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I'm skeptical. How can a one time payment be sustainable when they offer 24/7/365? I'm also unsure how they got such a high valuation with this clear drawback.

Previous interesting discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937756

Is this issue only about the memory? Wouldn't it be possible to have it expose any information that it currently has like current project information, code, credentials etc?

The aim is to develop an open, sovereign European ensemble of large language and reasoning models (LLMs/LRMs) and agent-based systems that are powerful, transparent, and deployable on European cloud and edge infrastructures.

GitHub: https://github.com/soofi-project

First important step is the need to make your application faster.

Second step is to actually make it faster.

And I would say 99% of the time you can make applications faster without going down so deep on this low-level (which is still not easy) but sometimes you can only get faster via low-level optimizations.

Coincidentally a few days ago, also for a sorting algorithm, I stumbled over a situation where replacing the branchless cmov with branching instructions actually made the code 30% faster: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/3380 Or at least the AI explained it this way to me, but I'm unsure if this is correct.

As a Java developer I'm a bit sad that we don't have a choice :)

Cut & paste getting more real then!

Of course sick leave has increased in Germany, but the main reason is reporting. Since 2022 in Germany there is a new electronic sick note and doctors report every certificate directly to insurers. Before that short illnesses very often went uncounted.

I find it quite concerning and clickbaity that this reason is also included but comes relative late in the article:

One major reason for the rise in sick leave is better reporting, IGES wrote in its report published in January.

Not useless. It is like the missing printer driver for Linux Desktop. It makes the experience ugly, but this is not the fault of the Linux OSes.

Also the bank should not require apps (instead they can offer hardware key support or desktop apps) and in fact some - at least in Germany - offer a different authentication possibility. Also the app for the German ID is published on fdroid and does not rely on Google services.

Even if these models are so strong that they become a security threat if in the wrong hands this arbitrary and intransparent regulation worries me. Not for the current SOTA model vendors but for the open weight models.

I have always wondered how AI industry is not in a (partial) bubble because open weight models will substantially eat into their revenue (rather sooner than later). But with this ('bro') regulation it seems that an easy strategy could be to regulate this problem away, especially easy to convince everyone that those chines models are truly evil.

The current costs do not have to be sustainable for the SOTA model providers as they grow their user base. But I really wonder about the future as the costs have to increase at some point (to be sustainable) but at the same time the competition and local models get better and better.

I think the German Personalausweis has an electronic ID function that does this: age verification without giving out other information like name etc. But the application chooses which information is requested and could/will request more.

Unfortunately few know and use this information although the usage via NFC is not that complicated. Have used it successfully already a few times for banks, but including name information etc.

Why would you need Omlx? For speed up?

and it takes more than 600kcal to create 600kcal plus transportation into your home

This is not a strong argument or at least a different area of discussion. Because you can say exactly the same for the electricity: you need more than the power. You need the coal+transportation, or power plant, or solar panels ...

I'm pretty sure humans are much more energy efficient ... for certain tasks ;)

Wow. This is crazy. And not only much more expensive but the standardization means you have to buy more disk if you e.g. just need more RAM or similar.

And does the standardization mean that I can no longer buy extra hardware?

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/dedicated-se...

Two important things for this discussion:

1. the difference for the (public) elder care (Pflegeversicherung) is already there: a fee of 2.4% vs. 1.8% with kids (or much less with more kids). And it was now proposed to slightly increase the fee to 2.5%, i.e. +0.1%. But as it was recently increased several times (nearly every year) this is a strange suggestion and looks helpless.

2. this small increase (<1 billion €) does not fix the existing financial gap of approx 4 billions. The gap will increase a lot for the next years.

Nice, thank you! Seems the most plausible explanation to me now that I know it :)

A bit off-topic, but I (as a non-native reader) find the "anti" in the name off-putting. Has it a special meaning beyond the (meta)physics or is Google just bad with naming?

This. But OP wanted special requirements to open a PR. I.e. if those requirements are not met the PR is never visible to all and so admins can reject spam PRs without giving them a platform.

Not OP but requested this feature since years.

Your suggestion would help a bit but I would prefer the opposite: before someone can 'pollute' my pull request space and draw attention from subscribers I would prefer an acceptance step (just like a moderator on a forum) instead of having to archive the PRs.

This is especially important as (AI) spam increases and just because I am away for a few days or weeks I don't want those PRs lurking around.

Bill-Anthropic ;)

Indeed cost can be another factor. Maybe also the main reason why Chrome added an offline model.

What is the business model of open weight AI?

This is what I do not understand as well and advertising the knowledge and more advanced model is also the only thing that comes to my mind.

Since a month I am using gemma4 locally successfully on a MBP M2 for many search queries (wikipedia style questions) and it is really good, fast enough (30-40t/s) and feels nice as it keeps these queries private. But I don't understand why Google does this and so I think "we" need to find a better solution where the entire pipeline is open and the compute somehow crowdfunded. Because there will be a time when these local models will get more closed like Android is closing down. One restriction they might enforce in the future could be that they cripple the models down for "sensitive" topics like cybersecurity or health topics. Or the government could even feel the need to force them to do so.

Does somebody know the power values for idle and sleep for this release? When I tried Remix 43 on a m2 mb pro 1 month ago the idle power usage was above 5W (max 10h) and sleep roughly 3W (~20h).

Not OP but external display only works via HDMI directly atm (m2 mb pro).

Link to the code (I think?): https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

why the EU doesn't want the app to run on rooted devices

Where does the EU say so?

IMO the implementation is crucial. If everything is locally on the device and I can confirm digitally that I'm older than 18 BUT NOTHING ELSE is leaked, like the German eID supports (I think).

Why/how would this be a bad thing?

I also found Discourse to be... challenging to self-host.

Made a completely different experience. Every once in a while you have to run a command. Over the last 10-12 years there were I think 2 problems where this did not work out of the box.