai.

And

In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid’s founders requesting that Humor Rainbow give Clarifai, Inc. (i.e., the Data Recipient) access to large datasets of OkCupid photos. Despite not having any business relationship with Humor Rainbow, the Data Recipient sought Humor Rainbow’s assistance because each of OkCupid’s founders, including Humor Rainbow’s President and Match Group, LLC’s CEO, were financially invested in the Data Recipient.

Probably on the side of your project, but did you try SmolBSD? <https://smolbsd.org> It's a meta-OS for microVMs that boots in 10–15 ms.

It can be dedicated to a single service (or a full OS), runs a real BSD kernel, and provides strong isolation.

Overall, it fits into the "VM is the new container" vision.

Disclaimer: I'm following iMil through his twitch streams (the developer of smolBSD and a contributor to NetBSD) and I truly love what he his doing. I haven't actually used smolBSD in production myself since I don't have a need for it (but I participated in his live streams by installing and running his previews), and my answer might be somewhat off-topic.

More here <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=smolbsd>