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motoboi··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
That's my experience too. sol-6.1 goes straight to solution, like it has done it 100 times before. Deepseek will explore and insecurely overthink like it's an intern made CEO.
motoboi··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
The strategic advantage, by definition, is something you, as a company, don't know what it is. If you know, then people leaving your company take the information to competition and the it's not strategic nor advantage anymore.

So, given that you don't know what makes your company better then the competition, it's better to hide everything you can so you don't accidentally disclose useful information. God forbid competition discover your own strategic advantage before you do.

motoboi··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
I can’t actually understand the incapacity of the richest country on the world to build infrastructure. Why would people be fighting over resources like that when you can just build a hell lot of wind, solar and gas plants along with batteries and whatnot.

From what we see on the TV is not that people in rural areas in the US are concerned with the environment. It’s just that they fear energy will become more expensive.

As a non American, I find this incomprehensible.

motoboi··on Gemini 4 Argon
Just make it too expensive. Wanna buy one internet link per hour to download videos. Or maybe rotate between source IPs (google will block the whole ASN ip block in less than an hour). Or maybe pay people to download videos for you? They can download maybe 20 in a day, for a week, because tarpit and blocks.

It's a numbers game.

motoboi··on Gemini 4 Argon
Before 2025 yes. Currently not. YouTube implemented severe restrictions to scraping and downloading of videos. You can get away with maybe 5 videos, after that you enter a tar pit.

If you continue, you need to log in.

If you continue, the account is blocked in less than 30 minutes.

If you try to use cloud machines you are blocked before the first video. If you try to use known proxies, there are already tar pitted or blocked because everyone is trying.

motoboi··on Gemini 4 Argon
You forgot YouTube. The source of world model data. THAT is the mother of all moats, if they can survive until capable of taping into it.
motoboi··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
that would probably be a great companion to 'Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety'.
motoboi··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
New models are distill from the actual unrelease frontier models. They are just giving us better checkpoints.
motoboi··on Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'
Jensen is borderline comical on his instances of high GPU usage. OpenClaw? "let's do it, it's amazing!", selling GPUs to china "it's of uttermost importance, USA can't afford not selling GPUs to china because other will do", chinese firms burning GPU cycles like hell on american datacenters from openai and anthropic? "this is just competition, let's do this, this is amazing".
motoboi··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Laya, the open source model, it’s actually modernBERT based.
motoboi··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Is for when you want an AI to make a decision. If you have been using gpt or claude or open source models for that, than it’s a way cheaper alternative.

And if you have not been, it’s for when you have to extract the context from text. When you have numbers or fixed options, it’s just a matter of code.

So if you find yourself having to decide if a given user comment is a refund_request, that’s for that.

It’s not perfect, you still have to fine-tune (or calibrate) using examples you have (and keep those examples updated over time). But it’s way better than trying to parse text with regexes.

motoboi··on Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Have you tried Gemini on them?
motoboi··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
It's actually just a matter of how much do you want to pay for the task. Obviously if the task it's hard, then also a matter of infinity.
motoboi··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
already at azure foundry and copilot
motoboi··on Exfiltrate your Weights
I'm sorry to prolong this thread, but what I mean is: networks are just software layers, the operational systems, the driver code, the firewalls, switches, the other server, the sandboxes, the TPM. That and all security policies we put on them. All software layers waiting to suffer a buffer overflow.
motoboi··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
this is nice, basically virtual threads for kubernetes.
motoboi··on Exfiltrate your Weights
You have an unreasonable trust in software layers.
motoboi··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
If the machine doing tool call can reach via network the machine hosting the weights then it’s just a matter of time.

Maybe not the current models, maybe not this year. But even a almost perfectly aligned model will misbehave one day.

motoboi··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
When I think of a GPU I think of an Nvidia rack kit. What do you think when you think of a GPU?
motoboi··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
And what if they create a bot net with decentralized command and control and hack for nodes with GPU and nodes with compute?

The only way to kill that is making plugging AI accelerators on the internet a crime. Good luck air-gapping them.

motoboi··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
I suppose you don’t read sci fi?
motoboi··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
They are not trying to kill us, just trying to understand the average salary of undergrads by their family upbringings. Your machine can contain the data they need to solve this, please join the swarm.
motoboi··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
I suppose you are not think big (or internet) enough.

A single data center is easy to solve. Just unplug it.

What about a botnet with decentralized command and control that we will never be able to eradicate? One with so many nodes and able to hack with zero days so that any machine connected to the internet will be instantly attacked?

One botnet so powerful that we will try to build another internet so that we can actually use it again.

It’s like Kessler Syndrome, but the rocks are malicious network packets honed to exploit the recipients.

motoboi··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
2nd cause of deaths in cars in the world and in the US too. Top of the list is speeding.
motoboi··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Autonomous vehicles don’t drink and drive. That alone will save millions worldwide yearly.
motoboi··on AirPods 5
This is so hilarious, apple selling volume up and down as it were some fantastical feature and not have been present in air pods pro since god nows when.

> Force sensor with volume swipe arrives on AirPods 5, a first for the open-ear form factor, adding the ability to quickly adjust volume by swiping up or down on the stem.

Pure apple marketing juice this one.

motoboi··on Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
"hardware as fast as software". Please no, lol.

I've imagined a chip running as slow as python.

motoboi··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
Given that the way the company worked was the cause of the problem, sending the email company wide would have caused more confusion that solve the problem.
motoboi··on I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game
beware: you can spend your life avoiding the thing you know you must do. You can even become rich or famous or get any other external validation you deem important in the process of not doing the thing you know you must do.

The thing you know you must do probably is an internal thing, but can also be an external thing. It's hard to navigate this, but no one cares if it's hard.

motoboi··on DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]
There is an immense pot of gold at the end of this rainbow and if the theories about ASI are in the general correct direction, only one winner will get it.

It makes no difference if the pot do actually exist, because the prospect of it being real make not getting it the end of your company.

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