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My guess it's to mess with the proprietary vendors economically. It's in China's interest to squeeze the US AI business.

Hetzner if you have sense.

I gave it a shot but I really didn't see any benefit over OpenWRT which is plain old Linux.

There's also some really good value hardware that you can install OpenWRT on, I picked up a Xiaomi AP for like $30, flashed OpenWRT and it works great.

Achthung die kurve :D

I think the idea is to test (with the jury as a sample) if the evidence is compelling enough for society at large to agree with the verdict. It's rarely going to be 100% clear cut so the jury has to use their judgment.

I recently had a pretty bad injury and out of curiosity I asked Gemini what it thought based on some CT scan slice images (and no other information). Surprisingly it came to exactly the same diagnosis and treatment plan as my doctors, but the big advantage is that I could ask it follow up questions any time, whereas the doctors barely explained anything.

Scraping the internet for training is also using compute resources.

Then distillation isn't a violation either by extension.

That's like saying not wanting to work 14 hours a day in a coal mine is selfish because it's at the expense of global prosperity.

I think it's such a vague term. If you showed someone in 2010 what we have now they would say it's science fiction.

How are the smaller hosting providers going to buy cheap hardware?

Hetzner can't magically buy cheap hardware and prices have multiplied the last year.

PaddleOCR (also from Baidu) is pretty damn good actually.

It absolutely hasn't been solved, it's just got pretty decent in recent years.

Unless you think someone's going to build it, and either it's you or them, and you hope you can do it less horrifically.

It's pricing is a lot cheaper if you can run it yourself.

Sure, you need the right place, but it's not like there's a shortage of space far away from everything.

I think it's not that hard of a problem in general. There are plenty of abandoned mines with tons of space where you can forget about it forever.

Nothing can beat the Python numpy/ML ecosystem. There's a lot of value in just being able to run a Python script as well without any compilation step. The typing isn't perfect right now but it's usable.

For vectorizable problems there also won't be huge performance gains from switching to a compiled language because all the hard stuff is already done in highly optimized native code. The only time it really makes a difference is if you have to write a custom for loop or traversal.

The difference is that LLMs may or may not be sentient in the domain of human language, which we can relate to, unlike the domain of chess.

For me it was the original DALL-E project page.

I think it's niche now because getting the hardware to run it is expensive and the quantized models don't work as well. If those improve then it would be a no brainer to pay one off for the hardware instead of a fortune for API calls.

Yeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

The live music experience would be terrible if only the richest fans can get in. Every crowd would be old and square.

I'm quite happy with the status quo that I don't need to negotiate escrow with every random online service or store.

If I get sent a fake (or no) product by someone halfway around the world there's absolutely no way I'm getting my money back in small claims court.

It's not hard if E is in tune already. :)

Yes, we can't immediately convert all vehicles to electric and gas boilers to heat pumps, so if we lose access to gas and oil we're kind of screwed.

Orbán had 16 years of unlimited power to diversify from Russia as the only source though, so there's no excuse.

In my part of Europe (Hungary), on a sunny day we have more energy produced from solar (on top of about 50% nuclear) than we can actually use. Sometimes we're 110% zero-carbon and it's because of solar and nuclear.

As of writing this comment our energy mix is 35.69% solar, 23.19% nuclear, 26.66% nuclear imported from Slovakia. The rest is hydro and solar from Austria and about 5% gas and biomass.

In my opinion clean electricity is an almost solved problem, especially as storage gets better.

In the US it's often not the last mile, but the last 10 or 100 miles. I'm saying this as someone enjoying fantastic public transport in Budapest.